Talk and Film Screening with Niall Ferguson

For the past five centuries, Western civilizations have prevailed around the world. More people have been influenced by Western food, clothing, medicine, government and religion worldwide than any other civilization. How did that happen? What led the West to be so influential and powerful? And how long will the West sustain its supremacy? As America approaches the 2012 presidential election in the midst of a geopolitical paradigm shift, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson takes a timely look at the reasons behind West’s economic ascendancy and why the Eastern civilizations may now be taking the lead.