The annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and Symposium will take place via Zoom this weekend. Info available via http://www.generalsemantics.org/zoom2020 but also below:
Here are links for signing on, followed by the schedule: https://www.generalsemantics.org/friday
AKML on Friday, October 9, 2020,
starting @ 7:30pm
https://www.generalsemantics.org/saturday GS Symposium Day One on
Saturday, October 10, 2020, from 9:00am-4:45pm
https://www.generalsemantics.org/sunday GS Symposium Day Two on Sunday, October 11, 2020, from 9:00am-11:45am
Friday, October 9
7:30 PM Introduction and AKML Awards Ceremony
8:00 PM The Sixty-Eighth Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture:
Making Meaning through Facebook: A Semantic and Visual-Culture Tour through
Social Media Siva Vaidhyanathan
Saturday, October 10
9:00-10:15 AM Consciousness of Abstracting
Moderator: Martin H. Levinson
Ladders and Snakes: Hayakawa and Ouraboros
Dom Heffer?Independent Scholar
An Axiomatization of Realities
Ashuwan Vaida?Montclair State University
Marx, Napoleon III & Covid-19: A Story That Repeats Itself?
Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer?Independent Scholar
Dealing With a Pandemic and Other Crises. A Conscious Time-binding General Semantics Calculus Approach
Milton Dawes Independent Scholar
10:30-11:45 PM Extensional Orientations
Moderator: Corey Anton
Extensional Devices Revisited
Ben Hauck Independent Scholar
General Semantics and Primary Education, or Why Schools Need New Words Much More than New Devices
Colombi AlessandroFree University of Bolzano
Semantic Redefining of Global Communication in the Unforeseen Force Majure Sthitipragnya Dash?Hinduja College
A Two-valued Orientation, the Faustian Bargain, and the Shape of
Technological Things to Come Thom Gencarelli Manhattan College
12:00-1:15 PM Time-Binding Perspectives
Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig
Abstracting Ourselves to Death: Media Narratives and the Search for ?Sense?
Michael Plugh Manhattan College
Latino and Latino: Identity as Homonymic Ambiguity
Julio Marzan Independent Scholar
Bucky and General Semantics
Christopher Mayer Independent Scholar
An Olog meets the Analog: Advancing the Theory of Groups in General
Semantics and Materials AI
Colin Campell and Glenn Hubbard?University of Toronto
1:15-2:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:00-3:15 PM General Semantics Writ Large
Moderator: Thom Gencarelli
The Digital Environment as a Producer of New Ontologies
Laura Trujillo-Li??n?Universidad Panamericana
The New Grammarians: The Trivium, Science, and the Semantic Environment
Lance Strate Fordham University
Levels of Abstracting and Sign Relations
Zhenbin Sun Farleigh Dickinson University
The New Easter Story
Corey Anto Grand Valley State University
3:30-4:45 PM Semantic Environments
Moderator: Lance Strate
Out of Fear Came Hope: The Plywood Project
Paul Lippert?East Stroudsburg University
Teaching in the Age of Covid: True Tales From the Digital Frontier
Ed Tywoniak Saint Mary’s College
Language, ?ros, Being: The Airplane as a Semantic Environment in a Time of Uncertainty Adeena Karasick?Pratt Institute
Lost in Translation (Musical Performance)
John McDaid?Independent Scholar
Sunday, October 11
9:00-10:00 AM
A General Semantics Potpourri: Part I
Moderator: Eva Berger
Living Better With General Semantics: Updating Outdated Beliefs to Become
Better Aligned With Reality
Jason Tremain Independent Scholar
Trump´s War on Nerves
Mark Bernstein Independent Scholar
Wikipedia Wants You!
Phil Ardery Independent Scholar
10:15-11:15 AM A General Semantics Potpourri: Part II
Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig
The Language of Video Games: Today’s Reality?
Boris Susanj Independent Scholar
In a Time of Pandemic: A Rhetorician Examines the Headlines and Such
Tim Lyons University of Colorado at Boulder
General Semantics and Human Body Modification
Richard Fiordo University of North Dakota
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