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?
Big Talks are open to everyone, even without festival accreditation!
A separate ticket for this programme can be purchased here. A total of 150 seats are reserved for accreditation holders, but reservation is required. Reservations will open in Eventival on the morning of the event.
With the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
