EDITOR, ETC: A REVIEW OF GENERAL SEMANTICS, Thom Gencarelli WEBMASTER, Ben Hauck BOARD OF TRUSTEES PRESIDENT, Martin H. Levinson VICE-PRESIDENT, Corey Anton TREASURER, Jacqueline J. Rudig SECRETARY, Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer George Barenholtz Eva Berger Kristene Doyle Thom Gencarelli Ben Hauck Dominic Heffer Prafulla Kar Mary P. Lahman Lance Strate Ed Tywoniak AKML Dinner/Weekend Symposium 2018 Princeton Club 15 West 43rd Street New York City Friday, October 26 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-Sixth Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture: Amazing Ourselves to Death: Contemplating the Technological Tempest of Our Times Lance Strate THE ALFRED KORZYBSKI MEMORIAL LECTURERS 2018 Lance Strate 2017 Terence P. Moran 1990 Warren M. Robbins 1966 Alvin M. Weinberger 2016 Iain McGilchrist 1989 William V. Haney 1965 Henry Lee Smith, Jr. 2015 Andrew Keen 1988 Jerome Bruner 1964 Joost A.M. Meerlo, M.D. 2014 Jack El-Hai 1987 Richard W. Paul 1963 Henri Laborit, M.D. 2013 Terrence W. Deacon 1986 George F.F. Lombard 1962 Harold G. Cassidy 2012 Shawn Lawrence Ott 1985 Russell Meyers, M.D. 1961 Robert R. Blake 2011 Sherry Turkle 1984 Karl H. Pribram 1960 Warren S. McCullogh, 2010 Deborah Tannen 1983 Allen Walker Read M.D. 2009 Mary Catherine Bateson 1982 Robert R. Blake 1959 Charles M. Pomerat William H. Fry 2008 Douglas Rushkoff 1981 Thomas Sebeok James A. Van Allen 2007 Leonard Shlain, M.D. 1980 Barbara Morgan 1958 Russell Myers, M.D. 2006 Renee Hobbs 1979 Don Fabun 1957 Abraham Maslow 2005 Robert L. Carneiro 1978 Elwood Murray 1956 Clyde Kluckhohn 2003 Sanford I. Berman 1977 Ben Bova 1955 R. Buckminster Fuller 2002 J. Allan Hobson, M.D. 1976 Roger W. Wescott 1954 F.S.C. Northrup 2001 Lou Marinoff 1975 Harley C. Shands, M.D. 1953 F.J. Roethlisberger 2000 Robert P. Pula 1974 Kenneth G. Johnson 1952 William Vogt Neil Postman M.F. Ashley Montagu 1999 Ellen J. Langer 1973 J. Samuel Bois 1998 Theodore R. Sizer Elton S. Carter Walter Probert 1997 Robert Anton Wilson 1972 George Steiner 1996 Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi 1971 Henry Margenau 1995 Nicholas Johnson 1970 Gregory Bateson 1994 Lotfi A. Zadeh 1969 Lancelot Law Whyte 1993 William Lutz 1968 Alastair M. Taylor 1992 Steve Allen 1967 Jacob Bronowski 1991 Albert Ellis The Trustees of the Institute of General Semantics Proudly Present The 2018 Samuel I. Hayakawa Book Prize to TRS Sharma for Reading Alfred Korzybski through Inter-Theoretic Explorations October 26, 2018 The Trustees of the Institute of General Semantics Proudly Present The 2018 J. Talbot Winchell Award to Ben Hauck In Recognition of his Indispensible Contributions, Accomplishments and Time-Binding Efforts in Service to the Field of General Semantics October 26, 2018 Saturday, October 27 8:00-9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast 9:00-10:15 AM Communication Outlooks Moderator: Martin H. Levinson The Nothing That Is: Language, Thought, and Negation Corey Anton—Grand Valley State University The Impact of Listening Habits on Language and Meaning Mary P. Lahman—Manchester University, Indiana Teilhard de Chardin and the Symbolic Species Ed Tywoniak—Saint Mary’s College of California Origins of “Popaganda” Paul Lippert—East Stroudsburg University 10:15-10:45 AM Language as Hermeneutic Sara van den Berg and Thomas Zlatic—Saint Louis University 10:45-11:00 AM Refreshment Break 11:00-12:15 PM Maps and Territories Moderator: Corey Anton “‘Literacy as Deviance’” and Virtual Reality Thom Gencarelli—Manhattan College Literally vs. Seriously: Analyzing a Contrastive Pair Applied to Interpretations of Trump's Rhetoric Lance Strate—Fordham University And Now for Something Completely Different: What are We Studying in Semantics, and General Semantics Ben Hauck—Institute of General Semantics Hearing, Contemplating, and Meditating: Linking Language to Practice in Buddhism Tim Lyons—University of Colorado at Boulder 12:15-12:45 PM “Fake News” vs. Fake News Dan Geddes—Independent Scholar 12:45-2:15 Lunch Break 2:15-3:30 PM Time-Binding Perspectives Moderator: Ed Tywoniak Binary Code, the Language in the 21th Century. Laura Trujillo-Liñán and Laura Meneses-Trujillo—Universidad Panamericana Language and Meaning are not about the Words Robin Levenson Helping the Next Generation Find Meaning in Informational Texts Russell Kahn—Independent Scholar Wisdom Tradition: Decoding Derailment Sthitipragnya Dash—Hinduja College 3:30-4:00 PM How Do You Know Chris Mayer—Independent Scholar 4:00-4:15 PM Refreshment Break 4:15-5:30 PM Theory and