[Bisan Lecture Series] The Virology of Ideas with Prof. George Smith

The Virology of Ideas - An Indispensable Pandemic
A lecture by Prof. George Smith

We are pleased to announce the first lecture of The Bisan Lecture Series (BLS) in concert with Scientists for Palestine and the Bisan Center for Research and Development.

The first lecture will be given by Prof. George Smith (University of Missouri, Nobel laureate in chemistry in 2018) on March 9, 2022. 

Title: The Virology of Ideas - An Indispensable Pandemic

Abstract:

“Ideas” (cultural innovations) are likened to viruses that proliferate through community infection, being subject to massive random variation and ruthless natural selection as they spread. “Variants of interest”—extremely rare cultural Omicrons—emerge unpredictably from global communities; they’re not the intellectual property of individual brains. Individual brains’ contributions depend on their residence in a global “ideosphere”—the cultural analog of an ecological biosphere. Injury to any part of the global cultural community, such as Israel has inflicted in Palestine, is an injury to the entire global community. Liberation from such injuries is a cultural as much as a political and moral imperative.

Registration Open: you can register for the Zoom even here.

About The Bisan Lecture Series

The BLS aims at the full integration of Palestine into the global learning community. It sponsors discourses on subjects of cultural, scientific, and societal importance by leading research experts and public intellectuals of varied heritage and viewpoint. The interactive webinars are free and open to the public, and recordings of each will be posted soon afterward.

The Bisan Center for Research and Development which sponsors the BLS and which gives it its name, is a non-governmental, nonprofit, democratic and progressive Civil Society Organization (CSO) that seeks to enhance Palestinian abilities and potentials for building an active civil and democratic community. The Bisan Center is one of the six prominent Palestinian civil society organizations designated by the Israeli Defense Minister “terrorist organizations” on October 19, 2021. The BLS is a response by the international academic community to this baseless Israeli attack on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, in particular their rights to education and academic freedom.

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Presentation of the Bisan Lecture Series

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