After Nations: A Conversation with Rana Dasgupta

• Thursday, September 18
• 1:30 PM
• College Street Tent
• 470 College Street
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Explore the future of global politics with 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient Rana Dasgupta as he discusses his highly anticipated forthcoming book, After Nations. This groundbreaking work delves into the widespread crisis afflicting the nation-state worldwide, charting its development from the Enlightenment to its current challenges, and posits a need to imagine alternative systems for our interconnected global reality. The conversation will be moderated by James Surowiecki, a journalist, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, and a senior editor at The Yale Review. Join us for a vital discussion on the forces shaping our collective future.

James Surowiecki is an editor at The Yale Review, journalist, and author. He’s the author of the national bestseller The Wisdom of Crowds (2004), and a contributing writer to The Atlantic. He was a columnist at The New Yorker for 17 years, writing the popular bi-weekly business column “The Financial Page.” He also wrote the Bottom Line column for New York magazine, and was a business columnist for Slate. His writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including, among others, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The New York Review of Books. Surowiecki has also worked in documentary film and television. He was senior story producer and writer for the HBO series Vice News Tonight, and co-produced and wrote two films on the history and meaning of college football for ESPN.

Weather Alert: In the case of a weather disruption, this event will be moved to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Mezzanine (121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT). Please check our social media channels for real-time updates.