As you probably noticed, the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) has intensified its online outreach since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. While we reject online teaching since we believe that critical and creative thinking best happens face to face, we are determined to support our community through other forms of online outreach such as podcasts and social media campaigns.

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

PICT Voices

A Four-Part Podcast Journey to the Very Heart of Boredom by Salamis Aysegul Sentug

The coronavirus has given us plenty of time to ourselves. One consequence is that people around the world will experience a staggering amount of boredom. This podcast miniseries examines the very nature of this state of mind.

Everyone feels boredom, but do we all understand the same thing by it? Do we all suffer from the same kind of boredom? Do different cultures define boredom in different ways? And what about different historical periods?

Is boredom necessarily a bad thing, perhaps even immoral? Or can we use boredom as a means to a better end? Can we learn something from this feeling? And what are the limits of the human capacity for boredom?

In “Let’s Get Bored,” we seek answers to these timely questions. Our first episode focuses on the nature, history, and typologies of boredom. The second episode explores philosophical perspectives on the issue. In the third episode, we look at boredom in art. And the final episode examines some of the most bored characters in literature.

If boredom is inevitable, let’s get on with it already—let’s get bored!

Let's Get Bored

Welcome to PICT Portraits. In this series, we conduct deep-dive conversations with members of the extended PICT family who have served as an inspiration to us. Unlike PICT Voices, which focuses on specific concepts and topics, PICT Portraits zooms in on remarkable individuals, exploring their complex lives, extraordinary work, and iconoclastic perspectives. Inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes, and we hope PICT Portraits will help you challenge and nurture your own projects and dreams!

PICT Portraits

PICT Public Lectures unite our speakers with the broader PICT community in a live and interactive setting. Speakers can be prominent scholars communicating their work on an accessible level (Honorary Lectures), early-stage scholars introducing cutting-edge research (Faculty Lectures), or non-academic speakers broadening the horizons of PICT (Visiting Lectures). All PICT Public Lectures are free and open to the public.

PICT Lectures

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

Bookaholics

Our sixth interview is with Grant Snider, cartoonist (Wichita, USA) by David Selim Sayers (Paris, France) Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #6: Grant Snider, I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf

Our twenty-seventh interview is with Mortaza Behboudi, Journalist (Lesbos, Greece) by Evrim Emir-Sayers (Ayvalik, Turkey), Friday, March 26, 2021

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

PICT Voices #27: Mortaza Behboudi, Moria Revisited

Our thirtieth interview is with Laurie Zoloth, ethics scholar (Chicago, USA) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Monday, May 10, 2021

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

PICT Voices #30: Laurie Zoloth, The Ethics of Vaccination

Our seventh interview is with David Cayley, writer and broadcaster (Toronto, Canada) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Thursday, May 27, 2021

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #7: David Cayley, Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey

Our first interview is with Samir Gandesha, humanities scholar (Vancouver, Canada) by Emily Laurent-Monaghan (Vancouver, Canada) Wednesday, May 26, 2021 

*You can find an edited transcript of this conversation at The Thinking Cap, the PICT Student Ambassador Program's blog.

Welcome to The Object Lesson, the podcast series of the PICT Student Ambassador Program. Featuring dialogues between PICT Student Ambassadors and thinkers, artists, and activists from around the world, The Object Lesson explores provocative, intergenerational perspectives from philosophy to politics and aesthetics.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

The Object Lesson #1: Samir Gandesha, What's Left: On the Prohibition of Language

Our eighth interview is with Jonathan Rée, philosopher, historian, and author (Oxford, UK) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Thursday, June 10, 2021

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #8: Jonathan Rée, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Our thirty-first interview is with Wolfgang Streeck, economic sociologist (Brühl, Germany) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Monday, July 12, 2021

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

PICT Voices #31: Wolfgang Streeck, The Economy of Buying Time

Our first interview is with Sheldon Solomon, social psychologist (Saratoga Springs, USA) Thursday, June 24, 2021

Death has become a taboo in the West, almost completely banished from our lives. But meditating upon death, at least according to Cicero, is the quintessential task of philosophy, and it is this task that PICT core faculty member Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte takes up in Dates With Death.

