Jeremy Adelman — Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World
Princeton historian explores what interdependence means when globalization may be dead but distant peoples still need each other.
Date & Time at 7:00 PM EST
Location Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto Toronto, CA
Organizer Innis College, University of Toronto
Why we picked this
A Princeton historian asks the question nobody wants to answer: what happens when we still depend on strangers we've decided not to trust?
Jeremy Adelman directed the Global History Lab at Cambridge and held the Henry Charles Lea chair in history at Princeton. His central question is timely: globalization as an ideology may be collapsing, but the actual interdependence between distant peoples — for food, energy, technology, survival — hasn’t gone anywhere. What does it mean to need people you don’t know and may not like?
Drawing on intellectual history from Adam Smith forward, Adelman traces how humans have navigated this tension before, in an era of climate change and resurgent nationalism. Free at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto.