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Inequality: Lessons from History
9 June 2019
David Wengrow has been invited to join a panel of experts at the York Festival of Ideas 2019 to discuss what lessons can be learnt from the history of social inequality.
David will join Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level and The Inner Level, and social geographer Danny Dorling of the University of Oxford to discover what inequality has meant over the centuries stretching as far back as the Palaeolithic era. How has it been maintained by the elite and challenged by other social groups?
The event, which will take place on 10 June, is presented by the AHRC-funded Counter Culture research project based at the University of York and will be chaired by archaeologist Penny Bickle (York).
David is the author of the volumes What Makes Civilization? and The Origins of Monsters and is currently working with David Graeber on a whole series of projects completely re-imagining the question of ‘the origins of social inequality’, starting with how the question is framed to begin with. He is currently collaborating on the AHRC-funded project, Radical death and early state formation in the Ancient Near East, with Brenna Hassett.
Further details
- David Wengrow (UCL staff profile)
- York Festival of Ideas