09/18/2026
The Revolutionary Disappointment and Recalibration project is a 2026–2027 research collaboration at the Neubauer Collegium, organized in partnership with the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), that brings together political and social theorists and historians of modern revolutionary movements. The project is hosting two lectures at the Neubauer Collegium in the coming weeks to investigate the forms that political hope might take.
On Thursday, Oct. 8 (5:00 – 6:30 pm), Fadi A. Bardawil will present a talk titled “Orientalism Is Not a Theoretical Machine,” in which he will consider Edward Said’s “reckoning with difference.” Bardawil, an Associate Professor of Contemporary Arab Cultures at Duke University, will be joined in discussion by Ghenwa Hayek, an Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago.
On Friday, Oct. 9 (12:30 – 2:00 pm), Hiba Bou Akar will present a talk titled “Highways of Collective Action,” in which she will examine Lebanon’s October 17 uprising through two charged infrastructures: Beirut’s Ring Road and the Khalde Triangle. Bou Akar is Associate Professor in the Urban Planning program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. She will be joined by Bardawil and Lisa Wedeen, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and faculty director of 3CT.
Photo by Hiba Bou Akar, Dec. 31, 2019.