Practice Moderator: Thom Gencarelli Aldous Huxley and General Semantics Martin H. Levinson: Institute of General Semantics Assemblage—A non-Aristotelian Theory of Part and Whole Glenn Hibbard—University of Toronto Adding Value to the Teaching and Practice of Law Through General Semantics Judging Measurements as Maps: Dianne Piper and Richard Fiordo—University of North Dakota 5:30-6:00 PM Bandage, Bondage, Strippers and Slippage: The Language and Meaning of Salomé in the 21st Century Adeena Karasick—Pratt Institute Sunday, October 28 8:00-9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00-10:15 AM A General Semantics Potpourri: Part I Moderator: Lance Strate Trumppunk Resists Presidential Bunk: Coining a New Science Fiction Subgenre Term Marleen S. Barr—City University of New York The Politically Incorrect Tarzan Gary Mayer—Stephen F. Austin State University Hyphenated Thinking Lloyd Gilden—Queens College The Human Age, the World Shaped By Us Olivia Brownlee—Independent Scholar 10:15-10:45 AM Meta-Semantics Painting Dom Heffer—Independent Scholar 10:45-11:00 AM Refreshment Break 11:00-12:15 PM A General Semantics Potpourri: Part II Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig Disruptive Innovation in Medical Communication: Resolving Conflicts Surfacing in Medical Recommendations” Richard Fiordo—University of North Dakota Of Mind and Metaphor Stuart Dambrot—Independent Scholar Time, Space and Modernity: Urban Fiction and Popular Magazines in 1930's China Shuang Shen—East Chin Normal University Referents and Objects: A Parallel between General Semantics and Yogacārā Buddhism Thomas A. Rowe—Independent Scholar 12:15-12:30 PM Close 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…; and is co-editor (along with Robert K. Logan and Lance Strate) of Taking Up McLuhan's Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality. He is past editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology, a Fellow of the International Communicology, and, he currently serves on the Advisory Council of the Media Ecology Association and as 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. Her latest book is When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber, the first single-authored Trump fiction anthology. Olivia Brownlee, after discovering the work of Augusto Boal. starting a music career, and living abroad, attended Emerson College in Boston where she earned a Master of Arts in Theatre for Social Change. In 2015 she returned to her hometown of Los Angeles to study the music business. She now resides in Spokane, WA as a writer, composer, and recording artist. Brownlee stumbled across Korzybski's legacy while collecting resources for her avant-garde approach to music pedagogy and cross-cultural communication, workshops for which she has piloted in Laos, Vienna, and various semantic environments in the United States. Sthitipragnya Dash is a graduate in Economics from F.M University in Odisha and a postgraduate in journalism and mass communication from the University of Mumbai. Currently she works as a news curator with Scroll, which is an award winning Indian origin political and cultural daily website. She is also a visiting faculty member at Hinduja College in Mumbai where she teaches Public Relations and Communication theory to post graduate students. She holds an M.Phil degree in Central Eurasian studies from the University of Mumbai. Her core area of interest has been in international relations, communications, general semantics, economics and leadership management and she has presented at various world conferences and seminars on topics ranging from India's foreign policy, to BRICS in the new world era, to a student’s perspective on General Semantics. She has published articles on leadership and management in The Leadership Review magazine where she worked previously as a sub-editor. She was recently invited at the Eurasian, East and Central European Studies Women's Academics Forum Women's academic forum (EECES WAF)2018 at Oxford Brookes University to present her pre doctoral research, which had women academicians from across 25 nationalities she being the only one from India. Richard Fiordo is Professor Emeritus of Communication, University of North Dakota. He holds a BA in English, an MA in Speech, and a PhD in Speech Communication. He studied general semantics in his MA program at San Francisco State College under S.I. Hayakawa and Richard Dettering. In 2011, his text with a general semantics inclination, Arguing in a Loud Whisper: A Civil Approach to Dispute Resolution was published.