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Fellows in the News: Fall 2023

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One Planet, Many Worlds

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Fellows in the News: Summer 2023

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Fellows in the News: Fall 2022

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After Servitude

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Chronos: The West Confronts Time

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Reimagining Cosmopolitanism

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world today? This project aims to creatively and critically theorize new forms, sites, and manifestations of cosmopolitanism and to develop a new set of conceptual tools and categories.

Colloquium: The Humanities, the Human, and the Nonhuman

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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Colloquium: Subaltern Studies—Issues and Historiography

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Chakrabarty to Receive Honorary Doctorate from École Normale Supérieure

Video: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

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Democratic Erosion and Academic Freedom: Hungary, India, Turkey, and Beyond

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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Video: Provincializing Europe, 2000-2020

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Provincializing Europe: A Book’s Postcolonial Itineraries (2000-2020)

Towards a History of the National Archives in India, 1919-1940

Conditions of Settler Colonialism

The Lives of Things

Trans-Science Conference

3CT Inaugural Symposium: Theorizing the Present

The History and Politics of the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene?: Some Rifts in Contemporary Thinking on Climate Change

Teach-in on the Indian Elections

The Calling of History

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Modernism: Global Failure

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Dipesh Chakrabarty

Climate Change

Putting debates about climate change in conversation with discussions of contemporary history, this module seeks to understand how an increasing sense of the environment’s vulnerability works to modify the stories scholars tell about the beginnings and trajectories of human civilizations.