In response to the resurgence of scholarly interest in the ideas and writings of Alfred Korzybski, Corey Anton and Lance Strate are pleased to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming edited book to be published by the Institute of General Semantics.

The edited collection, tentatively titled Korzybski and…, will feature some of today’s leading scholars and will explore and address the continued relevance of Korzybski and his practical system of general semantics.

The editors are especially interested in papers that draw out connections, points of convergence and/or divergence between Korzybski and particular thinkers, scholarly traditions, and research methodologies. Example topics or chapters include:

• Korzybski and Marshall McLuhan
• Korzybski and Martin Heidegger
• Korzybski and Kenneth Burke
• Korzybski and Transactional Psychology
• Korzybski and Logic
• Korzybski and Stoicism
• Korzybski and Postmodernity

The editors welcome creative and innovative projects and are happy to consider alternative suggestions and proposals that address the continued relevance of Korzybski and General Semantics.

Prospective authors should submit completed papers, extended abstracts, or interesting papers proposals, as well as a copy of current CV to Corey Anton (antonc[at]gvsu.edu) and Lance Strate (strate[at]fordham.edu) by August 31, 2010.

Competition for the Hayakawa Book Prize is open to any book published in 2005 or later on topics and themes of direct relevance to the discipline of general semantics, including:

• time-binding
• abstraction
• language
• symbols
• meaning
• communication
• media
• perception
• consciousness
• epistemology
• scientific method
• etc.

To enter, send a letter of nomination and four copies of the book to Executive Director, Institute of General Semantics, 3000 A Landers Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107 by March 31, 2010. (Please note that this is a new mailing address for IGS.)

For more information, contact Lance Strate, Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics, via e-mail at executivedirector [at] generalsemantics.org, or by telephone at (718) 817-4864.

The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000.

IGS recently issued a call for papers for its 2009 international conference titled "Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning."

UPDATE!
The deadline for submission has been extended. Feel free to send your submission up until the soft deadline of July 31, 2009.

(updated July 15, 2009)