Since 1952, the Institute of General Semantics has sponsored the annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture (AKML), a presentation given by a distinguished individual on a topic of interest to the field of general semantics.
History
In 1952, two years after founder Alfred Korzbyski’s sudden death, Institute of General Semantics Director M. Kendig initiated an annual program to remember Korzybski and celebrate the continuation of his goals for human development and progress.
This program became known as the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture Series, or “AKML.” Kendig viewed this series as a means not only to remember Korzybski, but also to celebrate the contributions of those whose work is scientifically oriented and promotes what Korzybski termed “time-binding,” the unique human ability to build on the achievements of others through the use of symbols and languages.
Prestige
An impressive lineup of speakers has added significant prestige to the AKML, which over the years has featured prominent authors, scientists, psychologists, educators, and individuals from varied backgrounds.
A few of the more recognizable names include Abraham Maslow, Buckminster Fuller, Albert Ellis, Steve Allen, Leonard Shlain, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Lou Marinoff, Ellen Langer, J. Allan Hobson, Robert Carneiro, James Van Allen, Karl H. Pribram, Deborah Tannen, Sherry Turkle, and others.
Past AKML Speakers
A complete list of past speakers, along with transcripts of their presentations and audio and video recordings (where available), is below. The listed affiliations for each speaker were current on the date of the lecture and may have since changed.
2020s
2022 - Janna Levin
The Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, Founding Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, a cultural center in Brooklyn, and editor-in-chief of the virtual magazine, Pioneer Works Broadcast, which publishes across disciplines from art to science. She has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the early universe, chaos, and the shape of the universe. Her books include How the Universe Got Its Spots, Black Hole Blues, and a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won several prominent prizes for fiction. Her latest book is Black Hole Survival Guide.
Lecture Title: "Black Hole Survival Guide"
At the speakers request, the lecture has not been made public, but IGS members can access raw footage of the event.
2021 - Siva Vaidhyanathan
Robertson Professor of Media Studies and the director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, Cultural historian, media scholar, and lecturer
Lecture Title: “Making Meaning through Facebook: A Semantic and Visual-Culture Tour through Social Media”
2020 - Corey Anton
Author and professor of communication studies at Grand Valley State University
Lecture Title: “Lessons Learned from Lee Thayer”
2010s
2019 - Nadine Strossen
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School, First woman national president of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008)
Lecture Title: “Hate Speech, Counterspeech …”
2018 - Lance Strate
Professor of Communication and Media Studies and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies at Fordham University
Lecture Title: “Amazing Ourselves to Death: Contemplating the Technological Tempest of Our Times”
Introduction & Presentation Videos:
2017 - Terence P. Moran
Professor of Media Ecology, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, at New York University
Lecture Title: “Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk: Politics in America 2017”
Psychiatrist and writer
Author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
2015 - Andrew Keen
Author of The Internet Is Not the Answer
Lecture Title: “The Internet Is Not the Answer”
2014 - Jack El-Hai
Author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII Lecture Title: “The General-Semantics Psychiatrist and the Nazi”
2013 - Terrence Deacon, Ph.D.
Professor of biological anthropology at University of California, Berkeley
Author of Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
2012 - Shawn Lawrence Otto
Science advocate, humanitarian, and screenwriter
Author of Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America
2011 - Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
2010 - Deborah Tannen
University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.
Author of many books and articles about how the language of everyday conversation affects relationships, including You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (New York Times Best Seller)
2009 - Mary Catherine Bateson
President of the Institute for Intercultural Studies.
Author of eleven books including Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition; With A Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; and most recently, Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery
2008 - Douglas Rushkoff
Teacher and documentarian
Author of Screenagers, host of Frontline’s The Persuaders
Pioneering scientist-philosopher, lecturer, and author of The Next Development of Man, The Unconscious Before Freud, and The Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology
The Institute has sponsored summer seminar-workshops for over 50 years that focus on teaching theory and practical applications of general semantics.
The goal of these programs is to apply general semantics to help you restructure your view of yourself and the world to create more satisfying personal and professional relationships. Attendees can participate in lectures, small group discussions, exercises, demonstrations, sensing practices, and social events to experience the rewards of “living through” general semantics.
2023 Introduction to General Semantics In-Person Seminar
Held on June 19th-21st at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in New York City
Instructors: Mary P. Lahman, Lance Strate, Corey Anton
Day 1 The Map is Not the Territory, Morning Session: Introductions, Science and the Nature of Reality, Understanding Perception; Afternoon Session: Sensory Awareness; Structural Differential and the Abstraction Ladder, The Map is Not the Territory; Day 2 The Word is Not the Thing, Morning Session: Symbol vs. Signal, Language and Thought, Metaphor; Afternoon Session: Verbal/Meta Awareness, Non-Aristotelian Principles of Thought; Abstracting, Reification, and the IFD Disease; Day 3 The Organism-As-A-Whole-In-Its-Environment, Morning Session: Extensional Orientation and Devices; Semantic Relaxation, Non-Elementalism; Afternoon Session: Facts and Statements; Fact-Inference Test; The Semantic Environment
Images from the Seminar:
2006 Seminar - Workshop Notebook Materials
These materials come from the June 2006 Seminar-Workshop participant notebook. They include an abundance of lessons and instruction for teaching and learning general semantics.
The following videos and supplementary material provide insight into what past summer seminar-workshops hosted by the Institute of General Semantics were like for the participants.
A Silent Film from the 1961 Summer Seminar-Workshop
Over 16 days in mid-August, 1961, the Institute of General Semantics hosted its first-ever West Coast Summer Seminar-Workshop.
Held at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the 1961 seminar-workshop had 58 enrollees — the most ever to that date — and was regarded then as “probably the most productive seminar-workshop in the Institute’s history.”
Event Roundup
M. Kendig, Charlotte Schuchardt Read, O. R. Bontrager, Russell Meyers, Catherine Minteer, Edward L. Gates, Nathaniel Hollister, Elwood Murray, Michael Walsh, and Kenneth Johnson staffed the seminar-workshop in various capacities. J. Talbot Winchell, in whose name is one of the distinctive awards offered by the Institute of General Semantics, was in attendance. Former host of The Tonight Show, Steve Allen, was among the registrants.
Participant Karl Hinkle kept a “movie record” of the seminar-workshop.
Captured in the footage are teachers and participants in lectures, downtime during the intense seminar-workshop, awareness training led by Charlotte Schuchardt Read, and a glimpse at the participant photo shoot.
This silent film lasts nearly 22 minutes before it starts to loop briefly at the end.
Photo
The photo below depicts those in attendance at the 1961 Summer Seminar-Workshop. Click the photo to enlarge it.
The Institute of General Semantics 1961 Summer Seminar-Workshop at the University of California at Santa Barbara
First Row
KARL HINKLE, Lockheed Missles & Space Co., Sunnyvale, Cal. GENEVIEVE OSLUND, Probation Officer, Los Angeles County. GEORGE STANLEY, El Camlno College, Cal. GENE ELBINGER, Senior Probation Officer, Los Angeles County. E. F. MCDANIEL, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Oakland, Cal. JAMES VAUGRAN, University of Pittsburgh, Pa. TALBOT WINCHELL, South Pasadena, Cal. JAMES NEWMAN, (Pres.) Advsnced Seminars, Los Angeles. GEORGE COOK, Saskatchewan Teachers College, Saskatoon, Canada. LILLY MILIGAN, Grtffith Co., Los Angeles. NORMAN HARRINGTON, San Quentin Prison, Cal. PAUL COOPER, Central Management Services, Los Angeles.
Second Row
GRANT ANGELL, Audio-Dynamics Corp., Portland, Oregon. ANN MARTINOVICH, John Muir School, San Francisco. EVAN AIKEN, Bendix Corp., North Hollywood. EDEN RYL, Communication and Sales Consultant, Hollywood. MARTHA YORKSTON, Everett Junior College, Washington. JOAN THROOP, Poughkeepsie, New York. MONTGOMERY THROOP, IBM Laboratory, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. JAMES MOFFETT, Philips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. FRED BISSELL, MD, Aurora, Ohio. ROLLY HILLIARD, Psychtatric Social Worker, Los Angeles. ETHEL LONGSTREET, Viewpoints Inc., Beverly Hills, Cal.
Third Row
BLANCHE SANDERS, Santa Cruz, Cal. ROBERT HASLER, Stockbroker, Palm Beach, Florida. JUDITH HARRINGTON, (student) Radcliffe College, Mass. [Staff: EDWARD L. GATES, Institute of General Semantics. NATHANIEL HOLLISTER, MD, Dayton, Ohio. CHARLOTTE SCHUCHARDT READ, New York. O. R. BONTRAGER, PhD, California (Pa.) State College (1962-Arizona State University). M. KENDIG, Institute of Gereral Semantics. RUSSELL MEYERS, MD, FACS, State University of Iowa. KENNETH JOHNSON, PhD, University of Wisconsin.] JOYCE COOTZ (graduate student) San Diego state College. MEYER BRAUDE (Colonel, USA), Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. MARY MORAIN, San Francisco. HELEN RINGROSE, County Welfare Dept., Riverside, Cal. CLINTON HEATH (USN, Ret.), Westinghouse Electric Corp., Sunnyvale, Cal. JUNE HEATH, Palo Alto, Cal.
