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All IGS Members in Good Standing Will Receive Instructions on How to Livestream the Event Online Prior to the AKML
The 72nd Annual
Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
and the Symposium on
Communication,
Consciousness,
and Culture
September 20th-22nd, 2024
Co-Sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics
the International Bateson Institute
the Media Ecology Association
the Tomkins Institute
and the 404 Festival of Art and Technology
featuring
Maryann Wolf
Dr. Maryann Wolf is a scholar, teacher, and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the University of California Los Angeles in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and the former John DiBiaggio Professor of 
Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. She has authored over 170 scientific publications; Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (15 translations; HarperCollins, 2007); Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital Culture (12 translations; HarperCollins, 2018). She is co-author with Martha Denckla of the RAN/RAS naming speed tests, a universal predictor of dyslexia, and the creator of the RAVE-O Intervention Program for all struggling readers. She has received multiple awards for her contributions to the neuroscience of reading; the major awards from the International Dyslexia Association and the Einstein Award from the Dyslexia Foundation for her dyslexia research; and the Media Ecology Association's Walter Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship for her work on the effects of different media on the intellectual development of the species. Most recently, she was elected a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of Science.
Dr. Wolf's Korzybski Lecture is entitled:
Deep Reading in a Digital Milieu:
The Beauty, the Threats, and Choice
This lecture will use research from cognitive neuroscience to present an evolving portrait of the reading brain in a digital world, where the threat of continuous distraction competes with the perception of beauty and meaning in written language. An understanding of how different media shape and influence the development and use of deep reading processes will be used to discuss the antidote of choice by the reader, as well as the potential repercussions for our society and democracy.
The lecture, dinner, and symposium are being held at the historic Players Club in Gramercy Park, Manhattan.
Registration is free for IGS members and their guests, but all attendees must be registered in advance in order to gain admittance to the club. More information regarding the dinner and symposium schedule will be made available at a later date.
Please note that as an historic 18th century landmark, the site is not handicap accessible. Dress code is business casual and is strictly enforced, including no sneakers, shorts, ripped jeans, t-shirts).
