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A B Emden Lecture 2026 - Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World
Please note: this lecture will be recorded and published on St Edmund Hall’s digital and print communication platforms where appropriate.
What does it mean for distant peoples to need each other without knowing each other, for “us” to need “them,” and vice versa? Since Adam Smith, interdependence between strangers has been the source of opportunism, utopianism, and unspeakable atrocity. This lecture, looking especially at controversies since the 1970s, puts the fevered debates about globalisation of our times into historical perspective — and asks what we can learn from disputes past to create better arguments for the future.
Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University and the Director of the Global History Lab at the University of Cambridge, which is based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities (CRASSH).
His works cover Latin American and global history, including Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of Humankind from Origins to the Present (W W Norton, 8th edition 2026) and the forthcoming The Capitalist Age: Making and Unmaking of the Global Mind (Princeton University Press, late spring 2026).
Dress code: Business dress
Date:
13 February 2026, 17:30
Venue:
St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details:
Doctorow Hall
Speaker:
Professor Jeremy Adelman (Cambridge)
Organising department:
St Edmund Hall
Organiser contact email address:
andrea.diss@seh.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
A B Emden Lectures
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-b-emden-lecture-2026-tickets-1977501266521?aff=oddtdtcreator
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
