Public Events

Peter will give the second lecture of the Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series at the Lohrfink Auditorium, Georgetown University on 16 March.

In Greece; Legacies, he will discuss how Greece, the Greek language, culture and literature have had an impact from the rise of Byzantium to the modern age.

This follows his lecture on Classical Antiquity that took place in Athens in October 2021.

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On 1 March, Peter gave a lecture at the University of Southern California to mark the opening of a new exhibition at the Doheny Libary at USC on The Silk Roads: Connecting Communities, Markets and Minds since Antiquity. See here for more.

On 28 February, Peter was one of three guests invited by the British School at Athens to talk to Prof. Roddy Beaton about Greece: A Global History.
He joined Prof. John Bennet, Director of the BSA, Prof. Paul Cartledge and Bruce Clark to talk to Professor Beaton about Greece and its history over three millennia. For more see here.

Peter took part in a major conference at University of California, Irvine on 24-25 February on Global China in an Anxious Age alongside scholars, thinkers, journalists, public officials. He spoke in a panel on 'Reactions to China’s Rise Outside of Western Europe and America, alongside Isabel Hilton, Dalia Dassa Kaye and Gustavo Oliveira. For more, see here

Peter was the respondent at an event at USC Dornsife on 24 February in an event on 'Comparing Premodern Empires: Methodolgy and Challenges'. The speaker was Laeticia Graslin-Thomé, who discussed similarities and differences between Seluekid and Ptolemaic rule in the 2nd century BC.

Peter offered remarks on behalf the official Greek delegation to Dubai Expo in February, led by HE Andreas Katsaniotos, Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece, other dignitaries for the presentation of 'Shaping a Universal Narrative of Light: From Apollo's birthplace Delos, to brighter future' at Expo 2020, Dubai on 24 February 2022.

On 10 February 2022, Peter gave a talk at the Davis Center at Harvard to about how to use the histories of the Silk Roads in the history syllabus and school classrooms. Here for more.

Peter chaired a conference on 'What is Happening in Kazakhstan' at the Royal Society of Asian Affairs, with Kate Mallinson, Joanna Lillis, Alimana Zhanmukanova, Ruashan Zhandayeva and HE Erlan Idrissov.

Peter took part in G-Global World of the 21st Century in Nursultan, Kazakhstan. He participated in a session with the Governor of St Petersburg; the vice-mayor of Xi'an; the Akim (mayor) of Nur-Sultan and other dignitaries.

Peter was in conversation with Nathan Law pro-democracy activist and former member of the Hong Kong legislature. They discussed the situation in Hong Kong and the Price of Freedom.
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Peter was interviewed by Rosie Goldsmith as part of the Europäische Literaturetage at the Krems Festival in Austria in 2021 - about the Silk Roads, Eurocentrism and a rapidly changing world. Click for more

Peter took part in the Cliveden Literary Festival in October 2021 where he spoke with Simon Sebag-Montefiore about 'End of Days or a New World Order'; and in a discussion on 'Beyond Empire' wtih Olivette Otele and Zareer Masani
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Peter gave keynote remarks at The Caspian Policy Center even on International Actors in the Caspian, alongside senior US military, diplomatic and academic officials. For more see here

Peter is the Inaugural lecture in the Thalia Potamianos series, hosted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He gave the first lecture in the series 'Greece: Beginnings' on 7 October 2021. See here for more.

Peter was in discussion with Professor Olivette Otele about her ground-breaking book African Americans and her work as one of the UK's leading historians at the Chelsea History Festival.
25 September 2021, 3.30pm
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Peter was invited by the government of Uzbekistan to take part in the International Conference on 'Regional Connectivity: Challenges and Opportunities' in Tashkent in July 2021.
Peter was asked to give Special Comments at the conclusions of one of the principal sessions of the event.

On 21 July 2021, Peter talked with Nobel Laureate, Prof Amartya Sen about his life as one of the world's most prominent economists, about how he understands fragility - and about understanding catastrophe. For more, see here

Peter took part in the meeting on 'Central and South Asia: regional interconnectivity. Challenges and opportunities' for Heads of State, Foreign Minister and senior advisors in Tashkent on 16 July 2021.
For a report on the event, see here.

Peter has been invited to be the inaugrual Thalia Potamianos Lecturer by the Gennadius Library in Athens.

He will give a series of lectures in Athens, Washington DC and New York in 2021-22 about this chosen theme: Global Greece. For more, see here

On 11 May 2021, Peter gave the Hayes-Robinson Lecture at Royal Holloway.
To book a ticket for the event (which will be held online), please visit the Royal Holloway website

On 20 April, Peter was in conversation with James Comey, former Director of the FBI, about US politics, national security and law enforcement in North America.
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In April 2021, Peter will give the keynote talk at conference on Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East: The Silk Roads and Beyond which he is helping arranging at The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information, click here

On January 13 2021, Peter gave a public lecture at Groningen University on 'A New History of the World' as part of the Studium series.
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On 30 November 2020, Peter delivered the Tans Lecture for 2020 at the University of Maastricht. The title was 'Distortions of History: How to Understand the Past.'

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Peter took part in the National Geographic Festival on Nature, Music and History in October 2020. The Festival, which is normally held in Rome, took place online because of the pandemic For more, click here

Peter was in discussion with Professor Judith Herrin on Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe at a panel on The Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities. For more, click here

On December 3, 2020, as Chair of the Judges, Peter announced that the winner of this year's Cundill Prize was Camilla Townsend for her magnificent book, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs.
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On 20 October, as Chair of the Jury, Peter announced the three finalists of the Cundill History Prize for 2020.
To watch, please register here

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Peter spoke to Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg ('Mayor Pete') for the How To Academy about his book 'Trust', about the US election, about politics in the 21st century - and how to rebuild confidence in America at home and abroad. For more, see here

Peter was invited to take part in The Summit of Minds by HE Armen Sarkissian, President of Armenia. He spoke on The Quantum World and Global Outlook, and participated in President Sarkissian's announcement of a Smart Small States' Club. For more, see here

Professor Judith Herrin was interviewed by Peter at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2020 about her new book 'Ravenna' which looks at the life of a town that has been described as 'the crucible of Europe.'
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Peter gave the opening keynote for a major two day conference organised by the University of Leiden on Contesting Empires: Sogdia, Bactria and Gandhara between the Sasanian Empire, the Tang dynasty and the Muslim Caliphate (c.600-1000CE)

In September 2020, Peter chaired a meeting of minsisters adn senior officials from China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyszstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia that form part of CAREC (Central Asian Regional Economic Co-operation Programme) of the Asian Development Bank. See here for further details.

As Chair of the judges, Peter has announced the ten titles that make up the Shortlist for the Cundill History Prize 2020. This has been a year of change for the whole world, says Peter; the theme of global change reflected in many of the the titles that have been selected. For more, see here

On 24 September, Peter will be taking part in the CHelsea History festival, talking to Professor Valerie Hansen of Yale University about her new book The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World and Globalisation Began. For tickets, click here

On 23 September, Peter was in discussion with Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History at Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Alumni Festival 2020. They talked about Sujit's ground-breaking new book, Waves Across teh South: A New History of Revolution and Empire, See here for more.

On 17 September, Peter gave the keynote to open a conference held at Leiden University on Contesting Empires: Sogdiana, Bactria and Gandhara between the Sasanian empire, the Tang dynasty and the Muslim Caliphate (ca. 600-1000 CE)
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Peter chaired a meeting of ministers and officials from the eleven CAREC member states in September 2020 as part of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank. The session considered Co-operation in the Time of CoVid. For more, see here

Peter took part in the Dark Archives conference being held at Oxford on 8-10 September, chairing sessions that considered the 'medieval readable and unreadable', as well as hosting a conversation with major donors on future of archives and digital scholarship.
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On 20 August 2020, Peter was in discussion with Parag Khanna, best-selling author of Connectography, The Future is Asian and The Second World about George Orwell and his prediction that the future will be dominated by three superpowers. For more info, click here

Peter talks to Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia 2015-18 about his life in politics, about how the Asia-Pacific region is changing and about challenges and opportunities in the future. This talk, part of the How To Academy, requires booking in advance. For more, click here

On 6 June, Peter took part in the Jaipur Literary Festival's Brave New World event. He was in conversation with William Dalrymple about The Silk Roads - Five Years On, looking at what has happened in the world since 2015 and at the impact the book has had on the field of history, For more, see here

Peter took part in the Hay Festival 2020, talking to Roger Robinson, about A Portable Paradise, winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize 2020.
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Peter was in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods, Director of the Blavatnik School of Government on behalf of The Oxford Centre for Rwsearch in the Humanities. They spoke about 'The World After CoVid.' To watch, click here

Peter gave a talk to the Royal Asiatic Society in Beijing in April about the Belt and Road Initiative, about change in Asia in the 21st century and about the likely outcomes of the pandemic

Peter took part in a debate at the Cambridge Union with Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, legendary equalities campaigner Peter Tatchell, academic Heejung Chung, journalist Suddaf Chaudry. They discussed: 'Does coronavirus show humanity at its best?' For more, see here

In April 2020, Peter spoke to HE Omar Saif Ghobash, Assistant Minister of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the United Arab Emirates about the Future of Diplomacy
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On April 11, Peter was in conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer prize winner and leading doctor, as part of the Jaipur Virtual Literary festival about CoVid, the history of pandemics and what happens next. For more, click here

Peter was due to talk about Byzantine history and its influence on the novelist Dorothy Dunnett at the Dorothy Dunnett Oxford Day 2020 on 13 June 2020. This event has been postponed. See here for more

Peter was supposed to be at the University of Vienna in June 2020 to give a lecture on Placing Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages' as part of the university's Global Eurasia Initiative. This lecture will take place in 2021.

Peter should have given a lecture at the Gennadius Library in Athens on 28 April 2020 on 'Wild Beasts came to attack and devour us: understanding the Byzantine Empire in the age of the Crusades.' This will now take place in 2021.
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On 23 April, Peter was going to give the Red Cross Lecture 2020 on 'History, Maps and Changing the Way We Look at the World.

This lecture will take place in 2021.

Peter was to deliver the JR Jones Public Lecture at the University of East Anglia on 22 April about The Silk Roads, the Great War and the Making of the 20th century. See here for more. This lecture will take place in 2021.

On 16 April 2020, Peter was due to lecture on 'Global Byzantium: Questions and Few Answers' at the Univerisy of Cologne as part of its Byzanz global: Geschichte und Kultur des byzantinischen Reiches in welthistoischer Perspektive'. This lecture will take place in 2021.

Peter will be at the Studium Generale of the University of Groningen on 12 March to talk about the history of the Silk Roads. Click here for more

On 11 March, Peter gave a lecture on 'Reclaiming History: Moving away from Eurocentrism' at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
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On 6 March, Peter took part in a workshop on 'Reinventing Peace in an age of Disorder' alongside Nur Laiq, TORCH visiting fellow, and Prof.Michael Scott of Warwick University. Click here for more

Peter gave the first talk of the Hay Festival Abu Dhabi at the end of February, where he was in discussion with festival director Peter Florence and spoke about the lessons of history, human rights, and the importance of wider horizons education. For more click here

Peter took part in Bangkok Edge 2020, where he took part in a panel with Frank Dikotter, Nigel Gould-Davies andf Gwen Robinson on Re-calibrating Asia's 21st century power dynamics, and also spoke about his book on the New Silk Roads. Click here for more.www.bangkokedge.com/copy-of-talks-books-eng-1

In January 2020, Peter was in Dublin at the invitation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Secretary General Niall Burgess to help launch Ireland's Asia-Pacific strategy.

Peter was at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2020, where he was in discussion with Bruno Maçaes, former Portuguese minister for Europe about the rise of Asia and the New Silk Roads.
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On 16 March, Peter spoke to the Medieval Society at University College London about 'How to (and why) be a Byzantinist'.

Peter gave a keynote lecture on China's New Silk Roads to the Europeaum 2019 conference on 'Europe in the age of Xi and Trump' For more info, click here

On 23 November, a gala dinner honoured Peter Frankopan, the winnder of the bi-annual Calliope Prize.
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In November, Peter went to the Bogforum in Copenhagen where he spoke at events on the rise of Asia and on the New Silk Roads.
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Peter took part in the Nexus Institute Conference 2019 along with Jose Manuel Barroso, Mike Mullen, Eric Li, Sima Samar, Michael Ignatieff and Alexander Schimmelbusch to discuss 'What Will Rule the World'. For more, see here

Peter gave a talk on 'Empire and the dangers of young change-makers' at the Blavatnik School of Government on 1 November, as part of the 2019 Challenges of Government conference
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Peter gave the Sir Christopher Ricks lecture for 2019 at King Alfred's School Wantage. He spoke on 'What is the point of studying history' ?
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On 4 October, Peter was in Cosenza, Calabria to receive the Humanities prize of the Carical Foundation, as part of the Premio per la Cultura Mediterranean.
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Peter delivered a keynote lecture on 'War and Wealth' in the opening session of the Singapore Bicentennial Conference on 1 October. For more information, click here

Peter was back in Corfu in September for the Corfu Literary Festival, along with his fellow members of the Authors Cricket Club. He took part in a discussion with fellow historian Tom Holland on Western Dominion/Eastern Influence - as well as playiing against two local Corfiote teams.

Peter gave the Ertegun Lecture for 2019 at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford.
He talked about 'Writing a New History of the World' with Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins, Director of Ertegun House.
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Peter took part in the Luzio Taskas 2019 in Palanga to discuss New Challenges facing Lithuania, Europe and the world and to talk about shifts in global politics and the world economy in the past and present.
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Peter was at the Chiswick Book Festival on 14 September to talk about The New Silk Roads in conversation with Paul Blezard.

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On 6 November, Peter gave a lecture to mark the opening of the new Map Centre of the National Library of Norway in Oslo. He spoke on 'Making Sense of the World - mapping the Past, Present and Future.'

Peter took part in the Chalke Valley History again in 2019.

He spoke about his Illustrated Silk Roads on 30 June - to young readers, old readers and anyone in between.
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Peter was at the Dalkey Book Festival in June 2019, where he was in conversation with David McWilliams about the New Silk Roads. He also took part in a discussion about why history matters with Diramid Ferriter and Theo Dorgan For more info (and tickets), click here

On 7 June, Peter participated in the Pilgrimages and the Senses conference in Oxford where he will chair a session on 'Embodying Pilgrimage.'
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Peter was at the Hay Festival on 31 May. He gave a talk about his Illustrated Silk Roads book - and then spoke with the novelist Elif Shafak about the New Silk Roads and about change in the contemporary world.

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Peter gave a keynote lecture at the Macdonald Institute in Cambridge to mark the publication of Desert Archaeology, edited by Camila Alday and Sara Morrisset.

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Peter was in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on 16-17 May 2019 to take part in the Astana Economic Forum with leading economists including Christine Lagarde of the IMF, Nobel Laureate Paul Romer, former Deputy Chairp of the US Federal Reserve, Stanley Fischer and others.
He chaired a panel which included President Sarkissian of Armenia, Riaz Khokhar, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan and Vladimir Yakunin on The World Without Multilateralism. For more, click here

Peter took part in the Conference on Asian Civilisations Dialogues Conference which was opened by President Xi of China in Beijing on 15 May 2019.

At the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, he delivered a paper on concepts of Asia, on trans-continental commercial, linguistic and cultural connections, an the roles played by minorities in Asia.

On 3 May, Peter delivered the Beatrice Blackwood Memorial Lecture for 2019 at the Pitt Rivers Musuem. His lecture title was 'The Tyranny of Eurocentrism'. Click here for more

Peter spoke at the Oxford Chabad Society on 2 May. He was in conversation with Professor Abigail Green about Jewish perspectives of the Silk Roads.
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On 28 April, Peter gave a lecture at Tsinghua University on Chinese perspetives of the Silk Roads and of the history of the Silk Roads

Peter was in Beijing on 27 April, where he took part in the 28th Wanshou Forum which this year, focused on the Belt and Road Initiative. He spoke on the Belt and Road and Global Governance.

Peter took part in the conference 'Connecting Central Asia in the 21st Century' that took place in Oxford on 26-27 April. He chaired a panel with Aeron O’Connor (UCL), Alexander Morrison & Edmund Herzig (Oxford) and Chokan Laumulin (Cambridge) on the question 'How Does Central Asia’s Past Create Its Present?' For more, click here

Peter was in New York on 11 April for an Alumni Event for Worcester College, where he was in conversation with the Provost, Sir Jonathan Bate, to discuss history at Oxford, the Silk Roads - and Worcester College.
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Peter took part in the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium in Cambridge at the end of March 2019. He gave a paper with the title 'I will make your towns and provinces run with blood until I set my spear in Byzantium itself” – Blood, Dynasty and Kinship in Komnenian Byzantium’ For more, click here

Peter was in Geneva on 29 March to take part in the Festival Histoire et Cité, where he spoke with Xavier Hubertson about Les Nouvelles Routes de la Soie.
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Peter was in conversation with Toby Mundy at the Wimbledon Book Fest on 16 March to talk about the New Silk Roads.
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Peter was in the Gulf at the end of February for the Emirates Festival of Literature. He gave talks to school children about why studying the past can be such ; about the New Silk Roads, in conversation with Steven Gale of the British Library; and about who writes history with Martin Puchner of Harvard University.

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Peter spoke at the Prospect Book Club on 18 February at 18.30-20.30
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Peter gave the keynote address in Vienna on 7 December to mark the end of the European Year of Cultural Heritage.

His talk was entitled 'Europe's Cultural Heritage - Past, Present and Future'
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Peter was at Toppings in Bath on 3 December to talk about The Silk Roads of the past, present and future.

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Peter was in conversation with Alec Russell of the Financial Times at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 29 November about his new book, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World.
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On 27 November, Peter was in discussion with award-winning hip hop star Akala at the Emmanuel Centre in London on 'How to Understand hte Present and Future of the World'

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Peter was at Les Tribunes de la Presse in Bordeaux on 22 November to discuss his new book, Les Nouvelles Routes de la Soie - L'Emergence d'un Nouveau Monde.

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Peter had the honour of being a Guest Curator at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2018. He gave a talk on The New Silk Roads with Emma Tucker of The Times; chaired a panel on Global China with George Magnus, Therea Fallon, Tom Mullaney and Roseann Lake; and on Missing Superpowers with Caroline Vout, Abbas Amanat, Craig Clunas and Sujit Sivasundaraum; and he also gave a family alk about The Silk Roads.

On 4 October, Peter was at Uppsala University in Sweden to respond to Prof Dame Averil Cameron's lecture on Byzantium Now: Contested Territory or Excluded Middle ?

The lecture took place at The Collegium at 5.15pm.
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On 3 October, Peter gave the Gunnar Jarring Lecture at the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

The title of the lecture was:

'Gunnar Jarring and the state of Central Asian Studies'

The lecture began at 6.15pm

On 27-28 September, a major international conference took place to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Sir Dimitri Obolensky - and to
consider Obolensky's The Byzantine Commonwealth fifty years on.

Peter opened the conference, which he organised with Jonathan Shepard.
Booking was essential. For more information, click here

On 23 September, Peter was in Cambridge to talk to Professor Dame Mary Beard about Women and Power as part of the Cambridge University Alumni weekend.

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Peter gave a keynote lecture at the 69th Sachsensympsion, held at Stockholm University on 15-19 September 2018.
He spoke on 'Change and Continuity in the Long Sixth Century'
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Peter was at the Gloucester History Festival on 11 September, where he was in discussion with Janina Ramirez about history, politics - and the writing of The Silk Roads

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On 8 September, Peter gave a keynote lecture on 'The Legacy of the First World War in Asia' at a major conference on 'The End of the War and the Reshaping of a Century' at the University of Wolverhampton. For more information, click here

On 4 July, Peter gave a lecture at the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat about the role of Central Asia in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Peter also gave several other talks during his time in Turkmenistan.

On 30 June, Peter was be at Chalke Valley to take part in the History Festival. He joined historians Helen Castor and Sarah Churchwell to talk about whether lessons from the past are relevant to the present and the future. For tickets and more information, please click here

On 19 June, Peter gave a lecture at the British Library about the Voyages of James Cook and how Britain became a global trading empire. For more information, click here.

On 8 June, Peter spoke at the Festival in a Factory in Stoke with Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A. For more information, click here

On 24 May, Peter chairs a panel to discuss Lio König's new book, Cultural Citizenship in India at The Centre for Research in the Humanities at Oxford. All are welcome. Lunch from 1230pm.

How should we memorialise the past? What should we do about statues of people whose actions and views are repugnant in today's world - or even simply contested?
Join Peter, David Olosuga and Afua Hirsch at an Intelligence2 debate at the Emmanuel Centre, London, on 14 May. To book, click here

On 10 May, Peter will be in Cambridge to talk with Mary Beard about Women and Power.

The event will take place in the Main Lecture Theatre at St John's College and will start at 5pm.

For more information about this talk, please click here.

The lecture is open to all, but pre-booking is mandatory.

Peter will be in conversation with Sameer Rahim of Prospect Magazine to discuss history, the Silk Roads and the changing world of the 21st century.

The event is in aid of the charity First Story, which changes lives through writing. To book, please click here

Peter will be at The Royal Society to talk about Asia, medicine and healthcare along with Bettany Hughes, Aarathi Prasad and Peter Pormann.

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Peter will deliver the Saladinforedraget for 2018 at the Litteraturhuset in Oslo on 6 March. He will talk on The Crusades seen from Asia. To book, and for more information, please click here

Peter lectured on the Silk Road of the Middle East and the role of the Middle East in Global history. The lecture was a Masterclass for a joint event hosted by TIMEP and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on 21 February. For more information, click here

Peter gave a lecture on Ibn Fadlan, historicity and the value of knowledge in the Abbasid Caliphate at part of the Medieval Church and Culture seminar series at Oxford on 20 February. For more, click here

Peter gave the British School at Athens Annual Lecture on 6 February 2018. The title of his lecture is 'Restoring the Byzantine Empire. Constantinople, Hellenism and the Global Middle Ages'
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Peter gave a talk at The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford on Saturday 3 February about the role of faith and religion in Asia. For tickets, click here

On 27 January 2018, Peter led a Study Day at The British Museum that focused on the history of the ancient Silk Roads. A full day at the BP Lecture Theatre brought together some of the world's leading scholars to discuss trade, religion, language and history of a network that shaped global history. For details, click here

Peter was in Chennai in January at The Hindu's Lit For Life festival to talk about South Asia and its position in Global History

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Peter was in Cortina d'Ampezzo to take part in the Una Montagna di Libri Festival 2018. On 4th January, he gave a talk about his book Le vie della Seta, with a special focus on the history of Italy and Venice. For more information, click here

Peter spoke about Early Christianity and the Nestorian crosses of the Yuan dynasty at the University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong on 15 December. For more information, click here

Peter gave the Sir Bailey Memorial Lecture in Cambridge on 13 December.
The title is ‘Sir Harold Bailey and the Content of Indian, Iranian and Asian Studies’ For more information, click here

Peter gave a lecture at Leuven University in Belgium on 11 December. He spoke about 'Europe: Past, Present and Future' For more information, click here

Peter delivered the inaugural Lisa Jardine Lecture at Jesus College Cambridge on 27 November 2017. The lecture title was 'Unworldly goods: the roots of consumerism and the Renaissance'. For tickets, click here

Peter gave the address at the annual dinner of the British Croatian Society in London on 23 November. He will talk about One Thousand Years of history of the Adriatic. For tickets, click here

Peter gave the keynote lecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 22 November 2017 as part of the China Global Research Programme. His title is Plotting the Future of the Belt and Road Initiative: Connections, Opportunities and Challenges. For more information, click here

Peter talks about how India's past, present and future are entwined with the story of the Silk Roads at the TATA Literature live Mumbai LitFest on 16 November at 5pm. For tickets and more information, click here

Peter was in Mumbai in November to talk at the Eighth Mumbai International Literary Festival. On 16 November, he will be in discussion with Shashi Tharoor on the role of empire in history: 'You gave us cricket, we gave you curry. Who got the better deal?' For tickets, click here

Peter was Guest of Honour at The Sharjah International Book Fair on 6 November 2017 where he will talk with Rehan Khan about the history of The Gulf and the challenges and opportunities in the future. For tickets, see here

Peter was at the University of California at Irvine on 31 October to talk with Prof. Jeff Wasserstrom and Prof. Touraj Daryaee about the Silk Roads, about the importance of global history and about change in the 21st Century.

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Peter took up his position as President's International Council Scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in October 2017.

On 20 October, he delivered a lecture on 'Climate Change and the Shaping of Asia' For tickets and more information, click here

Peter gave the keynote address at the conference on Interconnected Medieval Worlds at the University of California (Santa Barbara) on 13 October as part of the Middle Ages in the Wider World Project, where he is a member of the Advisory Board.
His lecture title was 'Re-Thinking the Global Middle Ages'
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Pierre était à Blois au RDV d'Histroire le 8 Octobre. Il presentait son livre Les Routes de la Soie: L'Histiore du Cœur du Monde en discussion avec Christian Makarian. Pour des détails, cliquez ici

Peter gave a talk in Oslo on 3 October to mark the publication of Silkeveiene. En ny verdenshistorie in Norwegian.
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Peter was in Stockholm on 2 October and spoke at Kulturhuset with Björn Wiman of Dagens Nyheter about the importance of history - and how to look at the past in a different way. For more details, click here

Peter kommer till Göteborg den 28 september på Bokmässan. Han ska prata om världens historia med Bjorn Wiman av Dagens Nyheter - och varför vi kan (och måste) se på det förflutna på olika sätt.
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On 26 September, Peter took part in UNIDO's Bridge for Cities conference, on the Belt and Road Initiative: Developing Green Economies for Cities.
Peter moderated the first session on Global Goals for Local Impact.
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Scaliger Visiting Professor Peter Frankopan delivered the keynote lecture to mark the opening of the Asian Library at Leiden University on 13 September 2017. The lecture, on 'Asia and the Making of the Modern World', was delivered in the presecnce of Her Majesty, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, in the Pieterskerk. For more information, see here

13 September, Peter gave the opening address at the Leiden Asia Year Graduate Conference on 'De-bordering Asia'. He spoke to Masters and PhD students about the challenges, problems and ways forward when working on Global History. For more information, click here

On 12 September, Peter gave a talk at Teylers Museum in Haarlem.
Established in 1778, Teylers is of the most famous museums in the Netherlands. Peter was in discussion with writer and traveller Alexander van Reeuwijk. For more information, click here

On 12 September, Peter opened a new exhibition at The Textile Research Centre in Leiden. The exhibition, entitled 'Dressing the Stans: Textiles, dress and jewellery from Central Asia', runs until mid-December 2017.
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Pietro parlerà al Festival della Mente a Saranza il 3 settembre.
Parlerà del suo nuovo libro, Le Vie della Seta: Una Nuova Storia del Mondo. Il libro sarà pubblicato in italiano nel mese di settembre.
Potete trovare ulteriori informazioni qui....

Peter was at The Curious Arts Festival in July. He played cricket against Pylewell Park, before taking the stage to talk about History, the Silk Roads, and why learning about the past is helpful to understand the present. Click here for more

Peter was at the Chalke Valley History Festival in early July. He gave a talk about Russia and the Three World Wars.
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Peter was at VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, one of the world's leading cancer research centres, to talk about how to look at complex problems in different ways.

He spoke about how shifting paradigms about history might help cancer research and oncology. For more, click here

Peter spoke at the College of Arts and Law at Birmingham University on 30 June about Writing Unpopular History. For more information, click here

Peter gave the Annual Costas Hadjipateras Lecture for 2017 at the Hellenic Centre in London on 21 June. He spoke about The Byzantine Empire, the mirror of history & the Global Middle Ages. For more click here

Peter went to Hinterland in Kells, Ireland in June. He talked about his book, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. He was also due take part in the Speaking Ill of the Dead series, where his chosen subject was his bête noire, Bohemond of Antioch. For more information, click here

On 8 June, Peter delivered a lecture at the Royal Asiatic Society, where he is a Fellow, on Asia and the formation of Early Modern Europe. For the poster and for more information, click here

Peter was at the Astana Economic Forum in June 2017.

He took part in panel discussions about infrastructure investments along the Belt and Road initiative, regional co-operation across Central Asia and on New Energy - New Economy. For more information, click here

Peter was one of the speakers at The Economist's Innovation Summit in Astana in June 2017. He was interviewed by Robert Guest, Foreign Editor of The Economist, about change in an age of disruption. For more information, click here

Peter spoke at the Festival of Writing & Ideas at Borris House in Ireland on 9 June. For more information, please click here

Peter was back at the Hay Festival this year. He was one of 30 visionaries who has been asked to talk about New Reformations five hundred years on from Martin Luther. He spoke 'On History'. For more information, please click here

On 16 May, Peter gave a lecture to The Europaeum, The Association of leading European Universities as part of the British Exits in Historical Perspectives series. For more information, please click here

On 13 May, Peter took part in The Convention, a major forum to discuss Brexit. Other speakers include Ian McEwen, Nick Clegg, Dominic Grieve, Kwasi Kwarteng, Timothy Garton Ash, Henry Porter, Anne Applebaum and many others. For more information, please click here

On 12 May, Peter was at The Castle Cornet at the Guernsey Literary Festival - shortly after playing a T20 match with The Authors CC. For more, please click here

Peter took part in Always Takes Notes series with Kassia St Clair and Simon Alam and spoke about how he came to writing, his life as a historian and how the Silk Roads came into being. The event took place in The Two Chairman Pub on 2 May at 7.30pm For more information, click here

On 5 April, Peter was on Sky News to review the morning papers with Elizabeth Day and Anna Botting. To view online, click here

On 1 April, Peter discussed The Changing Global Order and the Rise of the East with Stephen King, Chief Economist at HSBC and Christopher Davies, Chief Executive of International at HSBC at the Oxford Literary Festival.
The event will took place at 4pm in The Sheldonian. For tickets, click here

On 30 March, Peter was guest of honour at Fudan University where he gave a lecture and took part in a discussion with the renowned scholar Professor Ge Jianxiong, former director of the Institute of Chinese Historical Geography and currently member of the Committee of Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education in China.
Peter was introduced as a scholar of legendary reknown ('传奇'). He spoke about what business students in the 21st century can learn from studying exchange of goods, ideas and languages across Asia in the previous 2,500 years.

On 29 March, Peter gave a major address at Shanghai Museum.

He spoke about China and the role played by short and long-distances trade along the Silk Roads in history.

Peter was at the Øksnehallen in Copenhagen on 26 March to talk about his new book, Silkevejene – en ny historie om verden. For more information, click here

Peter gave a talk as part of the new History Masterclass initiative on 21 March in London. He talked about different ways of looking at the Middle Ages, and how looking at medieval Greek, Arabic and materials from beyond Europe help show that the Crusades are not all they seem
You can find out more here

On 17 March, Peter was in discussion with bestselling author Tim Marshall about Prisoners of Geography and Prisoners of History as part of Daunt Books' Spring Festival. For tickets, click here

Peter was in Edinburgh on 16 March as part of the celebrated Asia Scotland Institute Lecture series. He spoke about the rise and rise of Asia, its significance in the 21st century - and about how Scotland's past was shaped by events that took place thousands of miles away.
For tickets and details, click here

Peter visited Dubai at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature about History and the role of Gulf and the Silk Roads of the past, present and future.
He did an event with celebrated chef and writer Sabrina Ghayour over supper, where discussion turn to food, spices and taste sensations; he also took part in a panel with Bettany Hughes and Michael Freeman to talk about ancient routes and journeys. For more information, click here

On 2 March, Peter addressed the All Party Parliamentary China Group about the significance of the Silk Roads in the past, present and future, and will assess whether the Age of the West is coming to an end.
The event was held in the House of Commons.

Peter spoke with Bettany Hughes about her new book, Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities as part of Jewish Book Week.

For details of the event, which takes place at King's Place, London on 2 March at 7pm please click here

Peter was in Lahore at the end of February 2017 to take part in the famous Literary Festival along with Michael Palin, Mohsin Hamid and Alex von Tunzelmann. For more information, click here

Peter spoke with one of Britain's most distinguished classicists, Prof. Paul Cartledge about his new book, Democracy: A Life.

The event took place at Waterstones, Oxford on 8 February at 7pm. For more information and to book tickets, click here

Peter interviewed historian, writer and broadcaster Bettany Hughes about her new book Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities.

Hosted in kind association with Blackwell's Bookshop, the event took place in The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on 25 January at 7pm. For tickets, please click here

On 24 January, Peter took part in a discussion with award-winning journalist Gideon Rachman, author of the highly acclaimed Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century. For tickets and more information, click here

Peter spoke at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam on 19 January 2017 about his new book, Licht Aus Dem Osten. You can find more information here

Peter was at the Galle Literary Festival to talk about his book on the Silk Roads and to explain the role that Sri Lanka in general and Galle in particular have played in world history since antiquity.
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On 15 December, Peter reviewed the extraordinary events of 2016 at the Royal Society of Arts, alongside Chief Executive Matthew Taylor, Sarah Churchwell and Matthew Goodwin. For more information click here

Peter delivered the Annual Lecture of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University on 8 December 2016.

The title of his lecture was 'After the Silk Roads: Asia, Europe and the Discovery of the Americas'. For more information, click here

Peter was in discussion with Thorold Barker, Wall Street Journal Editor, Europe, about Globalization and The Re-Emerging East.
For information about the event, which took place on 1 December. click here.

Peter gave the last lecture of the term for Oxford University History Society on Tuesday 22 November at 5pm. He spoke about how the history curriculum at schools and universities needs to undergo radical change.
For event details, click here

On 10 November, Peter was interviewed by Gie Goris of Mo* magazine at the Antwerp book fair about the past, present and future. For more information, click here

In early November, Peter visited in the Netherlands and Belgium to talk about his book on the Silk Roads - De Zijderoutes, a major bestseller that has remained in the Top 10 since it came out in Dutch in March 2016. More details will follow in due course....

On 21 October, Peter gave the opening lecture at a conference held at Oxford University on Contacts between the Hellenic East and West. The event was part of the Oxford University Ertegun Scholarship Programme for the Humanities. Peter spoke about the connections linking the Pacific and the Eastern Mediterranean between 323 BC - 31 AD.

On 20 October, Peter delivered the keynote address at the opening session of a major United Nations conference on Inclusive and Sustainable Cities, organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in Vienna. He spoke on the past, present and future of cities along the Silk Roads, and the opportunities and challenges of the One Belt One Road initiative.

On 10 October, Peter chaired a discussion about Countering Terrorism at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, with Sara Khan, Hanif Qadir and Peter Neumann. For tickets, please click here

On 3 October, Peter delivered the Chris Cviić Memorial Lecture at the EBRD in association with the British-Croatian Society. The title of the lecture is 'The One Belt, One Road Initiative in History: the construction of foreign and economic policy in the Adriatic in the Middle Ages'
For more information, click here

Peter will be at Wimbledon Book Festival on 1 October at 12.15. For tickets and more information, click here

Peter was at the Chatsworth Festival - Art Out Loud on 23 September. He gave a talk about the profound impact the textiles, ceramics and materials of the Silk Roads had on western art and culture.
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On 21 September Peter was in Dunhuang, western China at the Silk Road (Dunhuang) Cultural Expo. The Expo was opened with an address from President Xi, President of the People's Republic of China, and by Vice-Premier Liu Yandong.

On 15 September, Peter spoke at UNICEF about transitions in the 21st century, challenges and opportunities in the future and the the significance of history.

On 13 September, Peter was honoured to deliver the Annual Stavros Niarchos Foundation lecture at Yale. His lecture was titled 'Change in the 21st Century and the Return of History' and took place in Luce Hall. For more details, click here

Peter spoke at Harvard on 14th September where he delivered a lecture on 'Re-imagining the Middle Ages: cultural politics and the impact of globalisation' He was introduced by Professor Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature. The lecture took place at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs. Click here

Peter was in conversation with William Dalrymple at the Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature and Thought at the end of August 2016. For more information, click here

Peter spoke at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where he talked about shifts in global power and his 'dazzlingly ambitious reassessment of global history'. To book tickets, click here

On 11 August, Peter joined the School of International Futures 2016 Summer School to talk about Strategic Capability of Organisations to develop policy adn decsion making processes around Foresight work.

He joined a panel with Rosemarie Forsythe, former While House National Security Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs; Mazlan Othman, Director of UN Office for Outer Space Affairs and Project Director, Mega Science 3.0; and Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.

On 1 July, Peter was at Chalke Valley History Festival to talk with Edward Lucas and Maria Litvinenko about Britain's relationship with Russia since the 19th Century in a session entitled 'Baiting the Russian Bear'. He wasback on 3rd July to talk about the Silk Roads, history and the way we need to change how we look at the world around us.

For more details, and to book tickets, click here

Peter gave a keynote address at the OXIIC Global Infrastructure Conference on 1 July 2016 on Bridging the Infrastructure Gap: Global Integration and the 'One Belt One Road initiative'
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Peter returned to Ireland in mid-June to talk about Silk Roads and also to discuss Donald Trump, the Rise of Populism and the End of the West with Myles Dungan & Mary Fitzgerald. For information, please click here

On 9 June, Peter talked about his recent article in The Financial Times on The Return of History and the Death of Democracy. Part of the Intelligence Squared Series. He was joined by Kwasi Kwarteng MP for Spelthorne. For tickets and for more information, please click here

Peter spoke in the Tata Tent at the Hay Festival on Friday 3 June. Introduced by Festival supremo Peter Florence, he spoke about Silk Roads, global history and the dangers of not understanding the world around us. For tickets for his talk on The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, please click here.

Peter was at the Astana Economic Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan on 25-26 May where themes being discussed included The End of Hyperhglobalisation and the New Silk Roads. Peter delivered a keynote talk for the session on Private Sector Investment in Central Asia, followed by discussion with representatives of the EIB, Asian Development Bank, Silk Road Fund, EBRD and the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Peter was in Sydney, Australia at the end of May to talk at the Sydney Writers' Festival. On 19 May, he gave a talk on his International bestseller, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World at the Roslyn Packer Theatre. On 20 May, he talked about the End of Europe with Yanis Varoufakis, Roger Cohen, Emma Alberici and Eleanor Hall at the City Hall.
On 22 May, Peter discussed Extremism, along with Emma Sky, author of The Unravelling and Samanth Subramanian, author of This Divided Island, to compare religious, ethnic and sectarian violence in Iraq, Sri Lanka and beyond.

Peter talked about the history of the Silk Roads at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival. For tickets to his talk, which takes place on Tuesday 3 May at 7pm, click here

On 27 April, Peter did a joint event at Waterstones in Oxford (Broad Street) with legendary scholar Sir Barry Cunliffe about their recent books, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World and By Steppe, Desert and Ocean: the Birth of Eurasia. This event is sold out.

On Saturday 9 April, Peter took part in celebrations to mark the 20th Anniversary Dinner of the Oxford Literary Festival, along with Itamar Surlovich and Sarit Parker, the husband and wife behind the wonderful Honey & Co. Alice Lascelles was making cocktails, and Juliet Sear making the cake. For tickets, please click here

Peter spoke at the Sheldonian Theatre on 4 April 2016 as part of the Oxford Literary Festival. He talked about history, the Silk Roads, new ways of looking at the past, and the importance of understanding other cultures, religions and people. For more information please click here

Peter was at The Last Word, Lahore's famous bookshop that has been described as South Asia's loveliest on Saturday 2 April 2016. If you're in town or passing, do drop by !

On 2-3 April, Peter gave an address at the Afkaar-e-Taza conference in Lahore, Pakistan. He delivered a lecture on the past, present and future of Pakistan's relations with China, focusing on the new China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that forms part of the One Belt, One Road initiative.

He was also in discussion with celebrated writer & journalist Khalid Ahmed to talk about the relevance of the Crusades, about religious fundamentalism and the use of violence. For more information, click here

On 9 March, Peter lectured at the Said Business School at Oxford as part of the Engaging with the Humanities Series. He talked about 'Global change in the 21st Century: Time for a fresh look at the past, present and future'
For tickets, please click here

On 29 February, Peter gave the Annual Address to the SR Gardiner Society at Christ Church College, Oxford. He spoke about re-engaging with the past - and looking at regions and sources normally over-looked or ignored by scholars. He spoke about how history can all too easily blur with mythology if historians forget to use their skills.

Peter was at the Aldeburgh Literary Festival on 5 March talking about his book, The Silk Roads with Robert Butler of Intelligent Life Magazine. For more information, click here

Peter took part in a discussion at the LSE Literary Festival on 25 February in a joint event with Jerry Brotton on 'Looking Westwards: cultural exchange with the Islamic world.' For tickets, please click here

On 22 February, Peter headed to Liverpool to give a talk in the National Identity Lecture Series at Liverpool John Moores University. For more information, and to buy a ticket, please click here

In January 2016, Peter headed back to Jaipur to the astonishing Literature Festival. On 24 January, he talked about the Silk Roads with the legendary Colin Thubron on the Front Lawn in front of 2,500 people. The session was widely covered by the Indian press - including Vogue India, who described it as 'a dazzling success'.

