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The AIPCT is pleased to be hosting the 13th Biennial Personalist Summer Seminar. The Seminar normally gathers at Western Carolina University, but the dates of other conferences and early student arrival at WCU has made it necessary to move this summer’s meeting to AIPCT. As usual, we will compare the work of one avowed personalist…

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 Research Grant, as well as…

“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 AIPCT is pleased to join our fellow organizations and a number of our Fellows in holding International Philosophy of Culture Week. All events are in Warsaw, but it may be possible post these events later as recordings (they will be in the middle of the night in Illinois).

The AIPCT reading group for Fall of 2018 will begin September 5th at 7:30 PM. We will read Umberto Eco’s novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, and we will discuss the story, its many images, and the structure of the novel in light of Eco’s own theories of the role of the reader, semiosis,…

Susanne Langer: Creativity and American Thought The 2nd International Conference of the Susanne Langer Circle Sponsored by: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy     Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity Southern Illinois University Carbondale       The AIPCT is pleased to announce an international conference exploring the thought of Susanne Langer. This…