A B Emden Lecture 2026
Event
The annual A B Emden Lecture will be given by Professor Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge.
Professor Adelman will speak on:
“Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World”
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).
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Please note: this lecture will be recorded and published on St Edmund Hall’s digital and print communication platforms where appropriate.