Announcing the 2026–2027 Seminar Theme and Call for Fellowship Applications

The CPCP is pleased to announce the seminar theme for 2026–2027: Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle.

In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.

Applications are now open for CUNY students and faculty for the 2026–2027 seminar. Level III CUNY Graduate Center PhD students are eligible to apply and receive a $10,000 stipend. Full-time CUNY faculty from all campuses are eligible to apply and receive a two-course release for the year of their fellowship.