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Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturers
The listed affiliations for each speaker were current on the date of the lecture and may have since changed.
2008 DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, teacher and documentarian. Author of Screenagers, host of Frontline's The Persuaders. Listen
2007 LEONARD SHLAIN, Chairman of Laparoscopic Surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center. Author of The Alphabet Versus The Goddess, Art & Physics, and Sex, Time & Power. Read Lecture
2006 RENEE HOBBS, Ed.D., Director, Media Education Lab, Temple University, Founder of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA), author of Reading the Media. Read Lecture | Listen | Watch
2005 ROBERT L. CARNEIRO, Curator, Anthropology Division, American Museum of Natural History. Author of Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology and The Muse of History and the Science of Culture. Read Lecture | Listen | Watch
2003 SANFORD I. BERMAN, motivational speaker and nightclub hypnotist. Student of Dr. Irving J. Lee, long-time supporter of general semantics, editor of Logic and General Semantics and Words, author of Meanings and People. Read Lecture | Listen | Watch
2002 J. ALLAN HOBSON, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Author of The Dreaming Brain, Sleep, Dreaming as Delirium, and (with Jonathan A. Leonard) Out of its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis: a Call for Reform. Read Lecture
2001 LOU MARINOFF, Chair of Philosophy, City College of New York, founding President of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. Author of Plato Not Prozac! Read Lecture | Listen
2000 ROBERT P. PULA, Director Emeritus, Institute of General Semantics, author of A General-Semantics Glossary. Read Lecture | Listen
1999 ELLEN J. LANGER, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University. Author of Mindfulness and The Power of Mindful Learning. Read Lecture
1998 THEODORE R. SIZER, educator and author of Horace's Hope, Horace's School, and Horace's Compromise. Read Lecture
1997 ROBERT ANTON WILSON, author of The Illuminatus Trilogy and Prometheus Rising. Read Lecture | Listen
1996 MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. Read Lecture
1995 NICHOLAS JOHNSON, Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law. Read Lecture
1994 LOTFI A. ZADEH, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing. Known for his contributions to machine intelligence, particularly through "Fuzzy Logic." Read Lecture
1993 WILLIAM LUTZ, Professor of English and Director of the English Graduate Program at Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, author and "doublespeak" authority. Read Lecture
1992 STEVE ALLEN, author, entertainer, song-writer, creator of NBC's "Tonight Show." Read Lecture
1991 ALBERT ELLIS, President and founder, Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, now the Albert Ellis Institute. Author of numerous books on personal adjustment. Read Lecture
1990 WARREN M. ROBBINS, founder, Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. Read Lecture
1989 WILLIAM V. HANEY, educator and author, authority on interpersonal communication. Read Lecture
1988 JEROME BRUNER, Psychologist; Research Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation. Read Lecture
1987 RICHARD W. PAUL, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique, Sonoma State University, California. Read Lecture
1986 GEORGE F.F. LOMBARD, Louis E. Kirstein Professor Emeritus of Human Relations and former Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Harvard University. Read Lecture
1985 RUSSELL MEYERS, M.D., Neurologist, Neurosurgeon, author. (See also 1958) Read Lecture
1984 KARL H. PRIBRAM, Professor of Neuroscience, Stanford University. Read Lecture
1983 ALLEN WALKER READ, Emeritus Professor of English, Columbia University. Read Lecture | Listen
1982 ROBERT R. BLAKE, President, and JANE SRYGLEY MOUTON, Vice President, Scientific Methods, Inc. Now Grid International, Inc. Read Lecture
1981 THOMAS SEBEOK, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics, Indiana University. Read Lecture
1980 BARBARA MORGAN Photographer, painter and author. Read Lecture
1979 DON FABUN, Author and lecturer, formerly Director of Publications, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation. Author of Communications: The Transfer of Meaning. Read Lecture
1978 ELWOOD MURRAY, Emeritus Professor of Speech Communication, University of Denver. Read Lecture
1977 BEN BOVA, Author and Editor of Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact Magazine. Read Lecture
1976 ROGER W. WESCOTT, Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Drew University. Read Lecture
1975 HARLEY C. SHANDS, M.D., Director, Department of Psychiatry, Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Read Lecture
1974 KENNETH G. JOHNSON, Professor of Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. NEIL POSTMAN, Professor of Media Ecology, New York University, author of numerous books on media and culture. Read Lecture
1973 PANEL: "General Semantics: Whence 1920...Where 1973...Whither" J. SAMUEL BOIS, Viewpoints Institute, Los Angeles. Author of The Art of Awareness. ELTON S. CARTER, Dean for Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska. WALTER PROBERT, Professor of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville. Read Lecture
1972 GEORGE STEINER, Extraordinary Fellow, Cambridge University. Internationally-known writer, scholar, literary critic and analyst of culture.
1971 HENRY MARGENAU, Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy, Yale University. Read Lecture
1970 GREGORY BATESON, Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii. Read Lecture
1969 LANCELOT LAW WHYTE, pioneering scientist-philosopher, lecturer and author of The Next Development of Man, The Unconscious Before Freud, and The Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology. Read Lecture
1968 ALASTAIR M. TAYLOR, Professor of Political Studies and Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, President of the Canadian Association for American Studies. Read Lecture
1967 J. BRONOWSKI, Author of Science and Human Values and The Identity of Man. Read Lecture
1966 ALVIN M. WEINBERG, Physicist and Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Read Lecture
1965 HENRY LEE SMITH, Jr., Professor of Linguistics and English, Chairman, Department of Anthropology and Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo. Read Lecture
1964 JOOST A. M. MEERLOO, M.D., Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York School of Psychiatry. Read Lecture
1963 HENRI LABORIT, M.D., Chief of Research of the Health Services of the Armies of France; Director of Physio-biological Research and Physician-in-Chief of the National Navy; American Public Health Associations' Albert Lasker Award, 1957. Read Lecture
1962 HAROLD G. CASSIDY, Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, Author of The Sciences and the Arts: A New Alliance. Read Lecture
1961 ROBERT R. BLAKE, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, author of The Managerial Grid and co-founder of Managerial Grid Theory. Read Lecture
1960 WARREN S. MCCULLOCH, M.D., Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T. Author of Finality and Form. Read Lecture
1959 SYMPOSIUM: "Extending the Parabola." WILLIAM J. FRY, Research Professor of Physics and Director of Biophysical Research Laboratory, University of Illinois. JAMES A. VAN ALLEN, Professor and Head, Department of Physics, State University of Iowa. CHARLES M. POMERAT, Professor of Cytology and Director of the Tissue Culture Laboratory, University of Texas, Galveston. Read Lecture
1958 RUSSELL MEYERS, M.D., Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine, State University of Iowa and Chairman of Division of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals. Author of Preface to the 4th edition of Science and Sanity. Read Lecture
1957 ABRAHAM MASLOW, Professor of Psychology, Brandeis. Author of Motivation and Personality. Read Lecture
1956 CLYDE KLUCKHOHN, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University. Author of Mirror for Man and What is Science? Read Lecture
1955 R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, distinguished engineer, mathematician, inventor, designer, mechanic, writer and philosopher. Author of Nine Chains to the Moon and Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map.
1954 F. S. C. NORTHROP, Professor of Philosophy and Law, Yale University. Author of The Meeting of East and West and The Logic of the Sciences and Humanities. Read Lecture
1953 F. J. ROETHLISBERGER, Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Author of Management and Morale. Read Lecture
1952 WILLIAM VOGT, author of Road to Survival. National Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Read Lecture M.F. ASHLEY MONTAGU, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University; author of On Being Human and Statement on Race. Read Lecture |
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