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2006 Agenda

Conference Agenda (Final)
October 27-28, 2006

Living on the Response Side

Making Sense

Do you? How do you? How do you know?

Friday, October 27
Time
Presenter
Title
9:00 Steve Stockdale Welcome, Introductions
9:30 Ben Hauck On Knitting Sweaters During Conferences
10:00 Bob Eddy Making Sense Constructively
10:30 BREAK
10:45 Jeffrey R. Dafler, Ross A. Jackson Freedom as Nihilism
11:15 Bruce Kodish, Ph.D. Korzybski in North America
11:45 DISCUSSION
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 Robert Kerrick Murray Exploring a Fundamental, Non-Verbal Coherency
1:30 Milton Dawes A Universe of Rhythms
2:00 C.A. Hilgartner, M.D. A Neglected Aspect of Time-Binding: Rejecting Tacit 'Identity'
2:45 BREAK
3:00 Tommy Thomason, Ed.D. and Douglas Ann Newsom, Ph.D. Why General Semantics Makes Sense for the Schieffer School of Journalism
3:45 Michael Round Polite Discussion: A Play about Rational Discourse
4:15 DISCUSSION
5:00 ADJOURN
6:00 OPEN HOUSE Read House, 2260 College Avenue, Fort Worth

 

Saturday, October 28

Time
Presenter
Title
9:00 Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D. Emotional Intelligence
9:30 Charles E. Bailey, M.D. General Semantics: The Key to Understanding the Brain
10:30 BREAK
10:45 Sandra S. Pate, D.Phil Changing Futures for Families
11:30 Nora Miller Making Sense of Loss
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 QUESTION & ANSWER Levinson, Bailey, Pate, Miller
1:30 Laura Bertone, Ph.D. From the Confusion of Babel
2:00 Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer On Regionalism
2:30 Michael Fuhlhage What's the Matter with Kansas?
3:00 BREAK
3:15 Erica Gordon The Semantic Person
3:45 Andrea Johnson Making Sense of Change Thinging
4:15 Summary Panel Discussion including Renee Hobbs, Ed.D.
5:00 ADJOURN
6:00 Social Hour Cash Bar
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture Renee Hobbs, Ed.D.: "Literacy in the 21st Century"
 

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