Public Channel

9:00 -10:15 AM                New Semantic Environments
  Moderator: Laura Trujillo Liñán, Universidad Panamericana

"Prompting AI: The Language of Questions, Queries, and Commands"
  Eva Berger, College of Management Academic Studies

"Semantics and AI: Important Intersections for Interested Practitioners"
Tiffany Petricini, Pennsylvania State University at Erie, The Behrend College

"Unveiling the MOOC Mosaic: Navigating Self-Paced Learning Landscapes"
  Kristen Haldeman, Duquesne University

"Ex–Communication"
  Gina Valenti, National University of Rosario

10:30 -12:00 AM            Calling Out the Symbol Rulers
  Moderator: Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University

"Judicial Bias, Meaning, and the Law"
  Martin H. Levinson, Institute of General Semantics

"Anxiety, Age, and Ageism: The Saga of Joe Biden's 2024 Presidential Candidacy,"
  Mary L. Kahl, The Pennsylvania State University, the Behrend College

Fighting Like Cats and Dogs: Politics in (Not So) "Funny Animal" Comics
  Christina M. Knopf, State University of New York, Cortland

The Language of Victims, Heroes, and Traitors: Echoes from WWII
  Susan Drucker, Hofstra University, & Gary Gumpert, Urban Communication Foundation

Player on the Quantum Stage: Navigating Digital Realms
  Paul Guzzardo, Independent Scholar

12:00-1:00 PM     Lunch Break 

1:00-2:15 PM                   The Map is Not the Territory
  Moderator: Susan Drucker, Hofstra University

"Granular Examination of Ex-Communication"
  Nick Demopoulos, Independent Scholar

"Why AI Can Write Music and Why it Cannot"
  Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan University

"From Natives to Digital Inhabitants. An Exploratory Look into a New Generation of Individuals Seduced by the Apparent Benefits of Digital Technologies"
  Fernando Gutiérrez, Tecnológico de Monterrey, & Jerónimo Rivera, Universidad de la Sabana

"Natural Stupidity"
  Jeffu Warmouth, Fitchburg State University

2:30-3:45 PM                   Pragmatics of Human Communication
  Moderator: Eva Berger, College of Management Academic Studies

"Classroom as Classtomb: Considering a Better Bargain for Online Public Speaking"
  Tiffany Gilliam, Duquesne University

"Going Deeper: How General Semantics Shows Up"
  Marcy Axelrod, Independent Scholar

"Interpretation: Connections Between Josiah Royce and Alfred Korzybski"
  Valerie Peterson, Grand Valley State University

"Pareidolia in our Visual Environment"
  Ellen Wetmore, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

4:00-5:45 PM                   Binding Our Time
  Moderator: Lance Strate, Fordham University

"(re)memory"
Jason J. Ferguson, Eastern Michigan University, & Lance Winn, University of Delaware

"Kin-Keepers and the Media and Methods of Family Time-Binding"
  Peggy Cassidy, Adelphi University

"Time-Binding and the Urban Memorial"
  Erik Garrett, Duquesne University

"Losing the Cultural Narrative: Science and Speculative Fiction and Predictions for a World Without Time-Binding"
  Jennifer Spiegel, Independent Scholar

"Non-Elementalism, Temporal Structure, and the Structural Differential"
  Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University 

"A Purportedly Modest Proposal"
  Tim Lyons, Independent Scholar
 
Sunday September 22nd, 2024

8:00-9:00 AM      Check-In and Breakfast Reception

9:00 -10:15 AM                Language in Thought and Action
  Moderator: Jacqueline Rudig, Institute of General Semantics

"The Role of Symbolism in Facilitating Communication"
  Elsa Sánchez Huerta, Universidad Panamericana

"Decoding Language: The Art of Meaning and Interpretation"

  Sthitipragnya Dash, Independent Scholar

"N Word 1 ≠ N Word 2 : How the CRTC Got Its Case Against Société Radio Canada Wrong"
  Jonathan R. Slater, SUNY Plattsburgh

"The Persistence of Vissungo Technology"
  Stefanie Wasserman, Independent Scholar

10:30 -11:45 AM              Communication and Consciousness
  Moderator: Peggy Cassidy, Adelphi University

"Because It's There"
  David Clark, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University

"National Cooperative Communicative Behavior: From Cognition to Discourse"
Igor Korolyov, Taras Shevchenko National University, & Olena Marina, Kerry Education and Training Board

"Troublesome Antics: What General Semantics and the Sophists Have in Common"
Joshua Clements, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

"Technoresidues and Art"
Jean-Philippe Côté, Collège Édouard-Montpetit

12:00-2:00 PM                Non-Aristotelian Thought and Culture
  Moderator: Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan University

"ChatGPT As a New Science Within the Oral Presentation Realm"
  Toby Cohen, The New School for Social Research

"Once Upon Online: Conversations With Professional Storytellers About Adapting from In-Person to Virtual Storytelling Performance"
  Leticia Pizzino, East Tennessee State University

"Oracle"
  Matt Kenyon, University of Buffalo

"Technoaxia: A Philosophical Exploration of Value Transformation in the Technological Era"
  Laura Trujillo Liñán, Universidad Panamericana

"From Houellebecq to Holodeck and Back: Using General Semantics, Fiction, Learning Environments, and Artificial Intelligence to Face the Future"
  Fred Cheyunski, Independent Scholar

"Hereafter Life"
  Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, New York University

"Steps Towards an Ecology of Meaning"
  Lance Strate, Fordham University