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…
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…
The AIPCT is pleased to mark its second anniversary with the Annual Institute Lecture, November 26, 2018. The lecture begins at 7:00, doors open at 6:15. This year’s invited speaker is Dr. Myron M. Jackson, who holds the Besl Chair in the Ethics, Religion, and Society at Xavier University in…
Claudio Paolucci of the University of Bologna will present a seminar on Wednesday evening, October 17, 2018, at 7:30 PM on the topic of laughter in Eco’s philosophy and novels, especially The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna. The seminar is free and open to the public. Light snacks and drinks…
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…
The Cassirer and Creativity seminar will be held Sunday evening, July 22, at 6:30 PM in the Library at AIPCT. The session will be chaired by Corey McCall (Elmira College), Executive Director of the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC). The seminar will be in two parts. Jennifer Marra…
AIPCT is pleased to announce its first William S. Minor Fellow Lecture. Jennifer Marra will present her lecture “Humor and Interpretation” on Sunday, July 22, at 3 PM. Marra is the first recipient of the dissertation fellowship awarded by the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity, to do her research…
With the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity, the AIPCT announces that Douglas R. Anderson will give the 4th Lewis Hahn Memorial Lecture, Saturday July 21, 2018, at 7 PM. This year’s event will include papers by: Steven Miller (Ripon College, Wisconsin) 1:30 PM: “Dylan, Anderson and Ol’ Moose on…