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Summer 2017 Teaching Parents to be Educators
DimiBook @ 168 Canal St, New York, NY
This course aims to inform and help parents of elementary and middle schoolers on how to educate their children better. Focus: How to teach children to think in innovative ways about current environmental issues such as plastic pollution, plant growth, and usage of other energy sources in the context of graphical analysis and math applications. The focus is on helping children analyze things in their environment more closely and apply their analysis...
All levels
9 - 15 years old
$80
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
What, if anything, should paradise mean to us right now? Paradise Lost, John Milton’s seventeenth-century epic of the Fall, which begins with “man’s first disobedience,” constitutes a heroic attempt to “justify the ways of God to men.” A poem that shifts from rebel angels waging war in heaven to the pageantry of hell to Adam and Eve in the lush confines of the Garden of Eden, Paradise Lost wrestles with questions of human...
Platform Capitalism
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
A somewhat new, and highly profitable, feature of the economic landscape is the “platform”—a digital infrastructure powered by algorithms and automation that enables users to connect and interact. Making platforms valuable are zero marginal costs, non-linear scaling effects, and the economics of networks—all of which lead to positive feedback mechanisms, winner-take-all dynamics, and dominance of the market by a single firm or technology....
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Dance, Dance, Revolution: A Political Intro to Dance
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 106 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution”—so, supposedly, said Emma Goldman. What is the connection between dancing and politics? Can dance, whether choreographed ballet, break dancing, or a spontaneous party, make a statement about society—or even, somehow, challenge it? In this course, we’ll explore the nature of dance and its possibilities as a mode of thinking, socially, politically, and aesthetically, about...
Silent Film: Cinema, Society, and the Avant-Garde
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Silent film is one of modernism’s quintessential mediums. In an essay on Kafka, Walter Benjamin notes that “the invention of the film and the phonograph came in an age of maximum alienation of men from one another.” Many early film critics and connoisseurs, enthusiastic about film’s technological possibilities and developments, viewed the passing of silent film and the ascendency of “talkies” as a potential regression for the medium,...
Fredric Jameson: What is Postmodernism?
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
“The postmodern,” writes Marxist literary and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson, “is the force field in which very different kinds of cultural impulses . . . must make their way.” Adapted from a New Left Review essay of the same name, Jameson’s Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is an ambitious account of how the postmodern has replaced modernism as the “cultural dominant” of late capitalism. In conversation with...
Imagining Utopia: Politics, Planning
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Imagining Utopia: Politics, Planning, and the (Im)Possible Dystopias abound in the contemporary landscape—in literature, on screen, in our diagnoses of the present. From the zombie apocalypse to planetary catastrophe to nightmarish visions of gender disciplining, dystopia is today a particularly salient category, a popular outlet for imaginations of (im)possible political futures. But the utopian genre, older by over a century, appears to have...
The Subway: Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Social Life
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 314 7th St, Brooklyn, NY
When the New York City subway opened in 1904, police had to call in reserves to tame the million-strong crowds clamoring to enter the tunnels. Within weeks, hurtling beneath the earth at speeds never before realized in a dense urban environment had become an utterly ordinary experience. For 120 years, the NYC subway, running 24 hours a day and ranking among the world’s largest, has maintained this blend of the quotidian and the extraordinary. When...
The Task of the Critic: an Introduction to Rosalind Krauss
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Uncover the transformative power of poststructuralist, feminist, and psychoanalytic methods in art criticism through an exploration of the writings and ideas of Rosalind Krauss, the influential founder of October journal. Analyze representative artworks alongside her essays, as you delve into the ways in which art objects and movements challenge categorization and reshape aesthetic experience. Discover how Krauss's unique theoretical vocabulary redefines the role of the critic in art historical narratives.
Reading Jacqueline Rose: Literature, Politics, and Psychoanalysis
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the relationship between literature, politics, and psychoanalysis through the thought-provoking works of Jacqueline Rose. Uncover the insights she offers on war, gender, and maternal rage, as we delve into the texts that have shaped her ideas. Join us in this intellectually stimulating journey to challenge conventional notions and ignite change in society.
Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things: Poetry, Materialism, and Pleasure
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the profound and liberating ideas of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Dive into the epic world of atoms, voids, and the nature of the soul while examining the role of poetry in conveying materialist teachings. Uncover the secrets of human motivation, free will, and morality in this captivating course.
The Soviet Avant-Garde: Culture, Politics, Aesthetics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
In this course, you'll explore artforms like Russian and Soviet avant-garde, Cubo-Futurism, and Constructivism. Learn the works of influential artists and examine their impact on the shifting ideological and institutional ideas during the early Soviet state. Uncover the avant-garde's quest for a "communistic expression of material structures" and its enduring legacy in the 20th century.
Freelance Basics
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Being a freelancer means dealing with many different aspects of career, aside from the practical trade skills. This class will cover the basics of working as a freelancer, with an emphasis on the creative fields. The lecture discusses topics such as health insurance, taxes, getting work, dealing with clients and more. Personal stories and life lessons will be shared, as well as time for Q&A at the end.
$15
2-Hour Silica Hazard Awareness - Spanish
TSC Training Academy @ 36-06 43rd Ave, Long Island City, NY
The 2-Hour Silica Hazard Awareness Seminar is appropriate for individuals who may be exposed to respirable crystalline silica in the course of construction activities. Occupational exposure occurs when cutting, sawing, drilling, and crushing of concrete, brick, ceramic tiles, rock, and stone products. Occupational exposure also occurs in operations that process or use large quantities of sand, such as foundries and the glass, pottery and concrete...
$75
Murderous Mothers: A Dark Celebration of Mother’s Day
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Tired of the Betty Crocker image of motherhood? The origins of Mother’s Day are darkly tragic so why not take a look at the darker side of mothers? This lecture will take you on a historical “tour” of mothers who murder that will leave you with a new appreciation of your own dear mom. The stories will range from the surreal to downright horrifying.
$10
The Mysterious History of Hart Island
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
For the most part if you end up on Hart Island in New York City, it is because things have gone terribly wrong. In the past, Hart Island has variously been used as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a Union Civil War Camp, a women’s insane asylum, and a boys’ reformatory. It was also used to launch missiles during the Cold War in the sixties from the Nike Missile Site, and it housed a rehab facility called Phoenix House in the sixties and seventies....
$10
Feminism 101
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Who needs feminism anyway? If you’re asking that question, you just might. From the Goddess of Willendorf to Lizzo, the origins of witch hunts and the definition of hysteria, we’ll discuss semiotics and popular culture and what they reveal about gender roles and subjugation.
$10
Textile Tuesday: Organic Fabric Presentation
Pratt/BF+DA @ 630 Flushing Ave, New York, NY
Once each month, we invite a sustainable textile vendor to come present their materials and processes. Join us for March’s Textile Tuesday with Xoomba, a young design company producing organic fabrics in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Xoomba abides by the highest environmental and ethical standards to create sustainable livelihoods in Sub Saharan Africa. This revolutionary line is delivered with an upbeat sense of style at a moderate price. Advantages...
All levels
16 and older
$10
Mad Scenes and Exit Arias
Course Name: Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera, the Arts and Non-Profits in America Heidi Waleson, opera critic for The Wall Street Journal and author of Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America, will speak with broadcaster Naomi Lewin about how and why City Opera went bankrupt, and what that means in the greater scheme...
On Wagner with Alex Ross
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
How did Wagner’s art become a proving ground where the Western world has wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence? For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Artist like Woolf, Mann, Duncan and Buñuel saw him as a kindred spirit. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers did as well. Then with the rise of Nazi Germany, the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism....
$35
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