The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and King’s College Cambridge are pleased to host a public lecture by by Professor Yuval Noah Harari on Disruption, Democracy & the Global Order.
Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us. His books have sold 45 Million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today.
Harari was born in Israel in 1976, earning his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Yuval Noah Harari and Itzik Yahav co-founded Sapienship: a social impact company specialising in content and production, with projects in the fields of education and entertainment. Sapienship’s main goal is to focus the public conversation on the most important global challenges facing the world today.
Harari’s work explores macro-historical questions, such as: What is the relationship between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? What ethical questions do science and technology raise in the 21st century?