Yuval Noah Harari – Making Sense of a World in Crisis
Live In Conversation at the Barbican
Tickets for this event go on sale from 10am Fri 27 Jun 2025.
Priority booking for Barbican members opens from 10am Thu 26 Jun 2025. Priority booking links will be shared via the Members' newsletter. Please get in touch if you haven't received it.
Tickets for this event are booked through How to Academy’s Box Office
Join the renowned historian and philosopher for a unique conversation exploring the roots of this chaotic and frightening moment in world history, and discover his insights into our future.
Few historians can claim to have changed the way we understand ourselves as individuals and a species, but Yuval Noah Harari is one. His global bestseller Sapiens transformed how we perceive the deep history of humankind and the power of stories to shape our destiny. In Homo Deus and Nexus, he challenged us to imagine how genetic engineering, climate change and Artificial Intelligence threaten to upend our future.
Now he returns with a singular vision of our present. Donald Trump has ended the neoliberal order and an era of Great Power warfare and imperial conquest has begun. Truth-seekers struggle to make their voices heard above the din of conspiracy theorists; and every day the news seems to bring some new emergency.
Prof. Harari will make sense of the myriad crises of our age and share his insights into where we go from here.
This event is presented by the How To Academy.
Tickets for this event go on sale from 10am Fri 27 Jun 2025.
Priority booking for Barbican members opens from 10am Thu 26 Jun 2025. Priority booking links will be shared via the Members' newsletter. Please get in touch if you haven't received it.
Tickets for this event are booked through How to Academy’s Box Office
Barbican Hall
Location
The Barbican Hall is located within the main Barbican building. Head to Level G and follow the signs to find your seating level.
Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
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We’ve plenty of places for you to relax and replenish, from coffee and cake to wood-fired pizzas and full pre-theatre menus
Mobility
Spaces for wheelchair users in row U at the rear of the stalls (up to sixteen, depth of row 180cm) and the back row of the circle (four), both with fold-down companion seats. Some seats in row S of the stalls for people with very limited mobility.
Assistance dogs
Assistance dogs may be taken into the concert hall where there are a limited number of suitable seats in row G of the stalls. If you prefer, you may leave your dog with a member of the cloakroom staff during the performance.
Hearing facility
There is an induction loop in the concert hall. You can use this by adjusting your hearing aid to the ‘T’ setting.
Free large-print programmes
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