Gerry Philipsen

Video and audio recordings

Here you can click on four events:

Theorist interview (1999) at the International Communication Association meetings in San Francisco, Professor Em Griffin interviewed my about speech codes theory, for a collection of such interviews in connection with his book A First Look at Communication Theory.

At the 2007 meeting of the Western Communication Association in Seattle, in January, Professor Bill Eadie of San Diego State University conducted an oral history interview of me, as part of his series of such interviews on people who shaped the development of the communication discipline in the mid-1970s when there began a great flowering of interest in communication theory.

UN Speech is an audio recording of a short talk I delivered at the European Headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in June of 2008. The title of the talk is “Taking the Local Seriously.” This was a scheduled presentation at an all-day conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, where about 80 people were in attendance, including ambassadors of several countries, heads of international agencies, a representative of the US Army Human Terrain program, and people from several countries concerned with local security needs. The conference, on research directed toward local security needs around the globe, was organized by the Security Needs Assessment Project (SNAP), for which I am a member of the Advisory Group.

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CTTWC/San Diego is a video of the Arnold lecture, Coming to Terms with Cultures, delivered at the 2008 meeting of the National Communication Association in San Diego. There were about 600 people in the audience.