ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#52 | December 24, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036
Jaipur National University is organizing a Four-Day National Seminar-cum-Workshop on “Radical General Semantics” from 16 to19 January 2013 in collaboration with the ‘Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics & Other Human Sciences’ . The Director of this Centre , Prof. P.C. Kar has recently been honoured with 2012 Nicolas Guillen Lifetime Achievement Award The Workshop sessions will be conducted by Prof. Bruce Kodish , a renowned American scholar of Korzybskian approach to Semantics.
The Seminar-Workshop will provide a balance of theory and personal practice in the approach to understanding and improving human evaluating strategies as advocated by Alfred Korzybski.
By ‘General Semantics’ Korzybski intended ‘general theory of evaluation’. He had also referred to it as an ‘up-to-date Epistemology’
The workshop discussions will mainly focus on
(i) Humans as Time-Binding Class of Life’
(ii) Aristotlian v/s Non-Aristotlian Orientations
(iii) What constitutes a ‘Scientific Attitude’ ?
(iv) Non-Verbal Awareness
(v) Personal Development and Professional Applications and Research.
* Registration fee : Rs.1000/- to be paid by each participant by 05 January 2013 through a bank DD made in favour of
“Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences” payable at Baroda .
The fee will take care of the cost of reading material , lunch , & tea during the Workshop
* For accommodation on JNU , Jaipur Campus , participants may contact the local Coordinator, Prof. K.K. Gautam at kkgautam2005@gmail.com ( M. 09414852939) .
Participants have to make their own travel arrangements.
Applications for participation are to be sent to :
Prof. P.C. Kar,
Director , Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences
C – 302 , Siddhi Vinayak Complex
Behind Vadodara Railway Station ( Alkapuri side)
Faramji Road , BARODA – 390 007 ( Gujarat)
E-Mail : prafullakar@gmail.com Website : www.balvantparekhcentre.org.in
Tel 0265-2320870 ( Office) 0265-2338067 ( Res.)
Application Format
- Name :
- Date of Birth
- Gender :
- Address of the Institution where presently working :
- E-Mail ID
Mobile No. - Subjects taught :
- Teaching Experience (No of years only) :
- Academic Qualifications (Graduation onwards) :
- Areas of Academic Interest :
- Publications , if any :
- Specific Research Topic :
- A brief statement of about 150 words about what you expect from the Workshop
- Names and addresses of two referees :
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