Sydney Writers Festival Live & Local: David Wengrow – The Dawn of Everything
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Young adults, Adults (30+), Seniors
Free
What kind of world could we create if we stopped believing inequality is the price of process?
Archaeology professor Davis Wengrow’s groundbreaking book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, co-authored with the late David Graeber, overturns the theories of Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens), Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel) and Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now). Challenging dominant narratives that the agricultural revolution meant abandoning an egalitarian Eden, the book unearths advanced early civilisations that weren’t governed by kings, presidents, or authoritarian rule.
This event is livestreamed from the Sydney Writers Festival.
Venue
Garden City Library, Garden City Shopping Centre, Corner Logan and Kessels Road, Upper Mt Gravatt
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