Yuval Noah Harari in conversation about his graphic novel "Sapiens: The Birth of Humankind".
Wednesday, 21. October 2020, 18:00 – 19:00 h
From the Studio
How did we, Homo Sapiens, manage to prevail in the battle of survival of the six human species? Why did our ancestors, who had been hunters and gatherers, settle down and establish towns and kingdoms? Why did we start to believe in gods, nations, and human rights? Why do we trust in money, books, laws and submit to bureaucracy, schedules and consumption? And has this, in the course of millennia, made us happier?
Yuval Noah Harari is going to answer these questions for you. He is a historian and a professor at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focussing on world history. His world science bestsellers “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” and “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” have been translated into more than 40 languages.
Yuval Noah Harari’s graphic novel “Sapiens. The Rise” was published by C.H.Beck in October 2020.
The event is presented by vhs.wissen live, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and SIAF.
Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is currently a lecturer at the Department of History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2019, following the international success of his books, Yuval Noah Harari co-founded Sapienship with his husband and original agent, Itzik Yahav. Sapienship is a social impact company with projects in the fields of entertainment and education, whose main goal is to focus the public conversation on the most important global challenges facing the world today.
You can find the detailed biography here.