The Post-1945 Workshop provides a space for graduate students and faculty from any division or department at the University of Chicago to discuss and present works-in-progress that engage with aesthetic objects or social and theoretical questions within any context in the postwar and contemporary world. The Workshop proceeds from a sense that the increasingly global connection of cultures, nations, and media after the second World War has created objects of humanistic and social scientific study that obey neither a clear disciplinary distribution nor, internal to the disciplines, clear geographic or formal specialization. To speak of the post-1945 world is to mobilize a nexus of theoretical concerns that feels out for archives of aesthetic and political texts without in advance determining the genealogies of thought from which they will derive.

The Workshop’s 2014-15 faculty sponsors are Patrick Jagoda (English), Matthew Jesse Jackson (Art History), and Sarah Hammerschlag (Divinity).

Post-1945 is coordinated by Rowan Bayne [rbayne {at} uchicago] and Michael Dango [dango {at} uchicago].