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…
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 at Redbud Hill (411 N….
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 after the session concludes. The…
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 month, plus a travel stipend…
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 Cincinnati. His topic is “The…
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 will be provided, but attendees…