Dear Colleague,
I was hoping that the members of your list would be interested in the
following lecture series and that you might want to post it to your
list.
The Young Foundation Lectures bring together some of the world's most
innovative and important thinkers who are providing some of the
essential mental maps for making sense of social change in the early
years of the 21st century.
The Young Foundation, which is being launched this autumn, is a unique
organisation that undertakes research to identify and understand social
needs and then develops practical initiatives and institutions to
address them.
Speakers already confirmed for this year's series include:
- Professor Charles Tilly of Columbia University - 'Why do things
happen: from 9/11 to urban riots'.
- Tariq Ramadan - ' The Place of Islam in non-Islamic Societies'.
- Arlie Hochschild of the University of California, Berkeley - 'The
Commercialisation of Intimate Life'.
- Professor George Steiner - reflections on meritocracy, half a century
after Michael Young's book 'The Rise of the Meritocracy'.
All events are in central London, free and open to all. For further
information and booking details visit www.youngfoundation.org.uk/?p=59.
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you require any further
information.
With thanks and best wishes,
Nick Wilkie
The Young Foundation
020 8709 9268
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