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• Communication, Consciousness, and Culture II Symposium

  • When
    19 Apr 2025
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    8:45 AM - 6:30 PM

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  Join us on Saturday, April 19th for Communication, Consciousness, and Culture II: An Online Symposium. As the title indicates, this is a continuation of the Communication, Consciousness, and Culture Symposium held in person following the 2024 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in New York City. 

  
  

  Our online symposium is free and open to members and non-members alike, but registration is required. The symposium will be held via Zoom, with the information for signing on to be distributed in advance of the event. Please note that sessions will be recorded for later distribution online.

  
  

  Interested in participating? Submissions are due March 21st. For more information, click here. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Gary Gumpert Memorial & McLuhan Screening

  • When
    29 Apr 2025
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    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park S, New York, NY 10003

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  Please Join Us For a Very Special Evening

  as the

  Institute of General Semantics

  NY Society for General Semantics

  Media Ecology Association

  and

  Urban Communication Foundation

   Join Together to Co-sponsor

  A Memorial Tribute to

  Gary Gumpert

  and a screening of

  The Gutenberg Galaxy

  "The Gutenberg Galaxy" is a 30-minute television program that featured media scholar Marshall McLuhan, along with artist Harley Parker and educationist Robert Shafer, produced and directed by Gary Gumpert.  Originally aired locally in Detroit, Michigan via Wayne State University's UHF channel in 1960, and recorded via kinescope, this rarely seen recording offers a glimpse into what both television and McLuhan were like before they became ubiquitous.

  Gary Gumpert (Ph.D, Wayne State University) was Emeritus Professor of Communication at Queens College of the City University of New York and President of the Urban Communication Foundation. His creative career as a television director and academic career as a scholar spanned over 60 years. The author and editor of numerous books including Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age, The Urban Communication Reader, and   Regulating Convergence and Regulating Social Media: Legal and Ethical Considerations, he was the recipient of the Media Ecology Association's Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.

  The memorial will feature remarks from his former students, colleagues, and friends. If you are interested in participating, please email Lance Strate.

  Registration is free. All attendees must be registered in order to gain admittance to the club. This includes any guests you might want to bring with you.

  The program will take place in the Dining Hall on the 1st floor of the club. Please note that, as an historic 19th century landmark, the site is not handicap accessible. Dress code is business casual and is strictly enforced, including no sneakers, shorts, ripped jeans, t-shirts).

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• General Semantics Seminar

  • Start
    9 Jun 2025
  • End
    11 Jun 2025
  • Location
    Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
  • Spaces left
    28

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  Introduction to General Semantics

  An In-Person Seminar
  June 9-11

  Mexico City

  The Institute of General Semantics is pleased to sponsor an in-person seminar on general semantics and related non-aristotelian systems. The 3-day intensive course will include lecture, discussion, and exercises designed to provide participants with a thorough grounding in the discipline and its applications.

  For those unfamiliar with general semantics, the seminar will provide a comprehensive introduction to the tradition and its 21st century evolution. For those already familiar with the non-aristotelian approach, the course will provide reinforcement, enrichment, and an updating and expansion of the discipline. And for those interested in and/or involved in teaching, the seminar will provide useful guidance on pedagogy related to topics such as language, symbolic communication, thought and behavior, and epistemology and evaluation.

  The seminar leaders will include four trustees of the Institute of General Semantics:

  Mary P. Lahman, Professor Emerita of Communication Studies at Manchester University and author of Awareness and Action

  Lance Strate, IGS President, Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, and author of Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition, and Concerning Communication: Epic Quests and Lyric Excursions Within the Human Lifeworld. 

  Peggy Cassidy, Professor of Communication at Adelphi University, President of the New York Society for General Semantics, editor of Explorations in Media Ecology, and author of Bookends: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms and Children, Media, and American History: Printed Poison, Pernicious Stuff, and Other Terrible Temptations.

  Thom Gencarelli, Professor of Communication at Manhattan University, Treasurer of the Institute of General Semantics, and editor of ETC: A Review of General Semantics.

  The seminar will be held on June 9th to 11th in Mexico City, at the Universidad Panamericana campus. The annual meeting of the Media Ecology Association will take place immediately preceding the start of the seminar, from June 5th to 8th, and seminar participants are encouraged to attend, as the MEA convention will include several sessions sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics.

  The seminar fee is $100 for IGS members, $200 for non-members, and will cover the cost of course materials. Participants will be responsible for their own transportation, room, and board. Registrants will receive information regarding discounted hotel rates.

  We will try to accommodate everyone interested in attending the seminar, but space will necessarily will be limited, so register early to insure your participation!

  The schedule will be posted at a later date, but will include all-day programming, with a break for lunch between the morning and afternoon sessions.

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