Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturers

The listed affiliations for each speaker were current on the date of the lecture and may have since changed.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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