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Explore the rich cultural heritage of various countries through online classes, covering topics such as art, history, music, and cuisine. Immerse yourself in the vibrant traditions and customs of different cultures from the comfort of your own home.

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Solarpunk: Theory, Fiction, and Radical Futures

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Explore a radical vision of the future where nature and technology align, challenging the pessimistic outlook on climate change. Immerse yourself in the art, theory, and speculative fiction of solarpunk to reimagine a world of decommodified energy and human liberation. Join us on this intellectual journey towards a harmonious coexistence of technology, nature, and human life.

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Mesopotamia: Civilization, Archaeology, and Material Culture

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Embark on a captivating exploration of Mesopotamian civilization through archaeology and material culture. Join us at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research as we delve into the origins, structures, and legacy of this ancient society, unraveling its significance amidst historical interpretations and contemporary geopolitical contexts. Uncover the complexities of Mesopotamia's urbanization, social structures, and technological advancements, and discover how its material remains offer insights into our understanding of the past and present.

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The Incredible Women of the Bible

92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom

Rabbi Samantha Frank’s The Incredible Women of the Bible The women of the Bible are complex, crafty, and sometimes mysterious. Together, we’ll explore a few of their stories and consider what lessons we can learn for our lives today. Come with a sense of open inquiry! No prior Jewish study required — all genders welcome.

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Being Asian and Jewish in America: Embracing Liminality

92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom

In this two-part talk, Jared Chiang-Zeizel will explore the transitional space Asian American Jews often find themselves while growing up in America. Patrons will gain a deeper understanding of the mixed experience in America, a broadening view of Asian and Jewish communities in the American diaspora, and how one can embrace the liminal experience they find themselves in.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Jewish Mysticism for Daily Life

92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom

Exploring the Sefirot with Rabbi Ariel Stone Join Rabbi Ariel Stone for a look at how the Jewish mysticism of the Kabbalah can help us find a place in the world via the ancient ladder of the Sefirot. Guided by the teachings of medieval Kabbalist sage Joseph Gikatilla, explore how the Sefirot’s ten attributes of existence can help us ask the deepest spiritual questions of contemporary life. Where is the unifying thread within the fragmentation...

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Shades of Grey

92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom

Jewish Tradition and Abortion: What Does Judaism Say?  Thu, Apr 20, 2023 In view of the recent Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, the issue of abortion has rightfully garnered considerable public attention. This session will focus on both classical Jewish sources and modern Jewish religious writings (Liberal and Orthodox) on abortion to clarify how Jewish tradition approaches this topic. We will also consider how Jewish wisdom and perspectives...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Literature

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Literature: an Introduction to Hélène Cixous How can psychoanalysis be used to understand literature—not as an object of study, but as a mode of experiencing life through reading and writing? For Hélène Cixous, the “French Feminist” perhaps best known for the controversial practice of “feminine writing” (écriture feminine), literature offers a means of engaging and subverting systems of sexual hierarchy...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Chávez and Chavismo: Revolution in the Barrio

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

The late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez was many things—baseball player, soldier, coup-leader, elected revolutionary, political symbol. So too Chavismo, which first surfaced as an epithet slung at the poor by a wealthy, white Venezuelan opposition, before coming to embody many of the hopes and aspirations of the poor in Venezuela and beyond. Powered by the “Bolivarian” revolutionary social movements that pre-existed its titular leader, Chavismo...

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Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Full Course Name: Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics, and American Violence Few objects loom larger in American history, media, and politics than guns. Americans own more firearms than citizens of any other country on Earth. The United States is the largest manufacturer, importer, and exporter of guns on the planet. Alongside currency, guns are the only manufactured object mentioned in the U.S. Constitution; and the question and...

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Society and the Spirit of Capitalism: an Introduction

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Society and the Spirit of Capitalism: an Introduction to Max Weber Max Weber sought to explain nothing less than the emergence of the modern world and the direction in which it was headed. A trailblazer (along with Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim) of the modern discipline of sociology, Weber brought to bear empirically driven methods of comparative analysis to identify and analyze the individual attitudes and social structures that shape and determine...

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Julia Kristeva: Feminism, Abjection, and Theory

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Emigrating from the European periphery to its intellectual center, Julia Kristeva exploded like a bomb onto the insular world of French theory. Her first book, Revolution in Poetic Language, put forth a wholly new understanding of human communication—insisting on the non-linguistic rhythmic dimension that undergirds all language. Her emphasis on the body in turn centered the formative significance of the maternal, which, she argues, is repressed...

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Pornography: Aesthetics, Politics, and Pleasure

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Pornography is one of humanity’s oldest, and most enduring artifacts. Variously celebrated and demonized, it has decorated sumptuous palaces and been furtively sold under pain of arrest. In the modern United States, it is kept studiously out of sight, and yet is simultaneously omnipresent and accessible in its most explicit forms with a simple click of the mouse. What is pornography? What does it do? Why do we treat it so inconsistently? Why is...

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Jorge Luis Borges: Mysticism, Fiction, and Politics

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Jorge Luis Borges’ fiction is uniquely powerful for its captivating amalgam of political, mystical, and metaphysical themes. In this course, an introduction to Borges’ most canonical works, we’ll read his great short story collections Ficciones and The Aleph, as well as the essay collection Other Inquisitions—bearing in mind, as we proceed, the literary themes and social concerns that pervade the most formative decade...

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Transgender Marxism: an Introduction

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

In recent years, there has been unprecedented growth in the visibility and sheer number of people who identify with a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. Trans life and, with it, a whole world of trans culture—aesthetics, style, taste—has broken from the margins into the mainstream. This new generation of “gender subversives” is, at the same time, inordinately active in left-wing politics and radical movements, vigorously...

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What is Conservatism?

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

While contemporary political discourse is often characterized by heated discussions of liberalism or fascism, socialism or “populism”, the broad category of “conservative” thought seems to take a back seat. This despite its enduring relevance not only for understanding political history and the history of political thought, but also as an analytical tool today. What exactly is conservatism? How can we understand a category so capacious as...

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How to Advocate for Transformative & Intersectional

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Full Course Title: How to Advocate for Transformative & Intersectional Policy Solutions to Prevent Hate Crimes In this workshop, participants will learn about transformative and intersectional policy solutions to prevent hate crimes. Within this workshop, we will discuss cross-sector policy solutions that can work to prevent violence and create culture change for a long-term prevention framework. We know that transformative solutions will...

(245) All levels 18 and older
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Feminist Sex Wars: the Politics of Pleasure

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Explore the explosive conflicts that shaped the US feminist movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s, delving into debates over pornography, prostitution, and other matters of sex and power. Uncover the entanglements with capitalist development and the ongoing relevance of these issues in contemporary sexual representation and conduct. Dive into the history and theory of this contentious era, examining the roots of conflict, the impact on women's studies and queer advocacy, and the ongoing legacy of these debates.

(29) All levels 21 and older
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