Dear Friends and Colleagues,On behalf of the Junior Fellow Lecture Series committee I would like to invite you to the second Junior Fellow Lecture of this year. Please join us at 7:45pm on Thursday October 17th in the Upper Library for three lectures and discussion under the theme “The Empire Strikes Back”. Our speakers and their talk […]
Tags: Evolutionary Biology, genetics, lebanon, revolution, viruses
On The Empire Strikes Back, October 17 2013
On Construction: September 21, 2011
The Misunderstanding of Memes: Constructing the Idea of an Idea Virus Jeremy Burman, Psychology The notion that ideas are spread by social infection as “memes” (the cultural equivalents of genes) emerged through interactions between scholars, journalists, and the letter-writing public. This talk will present a summary of an article in press at “Perspectives on Science.” […]
Tags: 1960s, avant garde, construction, evidence, ideas, infection, intuition, jazz, memes, music, philosophy, psychology, viruses