Fourth Row
BURYL PAYNE, Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, Wash. CHARLES TAYLOR, PhD, Fresno State College, Cal. JOSEPH STEWART, Salida, Colorado. ROBERT BUCKLEY, Paisley School, Oregon. KENNETH HOOVER, PhD, Arizona State University. MARY MORRIS, Arizona State University, THOMAS WEISS, PhD, Arizona State University. MARC HOWENSTEIN (student) University of California, Santa Barbara. EUGENE PECKHAM, Western Executive Training Services, Burlingame, Cal. HOWARD CAMPBELL, EdD, Fresno State College, Cal. JOAN SCHOETTLER, Lincoln Jr. High School, Santa Monica, Cal. IONE HARRINGTON, San Francisco. KENNETH MANSUY, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey.
Fifth Row
GLORIA SMITH, Bay Area Air Pollution Control, San Francisco. MARCO JOHNSON, Boeing Airplane Co., Seatlle, Wash. BOB WANDERER, freelance writer, San Francisco. ORVIL WALKER, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Sunnyvale, Cal. CHARLES BARTL, PhD, Portland State College, Oregon. WEBSTER AUGUSTINE, Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, Wash. ROGER ESHLEMAN, Shimer College, Mount Carroll, lllinois. BETTY HOLLINGSWORTH, law office, San Francisco.
Not In Picture
Registrants:STEVE ALLEN, Encino, Cal. JOHN HOTCHKISS, MD, Kaiser Hospital, San Francisco. J. GORDON ROBERTS, (Pres.) Roberts Dairy Co., Omaha, Nebraska. MICHAEL TURETSKY, Los Angeles. Visiting Lecturers:CATHERINE MINTEER, Santa Monica, Cal. ELWOOD MURRAY, PhD, University of Denver. MICHAEL WALSH, SeD, Beverly Hills, Cal.
Reports
A year after the 1961 Summer Seminar-Workshop, participants Robert Wanderer and Ethel Longstreet recounted their experiences.
The following recap was drawn from video recorded at the 1992 Summer Seminar at Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI.
Past Conferences & Symposia
Below is a selection of past conferences and symposia sponsored or co-sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics, along with roundups that include photos, video, papers, publicity, and more.
2020s
2022 - Ecologies of Mind, Media, and Meaning
Featuring the 70th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Janna Levin
Presented at the Players Club in New York City from October 7-9, 2022, cosponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association, the International Bateson Institute, and the 404 Festival of Art and Technology. Attendees listened to over 25 presenters at the general semantics symposium titled Ecologies of Mind, Media, and Meaning.
Videos
2021 - Science, Sanity, and the Semantic Environment
Featuring the 69th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Presented at the Players Club in New York City from October 1-3, 2021, attendees listened to over 25 presenters at the general semantics symposium titled Science, Sanity, and the Semantic Environment.
Videos
2020 - The Semantic Environment in a Time of Uncertainty
Featuring the 68th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Corey Anton
October 9-11, 2020
Presented virtually over Zoom
Event Roundup
Presented virtually over Zoom from October 9-11, 2020, attendees listened to nearly 30 presenters at the general semantics symposium titled The Semantic Environment in a Time of Uncertainty.
Videos
2010s
2019 - The Tyranny of Words
Featuring the 67th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Nadine Strossen
October 11-13, 2019
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 11-13, 2019, attendees listened to more than 25 presenters at the general semantics The Tyranny of Words symposium.
Videos
2018 - Language and Meaning in the 21st Century
Featuring the 66th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Terence P. Moran
October 26-28, 2018
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 26-28, 2018, attendees listened to more than 25 presenters at the general semantics Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk symposium.
Videos
2017 - Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk
Featuring the 65th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Terence P. Moran
October 27-29, 2017
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 27-29, 2017, attendees listened to more than 25 presenters at the general semantics Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk symposium.
Videos
2016 - Language in Thought and Action
Featuring the 64th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Iain McGilchrist
October 21-23, 2016
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 21-23, 2016, attendees listened to more than 30 presenters at the general semantics Language in Thought and Action symposium.
