IGS President Lance Strate recently traveled to India to deliver the 10th annual Balvant Parekh Memorial Lecture hosted by the Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences. 

The Centre also co-sponsored a talk he delivered at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay upon his arrival in Mumbai on November 9th. The address was entitled, "The Future of Knowledge, and the Fate of Wisdom, in the Age of Information." A version of the lecture was published online by the journal Philosophies as part of a special issue on philosophy and communication technology.

Dr. Strate's Balvant Parekh Memorial Lecture was entitled, "The Message, the Meaning, and the Medium," and was published and distributed by the Centre. The actual lecture was delivered on November 11 at the Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, which is located in the city of Baroda, also known as Vadodara, in the Indian state of Gujarat. 

 

And the following morning, he gave a short talk on "Korzybski's Structural Differential, Plato's Cave, and the Shield of Perseus: Ways of Knowing Our Ways of Knowing," followed by a discussion on his two talks, and on the Institute of General Semantics and its activities, and a lighthearted poetry reading.

We look forward to continued collaboration and cooperation with the Balvant Parekh Memorial Centre, and with other organizations dedicated to general semantics and other human sciences.