FORUM ON EUROPEAN CULTURE
26 - 29 June 2025
Peter Frankopan is a professor of Global History at Oxford University and writer of the 2015 bestseller Silk Roads. He works on the history and politics of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia/Iran, Central Asia, China and beyond. In his latest book, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (2023), Peter looks at environmental history, at climate and the ways it has shaped the human and natural past.