Neil Brenner has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in support of his work exploring the connections between the capitalist form of urbanization and the planetary socioenvironmental crises of our time.
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Dipesh Chakrabarty will present the Walter Benjamin Lectures in Berlin on June 23, 24, and 25, 2026. Titled A Second Decline of the West?, the series of three lectures will consider whether the multiple ecological catastrophes that have befallen the planet necessitate the provincialization of humanity itself.
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Adom Getachew reviewed Howard W. French’s new book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, for the April 2026 issue of The Nation.
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Julian Go’s work on the imperial boomerang has been featured in a number of publications recently: The Huffington Post, the Montreal paper La Presse, and The New York Times.
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Rochona Majumdar is a co-editor, along with Sukanya Sarbadhikary and Upal Chakrabarti, of a new edited volume, The Hindu/Presidency College: Excellence and Exclusion (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
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Joseph P. Masco and Lisa Wedeen wrote an article for Equator contextualizing the research in their edited volume Conspiracy/Theory with developing news about the Epstein files.
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Gabriel Winant spoke with The Chicago Reader about the relationship between healthcare and deindustrialization.