Australian General Semantics Society .
AGS Sunday Seminar July,
2004 (Presented
by Robert James) “Confronting the Challenge of
Conflicting World Views” "Not exactly an original
topic", you cry! But let's look beyond the Institute's
Conference papers, and see how we might understand and
apply some GS principles to our global, local and personal
conflicts. |
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~ Programme
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1.
Reflections on some of our seminars this year.
2. An
Overview of the Conference / Seminar Process.
3. Looking
at some of the Papers.
~~~ Lunch
~~~
4.
Extracting and Applying some GS Principles from the Papers.
5. Applying
these in a Timebinding Sense?
6. TheWay
Forward for us ...
8. Business
and Close.
~ End ~
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Australian
General Semantics Society
"Confronting the Challenge of Conflicting
World Views"
1.
Reflections on some of our Seminars this year.
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2. An
Overview of the Conference / Seminar Process.
a.
Recollections,
Reflections and Reminiscences from the Conference,
by David Hewson and Laurie Cox.
b.
Considering the Scope
and Content of the Agenda …
WELCOME, OPENING, ADMINISTRATIVE Steve Stockdale, Jeff
Mordkowitz
Comments on the 1st General Semantics Conference
(1935) Lloyd Morain
The Conundrum of Knowing What I Didn't Know *Essay Award
Karen Van Hoof
On Time-Binding as an Instrument of Peace Nan Bialek
From the Unconscious to the Conscious Kelly Duggan
DISCUSSION SESSION: Education as Non-A Activity Andrea
Johnson
On Belief Systems Bob Eddy
Conspiracy Theory and Sound Argumentation Jon
Bouknight
Beliefs Affecting Handwriting Communications Kate
Gladstone
Dreams, Nightmares and Non-Violence Allen Flagg
DISCUSSION SESSIONS (Responder/Facilitator) Lynn
Schuldt, Bob Potter
Workshop: Toward a Civil Society Katherine
Liepe-Levinson
A GS Approach to Reducing Student Alienation Martin
Levinson
Challenging Culturally-Expected Ways of Thinking
Milton Dawes
Seeking Unmediated Truths Gregg Hoffmann
Religion as a Belief System Dr. Abdul Salaam
Ramifications of Julian Jaynes's Theory of
Consciousness for Traditional General Semantics
Phil Ardery
DISCUSSION SESSION (Responder/Facilitator) Alta Brock
A General Semantics View of the Changing Perceptions
of Christ: Burton, Maryott, O'Byrne
Media Ethics Between Iraq and a Hard Place Jay Black
France - USA Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer
The Argentine Case Laura Bertone
DISCUSSION SESSION (Responder/Facilitator) Tom Heppe
Workshop: Non-Verbal Awareness Jeff Mordkowitz
Workshop: Rhythms Milton Dawes
8:00 PM Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture Sanford I.
Berman
The Language of Change: General Semantics and The
Tipping Point * Essay Award Malcolm Gladwell's Chip Stewart
Replacing Our Patterns of Universal Discord Andy
Hilgartner
DISCUSSION: Intrapersonal Evolution Maurine Eckloff,
Jeanne Stolzer
Changing Reputations:De-marginalizing General
Semantics Bruce Kodish
DISCUSSION: The Future of General Semantics Jeff
Mordkowitz
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3. Looking
at some of the Papers.
*** * ***
4. Extracting
and Applying some GS Principles from the Papers.
*** * ***
5. Applying
these in a Timebinding Sense?
*** * ***
6. The Way
Forward for us ...
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7. Business,
and Close
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