The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month.

RESONANCE Reading Group

Session #1: There is no Unhappy Revolution, by Marcello Tarì

The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE – a vibrant group of colleagues, friends, and contemporary cultural history aficionados invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month, or indeed, just that one key text or book, that one time on a sunny Monday or a rainy Wednesday. The reading group takes place either in-person (at NOVA University Lisbon) or online, over the lunch hour on a weekday. This is a bring-your-own-lunch event and, when in-person, the coffee and cookies are provided by the RESONANCE project.

The very first session of the RESONANCE Reading Group centres Marcello Tarì’s There is no Unhappy Revolution. This book traces the revolt to insurrection to revolution pipeline, proposing affective landscapes based on emotion, love, and friendship as essential instigators of revolutionary efforts – as if, as Fred Moten suggests, “revolution [was] the only happiness we might pursue.”

Join us on 15 December, 12 PM, at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Room B201), for this inaugural event.

Register by sending an email to Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt, to receive more details and a PDF copy of the book.

Picture: Passion fruit, axial view, Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford, Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom (CC BY)