Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture: “Change in the 21st Century and the Return of History”

Event time: 
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Luce Hall (LUCE), Auditorium See map
34 Hillhouse Ave.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Peter Frankopan will discuss his latest book ‘The Silk Roads: A New History of the World’. The region of the Silk Roads is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet the region linking East with West is where civilization itself began, where the world’s great religions were born and took root, where goods were exchanged, and where languages, ideas and disease spread.

The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections, but networks that linked continents and oceans together. They were - and still are - the world’s central nervous system. This is where empires were won - and where they were lost. As a new era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising again.

Drawing on a rich series of sources in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, Syriac and Chinese, The Silk Roads provides a major re-assessment of world history from antiquity to the modern day.

Admission: 
Free