Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA20328 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:43:19 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745EF7@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: LSE lecture on memes - meme posse? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:28:08 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
I can't make it but would be interested to hear New Labour's key ideologue
on this topic.
Vincent
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> From: Paul marsden
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:48 am
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: LSE lecture on memes - meme posse?
>
> Is anybody interested in coming along to this lecture on memes, by these
> two
> big hitters on social theory, and meeting up to talk after/before?
>
> do email me at p.marsden@sussex.ac.uk
>
> Cheers
>
> Dr Paul Marsden
> Research Fellow
> University of Sussex
> +44 (0) 777 95 77 248
>
>
>
>
> Who needs Darwin? The relevance of evolutionary theory to the social
> sciences
> Date: Wednesday 20 June 2001
> Time: 6:00-7:30 pm
> Venue: Old Theatre
> Speakers: Anthony Giddens in debate with W G Runciman
> Chair: Nicholas Humphrey, LSE
>
> Two of the world's leading sociologists square off about Darwin: Runciman
> arguing that to ignore evolutionary ideas is to relegate sociology to a
> scientific backwater, Giddens that these ideas are and will remain
> irrelevant to sociology's true concerns.
>
> Anthony Giddens is Director of LSE. He is the author of 34 books, which
> have
> been translated into 35 languages.
>
> W G Runciman is Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at Trinity College,
> Cambridge and President-elect of the British Academy. He holds honorary
> degrees from Oxford, Edinburgh, and York. His publications include
> Relative
> Deprivation and Social Justice (Ashgate, 1993), and A Treatise on Social
> Theory (Cambridge Uni Press, 1983).
>
> This lecture is free and open to all, no ticket is required. For further
> information please email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043
>
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