September 11-13, 2009, Fordham University will host “Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning”, an international conference sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics.

The three day conference features numerous keynote speakers, including a plenary talk by Dr. Michael Ben Eli of the Sustainability Laboratory, “The Cybernetics of Change, the Media and the Challenge of Sustainability” (Friday at 12:00 p.m.) and a panel session with BFI founder andf board member Jaime Snyder & BFI executive director Elizabeth Thompson, “Legacies of Hope and Meaning: Buckminster Fuller, Neil Postman, Alfred Korzybski and Marshall McLuhan” (Saturday at 11 a.m.).

The conference is co-sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association, Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research, the Taos Institute, and Fordham University.

To register for and learn more about the symposium visit the website for The Institute of General Semantics. September 11-13 at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus, Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Hall (corner of W. 60th St. and Columbus Ave. NY, NY).