User:Rockymtns/Timeline of Gregory Bateson

This is a chronology of events in the life of Gregory Bateson (09 May 1904 – 04 July 1980).

1904 to 1909
1904
 * 09 May – Born, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England. Third son of William Bateson (born 08 August 1861; died 08 February 1926) and Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson (born 1870?; died 1935). Brothers John Bateson (born 22 April 1898; died 1918) and Martin Bateson (born 1899; died 22 April 1922). Grandson of William H. Bateson (born 03 June 1812; died 27 March 1881; Master of St John's College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of University of Cambridge) and Anna Aitken Bateson (born 1830; died 1911).

1910 to 1919
1910
 * July – The Bateson boys reside with their Aunt Edith Bateson in Robin Hood's Bay, England while their parents prepare to leave Cambridge, England.
 * Summer – Bateson family moves to John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton Park, near London.

1912
 * Student, Warden House School, Upper Deal, Kent, England.

1913
 * Student, Warden House School, Upper Deal, Kent, England.

1914
 * Student, Warden House School, Upper Deal, Kent, England.

1915
 * Student, Warden House School, Upper Deal, Kent, England.

1916
 * Student, Warden House School, Upper Deal, Kent, England.

1917
 * Student, Warden House School, Upper Deal, Kent, England.

1918
 * Student, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England.
 * October – Brother John Bateson dies in World War I.

1919
 * Student, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England.

1920 to 1929
1920
 * Student, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England.

1921
 * Student, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England.
 * Summer until late September – Vacations in southern France with his mother, Beatrice, visiting family friends, Gwen and Jacques Raverat.

1922
 * Completes final term at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England.
 * Student, University of Cambridge.
 * January to September – Studies French and botany at the University of Geneva residing with William Bateson's colleague, Fernand Chodat – and in Canton du Valais.
 * 22 April – Suicide of brother, Martin Bateson, on brother John Bateson's birthday.

1923
 * Student, University of Cambridge. Studies zoology, botany, organic chemistry, and physiology. Joins the Cambridge Natural History Society, Botany Club, and Biological Tea Club.

1924
 * Student, University of Cambridge.
 * Natural Sciences Tripos, First class honors, University of Cambridge.
 * July – Returns to Merton Park, England.
 * Summer – Returns to Geneva, Switzerland, residing with the Chodats.
 * August – Becomes engaged to marry Isabelle Chodat. Bateson's parents later decide that she is not a good match.
 * October – Returns to St John's College, Cambridge, England.
 * Mid-December – Godfrey Williams invites Bateson to join his fishing cruise between Balboa and Galápagos Islands.

1925
 * Student, University of Cambridge; Anthropological Tripos, Pt. II under Alfred Cort Haddon; Classes in Social Psychology under Frederic Bartlett and J. MacCurdy; B.A. first class Natural Sciences
 * Visits Ecuador.
 * January – Boards R.M.S. Cardiganshire bound for Panama.
 * January to June – Expedition to Galápagos Islands: Research on Geospiza for British Museum Bird Department and collection of pelagic Coelenterates under William Beebe, Arcturus Expedition.
 * June – Travels to New York Zoo to deposit Arcturus Expedition collections. Visits H.F. Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, and Morgan's Drosophilia lab at Columbia University.
 * Summer – Returns to Merton Park. Joins the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
 * Mid-July – Takes archaeological field trip with the Cambridge Antiquarian Society; meets Alfred Cort Haddon. Haddon later becomes Bateson's Cambridge mentor.
 * November – Visits Switzerland to study partridge plumage with William Bateson.
 * November – Publishes

1926
 * Student, University of Cambridge; Anthropological Tripos, Pt. I, First class honors.
 * 08 February – Death of father, William Bateson.
 * September – Studies in Germany.

1927
 * Anthony Wilkin Student, University of Cambridge.
 * Strathcoma Student, St John's College, Cambridge.
 * January to January 1928 – Anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, financed by Anthony Wilkin and Strathcoma studentships: First in New Britain among the Baining people of the Gazelle Peninsula, then the Sepik River region.
 * Spring – Meets Alfred Radcliffe-Brown in Sydney, Australia.
 * April – Begins 10-month stay in the Baining village of Latramat in New Britain.

1928
 * Anthony Wilkin Student, University of Cambridge.
 * Strathcoma Student, St John's College, Cambridge.
 * March – Departs New Britain for Sydney, Australia.
 * April to July – Teacher of Melanesian linguistics, University of Sydney, under Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. Meets fellow anthropologists W. Lloyd Warner, Reo Fortune, and Ian Hogbin.
 * October to January 1930 – Anthropological fieldwork among the Sulka of the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain and the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea.

1929
 * Anthropological fieldwork among the Sulka of the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain and the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea.
 * Mid-February – Takes a cruise to visit Manus Island in the Admiralty Islands and the Sepik River region of New Guinea; Spends several days visiting with the Iatmul in Tambunam.
 * March, approximately – Works in Mindimbit Village, Papua New Guinea. Writes to Alfred Cort Haddon and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown asking them to send him a partner with whom to work.

1930 to 1939
1930
 * M.A., Anthropology, University of Cambridge; Classes under Bronisław Malinowski at London School of Economics.
 * 30 January – Completes first period of anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.
 * Spring – Returns to Cambridge, England.

1931
 * Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge.
 * March – Publishes
 * June – Publishes

1932
 * Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge.
 * January to summer 1933 – Second period of anthropological fieldwork among the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea, Sepik River.
 * March – Publishes
 * March – Publishes
 * June – Publishes
 * Summer through Autumn – Works in Palimbai and Kankanamun, Papua New Guinea.
 * December – Meets fellow anthropologists Reo Fortune and Margaret Mead in Kankanamun.

1933
 * Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge.
 * Works on Naven at St John's College, Cambridge.
 * Summer – Completes anthropological fieldwork among the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea, Sepik River.

1934
 * Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge.
 * Visits USA to give lectures at Columbia University and University of Chicago.
 * Works on Naven.
 * Summer – Vacations in Ireland with C. H. Waddington and Justin Blanco White. Margaret Mead visits.
 * 05 June – Presents "Summary of a Communication".
 * July – Publishes
 * 31 July to 07 August – Participates in the First International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, London.
 * 31 July – Presents "Field Work in Social Psychology in New Guinea" to Section B: Psychology (published as ) and "The Segmentation of Society" to Section D: Ethnography–General (published as ) at the First International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, London.
 * 01 August – Presents "Ritual Transvesticism on the Sepik River, New Guinea" to Section F: Sociology at the First International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, London. The remarks are published as
 * 13 December – Publishes

1935
 * Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge.
 * Completes work on Naven.
 * Publishes
 * Spring – Visits USA to lecture at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. While in USA, he visits with and has discussions with Margaret Mead and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown.
 * December – Publishes

1936
 * Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge.
 * Engages with Frederic Bartlett about experimental psychology and human memory.
 * January – Sails to Singapore to meet Margaret Mead.
 * March to February 1938 – Anthropological fieldwork in Bali with Margaret Mead.
 * February – Publishes
 * Spring – Bateson and Mead practice their field research techniques by making the film Trance and Dance in Bali. Soon after they move to Bajoeng Gede, Bali, working there intermittently until February, 1938.
 * March – Marries Margaret Mead in Singapore.
 * May – Publishes
 * May – Publishes
 * December – Publishes
 * December – Bateson's mother, Beatrice Bateson, and family friend, Nora Barlow, arrive to spend the Christmas holiday in Bali.

1937
 * Research Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge.
 * Elected William Wyse Scholar in Social Anthropology, Trinity College, Cambridge (resigns 1945).
 * Anthropological fieldwork in Bali with Margaret Mead.
 * Publishes

1938
 * March – Completes anthropological fieldwork in Bali with Margaret Mead and returns to New Guinea.
 * Spring – Awarded Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge.
 * April to February 1939 – Anthropological fieldwork among the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea with Margaret Mead.

1939
 * February – Completes anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea with Margaret Mead.
 * February to March – Anthropological fieldwork in Bali with Margaret Mead.
 * Spring – Margaret Mead returns to New York pregnant.
 * August – Drafts letter with Margaret Mead to Eleanor Roosevelt regarding peacemaking.
 * September – World War II begins; Returns to England in attempt to find work for the war effort.
 * September to January 1940 – Voluntary work in England analyzing Nazi radio broadcasts under F.C. Bartlett; works with Mass-Observation with Tom Harrison analyzing public opinion questionnaires.
 * 07 December – Sends a wire message to Margaret Mead in New York indicating that he had applied for a permit to return to New York.
 * 08 December – Birth of daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Sends a wire message to Margaret Mead communicating that Mary Catherine should not be christened.

1940 to 1949
1940
 * January – Returns to New York and becomes a resident.
 * January to September 1942 – Analysis of Balinese and Iatmul material in collaboration with Margaret Mead as guest of Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
 * 05 April – Delivers the paper "The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis and Culture" at the Symposium of the Effects of Frustration, Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Atlantic City, New Jersey. The fieldwork on which the paper is based was done in collaboration with Margaret Mead with grants from the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the Committee for Research in Dementia Præcox, and the Social Science Reseach Council. The paper is published in July of 1941.
 * 28 April – Delivers "Experiments in Thinking about Observed Ethnological Material" at the Seventh Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences, New School for Social Research, New York.
 * Summer – Spends the wartime summer near Holderness, New Hampshire with Margaret Mead at their summer residence shared with the Lawrence K. Frank family.
 * Summer to December 1941 – Participates in the Committee for National Morale's "Study of culture at a distance" with Margaret Mead, Geoffrey Gorer, Ruth Benedict, Lawrence K. Frank, and others.
 * October – Serves as Secretary for the Council on Human Relations for its first few months.
 * October to 1942 – Secretary of the Committee for National Morale and the Council for Intercultural Relations (later becomes the Institute for Intercultural Studies). Serves as Secretary and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences.

1941
 * Member of the Institute for Intercultural Studies.
 * Publishes The mimeographed report was prepared for the Committee for National Morale.
 * January – Publishes
 * January – Publishes
 * January – Publishes
 * May – Death of mother, Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson.
 * July – Shows early interest in psychology. Publishes
 * 08 September – Attends the Second Symposium on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life in New York with Margaret Mead.
 * 08–11 September – Delivers "Comment on the Comparative Study of Culture and the Purposive Cultivation of Democratic Values, by Margaret Mead" at the Second Conference on Science, Philosophy and Planning and the Concept of Deutero-Learning, New York.
 * December – Publishes

1942
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Until 1948 – Bateson family resides with the Lawrence K. Frank household, Greenwich Village, New York City.
 * January – Publishes
 * April – Publishes
 * May – Participates in the Macy conferences Cerebral Inhibition Meeting organized by Frank Fremont-Smith with Warren McCulloch, Margaret Mead, Lawrence K. Frank, Lawrence Kubie, John von Neumann, Walter Pitts, and others.
 * July – Publishes
 * 27–31 August – Delivers "Human Dignity and the Varieties of Civilization" at the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, Third Symposium, New York.
 * September – Publishes
 * September – Publishes
 * September – Publishes
 * August until November 1945 – Joins the US Office of Strategic Services as a "Psychological Planner".
 * September to June 1943 – Film analyst, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
 * October – Publishes
 * December – Publishes
 * 06 December – Publishes

1943
 * Views the Adelbert Ames Jr. experiments in New York, becomes convinced of the fallibility of perception.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * January to January 1944 – Teaches Melanesian Pidgin English at the Naval School of Military Government & Administration, Columbia University.
 * 18 January – Delivers "Cultural and Thematic Analysis of Fictional Films" accompanied by motion picture films to the Section of Anthropology, New York Academy of Sciences, New York. The paper is based on ongoing research at the Museum of Modern Art Film Library exploring the psychological implications of Nazism from studying Nazi propaganda films.
 * February – Publishes
 * April –
 * 11 August – Assembles and directs an exhibition titled "Bali: Background for War, The Human Problem of Reoccupation" opens at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and runs through 19 September. Material for the exhibit is selected from native sculpture, paintings and idols collected by Bateson and Margaret Mead and photos by Bateson taken in Bali. Afterwards, the exhibition tours the USA.
 * September – Publishes
 * 14 December – The US Office of Strategic Services petitions the Selective Service System for a permit to allow Bateson to leave the country to "send Mr. Bateson to New Delhi, India to perform confidential duties for this office."

1944
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 24 Jaunary – Presents "Pidgin English and Cross-Cultural Communication" to the Section of Anthropology, New York Academy of Sciences, New York. Published as
 * February – The US Office of Strategic Services orders Bateson to station in Kandy, Ceylon, noting that "It is expected that this service will continue for the duration of the war."
 * 09 March – Departs the US for foreign service as a Staff planner and Regional Specialist for Southeast Asia, US Office of Strategic Services; overseas in Ceylon, India, Burma, and China.
 * March – Publishes
 * May – Publishes
 * October – Publishes
 * 15 November – Drafts interoffice memo at the Office of Strategic Services, South East Asia Command regarding long-range stratetic planning.
 * 20 December to 15 April 1945 – Serves as a civilian member of a forward intelligence unit in the Arakan mountains of Burma "performing highly meritorious service".

1945
 * Resigns as William Wyse Scholar in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
 * 04–14 August – Volunteers as a civilian "in connection with a compromised operation" to "penetrate deep into enemy territory in order to attempt the rescue of three agents believed to have escaped after their capture by the Japanese."
 * 08 August – Brigadier General John Magruder, Assistant Director of the US Office of Strategic Services, orders Bateson to transfer from Kandy, Ceylon to Washington, D.C.
 * 13 August – Recommended for award of the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Service Ribbon for his "clandestine military mission" as civilian member of the US Office of Strategic Services to rescue Allied agents who escaped capture of the Japanese.
 * 27 September – Awarded the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Service Ribbon.
 * 04 October – Leaves India Burma Theater war operations from Kandy, Ceylon.
 * 01 November – Returns to the US from foreign service.
 * 05 November – Departs Washington, D.C.
 * 09 November – Officially resigns from the US Office of Strategic Services.
 * November to September 1946 – Research into Balinese culture conducted at the American Museum of Natural History.

1946
 * Separates from Margaret Mead and establishes himself independently on Staten Island, New York.
 * Until 1947 – Visiting professor of anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York.
 * 08 January – Presents "Discussion (of 'Some Relationships Between Maturation and Acculturation,' by Arnold Gesell; 'Cultural Patterning of Maturation in Selected Primitive Societies,' by Margaret Mead; and 'Environment vs. Race–Environment as an Etiological Factor in Psychiatric Disturbances in Infancy,' by Renfe A. Spitz and Kathe M. Wolf)" at the joint meeting of the New York Neurological Society and the New York Academy of Medicine, Section of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Section of Pediatrics, New York.
 * 29 January to 19 May – Arts of the South Seas Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 * 01 March – Presents "Sex and Culture" to the Conference on Physiological and Psychological Factors in Sex Behavior, Sections of Biology and Psychology, New York Academy of Sciences, New York. The presentation is illustrated by a of film of Balinese trance behavior and a series of Balinese carvings.
 * 08–09 March – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation inaugural Conference on Cybernetics: Feedback Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems in Biological and Social Systems, New York, New York.
 * May – Publishes
 * June – Publishes a review of an exhibit held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, held from 29 January to 19 May, 1946. Published as:
 * 21 June – Publishes
 * 23–27 August – Submits remarks in absentia to the Sixth Symposium on Science, Philosophy and Religion, New York.
 * September – Publishes
 * 01 September – Publishes
 * September – Organizes a "special" cybernetics conference resulting from the first Macy conference titled "Teleological Mechanisms in Society", New York, New York.
 * September – Develops concern for the effects of nuclear weapons on international relations.
 * October – Participates in a separate "teleological mechanisms" conference organized by Lawrence Frank, New York Academy of Sciences, New York.
 * October – Publishes
 * 01 October – Publishes
 * 27–28 October – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Second Conference on Cybernetics: Teleological Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems, New York, New York.
 * 08 December – Publishes

1947
 * Associate in Columbia University Seminar on "Contents and Methods of the Social Sciences".
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, New York.
 * Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "The formulation of a nucleus of theory relating to the concepts of culture, personality, and character formulation and the extension of this theoretical nucleus to cover the phenomena of cultural change," and "to synthesize cybernetic ideas with anthropological data".
 * Undergoes a period of personal psychotherapy.
 * Publishes
 * 12–14 March – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Third Conference on Cybernetics: Teleological Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems, New York, New York.
 * 23 March – Presents "Atoms, Nations, and Cultures" at International House, Columbia University, New York.
 * Spring – Publishes
 * May – Publishes
 * September – Publishes
 * 23–24 October – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Fourth Conference on Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, New York, NY.

1948
 * Associate in Columbia University Seminar on "Contents and Methods of the Social Sciences".
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, New York.
 * 18–19 March – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Fifth Conference on Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, New York, New York. Organizes the first day with Margaret Mead to focus on language.
 * September to October 1949 – Research Associate with Dr. Jurgen Ruesch at the Langley Porter Clinic, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, California.

1949
 * Moves to California.
 * Begins work in psychiatric medicine.
 * Publishes
 * 24–25 March – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Sixth Conference on Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, New York.
 * 08–10 April – Participates in the Western Round Table on Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
 * May – Publishes
 * 08 June – Participates as a panelist in "An Open Forum on the Exhibition of Illusionism and Trompe L'Oeil", California Palace of the Fine Arts, San Francisco, California.
 * July – Publishes
 * 08 November – Publishes
 * November – Begins working as an ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.

1950 to 1959
1950
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Mar 23–24 – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Seventh Conference on Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, New York.
 * Summer – Becomes involved with Betty Sumner, a former secretary at Langley Porter Clinic.
 * 23 October – Divorced from Margaret Mead.
 * Marries Elizabeth Sumner.

1951
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Marries Betty Sumner.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 15–16 March – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Eighth Conference on Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, New York.
 * 25 April – Birth of son, John Sumner Bateson (died 21 June 2015).

1952
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Director of "The Role of the Paradoxes of Abstraction in Communication" Rockefeller Foundation grant research project administered by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Stanford University in participation with John Weakland, Jay Haley, William Fry, and Don D. Jackson.
 * January – Visits Fleishacker Zoo in San Francisco, California, to study animal communication.
 * Spring – With Weldon Kees, begins observing and filming otters intermittently over a two-year period which leads to theories about metamessages in communication and play.
 * 20–21 March – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Ninth Conference on Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, New York. Presents "The Position of Humor in Human Communication".
 * Autumn – Publishes

1953
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Director of "The Role of the Paradoxes of Abstraction in Communication" Rockefeller Foundation grant research project administered by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Stanford University in participation with John Weakland, Jay Haley, William Fry, and Don D. Jackson.
 * Betty Sumner gives birth to twins, William and Anne, that survive only a month; a series of miscarriages follows.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 23–24 April – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Tenth Conference on Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, Princeton, New Jersey.
 * Spring – Publishes
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Autumn – Publishes

1954
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Director of "The Role of the Paradoxes of Abstraction in Communication" Rockefeller Foundation grant research project in participation with John Weakland, Jay Haley, William Fry, and Don D. Jackson.
 * Director of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant research project on Schizophrenic Communication.
 * Brings Bateson family books and furniture from England to their home on Colby Stree, Menlo Park, California.
 * Publishes
 * 11 March – Jay Haley presents Bateson's "A Theory of Play and Fantasy: A Report on Theoretical Aspects of the Project for Study of the Role of Paradoxes of Abstraction in Communication" to the Symposium on Cultural, Anthropological, and Communications Approaches, American Psychiatric Association, Mexico City.

1955
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Director of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant research project on Schizophrenic Communication.
 * May – Presents "How the Deviant Sees His Society" at The Epidemiology of Mental Health conference sponorsored by the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of the University of Utah and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Fort Douglas Division, Salt Lake City, Utah, at Brighton, Utah.
 * May – Publishes
 * 09–12 October – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Second Conference on Group Processes, Princeton, New Jersey. Presents "The Message: 'This is Play'", and screens a film resulting from his study of river otters titled, "The Nature of Play: River Otters".
 * 15–17 October – Presents "Schizophrenic Distortions of Communication" at the Sea Island Conference on Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients, Sea Island, Georgia. The paper and additional comments are later published in 1958.
 * December – Publishes

1956
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Director of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant research project on Schizophrenic Communication.
 * Begins work on "The Natural History of an Interview" project.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 07 February – Becomes naturalized U.S. citizen.
 * July – Publishes
 * 07–10 October – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Third Conference on Group Processes, Princeton, New Jersey.
 * October – Publishes

1957
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Director of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant research project on Schizophrenic Communication.
 * Divorced from Elizabeth Sumner.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 06–07 April – Participates in the Conference on Perception and Personality, Beverly Hills, California.
 * 03 June – Delivers the Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Memorial Lecture titled "Language and Psychotherapy: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's Last Project" at the Veteran Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California. The lecture is later published in 1958.
 * 13–16 October – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Fourth Conference on Group Processes, Princeton, New Jersey.

1958
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Director of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant research project on Schizophrenic Communication.
 * Delivers the lecture "Cultural Problems Posed by a Study of Schizophrenic Process" to the Symposium on Schizophrenia, American Psychiatric Association symposium of the Hawaiian Divisional Meeting, San Francisco, California.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes second edition of Naven with new preface and epilogue:
 * Publishes Additional comments by Bateson appear on pages 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10-11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 65, 67-69, 72, 75, 77-78, 79, 89, 91, 97, 102, 106, 114, 115, 116, 120, 127, 131-132, 133, 139, 146, 151, 154, 155, 161, 163, 165, 166- 167, 174, 175, 176, 187, 189, 190, 195, 204-205, 217, 218.
 * February – Publishes
 * 10–11 May – Participates in a meeting of the Academy of Psychoanalysis, San Francisco, California.
 * 17 September – Presents "The New Conceptual Frames for Behavioral Research" at the Sixth Annual Psychiatric Institute, New Jersey Psychiatric Institute, Princeton, New Jersey. The lecture is published as
 * 01–03 October – Presents "The Group Dynamics of Schizophrenia" at the Institute on Chronic Schizophrenia and Hospital Treatment Programs, State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas. The paper is later published in 1960.
 * 12–15 October – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Fifth Conference on Group Processes, Princeton, New Jersey.

1959
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Director of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant research project on Schizophrenic Communication.
 * Develops an interest in octopus communication.
 * Principal Investigator, "Research in Family Psychotherapy" funded by National Institute of Mental Health and the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry.
 * Visiting Professor, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 30 January – Publishes
 * 01 April – Presents "Discussion of Families of Schizophrenic and of Well Children: Method, Concepts and Some Results, by Samuel J. Beck" at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, San Francisco, California. The paper is later published in 1960.
 * 07 April – Presents "Minimal Requirements for a Theory of Schizophrenia" at the Second Annual Albert D. Lasker Memorial Lecture, Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. The lecture is later published in 1960.
 * 22–24 April – Participates in the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Conference on LSD and Psychotherapy, Princeton, New Jersey.

1960 to 1969
1960
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Visiting Professor, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
 * Principal Investigator, "Research in Family Psychotherapy" funded by National Institute of Mental Health and the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * April – Publishes
 * 01 May – Publishes
 * 02–03 June – Delivers "Formal Research in Family Structure" and "The Biosocial Integration of Behavior in the Schizophrenic Family" at the M. Robert Gomberg Memorial Conference, New York Academy of Sciences, New York. Both are later published in 1961.
 * 27 December – Presents "Psychiatry and the Double Bind Theory" during a KPFA radio broadcast, California.
 * 29–30 December – Presents "A Social Scientist Views the Emotions" at the Symposium on Expression of the Emotions of Man, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York.

1961
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Visiting Professor, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
 * Principal Investigator, "Research in Family Psychotherapy" funded by National Institute of Mental Health and the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry.
 * Marries Lois Cammack.
 * Receives the Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Award for research in schizophrenia.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes

1962
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Visiting Professor, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
 * Principal Investigator, "Research in Family Psychotherapy" funded by National Institute of Mental Health and the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry.
 * Delivers lecture titled "Exchange of Information About Patterns of Human Behavior" at the Houston Neurological Society Tenth Annual Scientific Meeting jointly sponsored by the Department of Neurology, Baylor University of Medicine and Texas University Medical Center, Houston, Texas.
 * Delivers lecture titled "Family Patterns and Labeling" at Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California.
 * 24 February – Delivers lecture titled "The Roots of Peace" at the Institute for Peace Education, Peninsula School, Menlo Park, California.
 * 17–18 March – Presents "Communication Theories in Relation to the Etiology of the Neuroses" at the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts symposium, New York.
 * 07–08 December – Presents "Some Varieties of Pathogenic Organization" at the Disorders of Communication conference, New York.

1963
 * Ethnologist, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
 * Associate Director of the Communication Research Institute, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
 * Receives a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
 * Publishes
 * March – Publishes
 * August – Presents "Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication" at the International Symposium on Cetacean Research sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington, D.C.
 * 24 December – Publishes
 * 29–30 December – Delivers "A Social Scientist Views the Emotions" to the Symposium on Expression of the Emotions in Man at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York. Published as

1964
 * Receives a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Drafts "The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication" which is later submitted as a position paper to the 1968 Wenner-Gren Symposium #41 on World Views: Their Nature and Their Role in Culture; published in expanded form in Steps to an Ecology of Mind in 1972.
 * Associate Director of the Communication Research Institute, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes

1965
 * Moves to Hawaii and resides there until 1972.
 * Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, HI.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii.
 * Drafts "Some 19th Century Problems of Evolution".
 * 22 May – Presents "Communication Among the Higher Vertebrates" at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Hawaiian Academy of Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii. Published as The abstract, though not written by Bateson is based on a transcript of his talk and was approved by him for publication.
 * 13–22 June – Participates in the Wenner-Gren Symposium #28: Animal Communication, organized by Thomas A. Sebeok, Burg Wartenstein, Austria. Presents "Redundancy and Coding".

