Brian Kemple
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Latin Courses Start Soon
Beginning 18 January 2022 at 6-7pm ET, the Lyceum Institute will be offering live instruction in Elementary Latin. Materials for the class are already available on the Teams platform, including PDF/PowerPoint class notes (with audio), textbooks, vocabulary aids, homework assignments, and various other aids for study. Students are expected to have read through the text…
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IO2S Deely – The Enchantment of De-Sign
On 11 January 2022 at 2pm ET/11am PT (7pm UTC – check times around the world), Farouk Y. Seif will present “The Enchantment of De-Sign: Navigation Toward Meaning-Making” as the first presentation of the International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing. Mauricio Neubern will provide…
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Winter Seminars – Reminder
Still time to sign up for 2022 Winter Seminars! Discussions start soon, readings already posted.
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IO2S Deely – Opening Ceremony
Tomorrow is the first official event of the International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing (IO2S Deely). This seminar will be going on throughout the entire year of 2022 and is a great opportunity for the Lyceum Institute and for the advancement of Semiotics. If…
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Subscribe to Our Newsletter for 2022
The Lyceum Institute Friends Newsletter — delivered quarterly — provides updates on what’s been happening and what’s coming up: including links to lectures, videos, news on seminars, Trivium and language study options, colloquia, symposia, and more!
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[2022 Winter] Semiotics: Cultural World of the Sign
How can semiotics help us to understand culture? Simply put: through understanding the causality of the sign in conjunction with the reality of the specifically-human world. This demands, of course, that we understand what we mean by reality. Is it just those things that exist independently of our minds? Or does it have a broader,…
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[2022 Winter] Introduction to Philosophical Thinking
What is philosophy? Is it something we study—as subject, like biology or literature? Is it something each of us has, individually—as in, “my personal philosophy”? Is it a relic of history? An intellectual curiosity? A means to impress at cocktail parties and on social media? Or perhaps—as this seminar will attempt to demonstrate—philosophy is a…
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Announcing 2022 Seminar Catalog
View the 2022 Seminar Catalog for the Lyceum Institute to preview which you’d like to take!
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Trivium: Logic
Beginning the week of January 10, all Lyceum Institute members will have access to a 13-week course in traditional Logic. Discussion sessions will be held twice per week: Mondays at 6:00-6:45pm and Thursdays at 11:45am-12:30pm (subject to change). Each week there will be an assigned reading, problem set, and brief lecture. Discussion sessions will cover…
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Mending the Cartesian Rift: Walker Percy on Being Human
This lecture explores Percy’s argument and its background in the thought of Descartes and Peirce, and provides an assessment of this final public articulation by Percy concerning the issues that preoccupied him as a writer: the contemporary predicament of the human being, lost in the cosmos that it understands more and more, while understanding itself…