August 31, 2012 (Deadline) – Submission Deadline for the 2012 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.
September 1, 2012 (Deadline) – Call for Papers for “Language and Symbol Use in Politics and Other Arenas” Symposium
Call for Papers
“Language and Symbol Use in Politics and Other Arenas”
A 2-Day Symposium Sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics
October 26-28, 2012
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2012
October 26, 2012 – The 60th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in New York, NY
Shawn Lawrence Otto
The 60th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture will be hosted at the Princeton Club in New York City on Friday, October 26th, 2011.
The 60th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturer will be Shawn Lawrence Otto, author of the book Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault of Science on America. More about Shawn Lawrence Otto can be found at http://www.shawnotto.com.