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.