Award of the Oswald-Spengler-Prize 2020: Speech by Laureate Walter Scheidel
The Oswald Spengler Society (www.oswaldspenglersociety.com) regularly organises scholarly conferences on the subject of comparative and world history. It also awards a "Spengler Prize" which, in 2018, had been awarded to Michel Houellebecq and which, in 2020, went to Prof. Dr. Walter Scheidel (Stanford University), one of the most well-known pioneers of cultural comparatism. The ceremony was embedded in an international conference on the topic "From Herodotus to Spengler: Comparing Civilisations throughout Time and Space" and took place on the 13th November 2020 with speeches from the board members of the society and a speech given by Walter Scheidel himself. This is the speech by Prof. Dr. Walter Scheidel, laureate in 2020.
The Oswald Spengler Society (www.oswaldspenglersociety.com) regularly organises scholarly conferences on the subject of comparative and world history. It also awards a "Spengler Prize" which, in 2018, had been awarded to Michel Houellebecq and which, in 2020, went to Prof. Dr. Walter Scheidel (Stanford University), one of the most well-known pioneers of cultural comparatism. The ceremony was embedded in an international conference on the topic "From Herodotus to Spengler: Comparing Civilisations throughout Time and Space" and took place on the 13th November 2020 with speeches from the board members of the society and a speech given by Walter Scheidel himself. This is the speech by Prof. Dr. Walter Scheidel, laureate in 2020.
