IGS Trustee and Past President Martin Levinson was interviewed on an episode of the Veteran Et Cetera podcast, discussing the value of general semantics for veterans' readjustment. You can listen to the podcast via YouTube and below:

The 70th annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, featuring astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin, was held on October 7, 2022, and the Ecologies of Mind, Media, and Meaning Symposium followed on October 8th and 9th, 2022. The event was co-sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association, the International Bateson Institute, and the 404 Festival of Art and Technology. To view the event page, click here.AKML and Symposium. Video recordings from the symposium will be uploaded to the IGS YouTube channel in the near future.

On September 29th, 2022, the IGS launched a new online lecture series featuring Trustee and Past President Martin H. Levinson discussing How to Improve Your Thinking & Communicating Ability Using General Semantics. To view the event page, click here. The recording of the event will be made available exclusively to IGS members in the near future.

On September 21st, the IGS co-sponsored a Bateson Anniversaries event entitled, The Map is Not the Territory, featuring IGS Trustee and International Bateson Institute President Nora Bateson, and IGS President Lance Strate. To view the event page, click here. Recording of the event is not presently available.

The Science, Sanity, and the Semantic Environment II Online Symposium was held via Zoom on June 25, 2022. To view the event page, click here.

To view the recordings of the event on the IGS YouTube channel, click here, or view it below:

The Totem and Taboo in Contemporary Talk panel discussion and presentation of the 2021 S.I. Hayakawa Prize to John H. McWhorter was held on April 6, 2022. For the full event description, click here.

The recording of the event is available for viewing on the IGS YouTube channel. To view it there, click here. Or view it right here:

Laura Trujillo-Liñán has joined the IGS Board of Trustees. She is professor/researcher of Humanities and Media at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, and General Coordinator for the Universidad Panamericana Open University.

Thom Gencarelli has succeeded Jacqueline Rudig as Treasurer of the IGS. Dr. Gencarelli is Professor and the founding Chair of the Communication Department at Manhattan College, and the current editor of the official journal of the IGS, ETC: A Review of General Semantics. He is also the Treasurer of the New York Society for General Semantics and a Past President of the Media Ecology Association, the New York State Communication Association, and the New Jersey Communication Association (twice). 

Susan Drucker and Michael Plugh have joined the IGS Board of Trustees. Dr. Drucker is a Distinguished Professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism/Media Studies, School of Communication, Hofstra University. She is also an attorney, the treasurer of the Urban Communication Foundation, and the author and editor of 13 books and over 150 articles and book chapters. Michael Plugh is an Associate Professor of Communication at Manhattan College, the President of the New York Society for General Semantics, Vice-President of the Media Ecology Association, and a Past President of the New York State Communication Association.

Michael Plugh has succeeded Lance Strate as President of the New York Society for General Semantics. Dr. Plugh teaches communication at Manhattan College, has served as President of the New York State Communication Association, and Vice-President of the Media Ecology Association.

Lance Strate served as President of the NYSGS from 2016 to 2021, and stepped down from that role after being elected as President of the Institute of General Semantics. He remains on the NYSGS board in the office of Secretary. Teresa Manzella was elected as Vice-President and Thom Gencarelli as Treasurer of the NYSGS.