The Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory warmly welcomes all to its first meeting of the Fall 2017 semester this Friday, September 8, at 4pm, in 2024 Tisch Hall. Coffee will be provided.

For the fall semester, we will be thinking about the concept of tragedy in the work of the twentieth-century German theorist, Walter Benjamin. To start us off, this Friday we will discuss a series of short essays by Benjamin on tragedy, melancholy, and language. We will provide all interested participants with a full reader of the Benjamin texts to be discussed during the semester at the first meeting.

If you are interested to attend the first meeting, please email either Megan Torti (mtorti@umich.edu) or Srdjan Cvjeticanin (srdjan@umich.edu) for a pdf copy of the readings to be discussed at the first meeting. Likewise please contact either Megan or Srdjan if you have any questions about the workshop, the schedule for the fall semester, or if you would like to be put on our regular email list for the term.