literature
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[2022 Summer] An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture
As the world grew into and through modernity, and technology shrank the distances between centers of civilization, the very nature of culture itself became an explicit philosophical question: most especially when technology produced in the wider reaches of communication something akin to a “global consciousness”: an awareness of people and their cultures all across the…
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IO2S Deely – Reading and Teaching Literature Digitally
On 5 March 2022, Alexandra Milyakina, PhD, will present on “Reading and Teaching Literature Digitally: A Cultural Semiotic Perspective” at 10am ET/3pm UTC (check event times around the world here). Dr. Milyakina is a researcher at the Department of Semiotics in the University of Tartu, Estonia. The topic of PhD thesis is Digitalization of literary…
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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…
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Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope
Beginning October 6th, every other Wednesday Dr. Mark McCullough (PhD in Humanities from the City University of New York) will facilitate a 45-minute discussion on one canto of Dante Alighieri’s masterwork The Divine Comedy at 12pm ET: the Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope. This will be preceded by a reading of the canto with…
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This Week [5/16-5/22]
A light week at the Lyceum as we recharge before the Summer Seminars.
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This Week [5/9-5/15]
Updates on seminars, Paradise Lost, research endeavors, and more!
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This Week [5/2-5/8]
What’s on deck this week at the Lyceum Institute?
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[Symposium] Paradise Lost – Book IX
A two-week Symposium event on Book IX of Paradise Lost, available to all Lyceum Members.