AKML & Symposium Schedule Now Available
Registration is for In-Person Attendance ONLY
All IGS Members in Good Standing Will Receive Instructions on How to Livestream the Event Online Prior to the AKML
The 70th Annual
Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
October 7th, 2022
Co-Sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics
the International Bateson Institute
the Media Ecology Association
and the 404 Festival of Art and Technology
featuring
Janna Levin
Janna Levin is the Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is also the
Founding Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, a cultural center in Brooklyn, and the editor-in-chief of the virtual magazine, Pioneer Works Broadcast, which publishes across disciplines from art to science. She has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the early universe, chaos, and the shape of the universe. Her books include How the Universe Got Its Spots, Black Hole Blues, and a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won several prominent prizes for fiction. Her latest book is Black Hole Survival Guide.
Black Hole Survival Guide
In April this year, there was a monumental scientific announcement of the first picture of our black hole at the center of the Milky Way. We orbit that black hole as surely as we orbit the sun. It's 4 million times the mass of the sun yet less than 20 times the width. At 26,000 light-years away, the black hole is as big in our sky as a piece of fruit on the moon and it took a telescope the size of the Earth to image it. This has been a century of black hole discoveries, including two Nobel prizes for black-hole science in the past few years. This is deserving of a third, with one billion people around the globe tuning in to look together at the first human-procured image of a black hole. Janna Levin, astrophysicist and author, will give a visually-guided tour of black holes and the role they play in our past and our future.
The AKML will be followed by our
Ecologies of
Mind
Media
and
Meaning
Symposium
October 8th-9th, 2022
Send inquiries regarding participation to president@generalsemantics.org
The lecture, dinner, and symposium are being held at the historic Players Club in Gramercy Park, Manhattan.
Registration is free for IGS members and their guests, but all attendees must be registered in advance in order to gain admittance to the club. More information regarding the dinner and symposium schedule will be made available at a later date.
Please note that as an historic 18th century landmark, the site is not handicap accessible. Dress code is business casual and is strictly enforced, including no sneakers, shorts, ripped jeans, t-shirts).
