Martin Levinson,
president of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of General
Semantics, delivers the inaugural Hayakawa Book Prize to Laura
Bertone, for her book "The Hidden Side of Babel". The ceremony took
place at Fordham University, New York, on September 11th, 2009, in
the framework of the IGS symposium “Across the Generations: Legacies
of Hope and Meaning”.
Thanks to
Photographers Robert
Francos and
Fordham University student Mariusz Han, SJ,
for some of these pictures.
With Alan Hayakawa, son of
Samuel Hayakawa, author of the book "Language in Thought and Action" in
whose honor the Book Prize was created
Laura Bertone Receives
the Samuel I.Hayakawa Book Prize
Laura Bertone´s book “The
Hidden Side of Babel” has won the 2009 Samuel I. Hayakawa Book
Prize awarded by
the Institute of
General Semantics.
She received the
award on September 11th at Fordham University in New York,
preceding the 57th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, as
a part of the symposium ‘Across the Generations: Legacies of
Hope and Meaning’, organized by Lance Strate, Communication
professor at Fordham University and co-founder of the Media
Ecology Association.
