The Institute of General Semantics is holding a Zoom-based symposium on Saturday April 29: Ecologies of Mind, Media, and Meaning II: An Online Symposium. As the title indicates, this is a continuation of the Ecologies of Mind, Media, and Meaning Symposium held in person following the 2022 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.
Greetings and Welcomings 8:45 AM EDT
Lance Strate, Fordham University, US
Session I The Map is Not the Territory 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Chair: Eva Berger, College of Management and Academic Studies, Israel
"How Do Celebrities Understand Media as an Environment/Ecology?"
Renee Peterson, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
"Japanese English: A Descriptive Grammar of 'Educated' Written English in Japan"
Kolawole Waziri Olagboyega, Tsuru University, Japan
"General Semantics and Samkhya Philosophy"
Deepa Mishra, Smt. Chandibai Himathmal Mansukhani College, India
"Challenging the Ecology of Orchestra Music Performance"
Anders Lind, Umeå University, Sweden
Session II Semantic Reactions 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Chair: Nora Bateson, International Bateson Institute, Sweden
"'Reality' on Demand: How Streaming Media Services Influence the Structure of Semantic Reactions"
Kasia Drogowska, Independent Scholar, Poland
"The Podcast as a Memory Transferential Space"
Nadja Touzari, Roskilde University, Denmark
"Media Ecology and Symbolic Ludoliteracy in Flux: Games of Chance, Games of Change?"
Rozane De Cock, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
"Conceptualization of Refugee and Ecological Crises in Multimodal Semantic Environments"
Olena Marina, Kerry Education and Training Board, Ireland,
& Igor Korolyov, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Session III Patterns That Connect 12:00 Noon to 1:15 PM
Chair: Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University, US
"The Polyploid Horse and the Frankenstein Apple: Why Wishes Go Wrong"
Nora Bateson, International Bateson Institute, Sweden
"Being, Semantics, Time: The Foundation of a Transformational Ontophenomenology"
Mauro Ventola, Center for Ontological Transformation, Italy
"Literary Character in the Bardo"
Eleni Chatzi, Independent Scholar, Greece
"Culture's End"
Camilo Montenegro, Independent Scholar, Spain
Session IV Feeling and Form 1:30 to 2:45 PM
Chair: Michael Plugh, Manhattan College, US
"What Boobs Have to Say"
Zíngara Lofrano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"When the Map is Not the Territory: General Semantics and Satire"
Martin H. Levinson, Institute of General Semantics, US
"These Bots are Made for Walkin'"
Gina Valenti, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
"Book Clubs, Technology, and Education: Paulo Freire and Marshall McLuhan for a (Media) Literacy Approach in Schools"
Vanessa Martins, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Session V Language, Thought, and Reality 3:o0 to 4:15 PM
Chair: Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan College, US
"Mediating Information and Meaning: An Exploration of Hearing, Listening, and the Mind"
Ryan McCullough, West Liberty University, US
"On the Most Proper Means for Acquiring Knowledge" and Other Translations of Condillac's 18th Century Words"
Robert T. Ackland, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, US
"The Limits of ChatGPT from a General Semantics Perspective"
Laura Trujillo Liñan, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico
"On Epistemology"
Milton Dawes, Independent Scholar, Canada
Session VI Semantic Environments 4:30 Noon to 5:45 PM
Chair: Susan Drucker, Hofstra University, US
"The Drying and Dying of the Great Salt Lake and the Colorado River: Mediating Water Relations in Three Acts"
Heather Crandall, Gonzaga University, US
"Info/Eco andThe Nature of Information: Towards an Ecological Understanding of the Information Environment"
Richard Lowenberg, 1st-Mile Institute, US
"On An Ecology of Witnessing: Humans, Earth, Universes and Media "
Julianne Newton, University of Oregon, US
"The And"
Lance Strate, Fordham University, US
Concluding Remarks 6:00 PM
Lance Strate, Fordham University, US