Videos
2015 - Language and 'Reality'
Featuring the 63rd Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Andrew Keen
October 2-4, 2015
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 2-4, 2015, attendees listened to over 20 presenters at the general semantics Language and “Reality” symposium.
Videos
2014 - Making Sense through Time-Binding
Featuring the 62nd Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Jack El-Hai
October 24-26, 2014
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 24-26, 2014, attendees listened to over 25 presenters at the general semantics symposium titled Making Sense through Time-Binding.
Videos
2013 - Language and Symbol Use in the Twenty-First Century
Featuring the 61st Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Terrence Deacon
October 25-27, 2013
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 25-27, 2013, attendees listened to over 25 presenters at the general semantics symposium titled Language and Symbol Use in the Twenty-First Century.
Videos
2012 - Language and Symbol Use in Politics and Other Arenas
Featuring the 60th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Shawn Lawrence Otto
October 26-28, 2012
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 26-28, 2012, attendees listened to over 20 presenters at the general semantics symposium titled Language and Symbol Use in Politics and Other Arenas.
Videos
2011 - Communicating in the 21st Century
Featuring the 59th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Sherry Turkle
October 28-30, 2011
Princeton Club, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At the Princeton Club in New York City from October 28-30, 2011, attendees listened to over 20 presenters at the general semantics symposium titled Communication in the 21st Century.
Videos
October 10 - Photography by Michael Dames
Photographer Michael Dames shot the presentations delivered during the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture.
October 29 - 31 - Photography by Mariusz Han
Fordham University student Mariusz Han, SJ, photographed many presenters at the symposium.
2000s
2009 - Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning
Featuring the 57th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Mary Catherine Bateson
September 11-13, 2009
Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY
Event Roundup
At Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus from September 11-13, 2009, a large number of attendees listened to over 70 presenters at the international general semantics conference titled Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning.
2008 - Creating the Future: Conscious Time-Binding for a Better Tomorrow
Featuring the 56th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Douglas Rushkoff
November 14-16, 2008
Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY
Event Roundup
On November 14, 2008, the Institute of General Semantics hosted the 56th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture at the Princeton Club in New York City. Douglas Rushkoff delivered the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, titled “Playing the Future: Towards a Creative Society.”
On November 15-16, 2008, IGS followed with a two-day symposium at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus titled Creating the Future: Conscious Time-Binding for a Better Tomorrow.
The Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
Douglas Rushkoff, teacher and documentarian, author of Screenagers, and host of Frontline’s The Persuaders, presented the 56th Alfred Koryzbksi Memorial Lecture to a large, attentive crowd at the Princeton Club in New York City. His lecture, titled “Playing the Future: Towards a Creative Society,” is below.
Brian Heater wrote an account the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture that ran in the New York Press on November 18th, 2008. It is now offline, but the text is preserved below.
Generational Semantics: Writer Douglas Rushkoff at the Institute of General Semantics Dinner
by Brian Heater
The writer and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff would, of course, have been remiss had he not addressed the polarized nature of his audience right off the bat. The front half of the room was monopolized by circular tables covered in white tablecloths, surrounded be gray-haired diners who had arrived at the Princeton Club at 6 p.m. to participate in the $90-a-plate meal. They made up a large portion of The New York Society for General Semantics, a 62-year-old offshoot of the Institute of General Semantics, which boasts the hopeful mission statement of, “improv[ing] one’s ability to evaluate the world and one’s place in it.”
The list of previous speakers at the event included such diverse luminaries as Buckminster Fuller, Steve Allen, Robert Anton Wilson—a list on which, the club’s acting president noted thoughtfully, Rushkoff’s name surely didn’t seem out of place.
Toward the back of the room were rows of chairs set up for the 8 o’clockers, those who poured into the room two hours later, forgoing that $90 meal, eager to watch the Ecstasy Club author in action. A motley assortment that were at least half the median age as those seated up in front.
“This is a really interesting mix,” Rushkoff smiled, at the top of his speech. “The half over here came because you’re members of the Institute of General Semantics and pay dues and get newsletters, and the other half of these people probably got a Facebook message…There’s two very different paths. Of course they wouldn’t have been able to come, were it not for the generosity of the [front] group. You guys, by paying your dues, made this possible. Instead of seeing your contribution as the privilege to get this thing, you decided that your contribution was about the privilege to share this thing.”