Dates With Death hopes to make the topic of death less distant: today, it seems we are solely terrified by it, with no decent way to talk about it anymore. Dates With Death hopes to put death in historical context: different cultures have dealt with it in different ways at different times, and there might be something to learn from that. Finally, Dates With Death hopes to show exactly what our (not) dealing with death reveals about our own culture and society, from the way we assign our genders to the way we plan our cities.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/paris_institute
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Dates with Death #1: Sheldon Solomon

Our second interview is with Sarah Iles Johnston, classics scholar (Ohio, USA) Monday, November 8, 2021

Death has become a taboo in the West, almost completely banished from our lives. But meditating upon death, at least according to Cicero, is the quintessential task of philosophy, and it is this task that PICT core faculty member Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte takes up in Dates With Death.

Dates With Death hopes to make the topic of death less distant: today, it seems we are solely terrified by it, with no decent way to talk about it anymore. Dates With Death hopes to put death in historical context: different cultures have dealt with it in different ways at different times, and there might be something to learn from that. Finally, Dates With Death hopes to show exactly what our (not) dealing with death reveals about our own culture and society, from the way we assign our genders to the way we plan our cities.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/paris_institute
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Dates with Death #2: Sarah Iles Johnston

Our tenth interview is with a Carlo Salzani, philosophy scholar (Vienna, Austria) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #10: Carlo Salzani, Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique

Our eleventh interview is with a Felix Ó Murchadha, philosophy scholar (Galway, Ireland) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Monday, April 4, 2022

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #11: Felix Ó Murchadha, The Formation of the Modern Self

Our third interview is with Charles King, historian (Omaha, USA) Monday, April 4, 2021

Death has become a taboo in the West, almost completely banished from our lives. But meditating upon death, at least according to Cicero, is the quintessential task of philosophy, and it is this task that PICT core faculty member Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte takes up in Dates With Death.

Dates With Death hopes to make the topic of death less distant: today, it seems we are solely terrified by it, with no decent way to talk about it anymore. Dates With Death hopes to put death in historical context: different cultures have dealt with it in different ways at different times, and there might be something to learn from that. Finally, Dates With Death hopes to show exactly what our (not) dealing with death reveals about our own culture and society, from the way we assign our genders to the way we plan our cities.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Dates with Death #3: Charles King

Our first guest is Atom Egoyan, filmmaker (Toronto, Canada) Friday, May 13, 2022

Nothing that was built over centuries can collapse overnight. And while the paper on which the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist in 1923 degrades a little more with each passing day, the legacy of the empire it officially ended is very much alive today. Welcome to The Last Ottoman, with David Selim Sayers, a podcast series in which we take a critical look at the Ottoman Empire and its place in our world today.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

The Last Ottoman #1: Atom Egoyan, 20 Years of Ararat

Our second guest is Mortaza Behboudi, journalist (Kabul, Afghanistan) Friday, June 3, 2022

Nothing that was built over centuries can collapse overnight. And while the paper on which the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist in 1923 degrades a little more with each passing day, the legacy of the empire it officially ended is very much alive today. Welcome to The Last Ottoman, with David Selim Sayers, a podcast series in which we take a critical look at the Ottoman Empire and its place in our world today.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

The Last Ottoman #2: Mortaza Behboudi, Afghanistan: Diversity & Disintegration

Our fifth interview is with Simcha Raphael, Psychotherapist & Rabbi (Philadelphia, USA) Friday, August 26, 2022

Death has become a taboo in the West, almost completely banished from our lives. But meditating upon death, at least according to Cicero, is the quintessential task of philosophy, and it is this task that PICT core faculty member Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte takes up in Dates With Death.

Dates With Death hopes to make the topic of death less distant: today, it seems we are solely terrified by it, with no decent way to talk about it anymore. Dates With Death hopes to put death in historical context: different cultures have dealt with it in different ways at different times, and there might be something to learn from that. Finally, Dates With Death hopes to show exactly what our (not) dealing with death reveals about our own culture and society, from the way we assign our genders to the way we plan our cities.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Dates with Death #5: Simcha Raphael

Our thirteenth interview is with Benedict Beckeld, philosophy scholar (NYC, USA) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Saturday, September 10, 2022

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #13: Benedict Beckeld, Western Self-Contempt

Our fourteenth interview is with Dipali Mathur, humanities scholar (Edinburgh, UK) by Iain Mackenzie (Canterbury, UK) Thursday, November 3, 2022

