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Independent Reading Groups

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas is pleased to support seven new independent reading groups led by McGill faculty and graduate students. Each addresses a particular theme, text or problematic through an interdisciplinary lens, and all are open to faculty and students from across campus.

Winter 2013

World, Sign, and Reference: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Positivists

The Joys of Jacques Lacan: A Selection of Lacan’s Ecrits

Architecture and Film

Curating Culture: Libraries, Librarians and Information

Shakespeare, Language, Moral Philosophy: Beckwith, Cavell and Others

Philosophy and Literature: Imaginative Thought

Re-visiting Buckminster Fuller in Context and in Motion


We are now accepting reading group proposals for the summer term!
Please download application instructions here.
Deadline for applications: 15 April.