Our 60th Year
Verbal Level
March/April, 2006
Marla Del Collins’
Dragonfly Dynamics:
New
Thinking for New Times
Thursday, March 16, 7 PM
(After 6:30 Annual NYSGS Meeting)
Albert Ellis Institute, 45 East 65th St.
N Y S G S Members Free
Non-members $5
Those of us who were at Dr. Marla Del Collins’ first workshop session have been practicing the wider perspectives of Dragonfly Dynamics – a unique and fully developed integration of principles and strategies developed by Dr. Collins that links General Semantics with other “dynamical systems of interpretation” to create a broad, holistic view, as if, metaphorically speaking, giving us the ability to see through the multifaceted eyes of the keenest sighted creature on earth – the dragonfly.
Those who missed that lively, interactive thought-provoking seminar can come to experience new visions for these new times. All you need to bring is your imagination, enthusiasm and curiosity as we journey from simple to complex, Aristotelian to post-Aristotelian, caterpillar to butterfly, “I” the individual to “We” the world.
Marla Del Collins holds a PhD in Arts and Humanities in Education from the Department of Culture and Communication, New York University. Dr. Neil Postman, renowned author and educator, chaired her dissertation committee. He said of her “I have come to know her as a brilliant scholar; and I might add, those of us who have worked with her, or who have seen her work, know her to be a person of charm and sensitiveity.”
She has successfully applied Dragonfly Dynamics to human communication conundrums around the world – Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South America. Marla is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Long Island University. Her book, Dragonfly Tales, a Primer for Grownups in the 21st Century, will be completed this Spring, 2006. Her most recent article, “Transcending Dualistic Thinking in Conflict Resolution,” was published in Harvard University Law School’s Negotiation Journal, April, 2005, with an anticipated reprinting in ETC:, A Review of General Semantics. It will be given out at the meeting, as well as her previous article, “To Veil or Not to Veil, That was the Question: A Feminist’s Journey Through the Land of Jordan,” published Spring 2003 in Women & Language.
PERSPECTIVES ON NEIL POSTMAN:
A SYMPOSIUM
April 6, 2006
NYU Kummel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square South
9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Reception 5 PM at Center for Architecture Gallery
536 LaGuardia Place
Neil Postman was one of only seventeen professors at NYU with the distinguished title of University Professor , and the only one in the School of Education. He had a profound effect on our society, in his roles as educator, author, social critic, and editor.
Ted Magder, Chair of NYU’s Department of Culture and Communication, and Lance Strate, Associate Professor, Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, and President, Media Ecology Association, have organized a Symposium, Perspectives on Neil Postman.
The all-day event will feature sixteen presenters and an evening reception. Admission is free; please advise that you plan to attend by email:
SYMPOSIUM PANELS
Presenters will discuss, explore, examine, analyze and extend Postman’s scholarship and criticism:
Panel 1, on Media and Publics
Andrew Postman, Funny is the Most Serious Business of All
Donna Halper, Postman in Mainstream Media
Arthur W. Hunt III, Postman and the Evangelicals
Marleen Barr, Building a Bridge to ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’
Moderator: Lance Strate
Panel 2, on Language
Thomas Gencarelli, Postman and the ‘New English’
Martin H. Levinson, Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk: Redux
Steven L. Reagles, The Pious Imp:
Postman’s Use of ‘God-talk’ as Oxymoronic Critical Conceit
Janet Sternberg, Postman’s Rules of Public Speaking
Moderator: Terence Moran
Panel 3, on Education
Allen Flagg, Enlightenments as Learning Environments: We are in Enlightenment Five
Drew Giorgi, Deliciously Subversive
Teachable Moments: Using New Technologies to Subvert the Medium of Mass Messages
in an Era of Globalization and Political Scandal
Brian A. Cogan, Punk Postman: Neil Postman as Revolutionary
Paul Levinson, How Postman Taught Me to be a Great Teacher
Moderator: Margaret Cassidy
Panel 4, on Technology
Stephanie Bennett, Postman and the Pedagogical Challenges for an e-Generation of Learners:
Cultivating Community in a World of Digital Devotion
Laura Benin, Media Ecologist as Educational Technologist?
Edna Pasher, Postman’s Doctrine as WearIt@Work
James C. Morrison, Postman and McLuhan’s Technological Perspective(s)
Moderator: Ted Magder
Symposium Sponsors:
NYU Steinhardt Department of Culture and Communication
Fordham University Department of Communication and Media Studies
Adelphi University Department of Communications
Institute of General Semantics
Media Ecology Association
New York Society for General Semantics
WearIt@Work
Marymount Manhattan College Communication Arts
Sponsored by
New York University, Department of Culture and Communication
Media Ecology Association
New York Society for General Semantics
Institute of General Semantics
Marymount Manhattan College, Communication Arts Department
Adelphi University, Communication Dept.
Fordham University, Department of Communication and Media Studies
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Our 60th Year
N Y S G S
Annual Business and Election Meeting
March 16, 6:30 PM - Be Prompt !
Marla Del Collins at 7 PM
Members of the New York Society for General Semantics are urged to attend the Annual Business and Election Meeting. The Nominating Committee has recommended the following members for the Board for three year terms: