The AIPCT, the SIU School of Communication Studies, and the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC) are pleased to announce the 2023 Lewis E. Hahn lectures, honoring the work and ideas of Erin McKenna. This year, in addition to Professor McKenna, we welcome Lee McBride and Tess Varner to…
The Soul and Its Body The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity and the AIPCT are pleased to announce the 2023 Spring Creativity Conference, March 16, 2023, 11:00 AM until 8:00 PM. In-person attendance is by invitation only, for health reasons, but anyone can join on-line by sending a request…
Near Death Experiences and the Nature of Consciousness The AIPCT is pleased to announce that this years’ Spring reading group, is a manuscript of a yet to be published book by Robert De Filippis on Near Death Experiences and the Nature of Consciousness. The group will meet in person, Saturday…
AIPCT is pleased to partner with Cousin Andy’s Coffeehouse in sponsoring the return of Curtis and Loretta, Minneapolis storytellers, folklorists, songwriters, and musicians, with an new presentation: Lift the World (Things We learned from the Pandemic). The CD by the same name will be released October 21, and a single,…
AIPCT is pleased to announce the residency lecture of Mikołaj Wiśniewski, “The Chameleon Novelist: Herman Melville’s Typee,” Friday, September 23, 2022, at 11 AM. The lecture is here. To attend on-line, send a request for the Zoom link to: personalist61@gmail.com Summary: Herman Melville’s narrators have attracted a great deal of…
Book launch celebration for AIPCT Fellow Megan Volpert The AIPCT is pleased to celebrate the new book by fellow Megan Volpert, Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic, published this September by the University of Georgia Press. Volpert will read an excerpt from the book, then a panel of…
Please join us at Scratch Brewing Company on Friday July 15, 5:30-7:30pm for a special lecture, in person only, by Dr. Gioia Laura Iannilli. Dr. Iannilli is Senior Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna. This summer she is visiting the Special Collections Research Center as recipient of the Alwin C. Carus…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce the Residency Lecture of Megan Volpert, “Normativity in the Nineties: Notes Toward Future Applications of Pierre Schlag’s Critique,” which will be held on-line (due to COVID) on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at 11 AM US Central Time. (This is 6 PM in Central Europe.)…
Hahn Lectures 2022: Richard Shusterman The AIPCT and the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC) are pleased to announce the 2022 Lewis E. Hahn lectures, honoring the work and ideas of Richard Shusterman. The particular focus will be Shusterman’s work applying his somaesthetics to the Ars Erotica. This year,…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce its summer reading group, led by Megan Volpert, AIPCT Fellow (see bio below). The group will meet on Tuesday evenings during June and July beginning at 7 PM central time, 8 PM eastern. Trigger Warning: This group is not for the timid and the…