The presentations at the 70th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Ecologies of Mind, Media, and Meaning Symposium held on October 7th-9th, 2022 at The Players, New York City, are now available for viewing via the IGS YouTube channel. 

Our IGS lecture series begins anew for 2023 with an online talk  featuring IGS Trustee Nora Bateson. The lecture will be delivered on Tuesday, January 31st at 11 AM EST via Zoom. It will be free and open to the public, but registration is required. To view the event page and register, click here. 

The fourth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. This time the podcast features a a freewheeling discussion with IGS trustees Corey Anton, Nora Bateson, Eva Berger, Corey Anton, and Lance Strate, on media and technology in general, and especially computers, artificial intelligence, and Chat GPT, and their effects on human communication, consciousness, and culture. You can access Episode 4 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below:

The 2022 IGS lecture series continues with our fourth online talk  featuring IGS Secretary Eva Berger. The lecture will be delivered on Monday, December 12th at 12 Noon EST via Zoom. It will be free and open to the public, but registration is required. To view the event page and register, click here. 

The third episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. This time the podcast features interviews with communication scholars Susan Jasko and Stephanie Bennett conducted by Lance Strate during the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in New Orleans. You can access Episode 3 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below:

The 2022 IGS lecture series continues with our third online talk  featuring IGS Vice-President Corey Anton. The lecture will be delivered on Friday, November 11th at 12 Noon EST via Zoom. It will be free and open to the public, but registration is required. To view the event page and register, click here. 

The second episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. This time the podcast features an interview with author and financial consultant Christopher Mayer conducted by Thom Gencarelli and Lance Strate, plus a poetry reading by Adeena Karasick. You can access Episode 1 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below:

IGS President Lance Strate will deliver the second in our new online lecture series on The Issue of Is: A Commentary on the Case Against the Verb “To Be”. The lecture will be held via Zoom on October 28th at noon EDT. It will be free and open to the public, but registration is required. To view the event page and register, click here.

IGS Trustee and Past President Martin Levinson was interviewed on the Mind For Life Podcast hosted by Jeff Bogaczyk on How to Think Better With General Semantics. To view the podcast page and listen to the podcast, click here.

The first episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. The inaugural episode features an interview with Nora Bateson conducted by Lance Strate and Michael Plugh, plus a poetry reading by Martin H. Levinson, and a reading from Korzbyski's Manhood of Humanity, voiced by Eva Berger. You can access Episode 1 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below: