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Shakespeare with Leo Schaff
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92nd Street Y
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Upper East Side
1395 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10128
Join charismatic actor and teacher Leo Schaff as he breathes life into Shakespeare's words, acting out portions of the play, and offering illuminating insights into the Bard's language, plot lines, historical context and eternal relevance, all with a generous sense of humor. This year, he tackles the history plays. Sep 26 — Henry VI, Part I Part...
Reading the Odyssey
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Williamsburg
381 Hooper St, Brooklyn, New York 11211
The first lines of the Odyssey foretell the story of the man “of many ways” who, in his wanderings, comes to know “cities and minds.” A radically new hero is thus introduced, committed not to the glory—and to the short, beautiful life—of the Iliadic warrior, but to the transactions and institutions of an increasingly mortal, increasingly...
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Religious Feminisms: An Introduction
at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
In 1982, the New York Times editorial page published an essay entitled “Is God a Feminist?”, which noted the flood of feminist religious writing and the rapid increase of women enrolled in theological institutes. “Across the board,” the author argued, “from biblical scholarship and religious history to ethics and theology, our religious heritage...
Great Books: Mystical Foundations
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Institute of Prophetic Activist Art
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East Village
195 East 3rd Street, New York, New York 10009
Great Books explores mystical thinking by reading from texts of great spiritual thinkers throughout the ages to spur us on to see our lives, and the surrounding society, from a very different perspective. Every week, we read 30-page excerpts of one book, then spend the class discussing the ideas, as well as how they might impact the manner...
Reading Kipling
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92nd Street Y
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Upper East Side
1395 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10128
Rudyard Kipling’s name is associated today with Disney’s version of The Jungle Book and with Imperialism. In this course we will see how the first is exclusionary (Kipling was above all a great craftsman of complex tales and poems) and how the second is largely false. We will study six short stories that will show the vast range of Kipling’s...
Reading Latin American Fiction
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92nd Street Y
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Upper East Side
1395 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10128
Beginning in the early twentieth century, the various Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America began developing a unique style of fantastic literature. Under the influence of Poe (via France) and certain schools of philosophy (the Pre-Socratics, Berkeley, William James, Existenialism) writers as different as Borges, García Márquez and Armonía...
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Villains, Violence, and Vogue
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Think Olio
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Greenwich Village
828 Broadway, New York, New York 10003
Aristotle first recognized the paradox of tragic art. Why do we enjoy watching fictional characters suffer when we would be horrified by the same thing in real life? Contemporary pop-culture is full of such apparent paradoxes. Why do we enjoy seeing someone incinerated by a high-powered laser beam in a movie or comic book, but not in real life? Do...
$20
Books & Brunch
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Queensborough Community College
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Bayside
222-05 56th Ave, Bayside, New York 11364
Gather in a diverse group setting and participate in an informal but challenging discussion of contemporary and classical literature and the reading experience. Learn what authors do to capture a reader's interest and to keep a reader reading. Join in and talk about how authors create characters, develop plot and theme. ...
$55
3 sessions
Jorge Luis Borges: Mysticism and Politics
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Morningside Heights
612 W 116th St, New York, New York 10027
This class centers upon one of Latin America’s most prolific and influential literary figures, Jorge Luis Borges. It will introduce students to Borges’ most canonical works, including the two short story collections Fictions and The Aleph, as well as the essay collection Other Inquisitions. Students with previous...
$315
4 sessions
Signal and Noise: An Introduction to Statistics
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Midtown
247 West 37th St 5th Fl, New York, New York 10018
How do numbers relate to the world? What insights can we derive from data? How do we separate signal from noise? This course is an introduction to statistical thinking and its applications to data analysis at a level accessible to a broad audience with no prior statistical background. We’ll learn and make intuitive the fundamental methods...
$315
4 sessions
The Novel Now
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The New School
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Manhattan
10011
Discuss major new work by today’s top writers from America and beyond, including emerging important novelists, award-winners, and popular favorites, all of whom are central to our cultural conversation. From a whaling ship in the Arctic Sea to the wild Texas frontier to the gold coast of Africa to posh suburban Shaker Heights to the infinite landscape...
$765
15 sessions
Literature as Identity in Fahrenheit 451
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Think Olio
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Gowanus
574 President St, Brooklyn, New York 11215
Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, first published in 1953, is the latest in a series of dystopian fiction classics that have become handbooks for our troubled times. But there is more to “Fahrenheit 451” than the eerie déjà vu quality it projects onto the tumult of 2018. At its heart, Fahrenheit 451 is as much a love story as it is a prescient...
$15
Poetry and Poetics: An Introduction
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Lower East Side
47 Canal S #2, New York, New York 10002
What is poetry and what is it good for? These questions have long haunted practitioners and readers of this “beautiful and pointless” art, to quote the contemporary critic David Orr. But “beautiful and pointless” were not always the terms of the debate. On the contrary, these questions about what poetry is and what it does mean something profoundly...
$315
4 sessions
By the Book
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Queensborough Community College
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Bayside
222-05 56th Ave, Bayside, New York 11364
Gather in a diverse group setting and participate in an informal but challenging discussion of contemporary and classical literature and the reading experience. Learn what authors do to capture a reader's interest and The Mare by Mary Gaitskill will be the first selection. Please read this book PRIOR to the 1st class mee...
$75
5 sessions
Food, Power and Control: An Olio Dinner Party
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Think Olio
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Williamsburg
28 Frost St, Brooklyn, New York 11211
Food, Power and Control: How our obsession with food is a sign of our growing sense of powerlessness Our lives can sometimes become tasteless, lacking in meaning. We search for novelty and innovation and have forgotten about depth and context. Our choices in food are just one of the many ways that we express our yearning for something with...
$15