David Wengrow: The Dawn of Change

Human societies have been far more diverse and political than we commonly portray them. Archaeologist David Wengrow, co-author of the bestseller The Dawn of Everything and the forthcoming book The Third Freedom, shows that for millennia, people have experimented with very different ways of organising power, property and collective decision-making – and have also been able to abandon these arrangements and repeatedly change them. In his keynote talk and the following  discussion, he will therefore look not only at the past, but also at what it can tell us about our future. How did we come to lose the freedom to move away, to disobey commands and to create new forms of social reality? And could seeing human history differently help us recover those freedoms?

Speakers: David Wengrow
Moderated by: Štěpán Sedláček

With the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.