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  • 24 Oct 2022 8:24 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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.

  • 24 Oct 2022 8:21 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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.

  • 24 Oct 2022 8:16 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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:


  • 24 Oct 2022 8:13 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
    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:


  • 24 Oct 2022 8:06 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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.

  • 24 Oct 2022 8:03 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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.

  • 24 Oct 2022 8:00 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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.

  • 24 Oct 2022 7:54 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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:


  • 24 Oct 2022 7:48 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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:

  • 24 Oct 2022 6:00 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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.

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