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June 11, 2025
Video: Charlie Eaton on the Elite War on Universities
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- The Corporate University
June 1, 2025
Video: Linda Zerilli on a Democratic Theory of Truth
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- Theorizing the Present
May 19, 2025
Video: Judith Butler on Destroyed Protections for Extra-Mural Speech
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April 28, 2025
3CT Graduate Student Fund 2025–26
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April 28, 2025
Video: Jessica Swanston Baker on Island Time
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- New Book Salon
April 25, 2025
Call for Papers: 2025 Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference
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- Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference
March 11, 2025
Video: Jonathan Levy on Veblen’s University Politics
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- The Corporate University
February 20, 2025
Video: Daniele Lorenzini on The Force of Truth
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- New Book Salon
February 14, 2025
Video: Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence
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- The Corporate University
January 10, 2025
3CT Partners on “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times”
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January 3, 2025
Video: Bangladesh 2024
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December 3, 2024
Video: On University Values II
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- The Corporate University
December 3, 2024
Video: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts on Crises of the Republic
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November 14, 2024
2025 Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference Organizing Opportunity
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November 11, 2024
Video: Patrick Weil on the Madman in the White House
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November 11, 2024
Video: Kathleen Belew and Joan Donovan on Misinformation and White Nationalism
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October 21, 2024
Announcing New 3CT Fellows
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updated October 14, 2024
Call for Submissions: Future Café Post-X #5
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September 19, 2024
3CT Dissertation Writing Group
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August 19, 2024
Now Hiring: Student Assistant 2024–25
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August 15, 2024
Reading List: The Corporate University
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June 25, 2024
Save the Date: 3CT 20th Anniversary Conference
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June 7, 2024
Video: Jodi Dean on Becoming Neofeudal
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Summer 2024
Fellows in the News: Summer 2024
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May 20, 2024
Video: On University Values
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- The Corporate University
Last updated: June 12, 2024
Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-in Series
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April 22, 2024
Video: Greta LaFleur on How Sex Became Good
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- Theorizing the Present
March 29, 2024
3CT Graduate Student Fund 2024–25
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February 12, 2024
Video: The Kalven Report and Freedom of Expression
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January 12, 2024
Conspiracy/Theory Volume Now Available
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January 8, 2024
Fall 2023 Critical Historical Studies Now Available
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December 6, 2023
Call for Papers: 2024 Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference
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November 21, 2023
Video: Robert Meister on Opposing University Financialization
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September–December 2023
Fellows in the News: Fall 2023
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October 19, 2023
Video: Nadia Abu El-Haj on Settler Colonialism and the Question of Palestine
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September 29, 2023
Future Café: Post-X Zine #4 Now Available
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July 26, 2023
Fellows in the News: Summer 2023
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July 13, 2023
Now Hiring: Student Assistant
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June 29, 2023
Announcing New 3CT Fellows
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June 16, 2023
Deadline Extended: 2024 Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference Organizing Opportunity
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May 25, 2023
Spring 2023 Critical Historical Studies Now Available
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May 8, 2023
Video: Sarah Haley and Sophie Lewis on Feminism, Abolition, and the State
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April 10, 2023
Video: Linda Zerilli on Freedom-Centered Feminist Historiography
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April 7, 2023
Video: Nancy Fraser on Cannibal Capitalism
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- New Book Salon
March 31, 2023
3CT Graduate Student Fund 2023–24
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March 9, 2023
Video: Steven Klein and Robert Meister on Authoritarian Capitalism
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- New Global Authoritarianisms
February 13, 2023
Call for Submissions: Future Café Post-X #4
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January 3, 2023
Fellows in the News: Winter 2023
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December 19, 2022
A year-end message from 3CT’s co-directors
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December 9, 2022
Apply for Winter 2024 Critical Theory Program in Paris
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December 7, 2022
CFP Deadline Extended: 2023 Lauren Berlant Graduate Student Conference
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December 2, 2022
Fall 2022 Critical Historical Studies Now Available
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December 1, 2022
Video: François Hartog on Chronos
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- New Book Salon
November 22, 2022
Video: Jonathan Levy on Fear of Property
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October 26, 2022
Video: Julian Go on Policing Empires
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October 3, 2022
Fellows in the News: Fall 2022
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Monday, September 19, 2022
Meet and Study in 3CT’s Lounge
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September 2, 2022
Announcing the 3CT Graduate Student Fund
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August 31, 2022
Call for Organizers: 2023 Lauren Berlant Graduate Student Conference
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- Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference
June–August 2022
Fellows in the News: Summer 2022
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June 24, 2022
Sianne Ngai Joins 3CT
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June 9, 2022
Spring 2022 Critical Historical Studies Now Available
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May 27, 2022
Future Café: Post-X Zine #3 Now Available
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March–June 2022
Fellows in the News: Spring 2022
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April 1, 2022
Call for Submissions: Future Café Post-X #3
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March 15, 2022
3CT Fellows in the News
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March 7, 2022
New Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at UChicago
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December 15, 2021
Call for Papers: Lauren Berlant Graduate Student Conference
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November 30, 2021
Fall 2021 Critical Historical Studies Now Available
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November 18, 2021
Work with us!
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October 13, 2021
Video: Race and Populism
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October 11, 2021
Fellows in the News: October 2021
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September 1, 2021
Call for Proposals: The Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Conference
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August 19, 2021
3CT Fellows in the News: August 2021
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Now Hiring: Student Assistant
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July 22, 2021
Video: Jennifer Doyle and Nick Mitchell on Academic Labor in Crisis Times
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June 29, 2021
Remembering Lauren Berlant
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June 24, 2021
Video: Kandice Chuh and Heather Steffen on Academic Labor in Crisis Times
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June 21, 2021
Announcing New 3CT Fellows
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June 18, 2021
Future Café: Post-X Zine #2 Now Available
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June 17, 2021
Video: Alice von Bieberstein on Treasure Hunting and Necrospeculation in Turkey
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- Object Cultures Project
June 14, 2021
Video: Jonathan Levy on Ages of American Capitalism
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- New Book Salon
June 1, 2021
Chakrabarty to Receive Honorary Doctorate from École Normale Supérieure
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May 27, 2021
Video: Paul Graves-Brown on Pop Archaeology in London
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- Object Cultures Project
May 20, 2021
Additional Titles from Chicago Studies in Practices in Meaning
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May 17, 2021
Video: Jeremy F. Walton on the Contested Times of Hagia Sophia
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- Object Cultures Project
May 11, 2021
Spring 2021 Critical Historical Studies Now Available
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May 7, 2021
Video: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
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April 26, 2021
Video: Syria Ten Years On
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- New Global Authoritarianisms
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
New Titles from Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
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April 5, 2021
Antipolitics Reading List Now Available
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- Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference
March 25, 2021
Video: Provincializing Europe, 2000-2020
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March 10, 2021
New Paris Study Abroad Program in Critical Theory
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February 12, 2021
Video: Neil Brenner on New Urban Spaces
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- New Book Salon
February 3, 2021
Video: Beyond the Electoral Moment
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- Theorizing the Present
January 29, 2021
3CT Fellows in the News: January 2021
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January 21, 2021
3CT Joins Arab Uprisings Project
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- New Global Authoritarianisms
January 15, 2021
Call for Submissions: Future Café Post-X #2
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- Future Café
January 6, 2021
New Issue of Critical Historical Studies
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December 17, 2020
Call for Papers: 3CT Graduate Student Conference – Antipolitics
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December 15, 2020
Support 3CT This Year-End
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December 2, 2020
3CT Fellows in the News: December 2020
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November 23, 2020
Video: Stuart Schrader on Badges without Borders
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- New Book Salon
October 30, 2020
Video: Electoral Politics and Representative Governance
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October 26, 2020
Video: Joan Donovan on the True Costs of Misinformation
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October 19, 2020
Video: Popular Mobilization and Electoral Politics
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- Theorizing the Present
June 4, 2020
Future Café: Post-X Zine Now Available
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February 27, 2020
Video: For the Many
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