# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dan Wang - "Lyric Personhood" - Daniel Morgan
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 02 Jul, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dan Wang will discuss his new book Lyric Personhood: On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West. He will be joined in conversation by Daniel Morgan. 

At the Co-op

About the book: A new theory of personhood makes the case that a “person” has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal, political, or moral one.

What does it mean to be a person? Lyric Personhood contends that to be encultured in the modern West is to learn, on top of everything else, an unspoken and mostly felt sense of what it means to be someone, a sense transmitted not only in language but also through encounters with aesthetic form. Through close readings that span nineteenth-century European opera, commercial cinema, and amateur YouTube proposal videos, Dan Wang shows that a “person” has become an aesthetic concept—and not just a legal, moral, political, or philosophical one—in the last two hundred years of Western culture. It’s hard to let go of the organizing promise of romantic love, the dream of therapeutic “health,” and the aspiration to belong to national culture, Wang argues, because these longings have been shaped by an archive of sentimental and melodramatic works that trains people’s expectations for life, genre, and even the knowing promised in theory itself. Tracing a surprisingly continuous imagination of personhood through opera and film aesthetics, Lyric Personhood introduces modes of reading audiovisual works that allow a longer story to be told about the forms that make personhood sensible in the West.

About the author: Dan Wang is assistant professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh. He has contributed articles to The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies and to the journal 19th-Century Music.

About the interlocutor: Daniel Morgan is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He is author of Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema and The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/dan-wang-lyric-personhood-daniel-morgan/200030324604353
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, health-wellness, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637
- **lat**: 41.7902
- **long**: -87.59611
- **full address**: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637

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- **Q**: When and where is Dan Wang - "Lyric Personhood" - Daniel Morgan being held?
  - **A:** Dan Wang - "Lyric Personhood" - Daniel Morgan takes place on Thu, 02 Jul, 2026 at 04:00 pm to Thu, 02 Jul, 2026 at 04:00 pm at 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637.
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  - **A:** Dan Wang - "Lyric Personhood" - Daniel Morgan is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Chicago, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Dan Wang - "Lyric Personhood" - Daniel Morgan sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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