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An ongoing framework for tracing how symbols, archetypes, and figures move across works and gather meaning through collective use. Essays, terminology, and case studies live in the methodologylist.
iThreshold
Seminar Schools.
Personal study
Leizu Academy
Individual tutoring and small seminars
Public reading
The Agora
Free seminars in Toronto and online
Classroom work
Teacher resources
Free materials ready for teaching
Public calendarFind events, contests, and deadlines without losing the source trail.Search public lectures, calls, fellowships, festivals, and writing opportunities in one view.
Reading gameTurn a text into a playable encounter that still depends on evidence.Make a wormcard, then move into teacher-guided choices inside the text-world.
AA* into polymythEnter the archive when the project itself is your object of study.Open the AA* archive, then follow its routes into polymyth and ML*.
Professional recordRead the CV as a general record for work, teaching, writing, and collaboration.Choose a professional focus, share the selected view, or download the matching monochrome CV.
Based inToronto and online
PracticePrepared reading in company
iiLectures
Upcoming GTA Lectures.
Toronto has more free public lectures than one person can attend. The calendar below shows the strongest upcoming events. Marginalia carries longer reflections on selected talks.
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iiiAcademy
Leizu Academy.
嫘祖學院
Leizu Academy offers individual tutoring and small seminars for the Ontario curriculum, the IB Diploma, academic writing, and university preparation. Sessions run online or in Toronto, weekly or in concentrated blocks before assessments. Instruction is in English. Families can communicate in English, Mandarin, French, or Farsi.
- IB Theory of Knowledgei
- Extended Essay and Internal Assessmentsii
- English and academic writingiii
- ESL at all levels, including IELTS and TOEFL preparationiv
- Grades 9 through 12v
ivFounder
The Founder.
Saul Nassau
A seminar asks readers to make a claim, test it against the text and each other, then revise it in public. Disagreement becomes the bond instead of the wedge. Two prepared readers and one good text are enough to begin.
Leizu Academy handles tutoring and the Agora hosts public reading. Ohm Dome develops a public gathering structure, while polymythcal tracks events and deadlines and Marginalia carries longer essays.
Saul Nassau runs Seminar Schools. He has taught for fifteen years across six countries. He holds an MA in Philosophy from the European Graduate School, where he studied with Žižek and Agamben, read Hegel with George di Giovanni at McGill, and is a PhD candidate in Education.
Formation
MA in Philosophy from the European Graduate School
PhD candidate in Education
IB Theory of Knowledge certified
TESOL from Indiana University
Practice
Fifteen years of classroom teaching
Taught in six countries
Works in English, Mandarin, French, and Farsi
vCommunity
Community projects.
Five public projects extend the work beyond tutoring. They are free and open. Dates appear through >open_transmission_ when each is ready.
Open seminar
A free seminar in Toronto or online. The text goes out first. Readers gather and work through it together. No registration is required.
Forthcoming
Public art
A planned outdoor installation for public gathering, shaped by heartbeat, breath, and proximity. Currently in design.
Prototype · in development
Pedagogical game
A learning game where a text becomes a world to enter, read, and play. It is built for classrooms and the social network it can grow. The social layer is for participants eighteen and over.
Live
Open seminar series
A seminar series on abandonment as ground, reading the cry from the cross across traditions. It is the deepest layer of the framework, taken slowly and in company.
Prototype · in development
Food writing
Notes from the kitchen on food, cost, and origin. Diaspora groceries over branded supplements.
In development
viWriting
Writing.
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An MA thesis in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School. It includes the argument, four exhibits, and the PhilArchive link.
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A catalogue of about four hundred published archetype taxonomies across psychology, dramaturgy, folklore, religious traditions, gaming, and living folk use. Each entry records its originator, year, citation, and cross tradition tags.
viiAbout
About.
Based in
Toronto and online.
Tutoring
Choose a Leizu plan or begin an intake
Public work and collaborations
Portfolio path
Bring work that helps show how the student thinks. Begin the Leizu portfolio intake.
viiiPortfolio
Portfolio path.
Leizu students may begin with a portfolio. The first session is offered at half price. Enrollment is rolling and there are no cohorts.
Share three to fifteen pieces in any medium. Essays, drawings, code, builds, recordings, photographs, designs, and performances all belong. Include process work when it matters, including sketches, drafts, notes, and false starts. A short note beside each piece can explain what it is and why you made it. You can include a short essay on Leizu, a description of current work, or a letter from a teacher. These additions are optional. Choose the form that lets the work speak.
The Leizu intake accepts one file. Add a Drive, Dropbox, or personal-site link in the notes field when your portfolio is larger.
The guidance draws from MIT Admissions creative portfolios, RISD first-year application, Deep Springs College admissions, and Pioneer.
Begin a Leizu portfolio intake →