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2017 Programme

Event #34

Peter Frankopan

The silk road

We are living through an age of transition. The world is changing quickly around us. To prepare and adapt, the first thing is to understand what is happening and why. That begins with radically changing the way we look at the past and the present – and changing the way we look at history. 

Many think of the Silk Roads as an exotic curiosity from the past. But the networks linking Asia to Europe and Africa, and eventually to the Americas are – and always have been – the world’s central nervous system. And in the 21st century, the Silk Roads are rising again. And the fate of the Western world shall continue to be inextricably linked to the East.

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Peter Frankopan

is a historian at Oxford University and a senior research fellow at Worcester College. He also directs the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. His research is focused on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia, central Asia and on the relationship between Christianity and Islam. He is a contributing writer for international newspapers such as the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Guardian. The New Statesman called him «the rock star of History». His new book, Le vie della seta (Mondadori) comes out at the beginning of September.


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Friday 1 September 2017, 09.15 pm

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Saturday 2 September 2017, 10.00 am

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Saturday 2 September 2017, 11.45 am

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Saturday 2 September 2017, 12.15 pm

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Saturday 2 September 2017, 02.45 pm

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Keeping cool: hibernation and the exotic network of its physiology

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Saturday 2 September 2017, 03.00 pm

Nicola Gardini

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Event #24

Saturday 2 September 2017, 11.00 pm

Alessandro Barbero

Clandestine networks. A network of partisans: the GAP groups in Rome and the attack in Via Rasella

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Sunday 3 September 2017, 10.00 am

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Sunday 3 September 2017, 09.00 pm

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Sunday 3 September 2017, 11.00 pm

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