1966
 * Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi.
 * Drafts "The Message of Reinforcement", funded by a National Institute of Health career award and a U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station contract. The essay is later published in 1970.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 28 February–02 March – Delivers lecture titled "Threads in the Cybernetic Pattern" at The Cybernetics Revolution Symposium sponsored by The Symposia Committee of the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Published as
 * 21 April – Delivers the lecture titled "From Versailles to Cybernetics" at the Two Worlds Symposium, Sacramento State College, Sacramento, California.

1967
 * Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi.
 * 01 April – Publishes
 * 26 June–05 July – Participates in the Wenner-Gren Symposium #37 on Primitive Art and Society organized by Raymond Firth, Anthony Forge and Robert Goldwater, Burg Wartenstein, Austria. Delivers "Style, Grace and Information in Primitive Art".
 * 15–30 July – Participates in the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation – organized by R. D. Laing, David Cooper, Joseph Berke, and Leon Redler – held at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London. Participants included Allen Ginsberg, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Stokely Carmichael, Paul Goodman, John Gerassi, Ross Speck, Herbert Marcuse, Simon Vinkenoog, Lucien Goldmann, and others. Bateson delivers a lecture titled "Consciousness Versus Nature" that later becomes the basis for a revised essay titled "Conscious Purpose Versus Nature". He also chairs a discussion titled "Challenge Seminar" with Francis Huxley, R. D. Laing, Allen Ginsberg, and others.
 * 28 July – Publishes
 * December – Publishes

1968
 * Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 13 April – Birth of daughter, Nora Bateson.
 * 16–25 July – Organizes, chairs and participates in the Wenner-Gren Symposium #40 on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation, Burg Wartenstein, Austria. Presents "The Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation". Participants included Mary Catherine Bateson, Frederick Attneave, Barry Commoner, Gertrude Hendrix, Anatol Holt, Bert Kaplan, Peter Klopfer, Warren McCulloch, Will T. Jones, Horst Mittelstaedt, Gordon Pask, Bernard Raxlen, and Theodore Schwartz.
 * 02–11 August – Participates in the Wenner-Gren Burg Wartenstein Sumposium #41 on World Views: Their Nature and Their Role in Culture, organized by W. T. Jones, Burg Wartenstein, Austria. Presents "The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication, and the Acquisition of World Views".
 * September – Publishes
 * October – Publishes
 * 05 November – Drafts "The Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human Adaptation" as the invitational paper for the forthcoming 1969 Wenner-Gren Symposium #45 on The Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human Adaptation. The paper is later published posthumously in the 1991 book, A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

1969
 * Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi.
 * Publishes
 * Delivers the lecture "Mind/Environment" to the Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Roosevelt Hospital, New York. The lecture is later published in 1973.
 * 17–21 March – Presents "Pathologies of Epistemology" at the Second Conference on Culture and Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
 * April – Publishes
 * 19–28 July – Organizes, chairs, and participates in the Wenner-Gren Symposium #45 on The Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human Adaptation, Burg Wartenstein, Austria. Presents "The Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human Adaptation".
 * 02 September – Presents "Double Bind, 1969" at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
 * Autumn – Birth of granddaughter, Sevanne Kassarjian.

1970 to 1979
1970
 * Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi.
 * 09 January – Delivers the lecture "Form, Substance, and Difference" as the 19th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, Harvard Club of New York. The lecture was prepared under a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Published as
 * 14 January – Presents "An Anthropologist Views the Social Scene" (aka "Frogs in the Waterfall") lecture at Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California.
 * 31 January – Publishes
 * March – Testifies to a committee of the Hawaii State Senate in favor of bill S.B. 1132 on behalf of the University of Hawaii Committee on Ecology and Man as "Statement on Problems Which Will Confront the Proposed Office of Environmental Quality in Government and an Environmental Center at the University of Hawaii". The testimony is later published in the 1972 book, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, as "The Roots of Ecological Crisis".
 * Summer – Secures a half-time appointment in the Culture Learning Institute of the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii.
 * 15 July – Publishes
 * September – Publishes
 * 26–31 October – Convenes and chairs the Wenner-Gren Symposium on Restructuring the Ecology of a Great City, New York, New York. The purpose of the conference is to joing with city planners in the office of the mayor of New York City, John Lindsay, "to examine relevant components of ecological theory". Delivers the essay "Restructuring the Ecology of a Great City", later published in 1971. The essay is subsequently published with edits as "Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization" in the 1972 book, Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

1971
 * Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii.
 * Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi.
 * Until mid-summer 1972 – Travels through several Asian countries with wife Lois, daughter Nora, and a small group of students as Professor & Director of the International Honors Program, International School of America. The program is proposed by independent educator, Karl Jaeger, and takes the Batesons to Japan, Hong Kong, Bali, Sri Lanka, India, and Kenya.
 * Drafts an essay evaluating Jay Haley's conception of family therapy. Published as
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * February – Publishes
 * 15–19 March – Participates in the Third Conference on Culture and Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii. Presents "Distortions under Culture Contact".
 * May – Drafts "Metalogue: Is There a Conspiracy?".
 * June – Publishes
 * 30 June – Authors "Chapter 1: Communication" and "Chapter 5: The Actors and the Setting", and with Ray Birdwhistell, H.W. Brosin & N.A. McQuown the chapter "Remarks on the by-products of The Natural History of an Interview research project" (pp. 4-5) in
 * September – Publishes

1972
 * Returns to Santa Cruz, California after world travel. Unsuccessful in making a research bid to study the training and learning of religious enlightenment.
 * Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 * Appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of California.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes Includes first publication of the chapters: "Double Bind, 1969", "Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation", "From Versailles to Cybernetics", "Metalogue: Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?", "Pathologies of Epistemology", "Style, Grace and Information in Primitive Art", "The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication", "The Roots of the Ecological Crisis", "The Science of Mind and Order".

