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Illinois has a very generous credit for those who install solar. Thanks to our friends at Advanced Energy Solutions for helping us through a complicated process and installation. AIPCT is now Solar!

The AIPCT is pleased to announce a summer reading group. We will study Gloria Anzaldúa‘s masterpiece, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was among the pioneers of a post-colonial writing style that combines autobiography, poetry, social commentary, folklore and storytelling, multi-lingual and cross-lingual intersection, ethnography, and the essay. Striving for a unique expression…

The Cultural Power of Personal Objects All of the presentations are now available here. The AIPCT is pleased to announce the annual Spring Conference on Creativity. The theme of this year’s conference is an exploration of how objects we don’t normally think of as “persons” take on personality, or may even become persons, for a…

The AIPCT is pleased to announce a lecture free and open to the public, “A New Genealogy of Neoliberalism: History and Pertinence of the Lippmann-Dewey Debate,” January 28, 7:30 PM, by Professor Barbara Stiegler. The lecture may be watched here. Where does this sneaking, yet ever more oppressive and widely experienced sense of a generalized…

The AIPCT is pleased to announce its winter-spring reading group covering Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality. This reading group will be handled much more like a graduate seminar than our past reading groups have been. The text is very difficult –among the most difficult books in philosophy ever written. For those with no prior…

The AIPCT is pleased to announce a seminar, free and open to the public: “‘We Are Witnessing the Birth of a Nation’: John Dewey and Benedict Anderson” Liu Xing, Thursday, January 16, 2020, 7:00 PM. The seminar may be watched here. Liu Xing is Lecturer at Beijing Normal University, in the History and Philosophy of…

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 at Redbud Hill/AIPCT (411 N. 9th St., Murphysboro) for their annual Christmas and more event. Santa Claus might attend….

The AIPCT is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual Institute Lecture. Louise W. Knight, “John Dewey and Jane Addams Debate War.” The lecture was Monday evening, December 2, at 7 PM. It can be viewed here. She presented her research on the debates John Dewey (1859-1952) and Jane Addams (1860-1935) had over the issues of…

The AIPCT is pleased to announce an evening of poetry and song in its Music and Thought series. Traveling acoustic musician, Tom Begich, performs original music and the occasional poem around the country with his wife, Sarah Sledge. An evening with Tom and Sarah features rich songwriting, storytelling, superb harmony, and a journey down the…

The AIPCT is pleased to host researchers from the University of Calabria, Italy, and its Center for Dewey Studies. The lectures maybe accessed here. Dr. Giuseppe Spadafora is a full Professor of Didactics at the University of Calabria. He taught in seven Italian universities over the years, also providing many lectures in different foreign universities…