It was a perfect entry point into a talk that would have no doubt immediately been written off as socialist rhetoric by “Joe the Plumber” and his ilk. Over the next two hours, Rushkoff traced the present-day economic collapse all the way back to the Renaissance and the birth of the self, largely succeeding in bringing the room’s binary attendance together, save for the occasionally alienating video game metaphor—which, while effective in illustrating his points using references to programming language and mods, was no doubt a touch baffling to those finishing up their meals, scratching heads at references to virtual worlds. Still, in all it was a rather compelling talk by one of our most prominent counter-cultural media theorists, particularly when he referred to president-elect Obama (of whom Rushkoff admitted he was certainly a fan) as, “playing president.” Whether or not you agreed with such sentiments, there was likely nary a person in the room not drawn in by Rushkoff’s assertions.
Blog Posts
Lance Strate
IGS Executive Director Lance Strate wrote two entries in his blog titled Blog Time Passing about the weekend. The first was his personal account of the weekend, and the second was a corrigenda from the AKML.
Not only did Robert Barry Francos photograph the weekend’s events, but he also provided a personal account of the weekend in his blog titled FFanzeen: Rock ‘n’ Roll With Integrity.
2007 - Mind and Consciousness: Understanding/Reconciling/Integrating Symbol Systems and Nervous Systems
Featuring the 55th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Leonard Shlain
October 26-27, 2007
The Princeton Club and Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY
Event Roundup
The Institute of General Semantics was one of five sponsoring organizations for the 55th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and All-Day Symposium held on October 26-27, 2007, at the Princeton Club and Fordham University respectively. The Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture featured Dr. Leonard Shlain, M.D. whose lecture was titled “Right Brain/Left Brain: Hemispheric Lateralization and its Effects on Religion, Culture, Gender and History.” Shlain is the author of three best-selling books and a professor of laparoscopic brain surgery in California.
The symposium, titled “Mind and Consciousness: Understanding/Reconciling/Integrating Symbol Systems and Nervous Systems,” featured twelve speakers whose topics ranged from “Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living” to “Right Brain, Left Brain and How They Affect our Food Choices” to “Understanding the Decalogue through General Semantics and Media Ecology.” Before the sessions began, New York Society for General Semantics Vice President Martin H. Levinson was presented with the Media Ecology Association’s Suzanne K. Langer Award for his book Sensible Thinking for Turbulent Times.
The room where the symposium was held was filled to capacity. Attendees at the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the symposium were in general agreement that both these events were highly worthwhile learning experiences.
Photo Gallery
Special thanks to Katherine Liepe-Levinson for photographing the event and editing the images.
October 27
2006 - Making Sense Conference
Featuring the 54th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Renee Hobbs
October 27-28, 2006
Arlington Hilton Hotel, Arlington, TX
Event Roundup
From October 27-28, 2006, the Institute of General Semantics sponsored the Making Sense Conference at the Arlington Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Texas. Renee Hobbs delivered the 55th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture titled “Literacy in the 21st Century,” the culmination of a weekend of over 20 presentations from national and international presenters.
Preceding the conference from October 24-26, the Institute of General Semantics hosted a special Pre-Conference Workshop on “Making Sense,” which offered participants a unique opportunity to review some of the basic principles of general semantics, then apply those principles toward major issues of the day. The Pre-Conference Workshop was held at Read House, the headquarters for the Institute of General Semantics in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
On the evening of October 28, 2006, Renee Hobbs, Director of the Media Education Lab at Temple University, Founder of the Alliance for a Media Liberate America (AMLA), and author of Reading the Media, presented the 54th Alfred Koryzbksi Memorial Lecture to a large crowd as the apex of the Making Sense Conference at the Arlington Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Texas. Her lecture, titled “Literacy in the 21st Century,” is below.
The following papers and presentations are pre-publication drafts from the Making Sense Conference. A number of the items below were later edited and published in the General Semantics Bulletin, No. 73 (2006).
Featuring the 53rd Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Robert L. Carneiro
April 22-23, 2005
American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater, New York, NY
Videos
2003 - Confronting the Challenges of Conflicting World Views
The Twelfth International Conference on General Semantics
Featuring the 52nd Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Sanford I. Berman
October 31 – November 2, 2003
Las Vegas, NV
Event Roundup
From October 31 to November 2, 2003, the Institute of General Semantics sponsored the Twelfth International Conference on General Semantics in Las Vegas, Nevada. Titled Confronting the Challenges of Conflicting World Views, the conference was co-sponsored by the International Society for General Semantics and the New York Society for General Semantics. It featured the 52nd Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, delivered by Sanford I. Berman.
The Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
Sanford I. Berman, motivational speaker, nightclub hypnotist, editor of Logic and General Semantics and author of Words, Meanings and People, delivered the 52nd Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture titled “On the Teaching of General Semantics.”
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