AKML Dinner/Weekend Symposium 2016 Princeton Club 15 West 43rd Street New York City Friday, October 21 6:00-6:30 PM Registration, Happy Hour, Cash Bar 6:30-8:00 PM AKML Dinner and Awards Presentations 8:00 PM The Sixty-Fourth Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture: The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Saturday, October 22 8:00-9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast 9:00-10:15 AM Communication Outlooks Moderator: Corey Anton Metamusical Themas (part 2): Music as a Semantic Abstraction Ed Tywoniak—Saint Mary’s College of California Language Levels Literacy Across the Curriculum Mary P. Lahman—Manchester University Bullshitting, Brownnosing, and Sucking Down: An Exploratory Study of Modes of Ingratiation Janelle L. Wilson—University of Minnesota at Duluth Daniel D. Martin—University of Minnesota at Duluth 10:15-10:45 AM Satire as a Semantics Problem Dan Geddes—Editor, The Satirist 10:45-11:00 AM Refreshment Break 11:00-12:15 PM Maps and Territories Moderator: Lance Strate A Natural Order for Writing Instruction and General Semantics Colin Campbell—York University The Character of Ritual Meaning Corey Anton—Grand Valley State University Parrying the Parasitic BE Daniel Zimmerman—Middlesex County College Orality, Literacy and Cultural Identity: Spanish and Guaraní in Paraguay Eva Berger—College of Management Academic Studies, Tel Aviv 12:15-1:45 PM Lunch 1:45-2:15 PM Radical General Semantics Gad Horowitz—University of Toronto 2:15-3:30 PM Time-Binding Perspectives Moderator: Ed Tywoniak Donald Trump: Live from New Yawk Marleen Barr—City University of New York General Semantics Applications 101: Language, Reality, Strange Notions, and Student Prose Tim Lyons—University of Colorado at Boulder Compose Thyself! Mike Plugh—Manhattan College Language in Action Robin Levenson—LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York 3:30-4:00 PM “Medium” Writ Large: Concepts and Contexts of a Key Term Lance Strate—Fordham University 4:00-4:15 PM Refreshment Break 4:15-5:30 PM Theory and Practice Moderator: Martin H. Levinson The Height of Identification: Metaphorizing Corporeality and Illness Bini Sajal—Balvant Parekh Centre, India Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lost: Alienation as Cultural Prerequisite for Modern Liberty Paul Lippert—East Stroudsburg University A Semantic Analysis of Nathanael West’s ‘A Cool Million’: From Despondency to Despair Gary H. Mayer—Stephen F. Austin State University Language and Reality: Structural Similarity for Effective Communication Deepa Mishra—University of Mumbai, India Sunday, October 23 8:00-9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00-10:30 AM A GS Potpourri I Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig Contributions from Measurement Theory to General Semantics Claudio Violato—Wake Forest University School of Medicine Language in Thought and Action: General Semantics as a “Judgy” Orientation Richard Fiordo—University of North Dakota My Brushes with Fame; Assessing the Experience from a Practicing General Semanticist's Point of View Michael Fandal—Renaissance Man Canadian Composer John Weinzweig and Performing “Silence” Rea Beaumont—Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto Unity Consciousness Lloyd Gilden—Lifwynn Foundation 10:30-10:45 AM Refreshment Break 10:45-11:00 AM Where Is Fancy Bred? Rethinking Imagination Through The “Unthought” And How That Affects Communication Adeena Karasick—Pratt Institute 11:00-12:30 PM A GS Potpourri II Moderator: Martin H. Levinson Play and Uncertainty in Language, Thought and Action Wolfgang Lukas—University of Innsbruck, Austria Glenn Hibbard—University of Toronto Clare Ellis—Kwan Um School of Zen Copying Animals in Our Nervous Processes”; Possible Implications for the Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders Mark Bernstein—University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine An Aristotelian Approach to the Time-Binding Notion of Alfred Korzybski Laura Trujillo—Universidad Panamericana, Mexico In Pursuit of The Ideal of Personal Excellence Through Conscious Times-binding Milton Dawes—Ambassador at Large, Institute of General Semantics About the Participants Corey Anton, professor of communication studies at Grand Valley State University, is author of: Selfhood and Authenticity, Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism, Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology; the editor of Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws; and co-editor (with Lance Strate), of Korzybski And…. He is past editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology and past-chair of the Semiotics and Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Anton is a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute and currently serves as both Vice-President of the Media Ecology Association and Vice-President of the Institute of General Semantics. Marleen S. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. She is the author of the novels Oy Pioneer! and Oy Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir. Dr. Réa Beaumont is described as “a tremendous pianist” (CBC Radio 2) with international performances and acclaimed recordings that have been broadcast in 13 countries, most recently on BBC Radio 3. In collaboration with leading composers, such as Order of Canada recipient R. Murray Schafer, she has premiered over 50 works, including those commissioned for her by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Beaumont is a specialist in the history of music in Canada and has lectured at academic institutions internationally. Following the release of her book Composer Barbara Pentland, Beaumont was named “a world authority in the field” (CBC Radio 2). Beaumont is the recipient of awards from The Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Federation of University Women, Ontario Arts Council, British Columbia Arts Council and The Banff Centre for the Arts. She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano and Conducting as a Fellowship recipient, Master of Music, Bachelor of Music in Music Education (Hons), Artist Diploma and an ARCT Performance Diploma. Beaumont was a Faculty member at the University of British Columbia and is now affiliated with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. www.reabeaumont.com Dr. Eva Berger teaches Communication at the College of Management Academic Studies in Rishon Letzion, Israel, where she has also served as Dean. She serves on numerous boards and public service organizations including the Women in the Picture Association (for the Advancement of Women in the Visual Arts), Israel Peace Initiative, Israel Press Council, and Institute of General Semantics. Her recent publications include “Combat Cuties, Photographs of Israeli Women Soldiers” and The Communication Panacea: Pediatrics and General Semantics. She has been a frequent commentator in the Israeli press on issues relating to media, language, gender and culture. Dr. Berger holds a BA in Film and Television from Tel Aviv University and an MA and PhD in Media Ecology from New York University. Dr. Mark (Mickey) Bernstein received his BS, MD, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. A psychiatrist in practice for 40 years, he is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches third year residents in psychiatry. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Clinical Faculty Teaching Award. He has been an active member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a member of state and national medical and psychiatric societies. He is a member of the Institute of General Semantics. Mickey was introduced to general semantics as a high school senior through a course in Language in Thought and Action (Hayakawa). He incorporates principles of general semantics into his psychotherapeutic approach to patients. Bini B.S. is currently an Academic Fellow at Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Baroda. Her PhD was an analysis of the idea of alternative history and historicity of fictional narratives with special reference to the theories of Michel Foucault. Her research articles, poems and translations have appeared in national and international Journals and anthologies including Poetry Chain, Kritya, Samyukta, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, JWS: A Journal of Women’s Studies, South Asian Ensemble, Kavyabharati, Korzybski, And… and the volumes The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere, and Media and Utopia (both published by Taylor and Francis in Britain and Routledge in India). She is the one of editors of Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought and the managing editor of the Journal of Contemporary Thought (JCT). Her poems were part of an anthology of corporeal poems titled A Strange Place other than Earlobes: Five Poets, Seventy Voices published by Sampark, Calcutta in 2014. Colin J. Campbell lectures in a sessional capacity at York University and OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. He is enjoying incorporating general semantics and cybernetics into classes