The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory—known as 3CT—is a space for the critical discussion and reimagination of social, political, and cultural processes in the world today.

Black abstract artwork on a gray wall
Andreas BandakThursday March 28, 2024

Syrian Futures: Percolation, Temporality, and Historical Experience in the Plural

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 5:00–6:30pm Theorizing the Present
purple-toned image of an arch with trees and a path beyond it
Anton Ford, Gabriel Lear, and Gina E. Miranda SamuelsThursday March 28, 2024

On University Values

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 5:00–6:30pm The Corporate University
Thursday March 28, 2024

3CT Graduate Student Fund 2024–25

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Capitalism and Its Outside: Profit, Expansion, and the Necessary Excess

Friday, May 10, 2024, 10:00am–6:00pm
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 10:00am–4:30pm Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference
Brightly colored graphic featuring mixed up segments of a world map

Reimagining Cosmopolitanism

Principal Investigator(s): Dipesh Chakrabarty and Lisa Wedeen
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.
Reimagining Cosmopolitanism
Greta LaFleur speaking in front of an audience
Monday April 22, 2024

Video: Greta LaFleur on How Sex Became Good

Theorizing the Present
pale green and black wavy lines
Andreas BandakMonday April 22, 2024

As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising

Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:30–1:50pm Theorizing the Present
A cloud of smoke rises out of densely clustered buildings with a helicopter in the foreground
Monday April 22, 2024

Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-in Series