Tuesday 7 April 2020
11:00
Peter Frankopan
The present and future of the world
Join Diana for a conversation with Peter Frankopan about the state of the world and, in particular, the impact of the virus on the rise of Asia and Asia’s global influence.
Peter is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College.
He is the author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World and The New Silk Roads:
The Present and Future of the World.
He has been Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton, Scaliger Visiting Professor at Leiden and Presidential Scholar at the Getty Centre in Los Angeles.
"... there will be brightness at the end of all this when we come out the other side. Learning lessons from the past is one of the reasons why people study history. It is important that we see the positive things that will come about as a result."
Peter is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College.
He is the author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World and The New Silk Roads:
The Present and Future of the World.
He has been Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton, Scaliger Visiting Professor at Leiden and Presidential Scholar at the Getty Centre in Los Angeles.
