LOUNGE

3CT’s lounge on the first floor of Foster Hall is a comfortable and quiet spot offering flexible seating and desk space, as well as a reading area and kitchenette.

The lounge is typically reserved for the use of students in 3CT classes and our fellows and staff. Students, faculty, and other members of the university community may also reserve the room in advance for regular or one-off meetings, office hours, study sessions, or other individual or group usage.

Please contact 3CT staff for more information and to make a booking.

STUDENT-LED EVENTS

3CT offers opportunities for students to take the lead in initiating and organizing programming for the center, from conferences to small group discussions.

One such series, Future Café, is an experimental forum that encourages undergraduates to collectively imagine utopian possibilities and multi-generational futures. Students select topics and lead conversations about subjects such as climate change, post-capitalism, transportation, urbanism, and the future of intimacy.

Our annual Lauren Berlant Graduate Student Conference is a space for students at the University of Chicago and beyond to share their work. Conferences are selected from an open call for proposals from individual students or groups on any themes that reflect 3CT’s commitments to theorizing the present and to interdisciplinarity.

New in 2024–25, we are hosting a dissertation writing group on Friday mornings starting October 11 in Foster 107. These weekly sessions are open to PhD candidates and those very close to candidacy across the social sciences and humanities who engage with contemporary critical theory in their work or those whose work is motivated by the central mission of 3CT to “theorize the present.” Students from elsewhere in the university whose projects align with 3CT are encouraged to contact Helen Galvin Ross and Burak Tan. Registration is not required, but we would appreciate potential participants expressing interest here.