Schedule

Refer to DoE Book Circle Schedule page for details for each month. (Maybe you're already on this page. :-)

Two chapters of the book per month.
Two sets of calls each month, during the second full week and fourth full week.
- Second-week calls are odd chapters.
- Fourth-week calls are even chapters.
Two calls for each book chapter, at different times/days, to maximize accessibility to at least one call for everyone. It's expected that most people will only attend one call per set, and we'll cross-coordinate with a few bridge people or via chat.
Currently, Tuesday calls are at 8pm UTC, and Thursday calls are at 6pm UTC, although the times may shift seasonally. Check the Dawn of Everything Chat Channel a few days before the call to confirm -- Pete will post the time and timezone conversion links, and notes / agenda links there.
- If you need them, timezone conversion sites: timeanddate.com, World Time Buddy
Each call 90 minutes long.

April 2022

Chapter 1. Farewell to Humanity's Childhood - Or, why this is not a book about the origins of inequality

Chapter 2. Wicked Liberty - The indigenous critique and the myth of progress

Chapter 3. Unfreezing the Ice Age - In and out of chains: the protean possibilities of human politics

Chapter 4. Free People, the Origin of Cultures, and the Advent of Private Property - (Not necessarily in that order)

Chapter 5. Many Seasons Ago - Why Canadian foragers kept slaves and their Californian neighbours didn't; or, the problem with 'modes of production'

Chapter 6. Gardens of Adonis - The revolution that never happened: how Neolithic peoples avoided agriculture

Chapter 7. The Ecology of Freedom - How farming first hopped, stumbled and bluffed its way around the world

Chapter 8. Imaginary Cities - Eurasia's first urbanites in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley, Ukraine and China and how they built cities without kings

Chapter 9. Hiding in Plain Sight - The indigenous origins of social housing and democracy in the Americas

Chapter 10. Why the State Has No Origin - The humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy and politics

Chapter 11. Full Circle - On the historical foundations of the indigenous critique

Chapter 12. Conclusion - The dawn of everything