The Capitalist Era
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Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar
Jeremy Adelman
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).
This seminar will take place on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT in the Lee Gathering Room (S-030), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street and by Zoom. Zoom link »
The presentations will be approximately 20 minutes, followed by a 30 minute discussion. Seminar series information
Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge
Center for History and Economics, Harvard University
CHEP, Sciences-Po
This event is being hosted elsewhere on campus, and not by the History Department. To learn more, please see the original event posting.