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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Small Potatoes, 7:30pm Friday, December 14th, at AIPCT/Redbud Hill – A Cousin Andy’s event Tiny Tubers? Negligible Nightshades? No matter what you like to call them, you have to put Small Potatoes at the top of the Cousin Andy’s favorites list. Jacquie and Rich return to the Cousin Andy’s stage…
AIPCT is pleased to announce a holiday reading group and close study of The Red Book of Carl Gustav Jung. The dates are December 10, 13, 17, 20, 27, and January 3, 7, and 10. All sessions begin at 7:00 and formal study will end around 8:30. Informal discussion continues indefinitely…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce that the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC) is now accepting applications for its Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship. The FPC Fellow must be in residence at the AIPCT in Murphysboro, IL, from June 1 until August 2, 2019 and will receive housing and $1000 per…
Here is the seminar presented by Claudio Paolucci, Director of Scientific Research, Umberto Eco Institute of Advance Studies, University of Bologna, October 2018.