The 57th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture & Dinner
and 3-Day International IGS Conference
For information on the 57th AKML, the dinner, and the surrounding 3-day international conference, as well as registration information and accommodations, please read on.
The 57th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture & Dinner Mary Catherine Bateson
57th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturer
Author, Cultural Anthropologist
"The Changing Shapes of Lives: Making Meaning Across Time"
Friday Evening, September 11th, 2009
Dinner: Lowenstein Hall Atrium
Lecture: Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Hall
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
W. 60th St @ Columbus Ave., NYC
Dinner registration is now closed (as of 9/7/2009).
A 3-Day International Conference
sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics
Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning
An International Conference sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics
Co-sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association,
Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research,
the Taos Institute, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, the Viewpoints Research Institute,
and Fordham University
Friday (Daytime), September 11th - Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Hall
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
W. 60th St @ Columbus Ave., NYC
Description
Updated 9/3/2009
Friday through Sunday, September 11-13, 2009, Fordham University will host "Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning," an international conference sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics. The conference is co-sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association, Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research, the Taos Institute, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, the Viewpoints Research Institute, and Fordham University. It will feature presentations by Alan Kay, Jerome Bruner, Kenneth Gergen, Renee Hobbs, Paul Levinson, Paul Ryan, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, and more, with special performances by Thus Spoke The Spectacle and John Watts (formerly of Fischer-Z).
On Friday evening, September 11, 2009, author and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson will deliver the 57th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture titled "The Changing Shapes of Lives: Making Meaning Across Time" in Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Hall, at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in New York City. The lecture will be preceded by a dinner in the Lowenstein Hall Atrium at Fordham University.
About Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson's father, Gregory Bateson, delivered the AKML in 1970. Like her mother, the famed anthropologist Margaret Mead, Mary Catherine Bateson is a cultural anthropologist, and President of the Institute for Intercultural Studies. Her eleven books include Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition; Composing A Life; Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way; Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation; Structural Continuity in Poetry: A Linguistic Study of Five PreIslamic Odes; Thinking AIDS (with Richard Goldsby); Angels Fear: Towards an Epistimology of the Sacred (with Gregory Bateson); With A Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; and most recently, Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery. Until recently, Bateson was the Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University, and is now Professor Emerita. Since the Fall of 2006 she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College and is a special consultant to the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative of the Libraries for the Future. The title of her Korzybski Lecture will be "The Changing Shapes of Lives: Making Meaning Across Time," and it promises to be a most memorable address indeed.
Registration
Updated 9/9/2009
To attend, you must register. Registration admits you to both the 57th AKML as well as the conference events. Registration is $25 (free for IGS members). Registration excludes the dinner preceding the 57th AKML. Dinner registration is an additional $90.
Registration for the conference events may be done at the events. Online, phone, and mail-in registration is now closed (as of 9/9/2009), as is dinner registration (as of 9/7/2009).
Registration for the events and for dinner may be done via the online registration form below, by phone, or by mail. Dinner registrations will be accepted until Noon (Eastern Time) on Monday, September 7th. Event registrations will be accepted by mail until Friday, September 4th, and by online registration form and phone until Noon on Thursday, September 10th. Event registration may be done at the events, though we encourage you to register in advance of the events to speed admittance. (IGS members are strongly encouraged to register in advance.)
Registration by Online Registration Form
To register, complete the online registration form. We accept credit cards and PayPal. You may also register by phone or mail.
Registration by Phone
To register, call the Institute of General Semantics in Ft. Worth, TX, at +1 (817) 922-9950. We accept credit cards. The following information is needed for your phone registration:
- Name
- Affiliation (If Any)
- Mailing Address
- Phone Number
- Email Address
- Option ( Dinner Only, Dinner+AKML/Conference, or AKML/Conference Only)
- Are You a Current IGS Member? (Yes or No)
- If No, Would You Like to Join IGS to Have the Registration Fee Waived? (Yes or No) (Dues Information)
- Names of Additional Attendees Being Registered (Plus Affiliations, Mailing Addresses, Email Addresses, etc.)
- If Dinner, Include Entree Options for Each Attendee (Beef, Chicken, Fish, or Vegetarian)
- Credit Card (Name on Card, Card Type, Card Number, Expiration)
We would like to have you as a member of the Institute of General Semantics. Membership has a number of benefits. When you become an IGS member at registration, we will waive the $25 registration fee. Please specify in your phonecall if you would like to become an IGS member, and have handy the membership application to provide additional information for your membership. You will receive a confirmation of your phone registration should you leave the information in a phone message.
Registration by Mail
To register by mail, complete the mail-in registration form and return it IGS. We must receive your mail-in registration by Friday, September 4th. We accept credit cards and check. You will receive a confirmation of your mail-in registration. Hotel Accommodations
Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus is located at West 60th Street and Columbus Avenue in Manhattan. It is 1 block from Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, the Columbus Circle subway station, and the SW entrance to Central Park.
IGS has arranged for a limited number of rooms at a reduced rate at the Park Central Hotel (870 Seventh Avenue @ West 56th Street). Rooms for Thursday 9/10, Friday 9/11, and Saturday 9/12 are $175 a night (plus tax and fees). To reserve a room, call the Park Central Hotel at +1 (800) 346-1359 (toll-free) or +1 (212) 247-8000 (local). Make sure to mention "IGS Group" when reserving. Unreserved rooms will be released after August 10, 2009.
For a walking map from the Park Central Hotel to Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, click here. Walking time is approximately 12 minutes.
Schedule of Events
Updated 9/3/2009
For a tentative schedule of events for the 3-day international conference, click here. Be sure to return closer to the date for a more finalized schedule.
Also, for a list of selected biographies for presenters at the conference, click here. |
