For those in the NYC area, you're welcome to attend all or part of these upcoming events this coming weekend. Schedule for the Institute of General Semantics 56th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Symposium "Creating the Future: Conscious Time-binding for a Better Tomorrow" co-sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics New York Society for General Semantics Media Ecology Association Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences Fordham University's Department of Communication and Media Studies November 14-16, 2008 All events are open to the public and free of charge with the exception of the AKML dinner which is $90. Friday Nov. 14 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture at the Princeton Club of New York, 15 West 43rd Street, (between 5th and 6th Avenues) 6:00 PM Dinner (reservations through http://www.generalsemantics.org) 8:00 PM Program Moderator: Lance Strate, Fordham University, Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics, President of the Media Ecology Association Presentation of the J. Talbot Winchell Award Martin Levinson, President of the Institute of General Semantics, Vice-President of the New York Society for General Semantics Allen Flagg, Trustee of the Institute of General Semantics, President of the New York Society for General Semantics The Fifty-Sixth Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture Douglas Rushkoff, New York University, "Playing the Future: Towards a Creative Society" Sat. Nov. 15 – Sun. Nov. 16 Symposium Creating the Future: Conscious Time-binding for a Better Tomorrow Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus Saturday Nov. 15 8:30 AM Breakfast and Registration Outside of McNally Auditorium, Law School Building on 62nd St. off Columbus Ave., between Columbus and Amsterdam Morning Session in McNally Auditorium Moderators: Lance Strate, Fordham University Jacqueline Rudig, Institute of General Semantics Martin Levinson, Institute of General Semantics 9-9:30 Kathleen Sweeney, The New School, "Beyond iCelebrities: Social Networking and Social Activism on the Internet" 9:30-10 David Berreby, Institute of General Semantics, "Rhetorical Overload" 10-10:30 Tom de Zengotita, New York University/Dalton School, "Mediation and Fusion: The Case of Barack Obama" 10:30-11 Dick Meyer, National Public Radio, "Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Milllennium" 11-11:30 Frank Scardilli, Institute of General Semantics, "What Every Thinking Person Should Know About Law, Lawyers and the Tyranny of Illusion" 11:30-12 Alex Wright, New York Times, "Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages" 12-12:30 Tyler Volk, New York University, "What is a Sphere?: Metapatterns and Scale-Transcending Functional Principles" 12:30-1 Bruce Kodish, Institute of General Semantics, "What Did Alfred Want? A Biographer's Notes on Korzybski's Life and Work" 1-2:30 Lunch Break Afternoon Sessions Simultaneously in McNally Auditorium and McMahon Hall Lounge (McMahon is a residence hall on 60th St. off Amersterdam Ave., between Columbus and Amsterdam) 2:30-3:45 in McNally Auditorium Program: Activism as Conscious Time-Binding Moderator: David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Jeanne Posner, Western Connecticut State University, "Consciousness Without Activism is Ceding the Future" Paull Young, Converseon, "Social Networking and the Campaign Against Astroturfing" Bosco Ebere Amakwe, HFSN, Seton Hall University, "Empowerment of Women in Africa: The Role of Media Technology" Donna Flayhan, State University of New York, New Paltz, "Post 9/11 Health Crisis: Reactions of the Whole Organism, Delayed Reaction of the Culture" 2:30-3:45 in McMahon Hall Lounge Program: On the Logic and Illogic of Symbols Moderator: Margot Hardenbergh, Fordham University Gerald Erion, Medaille College, "Visual Propositions" Philip Ardery, Louisville (KY) Sustainability Forum, "Deleting 'I', Updating 'We'" Zhenbin Sun, Fairleigh Dickinson University, "Language, Dao, Etc." Martin Levinson, Institute of General Semantics, Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living 4 -5:15 in McNally Auditorium Program: Dispatches from the Global Village Moderator: Robert Albrecht, New Jersey City University Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer, Institute of General Semantics, " "A New French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, Brings About a Style of Leadership Very New to the French. Where Does He Come From? What Are His Strategies? Any Different from Other European or American Leaders? Etc.!" Prafulla Kar, Director, Centre for Contemporary Theory and General Semantics, Baroda, India, "General Semantics in India" Devkumar Trivedi, Centre for Contemporary Theory and General Semantics, Baroda, India, "The Epistemoscope: From Time-binding to Space-minding" Eva Berger, School of Media Studies, The College of Management, Israel, "In Praise of Delayed Reactions: Israel and the Culture of Talkbacks" 4 -5:15 in McMahon Hall Lounge Program: The Contents and Discontents of the New Media Environment Moderator: Paul Lippert, East Stroudsburg University Mary Ann Allison, Hofstra University, "Why We Need Cyberspace: A Response to Neil Postman’s Essay 'Cyberspace, Shmyberspace'" Robert Berkman, The New School, "Navigating Life in the Age of Google and Garmin: Answers and Directions vs. Wonder and Mystery" Stephanie Bennett, Palm Beach Atlantic University, "Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk: Revisiting Postman and the Relational Dynamics in the Emergent Semantic Environment of 21st Century Digital Media" Janet Sternberg, Fordham University, "Creating a Civil Culture: The Need to Resist Trash Talk in Contemporary Media" Evening Program in McNally Auditorium Moderators: Allen Flagg, Institute of General Semantics Janet Sternberg, Fordham University 5:30-6 Paul Guzzardo, The Geddes Institute for Urban Research, David Walczyk, Pratt Institute, and Alicia Gibb, NYC Resistors and Bug Labs, "The Green Flaneur" 6-6:30 Andrew Postman, Media Ecology Association, "How to Live in the 21st Century Without Multi-Tasking" 6:30-7 Terence P. Moran, New York University, "General Semantics Writ Large" 7-7:30 Milton Dawes, Institute of General Semantics, "Tools for Creating Better Futures" Sunday, Nov. 16 All Sessions in McMahon Hall Lounge 8:30 AM Breakfast and Registration 9-10:15 Program: Media Futures Moderator: Brian Cogan, Molloy College Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan College, "The End of Intellectual Property" Robert Blechman, St. George's University, "Things Come in Fours" Jessica K. Crowell, Fordham University, "The Umbilical Cord: Corrections, Connections and the Role of Media in America's Prisons" 10:30-12 Program: Science Fiction: Sequels and Adaptations Moderator, Meir Ribalow, Fordham University John C. Wright, Tor Books, "Null-A Continuum " Marleen Barr, Fordham University, "Science Fiction Tells Us Why the Obama Family is a Sequel to The Cosby Show" Paul Levinson, Fordham University, "From the Page to the Screen" 12-1:30 Lunch Break 1:30-2:45 Multimedia Performance Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig, Institute of General Semantics Eric Goodman, Institute of General Semantics, "Thus Spoke the Spectacle" 3-4:15 Program: Teaching General Semantics Moderator: Margaret Cassidy, Adelphi University Frank Gastner, Institute of General Semantics Renée Cherow-O'Leary, Teachers College, Columbia University William Petkanas, Western Connecticut State University 4:30-5:45 Program: The Future of General Semantics Moderator: Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer, Institute of General Semantics Ben Hauck, Institute of General Semantics, “A Better Tomorrow for General Semantics” Lloyd Gilden, Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research, "Development of the Ability to Experience Greater Integration with the Environment" Hillel Schiller, Institute of General Semantics, "Time-binding, Yes! But Time-bound, No! Change is Universal, But So is Stability" Allen Flagg, Institute of General Semantics, "Con II: The Future of Consciousness" ****************