
On 12 February 2022 at 10am ET/3pm UTC (see times around the world here), Lucia Santaella will present on “Mind and Cognition at play in the Semiotics of Peirce”. Santaella is a researcher 1A of CNPq, graduated in Portuguese and English Literature. She is a Full Professor in the Post-Graduate Program in Communication and Semiotics […]

On 5 February 2022 at 12pm ET/5pm UTC (check event times around the world here), Tullio Viola will present, “Peirce on History, Science, and Realism”. Viola is an assistant professor in Philosophy of art and culture at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the Humboldt University in Berlin, and […]

A Ruthenian Catholic, husband, and father, Matthew K. Minerd is a professor of philosophy and moral theology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA and Faculty Fellow for the Lyceum Institute. His academic work has appeared in the journals Nova et Vetera, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Saint Anselm Journal, Lex […]

On 22 January 2022 at 9:00am ET/5:00pm MSK (2:00pm UTC – check times around the world here) Dr. Inna Gennadievna Merkulova will present on the thinking of Algirdas Julien Greimas, a seminal figure in the history of the European tradition. Dr. Merkulova focuses her research on literary semiotics, intercultural dialogue, and theory of translation. Dr. […]

On 16 January 2022 at 12pm ET/11am CT (5:00pm UTC – check times around the world here), Dr. Paniel Reyes Cárdenas (author of Scholastic Realism: A Key to Understanding Peirce’s Philosophy and many other works across a broad philosophical range) will present on the contributions of John Duns Scotus to the history of semiotics. As […]

The Latin Age of philosophy was one of the most productive, systematic, and insightful times of intellectual inquiry in human history—despite the oft-given reductive and willfully-ignorant treatment that labels all between the fall of Rome and the rise of the Renaissance as the “Dark Ages”—for which the first major figure was Augustine of Hippo. Most […]

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 […]

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 […]

The second preliminary event of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics (IO2S) was held yesterday, as the first stage of the Systematic Module: De-Sign or Semiotics in Relation, with an interview of Dr. Farouk Y. Seif, Professor Emeritus at Antioch University Seattle, former President and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America, a […]

A Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing Announcing the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics (IO2S) to all friends of the Lyceum Institute! The occurrence of this seminar over the calendar year 2022 also marks the 80th anniversary of Deely’s arrival. Although Deely would most certainly instruct us not to […]