An Evening with Jared Diamond

The Pulitzer Prize winning polymath and author of Guns, Germs and Steel joins us to explore his life and pioneering work illuminating the majestic complexity of human civilisation.

He is the global superstar whose work has transformed our understanding of why civilisations rise and fall; an intellectual hero able to see connections between fields as diverse as history, biology and ecology and make them tangible to millions of readers across the globe. His theories answer the biggest questions of human life and experience, inspiring books as diverse as Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.

In Guns, Germs and Steel, he explored why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe. How did geography – not race – shape the destines of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians?

In Collapse, he investigated why societies self-destruct, and how we can learn to be survivors.

And in Upheaval, he asked: why do some nations recover from crisis, while others collapse? What can individuals and nations do to become more resilient?

Now Jared Diamond joins the How To Academy to reflect on these questions – and consider where we go from here. Looking ahead, he will investigate if the United States, and the world, are squandering their natural advantages and are on a devastating path towards catastrophe. Is this fate inevitable? Or can we still learn from the lessons of the past?

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of the true intellectual icons of our age.