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The Sapiens Secret of Success: How Conquered the World

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Professor Yuval Noah Harari Author of ‘Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind’ and Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Sanjay Deshmukh Vice Chancellor, University of Mumbai

will preside

Date: October 12, 2015 Time: 4 p.m.

Venue: Sir Pherozeshah Mehta Bhavan, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari Campus, Santacruz East, Mumbai - 400098

Consulate General of Israel Department of History Mumbai University of Mumbai ABOUT PROF. YUVAL NOAH HARARI:

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

He was born in , Israel, in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He specialized in World History, medieval history and military history. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions: What is the relation between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded?

Prof. Harari also teaches a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) titled A Brief History of Humankind. More than 80,000 students from throughout the world have participated in the first run of the course in 2013. The second run began in August 2014, and in its first three weeks 30,000 students joined it.

He has twice won the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality, in 2009 and 2012. In 2011 he won the Society for Military History’s Moncado Award for outstanding articles in military history. In 2012 he was elected to the Young Israeli Academy of Sciences.

He has published numerous books and articles, among which are:

 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. (London: Harvill Secker, 2014)

 Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550 (Woodbridge: Boydell& Brewer, 2007)

 The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000 (Houndmills: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008)

 “The Concept of ‘Decisive Battles’ in World History”, The Journal of World History 18:3 (2007), 251-266

 “Military Memoirs: A Historical Overview of the Genre from the Middle Ages to the Late Modern Era”, War in History 14:3 (2007), pp. 289-309

 “Combat Flow: Military, Political and Ethical Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being in War”,Review of General Psychology 12:3 (September, 2008), and

 “Armchairs, Coffee and Authority: Eye-witnesses and Flesh-witnesses Speak about War, 1100-2000”, The Journal of Military History 74:1 (January 2010), pp. 53-78. Lecture Title: The Sapiens Secret of Success: How Humans Conquered the World Duration:30-45 minutes Brief:About 70,000 years ago, the earth was populated by at least six different species. None of them had much impact on the global ecology. Today only one human species has survived – Homo sapiens – but it is the most important factor in the global ecology. How did we reach from there to here? How did we transform ourselves from insignificant apes into the rulers of planet earth? Our secret of success is that we are the only animal that can talk about things that exist purely in our own imagination, such as gods, nations, money, and human rights.