Join us on Saturday, April 19th for Communication, Consciousness, and Culture II: An Online Symposium, sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics. As the title indicates, this is a continuation of the Communication, Consciousness, and Culture Symposium held in person following the 2024 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in New York City.
Our online symposium is free and open to members and non-members alike, but registration is required. The symposium will be held via Zoom, with the information for signing on to be distributed in advance of the event. Please note that sessions will be recorded for later distribution online.
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Program (All times listed are Eastern Daylight Savings Time):
Greetings and Welcomings 8:45 AM EDT
Lance Strate, Fordham University, USA
Session I Semantic Environments 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Chair: Eva Berger, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel
"The 'Celebrities' Successfully Navigating Their Contemporary Media Environments as 'Social Media Influencers' in 2025"
Renee Peterson, RMIT University, Australia
"Convergences of Text, Image, and Number in Generative AI"
Chris Chesher, University of Sydney, Australia
"Dystopic Imagination as Social Critique: A General Semantics Analysis"
Bini Babu Sudha, Nirma University, India
"Verbal Interfaces as Semantic Environments: Rules for Service Design"
Katarzyna Drogowska, SWPS University, Poland
Session II Map and Territory 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Chair: Peggy Cassidy, Adelphi University, USA
"Multimodal and Transmedial Construal of American Show Politics in the 21st Century Semantic Environment"
Olena Marina, Kerry Education and Training Board, Ireland, & Igor Korolyov, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
"Saying Nothingness: General Semantics for Ontoanalysis"
Mauro Ventola, Center for Ontological Transformation, Italy
"The Poem as a Medium: Ailbhe Darcy's Ekphrastic Encounters"
Daniela Theinová, Charles University, Czech Republic
"This is Not a Diagram: Applying General Semantics to Contemporary Arts Pedagogy"
John Cussans, University of Worcester, UK
Session III Meaning and Demeaning 12:o0 Noon to 1:15 PM
Chair: Dom Heffer, Institute of General Semantics, UK
"Panopticist Effects of Using Satellite Imagery for Supervision in Agriculture"
Desislava Stoeva, St. John's University, USA
"Broken Humans and Obsolete Culture: Analyzing Two Bluffs of Technophilic Discourse"
Marcelo Capello Martins, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"The Unconscious Mind in the Classroom: Meaning and the Person"
Leonard Shedletsky, University of Southern Maine, USA
"Unmappable Differences: Analogies Between Culture and Nature"
Fabiola Ballarati Chechetto, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
Session IV Consciousness of Abstracting 1:30 to 2:45 PM
Chair: Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University, USA
"Maps and Territories: General Semantics as a Framework for Understanding Political Rhetoric"
Svetlana V. Grushina, Dartmouth College, USA
"Using Korzybski to Understand AI Framing : An Analysis of Cultural Discourse"
Tiffany Petricini, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, USA
"The Model is the Message: The Structural Differential as a Medium"
Ryan McCullough, West Liberty University, USA
"From Structural Differential to Aristotelian Wisdom: Exploring Perception and the Process of Knowing"
Laura Trujillo Liñán, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico
Session V The Genes of Culture 3:o0 to 4:15 PM
Chair: Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan College, USA
"Pointing at the Moon: Using Multiple Languages to Reflect on Reality"
Robert T. Ackland, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, USA
"The Problem of Knowledge as a Sign in the 17th Century"
Elsa Sánchez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico
"Beyond the Abstract: Connecting Linguistic Assumptions to Global Competence"
Yong Yu, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA
"Zoom: An Atypical Electronic Medium"
Christtian J. Travieso, St. Thomas University, USA
Session VI Mind and Nature 4:30 Noon to 5:45 PM
Chair: Nora Bateson, International Bateson Institute, Sweden
"Reading Shannon and Weaver's Model of Communication Backward: Three Scholarly Misconceptions"
Zachary Sapienza, Grand Canyon University, USA,
Aaron Veenstra, Florida Atlantic University, USA, and
Delaware Arif, University of North Alabama, USA
"Hope, With and Without Progress"
Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, University of Winnipeg, Canada
"Recursive Dialogues: Bridging Minds of the Past with AI of the Present"
Paul Guzzardo, Independent Scholar, Argentina
"Robert Anton Wilson: The Generalist Semanticist"
Gabriel Kennedy (aka Prop Anon), Independent Scholar, USA
Concluding Remarks 6:00 PM
Lance Strate, Fordham University, USA