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We live in a globalized world, but we are not the first people to be inspired or alarmed by rapid changes in an increasingly interconnected world. As historian Tara Zahra will explain in the 47th Annual Costa Lecture, “Anti-Globalism Then and Now,” many Europeans believed that the globalization of the early 20th century would guarantee greater peace and prosperity for everyone. 

Those illusions were shattered by the First World War, which ushered in two decades of anti-global retrenchment. 

Zahra will explore the consequences and legacies of that earlier anti-global revolution. The revolt against globalization in the 1920s and 30s ignited political movements, remade the global economy and international institutions, and transformed the way millions of people traveled, ate and lived. It also produced new models of globalization and internationalism. 

While the global economy ultimately recovered, Zahra will show that many of the legacies of the first era of anti-globalism remain with us today, offering both a warning and a guide for our own anti-global moment.

Zahra will speak on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Walter Hall 135. The event is sponsored by the History Department in the College of Arts and Sciences.

“So much of globalization seems new and unprecedented, but it’s a phenomenon that has shaped nations and individuals for more than a century,” said Chester Pach, professor of history and chair of the Costa Lecture Committee. “Anybody who thinks about ways to adapt to globalization, control it, or even reverse it will find Prof. Zahra’s lecture timely, informative and provocative.”

Zahra is the author of . Her essays have appeared in “Foreign Affairs,” “The New York Times,” and the “Daily Beast.”

Zahra is the . She was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant in 2014.

The Costa Lecture was established through the generosity of Helen Coast Hayes, a member of Ģ����Ƶ University’s Class of 1926.

The Costa Lecture is free and open to the public. A pre-lecture reception will begin at 7 p.m.