1973
 * Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 * Publishes
 * Featured in
 * January – Settles in Santa Cruz, California with wife, Lois, and daughter, Nora.
 * 09–11 February – Conducts "Weekend Workshop", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 19–20 March – Participates in the American University of Masters (AUM) Conference at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California organized by G. Spencer-Brown and attended by John C. Lilly, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Heinz von Foerster, Karl H. Pribram, Kurt von Meier and others.
 * 25 October – Delivers "Logical typing" lecture at Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 27–28 October – Delivers "Opening session" lecture, Decker School Road, Malibu, California.
 * 29 October – Participates in "Bateson, Brockman, Lilly" panel discussion with John C. Lilly and John Brockman, Malibu, California.
 * November – Stewart Brand publishes

1974
 * Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 * Drafts "Some Components of Socialization for Trance". The essay is published in 1975.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * January – Publishes
 * 04 February – Publishes
 * Spring – Publishes
 * April – Publishes
 * Summer – The Bateson family moves from Santa Cruz to Ben Lomond, California, at the conclusion of the academic year.
 * Summer – Visits Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado. Delivers the lecture "Ecology of Mind: The Sacred", later published in 1975.
 * 01 October – Delivers "Where Best to Draw Delineating Lines" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 08 October – Delivers "End Linkage and National Character" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 10 October – Delivers "Synchronic and Diachronic Time" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 15 October – Delivers "Levels of Learning" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 17 October – Delivers "What Deutero Context Makes Rapists" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 24 October – Delivers "There is No Santa Claus" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 29 October – Delivers "The Man with the Blue Guitar" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 07 November – Delivers "Frog's eggs and why Steve did Blake" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 12 November – Delivers "A Review of the Confusion" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 14 November – Delivers "Double Bind and Schizophrenia" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 19 November – Delivers "Perceval" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 21 November – Delivers "Double Bind, Septem Sermones, Bali" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 22–24 November – Delivers the paper "Draft: Scattered Thoughts for a Conference on 'Broken Power'" at a conference exploring new ways of governing cities and institutions titled "After Robert Moses, What?", Tarrytown, New York.
 * 03 December – Delivers "Trance in Bali" lecture, Ecology of Mind course, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * Winter – Publishes
 * Winter – Publishes
 * Winter – Publishes
 * Winter – Publishes
 * Winter – Publishes

1975
 * Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 17–18 January – Conducts "Ecology of Mind Workshop", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 28 January – Delivers guest lecture titled "A cybernetic view of culture and cultural premises" to Rich Diday's "Introduction to Cybernetics" class.
 * 24 March – Delivers the lecture "Intelligence, Experience, and Evolution" at Karma Dzong, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado. The lecture is published in 1978.
 * 26 March – Class lecture, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
 * 04–06 April – Participates in the Association for Humanistic Psychology Theory Conference, Tucson, Arizona. His comments are published as
 * Spring – Publishes
 * Spring – Publishes
 * 18 May – Participates in a discussion titled "Dialogue on Thinking, Feeling, Learning" with Carl Rogers. College of Marin, California.
 * 18 May – Delivers "Metaphors and Butterflies" lecture, Grof Institute, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Summer – Publishes
 * 05–06 July – Lectures at Cold Mountain Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia.
 * 07 July – Delivers "Ecology, Karma, and Evolution: Natural Selection Among Ideas" lecture, Vancouver, British Columbia.
 * Mid-July to mid-August – Conducts the five-week-long Conference on Education and Lerarning, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
 * 10 August – Delivers the lecture "Orders of Change" at Sacred Heart, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado. The lecture is published in 1976.
 * 12 August – Records "Interview with Duncan Campbell for 'Open Secret'", Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
 * August – Delivers "The Thing of It Is" lecture at the Lindisfarne Association summer conference, Southampton, New York. The lecture is later published in 1977.
 * Autumn – Publishes Publishes
 * Autumn – Stewart Brand publishes
 * 26 September (?) – Delivers History of Consciousness class lecture 1, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 03 October – Delivers History of Consciousness class lecture 2, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * Mid-October – Participates in a five-day conference titled "Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Models of Development" organized by the Centre Royaumont pour une Science de l'Homme, held at Abbaye de Royaumont, near Paris, France. At the conference Jean Piaget famously debates Noam Chomsky. Bateson's public comments at the conference discuss premises for "a unified theory which woudl encompass the fields of genetics, morphogenesis, and learning" and "an epistemology … which would connote the unity of mind and body". Bateson's comments at the conference are later published as
 * 14 October – Lectures in London. (Note, this was during a visit to London hosted by R.D. Laing.)
 * 24 October (?) – Delivers History of Consciousness class lecture 5, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 31 October or 07 November – Delivers History of Consciousness class lecture 6, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * November – Delivers "Seminar: Games" lecture, Ben Lomond, California.
 * November – Participates in discussion titled "With Robert Schneider", Ben Lomond, California.
 * 02–04 November – Lectures at Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, Santa Rosa, California.
 * 14 November – Delivers History of Consciousness class lecture 7, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 15–16 November – Lectures at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 22 November – Delivers History of Consciousness class lecture 8, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 01 December – Lectures at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California.
 * 04 December – Delivers "To Staff" lecture, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 05 December – Delivers History of Consciousness class lecture 9, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 15 December – Participates in a discussion with Rollo May, Ben Lomond, California.
 * 29 December – Participates in a panel titled "Bateson, Ornstein and Brand" with Stewart Brand, Los Altos, California.

1976
 * Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 08 January – Speaks with Governor Edmund G. Brown at annual Governor's Prayer Breakfast, Sacramento, Callifornia.
 * 13 January – Class lecture 1, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 15 January – Class lecture 2, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 20 January – Class lecture 3, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 21 January – "Films, Double Bind", History of Consciousness class lecture, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 22 January – Class lecture 4, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 27 January – Class lecture 5, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 28 January – History of Consciousness class lecture, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 29 January – Class lecture 6, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * February – "Summary: From Anthropology to Epistemology". Lecture presented to the Fifty Years of Anthropology Symposium honoring Margaret Mead, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Massachusetts.
 * 02 February – Class lecture 7, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 05 February – Class lecture 8, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 10 February – Class lecture 9, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 11 February – "Bateson and Johnson", History of Consciousness class lecture, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 12 February – Class lecture 10, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 17 February – Class lecture 11, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 19 February – Class lecture 12, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 24 February – Class lecture 13, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 26 February – Class lecture 14, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 28 February – UCSC Workshop (recordings sourced from estate of Barbara Vogl ?)
 * Spring – Publishes
 * Spring – Publishes
 * March – Meets with Margaret Mead at home in Ben Lomond, California, to have a discussion facilitated by Stewart Brand about their life work. The conversation is summarized and published later that year by Brand in The CoEvolution Quarterly magazine as "For God's Sake, Margaret: A Conversation with Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead".
 * 04 March – Class lecture 15, Ecology of Mind course, Winter 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 07 April – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 12 April – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 14 April – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 19 April – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 27 April – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 29 April – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * May – Double Binds and Levels of Context lecture, Grof Workshop, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 03 May – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 17 May – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 19 May – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 24 May – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, (Jack Doris lecture), Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 26 May – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 02 June – Lecture, Ecology of Mind course with Bob Edgar, Spring 1976, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 27–30 July – Chairs and participates in the Mind/Body Dualism Conference at the Wheelwright Center, Green Gulch, Muir Beach, California. Presents "Invitational Paper".
 * Summer – Delivers "Education and/or Learning" lecture at the Lindisfarne Association summer conference, Southampton, New York.
 * Summer – Participates in a discussion titled "Hazel Henderson and Gregory Bateson", Lindisfarne Association summer conference, Southampton, New York.
 * Summer – Participates in a discussion titled "Hazel Henderson with comment by Gregory Bateson", Lindisfarne Association summer conference, Southampton, New York.
 * Summer – Delivers "How Do We Know What We Know?" lecture at the Lindisfarne Association summer conference, Southampton, New York.
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Summer – Participates in a discussion titled "Wendell Berry with comment by Gregory Bateson and Lois Bateson", Lindisfarne Association summer conference, Southampton, New York.
 * Summer – Featured in
 * 13–14 August – UC Santa Cruz Workshop
 * 03–06 September – "Gregory Bateson and Werner Erhard," Westerbeke Ranch, Sonoma, California.
 * 13–14 September – UC Santa Cruz Workshop.
 * Autumn – Publishes
 * ''November – "Balinese Culture and Shamanism" lecture, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 16, 18, 23, 30 November – Ecology of Mind, Fall 1976 (recordings missing), Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 17 November – Delivers the lecture "The Growth of Paradigms for Psychiatry" to the Langley Porter Clinic, San Francisco, California.
 * 17–21 November – Delivers the lecture titled "Towards a Theory of Cultural Coherence" at the Symposium on Sepik Politics: Traditional Authority and Initiative at the 75th annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
 * Winter – Publishes
 * Winter – Replies to "The Case FOR Mind/Body Dualism" by Charles T. Tart in The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 11, 1976. Published as
 * December – Appointed to the Regents of the University of California by Governor Jerry Brown.
 * Delivers "Cultural Relativity and Belief Systems" lecture, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.

1977
 * Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * January – Attends his first meeting as a Regent of the Univerity of California.
 * January – Delivers Riveredge Hospital lecture, Forest Park, Illinois.
 * March – Delivers "Address to Whole Person Conference," Cabrillo College, California.
 * 03–04 March – Presents the lecture "The Birth of a Matrix, or Double Bind and Epistemology" to the Beyond the Double Bind conference held in New York. The conference, organized by Dr. Milton M. Berger, is attended by Jay Haley, John Weakland, prominent family clinicians Dr. Murray Bowen and Dr. Carl A. Whitaker, noted schizophrenia researchers Dr. Albert E. Schefflin and Dr. Lyman C. Wynne. The lecture is later published in 1978.
 * 23 March – Delivers the lecture titled "Epistemology of Organization" as the inaugural Eric Berne Memorial Lecture in Social Psychotherapy, Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy, Atlanta, Georgia. The lecture is later published in 1997 as
 * Spring – Publishes
 * April – Delivers the lecture titled, "Claude's Class", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 * April – Delivers the lecture titled "Determinism and Change", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 * 06 April – Delivers the lecture titled "Anthropology Colloquium", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 * 07 April – Delives "MHRI" lecture, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 * 08 April – Keynote address titled "Play and Paradigm" delivered to the Third Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, San Diego, California.
 * 12 April to 07 June – Delivers Evolution Seminar with Bob Edgar, Spring 1977, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 25–26 April – Delivers the lectures titled "Flagstaff: Metaphor and 3 classes".
 * 27–28 April – Delivers lectures in Phoenix, Arizona.
 * 30 April – Delivers lecture titled "Heenan Group".
 * May – Delivers lecture titled "Pathways of Separation and Unity", Grof Workshop, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 04 May – Delivers lecture titled "Living", Redwood and Humboldt College, UC Arcata.
 * June (?) – Participates in a discussion titled "Gregory Bateson/Wendell Berry/Baker Roshi", Lindisfarne Association summer conference, Southampton, New York.
 * 26 June – Drafts a letter to Mary Catherine Bateson as a potential afterword for a new edition of her 1972 book, Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conferene on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation about the 1968 Wenner-Gren symposium. The letter is published posthumously as "Our Own Metaphor: Nine Years After" in his 1991 book, A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
 * Summer – Publishes
 * 12–14 August – Conducts "Bateson Workshop", Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
 * 14 August – Delivers lecture titled "Parts and Metaphor", Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
 * 18 September – Participates in a symposium with Margaret Mead and Malcolm Arth at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
 * Autumn – Begins dictating the book, Mind and Nature', in seclusion at the Lindisfarne Association.
 * Winter – Featured in
 * December – Drafts "The Double Bind Theory&mdash;Misunderstood?", later published in 1978.
 * Delivers lecture titled "The Real and the Abstract", Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.

1978
 * Scholar in residence, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * January – Publishes
 * January – Returns to teach at Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * February – Hopitalized, diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and nearly dies.
 * Begins extended period of remission of cancer. Mary Catherine Bateson returns from Iran to assist in the completion of Mind and Nature.
 * Spring – Publishes
 * Spring – Publishes
 * Spring – Publishes
 * Spring – Featured in
 * 04 March – Audio recording made, titled "Conversation with Lois re: sputum".
 * 04 March – Audio recording made, titled "Conversation with Jerry Brown".
 * Spring – Revises the manuscript for his forthcoming book, Mind and Nature, with daugther, Mary Catherine Bateson.
 * 18 & 20 April – Delivers "Difference, Double Description and the Interactive Designation of Self" lectures by telephone to class of Allan F. Hanson, University of Kansas, Lawrenceville, Kansas. (Title chosen by Hanson.)
 * 21 April – Publishes
 * 17 May – Delivers lecture titled "The Talk About Doctoring", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 30 May – Drafts the essay "Symptoms, Syndromes, and Systems", published in December 1978.
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Summer – Publishes
 * Summer – Publishes
 * 05 July – Delivers lecture titled "Parts of a World", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * August – Completes the manuscript for his forthcoming book, Mind and Nature.
 * August – Featured in
 * 27 August – Delivers lecture titled "Heresy and Obsolescence", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 05 October – Drafts the poem "The Manuscript", later published in 1981 in The Esalen Catalog.
 * 25 October – Records audio session titled "Double Vision, Occidental".
 * 11 November – Records audio session titled "With Governor Jerry Brown".
 * 15 November – Margaret Mead dies.
 * 20 November – Records audio session to Esalen Institute Work Scholars titled "Talk to work scholars".
 * December – Publishes
 * December – Delivers lecture titled "The Limits of Science"
 * 26 December – Delivers lecture titled "On Religious Poetry", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 27 December – Delivers lecture titled "The Pattern Which Connects", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.

1979
 * Scholar in residence, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * Publishes
 * 20 January – Speaks at a tribute to Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Participants include R. Buckminster Fuller, Barbara Walters, and others.
 * 03 February – Delivers workshop titled "Bali Workshop", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 06 February – Records audio session titled "Bateson, Simonton and Shin, Esalen deck".
 * 07 February – Records audio session titled "Channeling with Jenny O'Connor", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 15–18 February – Along with 100 scholars from 40 institutions, participates in the Asilomar Conference in Honor of Gregory Bateson, Asilomar Institute, Pacific Grove, California. Delivers the lecture "Paradigmatic Conservativism" and is featured in a discussion about the origins of the conference, both published in the 1981 book, Rigor and Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson.
 * 17 February – Participates in a discussion with Kenneth Burke at the Asilomar Conference in Honor of Gregory Bateson, Asilomar Institute, Pacific Grove, California.
 * 25 February – Records audio session titled "Art and Science of Psychotherapy" with Milton Berger.
 * 12 March – Records audio session titled "Work scholars", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 18 March – Delivers an address to a conference titled "From Childhood to Old Age: Four Generations Teaching Each Other" in Southfield, Michigan. Excerpts of the address are published in June 1979 as
 * 23 March – Drafts a letter to his fellow Regents of the University of California to express his lifelong concern with the structure of arms races and to protest the University's support and funding of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The letter is later published in the Winter 1979 issue of The CoEvolution Quarterly.
 * Spring – Publishes
 * Spring – Publishes
 * May – Records audio session titled "The Net of Health ad Beauty/Parable".
 * 03–05 May – Participates in a conference titled "Health: Whose Responsibility?" held in Berkeley, California, sponsored by Governer Jerry Brown, and delivers the keynote on 03 May titled "Health: Whose Responsibility?". The lecture is later published in 1980.
 * 12 May – Drafts the essay titled "Allegory". The essay is published posthumously in 1981.
 * 15 May – Delivers lecture titled "How Things Fit Together", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 24 May – Records audio session titled "Interdisciplinary studies, UC Berkeley".
 * 27–28 May – Records audio session titled "Work Scholars: Aesthetics, Humor, Wit, etc.", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * June – Records audio session titled "Letter to Vilma".
 * 06 June – Records audio session titled "Structure, Myth, and Action" for the New Jersey Mental Health Association.
 * 09 June – Records audio session titled "All in 30 Minutes with Kai de Fontenay".
 * 16 June – Delivers Kresge College commencement speech, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 * 24 June – Drafts a letter to his fellow Regent of the University of California, Vilma S. Martinez, "about the 'evil' nature of our atomic commitment". The letter is published later that year as
 * 30 June – Delivers "Tautology and Biological Fact" lecture, Dominican College, Chautauqua Institute, New York.
 * July – Publishes
 * 01 July – Records audio session titled "Contexts of Family", Chautauqua Institute, New York.
 * 02 July – Participates in a panel titled "Panel: The Learning of Modes", Chautauqua Institute, New York.
 * 03 July – Participates in a presentation titled "Roy Rapoport: Sanctity and Change", Chautauqua Institute, New York.
 * 05 July – Records audio session titled "Buffalo Talk: The Study of Order".
 * 05 July – Records audio session titled "Stewart Brand: Good Questions", Chautauqua Institute, New York.
 * 06 July – Records audio session titled "'Rights', 2nd day after lunch", Chautauqua Institute, New York.
 * 06 July – Records audio session titled "First group talk", Chautauqua Institute, New York.
 * 06 July – Records audio session titled "Mary Catherine Bateson: Modes of Learning and Modes of Belief", Chautauqua Institute, New York.
 * 08 July – Records audio session titled "With Earl Etienne", Esalen lodge, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 31 August – Records audio session titled "Discussion about Children, Zen Center".
 * 06–09 September – Lectures at the Size and Shape of Mental Health Conference sponsored by Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas.
 * 14 September – Delivers lecture titled "What is Epistemology?", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 29 September – Drafts an essay that would later be titled "Last Lecture" for distribution to the press.
 * 02 October – Delivers lecture titled "Energy", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * Late October – Delivers the lecture "Seek the Sacred: Dartington Seminar" during a seminar with Henryk Skolimowski and others at Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, England. The lecture is published in 1980.
 * 28 October – The lecture "Last lecture" (based on the 29 September 1979 draft) is delivered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
 * Winter – Publishes
 * Winter – Featured in
 * 02 November – Delivers lecture titled "Addiction and Civilization", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 05 December – Drafts letter to photographer Terry Evans enclosing a draft foreword titled "The Prairie Seen Whole" for her forthcoming book, Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky.

1980
1980
 * Scholar in residence, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * Publishes
 * 10–11 January – Participates in a workshop titled "Workshop with Al Huang", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 24 January – Publishes
 * February – Publishes
 * February – Completes a revision of his 1979 Asilomar Conference lecture titled "Paradigmatic Conservativism" for the forthcoming 1981 book, Rigor and Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson.
 * 05 February – Delivers lecture titled "Interfaces: Boundaries Which Connect", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 12 February – Delivers lecture titled "A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy", Grof Workshop, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 15 February – Delivers a letter of resignation to his fellow Regent William A. Wilson of the Regents of the University of California. The letter protests the University's involvement in funding nuclear weaponry. The letter is later published as, accompanied by his earlier letter to Regent Vilma S. Martinez.
 * 11 March – Delivers lecture titled "It Used to Matter", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 14 March – Delivers lecture titled "The Eternal Verities" at the Jungian Institute, San Francisco, California.
 * Spring – Publishes
 * 08 April – Delivers lecture titled "Simple Thinking", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 11–13 April – Conducts "Work Scholars Workshop", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 28 April – Delivers lecture titled "Neither Mechanical Nor Supernatural", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * May – Records audio sessions for a workshop titled "Steps to an Ecology of Mind", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 15 May – Delivers lecture titled "It Takes Two to Know One", Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.
 * 09 June – Delivers the lecture "Men are Grass: Metaphor and the World of Mental Process" in absentia by audio recording made on 07 June 1980 to the Lindisfarne Fellows annual meeting.
 * 10 June – Enters University of California Hospital with pneumonia.
 * 01 July – Moves to hospice care at the San Francisco Zen Center.
 * 03 July – California Governor Jerry Brown visits Bateson in hospice care at the San Francisco Zen Center.
 * 04 July – Dies at age 76 in the Zen Guest House of San Francisco Zen Center.
 * 07 July – Bateson's body is cremated accompanied by family members, Zen priest Tenshin Reb Anderson, and other Zen monks from San Francisco Zen Center chanting in Sanskrit.
 * 20 July – A funeral service is held on the grounds of San Francisco Zen Center's Green Gulch Farm.
 * September – Publishes
 * September – Publishes
 * Autumn – Publishes