On 17 December 2015, Peter gave a plenary address at a major conference on Hong Kong and the World under the Belt and Road Initiative, organised by the Hong Kong Central Policy Unit and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
For more details, see here

Peter will be talking at the Hay Festival at Hay-on-Wye next summer. For a taster to keep you warm as the days get colder and the nights get longer, come and hear him at the Winter Weekend on Saturday 28 November at 10am. For tickets, click here

Peter will be at Hatchard's in Piccadilly, one of London's most famous book shops, signing copies of Silk Roads as part of Hatchard's Christmas build-up. Come along to meet a whole host of wonderful authors and to buy the perfect, personalised gift for your loved ones for the festive season (or to get a copy for yourself !)
For more information, click here

On 13 November, Peter delivered The Gibraltar Lecture at The Gibralitar International Literary Festival. He spoke about The Silk Roads: A New History of the World and about changing the way we look at the past. He was introduced by the Chief Minister of HM Government of Gibraltar, the Hon Fabian Picardo QC. For more information, click here

On 13 November, Peter talked about the origins of Islam and the impact that the religion had on the Silk Roads from the 7th century. He explored how faiths mingled and competed with each other across the heart of the world, linking the west coast of Europe and North Africa, with the Pacific coast of China.

The event was held at the Salaam Centre, London.

Peter was at Blackwell's in Oxford as part of Academic Book Week, November 2015. Tickets are free, but booking is essential. To reserve a ticket, click here
Wednesday11 November, 3pm. Silk Roads was Book of the Month at Blackwell's in September 2015

Peter goes to Ireland to Kilkenomics, which brings together some of the world’s leading economists, financial analysts and media commentators with some of the funniest, sharpest standup comedians. It is known as 'Davos with jokes'

Peter will will appear on a panel with David McWilliams, Nicholas Nassim Taleb, Vikas Nath and Bill Black on 8 November at 3pm talking about The Silk Road Unravels: What is at stake in the Middle East. For more information, click here

At 6.30pm, Peter takes to the stage with Nicholas Nassim Taleb, Colm O'Regan, Larry Elliott and Martin Lousteau to talk about the World in 2020. 'If a week is a long time in politics, five years is a lifetime in economics.. For more information, click here

On 1 November, Peter took part in LitFest X, a virtual social interactive Literary Festival, hosted in Mumbai, India. Peter gave the Festival's concluding talk, speaking with Kumaar Bagarodia about how understanding history can help us understand change in the modern world. To watch the video, click here

On 21 October 2015, Peter spoke at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) about his new The Silk Roads, alongside Professor Dame Averil Cameron FBA, Professor RI Moore and Professor Elleke Boehmer.

For a video of this event, where Peter responded to comments a panel of distinguished scholars, click here

Come and listen to Peter talk about Silk Roads at Heffers in Cambridge - where he spent many hours browsing when he was a callow youth. The talk, on Friday 16 October, is free, but booking tickets is essential. To reserve a space, click here

Peter will be talking about his new history of the world at the Ilkley Literature Festival on 14 October at 7.30pm.

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On Thursday 8 October, Peter will talk about The Silk Roads: A New History of the World at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
The talk is now SOLD OUT.
It starts at 4pm. For more details, click here

Peter will give a lecture on behalf of Venice in Peril on 12 October at the Society of Antiquaries. He will talk about 'Venice, the Adriatic and Asia: connections across the Silk Roads.' To apply for tickets, please click here

Peter Frankopan in conversation with Tom Holland.
Peter talks with best-selling author Tom Holland about his new book, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World and discusses the challenges in writing history and about how to look at the past in a different way. For tickets and for more information, click here

Peter will be talking with noted economist, broadcaster and polymath David McWilliams at the Dublin Festival of History on 29 September about The Silk Roads, global history and modern economics. For more information, click here

Peter appeared on a panel at the Chalke Valley History Festival on Sunday 28 June 2015, chaired by Bronwen Maddox, Editor of Prospect Magazine. The topic is 'Should the West Defend the Ukraine'. For more information, click here

On 22-23 May, Peter joined a group of speakers at the New Europe Business Forum's meeting in Zagreb who included leading figures from politics and the business world. He spoke about The Long History of European Financial Crises.
To read a report, click here

On 16 May, Peter gave the 10th Annual Lecture to the Alumni of the History Faculty in Oxford.

The lecture was held in the Danson Room at Trinity College, Oxford, and was followed by a Drinks Reception and then dinner in Hall in Trinity. He spoke about The First Crusade: The Making of a Legend.

For a poster of the event, click here

Peter spoke at the Jaipur Literary Festival in January 2015, giving a talk on The First Crusade, introduced by William Dalrymple.

He chaired a panel on Terrorism & Religious Violence with Jessie Childs, Llewellyn Morgan and Ahmed Rashid.

Finally, he moderated a lively discussion on Monotheism between Tom Holland and Barry Flood.For more on the Festival, click here

Adriatic Connections: The Adriatic as a Threshold to Byzantium, c.600-1453, January 2015

Peter gave a paper about Venice in the Age of the Crusades, arguing that a major re-evaluation is needed of Venice's commercial and political interests in the Adriatic from the 11th century on-wards at a conference hosted by the British School at Rome. For more details, click here

In 1204, the knights of the Fourth Crusade brutally sacked Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. It was an event that scarred relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches for centuries.Peter goes head to head with Christopher Tyerman, one of world's most distinguished medieval historians in an academic version of a rap duel, to argue why things went so badly wrong in a bid to see who should take the blame (800 years later). In a light-hearted event, sparks flew, the accusations and counter-accusations will be bandied about, and bygones were finally bygones as Peter imagined what might have happened if the leaders of the Fourth Crusade had been able to count properly.
Tuesday 6 May 8pm Ertegun House, Oxford