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• AKML & Symposium

  • Start
    20 Sep 2024
  • End
    22 Sep 2024
  • Location
    The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park S, New York, NY 10003

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  Registration is for 

  In-Person Attendance ONLY

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  All IGS Members in Good Standing Will Receive Instructions on How to Livestream the Event Online Prior to the AKML

  The 72nd Annual 

  Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture

  and the Symposium on

  Communication,

  Consciousness,

  and Culture

  September 20th-22nd, 2024

  Co-Sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics

  the International Bateson Institute

  the Media Ecology Association

  the Tomkins Institute

  and the 404 Festival of Art and Technology

  featuring

  Maryanne Wolf

  Dr. Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, teacher, and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the University of California Los Angeles in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and the former John DiBiaggio Professor of  Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. She has authored over 170 scientific publications; Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (15 translations; HarperCollins, 2007); Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital Culture (12 translations; HarperCollins, 2018). She is co-author with Martha Denckla of the RAN/RAS naming speed tests, a universal predictor of dyslexia, and the creator of the RAVE-O Intervention Program for all struggling readers. She has received multiple awards for her contributions to the neuroscience of reading; the major awards from the International Dyslexia Association and the Einstein Award from the Dyslexia Foundation for her dyslexia research; and the Media Ecology Association's Walter Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship for her work on the effects of different media on the intellectual development of the species. Most recently, she was elected a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of Science.

  Dr. Wolf's Korzybski Lecture is entitled:

  Deep Reading in a Digital Milieu:

  The Beauty, the Threats, and Choice

  This lecture will use research from cognitive neuroscience to present an evolving portrait of the reading brain in a digital world, where the threat of continuous distraction competes with the perception of beauty and meaning in written language. An understanding of how different media shape and influence the development and use of deep reading processes will be used to discuss the antidote of choice by the reader, as well as the potential repercussions for our society and democracy.

  The lecture, dinner, and symposium are being held at the historic Players Club in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. 
  

  Registration is free for IGS members and their guests, but all attendees must be registered in advance in order to gain admittance to the club. More information regarding the dinner and symposium schedule will be made available at a later date.

  Please note that as an historic 18th century landmark, the site is not handicap accessible. Dress code is business casual and is strictly enforced, including no sneakers, shorts, ripped jeans, t-shirts).

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• Science and Sanity Sixth Edition Reading Group

  • Start
    30 Sep 2024
  •  
  • End
    23 Dec 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    12 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Science and Sanity
  

  Sixth Edition
  Reading Group

  The Institute of General Semantics is pleased to announce that our long-awaited reading group devoted to the new edition of Alfred Korzybski's magnum opus will be held this autumn, following our annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and symposium. The reading group will be led by IGS President Lance Strate on Monday evenings beginning September 30th, and continuing through to December 23rd.

  Alfred Korzybski's Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics was first published in 1933, and has remained in print for over 90 years now, with the Sixth Edition having been published in 2023, and available in the traditional hardcover version, and new paperback and searchable ebook versions.

  As the work that introduced general semantics to the world, Science and Sanity is essential reading for anyone interested in the topic, and remains highly influential in many other fields and disciplines. And yet, this is a book that has often been misunderstood, and universally acknowledged as challenging and difficult to read. For this reason, we will bring together new readers and seasoned veterans for the first time to discuss Korzybski's work in an online live forum via Zoom.

  All references and page numbers in the discussion will be based on print versions of the Sixth Edition, which differs somewhat from previous editions. If you do not have a copy of the new edition, you can obtain one through any major online bookseller, and via the IGS's online bookstore (IGS members can obtain a 15% discount by emailing orders at generalsemantics.org for the coupon code). 

  Registration is free and open to the public. You do not have to be a member of the Institute of General Semantics to join the reading group, but it is strongly encouraged. Registrants will receive information for joining the Zoom session in an email reminder. Sessions will be recorded and made available for viewing to IGS members. 

  Schedule

  Note that every session will run from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM New York Time. For the sessions scheduled from Sept. 30th to Oct. 28th this will be Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4), and from Nov. 4th to Dec. 23rd it will be Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5).

  The following are the dates and sections of the book to be discussed:

  September 30: All front matter, including Prefaces to the 6th, 5th, 4th, & 3rd editions, Introduction to the 2nd edition, and Preface to the 1st edition

  October 7: Book 1 Part 1

  October 14: Book 1 Part 2

  October 21: Book 1 Part 3

  October 28: Book 1 Part 4

  November 4: Book 1 Part 5

  November 11: No Meeting

  November 18: Book 1 Part 6

  November 25: Book 2 Part 7

  December 2: Book 3 Prefatory Remarks & Part 8

  December 9: Book 3 Part 9

  December 16: Book 3 Part 10

  December 23: Supplements

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