On May 15th, IGS Vice-President Corey Anton gave a talk via Zoom on "Literacy and Meta-Cognition: Exploring Some Connections" on a plenary session for the International Scientific and Practical Conference “AD ORBEM PER LINGUAS. TO THE WORLD THROUGH LANGUAGES” which took place at Kyiv National Linguistic University in Ukraine. The Organizing Committee expressed their appreciation for his participation and looks forward to deepening academic cooperation between Kyiv National Linguistic University and the Institute of General Semantics.

The thirty-third episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our May 2025 podcast features five of our IGS Trustees on the state of higher education in the United States today. The conversation is led by IGS President Lance Strate who teaches at Fordham University, and includes IGS Vice-President Corey Anton of Grand Valley State University, IGS Treasurer Thom Gencarelli of Manhattan University, and IGS Trustees Peggy Cassidy of Adelphi University and Susan Drucker of Hofstra University. Their freewheeling roundtable touches on a variety of topics, including the difficulties that students are facing, the challenges brought on by technological advances including AI, issues regarding administrators and financial problems, and the dangers of a hostile political environment.

You can access Episode 33 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The videos from our Gary Gumpert Memorial and Marshall McLuhan Screening, held on April 29, 2025, are now available for viewing on the IGS YouTube channel. They can be screened individually or via a single playlist over on YouTube or right here:

The videos from our Communication, Consciousness, & Culture 2 Online Symposium, held on April 19, 2025, are now available for viewing on the IGS YouTube channel. They can be screened individually or via a single playlist over on YouTube or right here:

The thirty-second episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our April 2025 podcast features the return of author, financier, and IGS Trustee Christopher Mayer to discuss the current economic situation in the United States with IGS President Lance Strate. Their dialogue emphasizes how general semantics can help us to understand financial concepts such as the trade deficit, tariffs, inflation, and even money itself.

You can access Episode 32 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The thirty-first episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our March 2025 podcast features the return of author, scholar, and critic Marleen Barr to discuss her recently published anthology entitled, Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females, with IGS President Lance Strate.

You can access Episode 31 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The thirtieth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our February 2025 podcast features IGS President Lance Strate interviewing Gabriel Kennedy, aka Prop Anon, the author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson. 

You can access Episode 30 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The twenty-ninth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our January 2025 podcast features IGS President Lance Strate interviewing computer programmer and activist Brianna Wu. Their conversation covers Gamergate, feminism, transexual issues, and politics and activism. 

You can access Episode 28 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The videos from our 2024 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, featuring Maryanne Wolf, and our Communication, Consciousness, and Culture Symposium, held on September 20th to 22nd, are now available for viewing on the IGS YouTube channel. They can be screened individually or via a single playlist over on YouTube or right here:

The twenty-eighth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our December 2024 episode features IGS President Lance Strate interviewing computer scientist and IGS Past President Jeff Mordkowitz. Their conversation covers the history of general semantics and the Institute, approaches to teaching general semantics, the importance of the non-verbal or silent level, and Mordkowitz’s Seven Simple Steps to Sanity. 

You can access Episode 28 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below: