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The Institute of General Semantics
generalsemantics.org

Discourse, Dialogue, & Democracy 2
An Online Symposium
April 25th, 2026

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Session II Words in Thought & Action 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Chair: Dom Heffer, Institute of General Semantics, United Kingdom

“The Never Ending Question: Converting the Being-Question into the Event-Question”
Mauro Ventola, Center for Ontological Transformation, Italy

“Discourse, Dialogue, Deliberation and Defending Democracy”
Olek Netzer, Independent Scholar, Israel

“The Dialect as a Cognitive Map: (Re)interpreting ‘Home’ through the Lens of ‘Thinking in Language’”
Oleksandr Bohomolets-Barash, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

"Semiotic Tensions and Perspectives in Intermediality"
Eleni Timplalexi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece