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Subject: A rare chance to hear one of the world's greatest thinkers Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel) -
with an unmissable new talk.
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 08:50:51 +0000
. ) . Great Minds: Jared Diamond
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how to: Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns,
Germs, and Steel, joins the how to: Academy to present
Great Minds: A a new view of crises — personal, national, and global —
major new talk by and how they may be dealt with.
Jared Diamond.
with Jared Diamond In this special lecture for the how to: Academy, University
of California Los Angeles Professor Diamond will
7th July 2016 examine how our knowledge of human nature through
6:45pm — 8:00pm responses to personal crises may be used to understand
the outcomes of national and global crises. Nations
Emmanuel Centre experience crises, whose solution requires adopting
9-23 Marsham Street selective changes, and which some nations are more
London SW1P 3DW successful at solving than are other nations. We as
individuals also experience personal crises, either
associated with certain ages (e.g., teen-age or midlife
TICKETS: crises) or else triggered by external shocks (e.g.,
£30 Standard relationship problems or break-ups, the death of a loved
one, or a health or job or financial blow). The solution of
£50 Combo a personal crisis also requires adopting selective
(two tickets) changes, which some of us are more successful at
accomplishing than are others of us.
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Gr Counsellors and therapists have identified many factors
that make it more or less likely that an individual will
overcome a personal crisis. Through a comparative
survey of personal crises, seven recent national crises,
two impending national crises, and the impending world
crisis, Jared Diamond offers a new way to consider the
politics, society, and psychology of crises. Book now to
ensure that you have a place at this groundbreaking talk.
Jared Diamond is a Professor of Geography at the
University of California, Los Angeles. He began his
scientific career in physiology and expanded into
evolutionary biology and biogeography. He has been
elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
American Philosophical society. Among his many awards
are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for
Environmental Achievement, Japan's Cosmo Prize, a
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis
Thomas Prize Honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented
by Rockefeller University. He has published more than
six hundred articles and his book, Guns, Germs, and
Steel, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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This talk is delivered in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles Global Forum.
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