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The Distinguished Visitor Award enables scholars and researchers who have made very significant contributions to their disciplines to undertake a research visit to the university and participate in its intellectual life. Awards are reserved for suitably distinguished staff of universities and internationally-recognised research establishments.

David visited Auckland in the Spring Term and gave a series of three public lectures and a number of seminars on the following themes:

• How intellectual exchange between Europe and Indigenous America shaped our world view
• Slavery and its implications in hunter-gatherer societies
• The relationship between scale and inequality in human history

Further details

• A history of true civilisation
• Changing the course of human history