“Common Ideals shared by Eastern Orthodoxy and Erich Fromm’s Humanism” The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought is pleased to announce a public seminar on Eastern Orthodox religion and humanistic psychology. The seminar will be April 8, 2019, at the AIPCT, 411 N. 9th Street, Murphysboro, IL. The event is free and open to…
The seminar can be viewed on our YouTube channel here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmeyj42EbHQ&t=28s The AIPCT is pleased to announce a seminar by Roberta Dreon, “Looking at Human Sensibility by Pragmatist Means: In Search of a Rounded Portrait,” free and open to the public. The date is April 1, 2019, at 7 PM at the AIPCT (411 N….
The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity is pleased to announce the Keynote Address and AIPCT Residency Lecture of Dave Beisecker, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas. Monday, March 18, 2019, 7:00 PM. Professor Beisecker has been in residence at the American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought during the 2018-2019 academic…
The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity and the AIPCT are pleased to announce their first (annual) Spring Conference on Creativity. This year’s topic is “Creativity, Pragmatism, and Logic.” The conference runs from 1:00 to 5:00 PM, March 18, 2019. There will be a keynote lecture from 7:00 to 8:30, and pizza will be served…
Irena Księżopolska of Vistula University (Warsaw, Poland), will present a seminar on “Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory.” While the Russian-born American writer Nabokov is best known as the author of Lolita, perhaps there is no other writer as obsessed with memory. From his very early poems to the unfinished manuscript of his last…
“Robert Burns in His Century and Ours,” by Andrew Calhoun, part of the on-going music and thought series for AIPCT. Robert Burns (1759-1796) has been beloved of (nearly worshiped in) North America, harboring so many of Scotland’s sons and daughters, and has been a pillar of the development of American music. Andrew Calhoun discusses the…
The AIPCT is pleased to invite you to attend our spring semester reading group, a study of Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. This classic of Jungian archetypal analysis was first published in 1994 and has been reissued in an expanded 25th anniversary edition. The sessions will be led by AIPCT…
AIPCT Presents a Musical Afternoon (child and family-friendly) on Sunday afternoon, February 3, at 2:00 PM (done well before the Super Bowl starts!) CURTIS & LORETTA “WHEN THERE’S GOOD TO BE DONE” SONGS OF UNSUNG HEROES The award-winning husband and wife duo of Curtis Teague and Loretta Simonet gathered together a stellar cast of characters…
AIPCT is dressed up for the holidays! We will have an Open House on Saturday night December 15. Santa Claus will be in attendance from 6:00 until 7:30, and children are welcome. It is a come and go event, but those who come are welcome to stay for the whole evening. After that, we will…
The AIPCT marked its second anniversary with the Annual Institute Lecture, November 26, 2018. Dr. Myron M. Jackson holds the Besl Chair in the Ethics, Religion, and Society at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Dr. Jackson is a Fellow of the AIPCT, earned his Ph.D and M.A. in Philosophy at SIUC, as well as a B.A….