The EmpirePod Session: How Empires Fall | Josephine Quinn, William Dalrymple, Anita Anand

Описание: The EmpirePod Session: How Empires Fall
Josephine Quinn, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand in conversation

Join the hosts of the Empire Podcast and their guest Josephine Quinn, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, as they discuss the extraordinary moment around 1200BCE when many of the greatest Empires of antiquity all collapsed together. What was the Bronze Age Collapse? Why did Mycenae, Minoan Crete, Troy and the Hittites all fall together at the same moment as ancient Egypt went into massive decline? Josephine Quinn draws on her masterwork, How the World Made the West to illuminate one of the great mysteries of the Ancient World.

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Josephine Quinn holds the Chair in Ancient History at the University of Cambridge. She has been a Fellow at the Getty Villa and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Her books include In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024).

William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Anita Anand is an award-winning radio and television journalist who presents Any Answers, PM and The Reith Lectures on BBC Radio 4. She is the author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary; Kohinoor; and The Patient Assassin, which won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Anita has served as a trustee of the Women’s Prize for Fiction & Non-Fiction, a patron of the Museum of Richmond, and an advisory board member of the Oxford Centre for Global History. In 2024, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of London. She also co-presents the acclaimed Empire podcast with William Dalrymple.

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