Themes:
Anticipation/Anticipatory Systems | Human-Computer Interaction | Post-Industrial/Post-literacy
Digital Technology | Art and Design | Mind | Visualization | Semiotics | Miscellaneous

• GLOBALITY: THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (PARTAKING IN THE CIVILIZATION OF ILLITERACY)
  Senior Fellow, Pell Center, Salve Regina University, Newport Rhode Island, April 22, 2004
  
  
• Writing and Publishing in the Civilization of Illiteracy.
  Frankfurt Book Fair, 10 October 2002
  
  
• Vive la Difference. Quality of Life in an Integrated World >> HTML
  At the European Research Conference on Unity and Diversity. The contribution of the social sciences and the humanities to the European Research Area, Bruges, Belgium, 29 October 2001
  
  
• What was in the beginning (Word or Image)? What will follow? >>FLASH 5
  (CyberRush and Knowledge Gaps. Babylon in the Third Millennium?) Gmünder [Design] Gespräche, 28 October 2000
  
  
• Redefining Knowledge Dissemination (Wissensvermittlung im Umbruch)
  (Keynote lecture) Writing and Images at the Turning Point, a conference held at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, June 23-25, 2000
  
  
• Aspects and Infrastructure for Digital Teaching and Learning
  (panel with George Landow, Brown University, USA, University of Singapore; R. Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon University; J. McClintock, Columbia University) at Writing and Images at the Turning Point, a conference held at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, June 23-25, 2000
  
  
• One cannot NOT Interact >>HTML
  (The Future is Here) Workshop: Semiotic Approaches to User Interface Design, The Hague, 2 April 2000
  
  
• Digital Knowledge Communication >>HTML
  Envisioning Knowledge – The Knowledge Society and the New Media, 3rd International Congress of the Academy for the Third Millennium, Burda Media, Munich, 3-4 February 1999
  
  
• Universal: A Continent Beyond Tradition >>HTML
  Plenary session, Third World Congress of the International Society for Universalism, Babson College, Wellesley MA, 7 August 1998
  
  
• The role of institutions in the post-literacy age
  Berlin Working Group for Semiotics and Culture, Technical University, Berlin, 11 Jan 1998
  
  
• From language to languages
  The Language of the Object, symposium held at the Munich Design Center, Germany, 5 November 1997
  
  
• The price we pay: literate structure vs. the new dynamic of human activity
  PKA Roundtable series, Heiden-Nordick, Germany, 23 June 1997
  
  
• The Electronic Book and the Civilization of Illiteracy
  Dresden Museum of Technology, Germany, 7 May 1997
  
  
• Beautiful New World
  University of Essen, Germany, 5 May 1997
  
  
• Chaos, Dynamics, Dissipative Structures: New Perspectives for Structuralism >>HTML
  Keynote lecture, Structuralism. An international conference commemorating the pioneers of structuralism, Dresden Technical University, Germany, 19-23 April 1995
  
  
• Communication in a time of integration and global awareness
  SEHNAP Division of Arts and Communication, New York University, 27 April 1989
  
  
• Values in the post-modern era: the civilization of illiteracy
  Institute Forum: Technology and Values, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 9 November 1984
  
  
• The Romanticism of the Post-Modern
  (keynote address), 48th Annual Conference of the Mid-America College Art Association (In the Shadow of the Millennium: Educating Artists in a Post-Industrial Society), Cleveland Institute of Art, 24-26 October 1984
  
  
• Philosophy in the Civilization of Illiteracy
  XVII Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, 21-27 August 1983
  
  
• The Civilization of Illiteracy >> HTML
  6th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1-4 October 1981