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #14: Dipali Mathur, Available To Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life

Our third guest is Zachary Foster, Middle East Scholar (San Francisco, USA) Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Nothing that was built over centuries can collapse overnight. And while the paper on which the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist in 1923 degrades a little more with each passing day, the legacy of the empire it officially ended is very much alive today. Welcome to The Last Ottoman, with David Selim Sayers, a podcast series in which we take a critical look at the Ottoman Empire and its place in our world today.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

The Last Ottoman #3: Zachary Foster, Palestine: How (Not) to Write History

Our thirty-fifth interview is with David Kilpatrick, philosophy scholar (NYC, USA) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Monday, November 21, 2022

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

PICT Voices #35: David Kilpatrick, The World Cup: The Politics of Football

Our sixth interview is with Jan Age Sigvartsen, theologian (Michiana, USA) Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Death has become a taboo in the West, almost completely banished from our lives. But meditating upon death, at least according to Cicero, is the quintessential task of philosophy, and it is this task that PICT core faculty member Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte takes up in Dates With Death.

Dates With Death hopes to make the topic of death less distant: today, it seems we are solely terrified by it, with no decent way to talk about it anymore. Dates With Death hopes to put death in historical context: different cultures have dealt with it in different ways at different times, and there might be something to learn from that. Finally, Dates With Death hopes to show exactly what our (not) dealing with death reveals about our own culture and society, from the way we assign our genders to the way we plan our cities.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/paris_critical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Dates with Death #6: Jan Age Sigvartsen

Our sixteenth interview is with Jacob Soll, philosophy scholar (LA, USA) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Thursday, February 9, 2023

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #16: Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea

Our fifteenth interview is with Stuart Dischell, poet (Greensboro, USA) by Stephanie Papa (Paris, France) Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #15: Stuart Dischell, The Lookout Man

Our fourth guest is Iain T. Benson, legal scholar (Sydney, Australia) Monday, December 17, 2022

Nothing that was built over centuries can collapse overnight. And while the paper on which the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist in 1923 degrades a little more with each passing day, the legacy of the empire it officially ended is very much alive today. Welcome to The Last Ottoman, with David Selim Sayers, a podcast series in which we take a critical look at the Ottoman Empire and its place in our world today.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/paris_critical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

The Last Ottoman #4: Iain T. Benson, Religious Pluralism & The Law

Our thirty-sixth interview is with Zachary Foster Middle East Scholar (San Francisco, USA) by David Selim Sayers (Paris, France) Wednesday, October 11, 2023

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

PICT Voices #36: Zachary Foster, Gaza: The Spiral of Violence

A Cloud in Love, a children's tale by Nazim Hikmet, translated from Turkish into English by Evrim Emir-Sayers, audio recording by David Selim Sayers (Paris, France), 2023.

Read the story here: https://parisinstitute.org/a-cloud-in-love/

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A Cloud In Love

PICT Honorary Lectures series IV: “Wittgenstein and the History of Philosophy,” a talk by the British philosopher and historian Jonathan Rée, co-founder of the influential journal “Radical Philosophy.” The event took place on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) and is co-sponsored by PICT and the Collège d’Études Mondiales / FMSH.

PICT Honorary Lecture IV  “Wittgenstein And The History Of Philosophy” By Jonathan Rée

The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) organized its first book talk and signing event on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore. The guest of the evening was British philosopher and historian Jonathan Rée, whose latest book, "Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English", was published by Penguin in late 2019.

Jonathan Rée Book Talk

The PICT Faculty Lectures series staged its sixth event on Tuesday, February 4, 2020. In front of a full house, PICT visiting faculty member Lauren Jimerson spoke on “Subversive Selves: Women Artists’ Nude Self-Portraits One Century Ago.”

The lecture offered an assessment of three pioneering female artists who tackled the nude self-portrait: Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), Émilie Charmy (1878-1974), and Marie Vassilieff (1884-1957). Jimerson introduced her audience to the historical context, drawing attention to the social and cultural obstacles faced by female artists. She also offered a technical appraisal of particular artworks, highlighting their creators’ artistic contributions in terms of material and technique. Finally, Jimerson’s analysis included a theoretical evaluation connecting the artists’ œuvres with the work of thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray.

