Nightcap Lecture Series: Tina Post on Coziness

Name: Nightcap Lecture Series: Tina Post on Coziness
Start: 2026-01-22T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-01-22T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Three Top Lounge

Schedule

Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Three Top Lounge | Chicago, IL

Information
Nightcap is a Thursday evening lecture series at Three Top Lounge featuring engaging talks and conversations with experts across disciplines. Presented in partnership with Chicago Humanities, Sexpectations, the Gray Center at the University of Chicago, and the MCA, each 40-minute session begins at 7pm and pairs thoughtful ideas with a well-made Three Top Lounge drink. For the first installation in the Nightcap Lecture Series, we welcome author, researcher, and University of Chicago professor of English Literature Tina Post, who will be leading us through a talk on coziness. Tina Posts present research concerns coziness as an aesthetic categorythat is (after Sianna Ngai) as a socially informed perception of form that is wedded to a judgement about that form. Said differently, shes interested in how we (culturally) come to name something as cozy in the first place, and whatand whomcomes to be written into or out of that category as a consequence. This talk will suggest some of the ways that coziness comes to be constituted, and proposes some problematics that inhere in that category. RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY

Note:
This event is 21 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 21 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund.