Program Information

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Series:

Subtitle:

Emma Dabiri in conversation with David Wengrow

Program Type:

Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Emma Dabiri and David Wengrow

Contributor:

Maria Gilardin Contact Contributor

Date Published:

Jan. 25, 2022, 5:29 p.m.

Summary: The British Library held a celebration of ideas in the book by David Graeber and David Wengrow. They said: The Dawn of Everything challenges our assumptions about the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy and slavery and, in doing this â¦ offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom and new ways of organizing society. David Wengrow co-authored the book with the late David Graeber.

Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS, a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths and the author of Donât Touch My Hair and What White People can do Next: From Allyship to Coalition, a Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller. She has presented several television and radio programs including BBC Radio 4.

David Wengrow is a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of three books, including What Makes Civilization? Wengrow conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.

My thanks for permission to broadcast go the British Library - The full 1 hour and 17 minute film is posted on their YouTube channel under The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkm-BhtjASs
DATE: Recorded on Oct. 19, 2021.

Credits: British Library, London

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