Throughout the talk, Jimerson alerted the audience to the originality, difficulty, and influence of the artists’ work. With no female precedent to emulate, Valadon, Charmy, and Vassilieff were compelled to develop highly original forms of artistic expression. With little support from their families or milieus, they often suffered hardship and were unable or disinclined to publicly exhibit some of their most striking work. And but for the effort of scholars such as Jimerson herself, large parts of their œuvre remain inaccessible to the public. Indeed, one of the talk’s main contributions was the introduction of specific artworks that remain unexhibited to this day.

PICT Faculty Lectures VI  Subversive Selves  Women Artists’ Nude Self - Portraits One Century Ago

Our first interview is with Mortaza Behboudi, Journalist (Moria Refugee Camp, Lesbos, Greece) by Evrim Emir Sayers & David Selim Sayers (Paris, France)Thursday, March 26, 2020

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

PICT Voices #1  Mortaza Behboudi, Moria Refugee Camp

Our second interview is with Carlo Salzani, philosophy scholar (Vienna, Austria) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Friday, April 3, 2020

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

PICT Voices #2  Carlo Salzani, Giorgio Agamben & The State Of Exception

Let`s Get Bored - Episode 1  So Much Time

Our third interview is with David Newheiser, philosophy scholar (Melbourne, Australia) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Wednesday, April 15, 2020

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

PICT Voices #3  David Newheiser, Religion & Hope In Exceptional Times (pt. 1)

PICT Voices #3  David Newheiser, Religion & Hope In Exceptional Times (pt. 2)

Let`s Get Bored - Episode 2  A Philosophical Survey Of Boredom

Our first interview is with Jonathan Rée, philosopher, historian, and author (Oxford, Britain) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland)  Monday, April 13, 2020

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

Bookaholics #1  Jonathan Rée, A Schoolmaster's War

Our fourth interview is with Claude Mangion, philosophy scholar (Malta) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Thursday, April 23, 2020

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

PICT Voices #4  Claude Mangion, A Pandemic Of Communications

Our fifth interview is with David Cayley, writer and broadcaster (Toronto, Canada) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Friday, April 24, 2020

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

PICT Voices #5   David Cayley, Revisiting Ivan Illich

Let`s Get Bored - Episode 3  Boredom In Art

Our seventh interview is with Frank Furedi, sociologist (Canterbury, UK) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Monday, May 4, 2020

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

PICT Voices #7  Frank Furedi, Society Of Fear

Our eighth interview is with Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte, philosophy scholar (Basel, Switzerland) by Evrim Emir-Sayers (Paris, France) Wednesday, May 6, 2020

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

PICT Voices #8  Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte, Living In Limbo

Let`s Get Bored - Episode 4  Boredom In Literature

Our first interview is with Rose Hartman, photographer (New York City, USA) by David Selim Sayers (Paris, France) Sunday, May 24, 2020

Welcome to PICT Portraits. In this series, we conduct deep-dive conversations with members of the extended PICT family who have served as an inspiration to us. Unlike PICT Voices, which focuses on specific concepts and topics, PICT Portraits zooms in on remarkable individuals, exploring their complex lives, extraordinary work, and iconoclastic perspectives. Inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes, and we hope PICT Portraits will help you challenge and nurture your own projects and dreams!

Rose Hartman’s website: https://www.rosehartman.com
Rose Hartman’s page on the Selects Gallery website: https://www.theselectsgallery.com/rose-hartman

PICT Portraits #1  Rose Hartman

Our third interview is with David Newheiser, philosophy scholar (Melbourne, Australia) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595100

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

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Bookaholics #3: David Newheiser, Hope in a Secular Age

Our fourth interview is with Frank Furedi, sociologist (Canterbury, UK) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #4: Frank Furedi, Why Borders Matter

Our fifth interview is with Edward Baring, intellectual historian (New Jersey, USA) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Monday, December 21, 2020

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Bookaholics #5: Edward Baring, Converts to the Real

Our twenty-second interview is with Burghard Baltrusch, literary scholar (Vigo, Spain) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Wednesday, January 20, 2021

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

PICT Voices #22: Burghard Baltrusch, From Blindness to Seeing with José Saramago

Our twenty-fifth interview is with Ivan Oransky, science journalist (New York City, USA) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Friday, February 12, 2021

PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

website: https://parisinstitute.org/

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

PICT Voices #25: Ivan Oransky, The Use and Abuse of Science

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