ETC 70:1 (January 2013) Is Now Available for Download from the IGS Store
Volume 70, Number 1 (January 2013), of the Institute of General Semantics’s quarterly journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics is arriving in the mail and is now available for download from the IGS Store in searchable PDF format.
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August 31, 2013 (Deadline) – Call for Papers for “Language and Symbol Use in the Twenty-First Century” Symposium
Call for Papers
“Language and Symbol Use in the Twenty-First Century”
A 2-Day Symposium Sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics
October 25-27, 2013
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2013
The Institute of General Semantics is sponsoring the 2-day symposium titled “Language and Symbol Use in the Twenty-First Century,” which will be hosted at The Princeton Club in New York City October 25-27, 2013. The symposium will feature the 61st Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, which will be given by Terrence Deacon.
Send papers, proposals, and inquiries on this year’s theme, “Language and Symbol Use in the Twenty-First Century,” by August 31, 2013.
See the call for papers below for additional information.
August 31, 2013 (Deadline) – Submission Deadline for the 2013 S.I. Hayakawa Book Prize
Competition for the Hayakawa Book Prize is open to any book published in the past five years on topics and themes of direct relevance to the discipline of general semantics, including time-binding, abstraction, language, symbols, meaning, communication, media, perception, consciousness, epistemology, scientific method, etc.
October 25-27, 2013 – The 61st Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture & 2-Day Symposium in New York, NY
The 61st Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and 2-Day Symposium will be hosted at the Princeton Club in New York City from Friday, October 25th, until Sunday, October 27th, 2013.
IGS Announces Terrence Deacon Will Be the 61st Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturer
Terrence W. Deacon
The Institute of General Semantics is pleased to announce that the 61st Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturer will be anthropologist Terrence W. Deacon, Ph.D.
Dr. Deacon is a professor of biological anthropology and neuroscience and the chair of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter.
The 61st Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture will take place on Friday evening, October 25, 2013, at the Princeton Club in New York City. For more details on the event, watch the Institute of General Semantics website.
New Kindle and Nook Formats of IGS Publications
The Institute of General Semantics has released Kindle and Nook formats for several of its titles, and we plan on publishing future works in these electronic formats.
New Book – “Korzybski And…” Edited by Corey Anton and Lance Strate
Editors Corey Anton and Lance Strate culled sixteen essays for the long-awaited multidisciplinary volume titled Korzybski And…, which is now available in the IGS Store.
New Book – “More Sensible Thinking” by Martin H. Levinson
Martin H. Levinson is back with the follow-up to his book Sensible Thinking for Turbulent Times. Titled More Sensible Thinking, the book is now available in the IGS Store.
ETC 69:4 (October 2012) Is Now Available for Download from the IGS Store
Volume 69, Number 4 (October 2012), of the Institute of General Semantics’s quarterly journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics is arriving in the mail and is now available for download from the IGS Store in searchable PDF format.
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Tentative Schedule for the 60th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and 2-Day General Semantics Symposium
The Institute of General Semantics recently made available a tentative schedule for the 60th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and 2-day general semantics symposium titled “Language and Symbol Use in Politics and Other Arenas.” The symposium takes place in New York City from October 26-28, 2012.