Overview
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From October 27-28, 2006, the Institute of General Semantics sponsored the Making Sense Conference at the Arlington Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Texas. Renee Hobbs delivered the 55th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture titled “Literacy in the 21st Century,” the culmination of a weekend of over 20 presentations from national and international presenters.
Preceding the conference from October 24-26, the Institute of General Semantics hosted a special Pre-Conference Workshop on “Making Sense,” which offered participants a unique opportunity to review some of the basic principles of general semantics, then apply those principles toward major issues of the day. The Pre-Conference Workshop was held at Read House, the headquarters for the Institute of General Semantics in Fort Worth, Texas.
The roundup of the event includes Renee Hobbs’s lecture, photographs and video taken during the weekend, plus papers and presentations from the conference.
The Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
On the evening of October 28, 2006, Renee Hobbs, Director of the Media Education Lab at Temple University, Founder of the Alliance for a Media Liberate America (AMLA), and author of Reading the Media, presented the 54th Alfred Koryzbksi Memorial Lecture to a large crowd as the apex of the Making Sense Conference at the Arlington Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Texas. Her lecture, titled “Literacy in the 21st Century,” is below.
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Videos
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Papers & Presentations
The following papers and presentations are pre-publication drafts from the Making Sense Conference. A number of the items below were later edited and published in the General Semantics Bulletin, No. 73 (2006).
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