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.
The History and Politics of the Anthropocene, a 2013 3CT conference organized by Chakrabarty and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, was referenced in an article by Oliver Cussen in the 7 May 2026 issue of the London Review of Books.
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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.