# The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory

**Source**: https://ccct.uchicago.edu/
**Parent**: https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/about/glossary

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.

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Monday March 16, 2026

### [The Future of Rights](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/events/the-future-of-rights/ "The Future of Rights")

Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 6:00–7:00pm

[Future Café](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/series/future-cafe)

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Dominique J. Baker, Ron Lieber, and Lauren A. RiveraMonday March 16, 2026

### [Aspiring to Elitism: How the Admissions Office Remade the Corporate University](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/events/aspiring-to-elitism-how-the-admissions-office-remade-the-corporate-university/ "Aspiring to Elitism: How the Admissions Office Remade the Corporate University")

Monday, April 13, 2026, 5:30–7:00pm

[The Corporate University](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/projects/the-corporate-university)

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Monday March 16, 2026

### [Video: John Mearsheimer on The Monroe Doctrine and the Invasion of Venezuela](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/news/video-john-mearsheimer-on-the-monroe-doctrine-and-the-invasion-of-venezuela/)

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Monday March 2, 2026

### [Video: Robert Gooding-Williams on Democracy and Beauty](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/news/video-robert-gooding-williams-on-democracy-and-beauty/ "Video: Robert Gooding-Williams on Democracy and Beauty")

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Hannah ProctorMonday March 2, 2026

### [Political Pathologies: US Social Science, Psychoanalytic Interviewing, and the Cold War](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/events/political-pathologies-us-social-science-psychoanalytic-interviewing-and-the-cold-war/ "Political Pathologies: US Social Science, Psychoanalytic Interviewing, and the Cold War")

Thursday, April 16, 2026, 5:00–6:30pm

[Revolutionary Disappointment and Recalibration](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/projects/revolutionary-disappointment-recalibration)

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Sianne NgaiMonday March 2, 2026

### [Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/events/inhabiting-error/)

Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 5:00–6:30pm

[Theorizing the Present](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/series/theorizing-the-present)

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### [The Corporate University](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/projects/the-corporate-university/ "The Corporate University")

Principal Investigator(s): 3CT Fellows

From budget deficits to the reliance on adjunct labor, from anxieties about “woke” campus politics to worries about “cancel culture,” from the erosion of faculty governance to the empowerment of consultants and trustees, the university as an institution is being transformed.

[The Corporate University](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/projects/the-corporate-university)

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### [Spring 2026 Co-sponsored Events](https://ccct.uchicago.edu/news/spring-2026-co-sponsored-events/)