[Air-L] Lecture & Symposium NYC Nov 14-16 "Creating the Future"

[Janet Sternberg]

For those in the NYC area, you're welcome to attend all or part of these 
upcoming events this coming weekend.

Schedule for the
Institute of General Semantics
56th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
and the Symposium
"Creating the Future:  Conscious Time-binding for a Better Tomorrow"
co-sponsored by the
Institute of General Semantics
New York Society for General Semantics
Media Ecology Association
Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research
Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Fordham University's Department of Communication and Media Studies
November 14-16, 2008

All events are open to the public and free of charge with the exception 
of the AKML dinner which is $90.

Friday Nov. 14  Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture at the Princeton Club 
of New York, 15 West 43rd Street, (between 5th and 6th Avenues)

6:00 PM  Dinner (reservations through http://www.generalsemantics.org)

8:00 PM  Program

Moderator:  Lance Strate, Fordham University, Executive Director of the 
Institute of General Semantics, President of the Media Ecology Association

Presentation of the J. Talbot Winchell Award

Martin Levinson, President of the Institute of General Semantics, 
Vice-President of the New York Society for General Semantics

Allen Flagg, Trustee of the Institute of General Semantics, President of 
the New York Society for General Semantics

The Fifty-Sixth Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture

Douglas Rushkoff, New York University, "Playing the Future:  Towards a 
Creative Society"


Sat. Nov. 15 – Sun. Nov. 16
Symposium
Creating the Future:  Conscious Time-binding for a Better Tomorrow
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus

Saturday Nov. 15

8:30 AM  Breakfast and Registration Outside of McNally Auditorium, Law 
School Building on 62nd St. off Columbus Ave., between Columbus and 
Amsterdam

Morning Session in McNally Auditorium
Moderators:       Lance Strate, Fordham University
             Jacqueline Rudig, Institute of General Semantics
             Martin Levinson, Institute of General Semantics

9-9:30      Kathleen Sweeney, The New School, "Beyond iCelebrities: 
Social Networking and Social Activism on the Internet"

9:30-10     David Berreby, Institute of General Semantics, "Rhetorical 
Overload"

10-10:30    Tom de Zengotita, New York University/Dalton School, 
"Mediation and Fusion:  The Case of Barack Obama"

10:30-11    Dick Meyer, National Public Radio, "Why We Hate Us: 
American Discontent in the New Milllennium"

11-11:30    Frank Scardilli, Institute of General Semantics, "What Every 
Thinking Person Should Know About Law, Lawyers and the Tyranny of Illusion"

11:30-12    Alex Wright, New York Times, "Glut:  Mastering Information 
through the Ages"

12-12:30    Tyler Volk, New York University, "What is a Sphere?: 
Metapatterns and Scale-Transcending Functional Principles"

12:30-1     Bruce Kodish, Institute of General Semantics, "What Did 
Alfred Want? A Biographer's Notes on Korzybski's Life and Work"

1-2:30            Lunch Break

Afternoon Sessions Simultaneously in McNally Auditorium and McMahon Hall 
Lounge (McMahon is a residence hall on 60th St. off Amersterdam Ave., 
between Columbus and Amsterdam)

2:30-3:45 in McNally Auditorium
Program:  Activism as Conscious Time-Binding
Moderator:  David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College

Jeanne Posner, Western Connecticut State University, "Consciousness 
Without Activism is Ceding the Future"

Paull Young, Converseon, "Social Networking and the Campaign Against 
Astroturfing"

Bosco Ebere Amakwe, HFSN, Seton Hall University, "Empowerment of Women 
in Africa:  The Role of Media Technology"

Donna Flayhan, State University of New York, New Paltz, "Post 9/11 
Health Crisis:  Reactions of the Whole Organism, Delayed Reaction of the 
Culture"

2:30-3:45 in McMahon Hall Lounge
Program:  On the Logic and Illogic of Symbols
Moderator:  Margot Hardenbergh, Fordham University

Gerald Erion, Medaille College, "Visual Propositions"

Philip Ardery, Louisville (KY) Sustainability Forum, "Deleting 'I', 
Updating 'We'"

Zhenbin Sun, Fairleigh Dickinson University, "Language, Dao, Etc."

Martin Levinson, Institute of General Semantics, Practical Fairy Tales 
for Everyday Living

4 -5:15 in McNally Auditorium
Program:  Dispatches from the Global Village
Moderator:  Robert Albrecht, New Jersey City University

Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer, Institute of General Semantics, " "A New French 
President, Nicolas Sarkozy, Brings About a Style of Leadership Very New 
to the French. Where Does He Come From? What Are His Strategies? Any 
Different from Other European or American Leaders? Etc.!"

Prafulla Kar, Director, Centre for Contemporary Theory and General 
Semantics, Baroda, India, "General Semantics in India"

Devkumar Trivedi, Centre for Contemporary Theory and General Semantics, 
Baroda, India, "The Epistemoscope:  From Time-binding to Space-minding"

Eva Berger, School of Media Studies, The College of Management, Israel, 
"In Praise of Delayed Reactions: Israel and the Culture of Talkbacks"

4 -5:15 in McMahon Hall Lounge
Program: The Contents and Discontents of the New Media Environment
Moderator:  Paul Lippert, East Stroudsburg University

Mary Ann Allison, Hofstra University, "Why We Need Cyberspace:  A 
Response to Neil Postman’s Essay 'Cyberspace, Shmyberspace'"

Robert Berkman, The New School, "Navigating Life in the Age of Google 
and Garmin: Answers and Directions vs. Wonder and Mystery"

Stephanie Bennett, Palm Beach Atlantic University, "Crazy Talk, Stupid 
Talk:  Revisiting Postman and the Relational Dynamics in the Emergent 
Semantic Environment of 21st Century Digital Media"

Janet Sternberg, Fordham University, "Creating a Civil Culture: The Need 
to Resist Trash Talk in Contemporary Media"

Evening Program in McNally Auditorium
Moderators:       Allen Flagg, Institute of General Semantics
             Janet Sternberg, Fordham University

5:30-6  Paul Guzzardo, The Geddes Institute for Urban Research, David 
Walczyk, Pratt Institute, and Alicia Gibb, NYC Resistors and Bug Labs, 
"The Green Flaneur"

6-6:30  Andrew Postman, Media Ecology Association, "How to Live in the 
21st Century Without Multi-Tasking"

6:30-7  Terence P. Moran, New York University, "General Semantics Writ 
Large"

7-7:30  Milton Dawes, Institute of General Semantics, "Tools for 
Creating Better Futures"


Sunday, Nov. 16
All Sessions in McMahon Hall Lounge

8:30 AM  Breakfast and Registration

9-10:15  Program:  Media Futures
Moderator:  Brian Cogan, Molloy College

Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan College, "The End of Intellectual Property"

Robert Blechman, St. George's University, "Things Come in Fours"

Jessica K. Crowell, Fordham University, "The Umbilical Cord: 
Corrections, Connections and the Role of Media in America's Prisons"

10:30-12  Program:  Science Fiction:  Sequels and Adaptations
Moderator, Meir Ribalow, Fordham University

John C. Wright, Tor Books, "Null-A Continuum "

Marleen Barr, Fordham University, "Science Fiction Tells Us Why the 
Obama Family is a Sequel to The Cosby Show"

Paul Levinson, Fordham University, "From the Page to the Screen"

12-1:30           Lunch Break

1:30-2:45  Multimedia Performance
Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig, Institute of General Semantics

Eric Goodman, Institute of General Semantics, "Thus Spoke the Spectacle"

3-4:15  Program:  Teaching General Semantics
Moderator:  Margaret Cassidy, Adelphi University

Frank Gastner, Institute of General Semantics

Renée Cherow-O'Leary, Teachers College, Columbia University

William Petkanas, Western Connecticut State University

4:30-5:45  Program:  The Future of General Semantics
Moderator:  Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer, Institute of General Semantics

Ben Hauck, Institute of General Semantics, “A Better Tomorrow for 
General Semantics”

Lloyd Gilden, Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research, "Development of 
the Ability to Experience Greater Integration with the Environment"

Hillel Schiller, Institute of General Semantics, "Time-binding, Yes! But 
Time-bound, No! Change is Universal, But So is Stability"

Allen Flagg, Institute of General Semantics, "Con II:  The Future of 
Consciousness"

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