Dec 16th
2–4pm EDT
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Washington, D.C.
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Story-Telling at the Nat’l Museum of American History
Washington Photo Safari @ 5114 Ritchie Rd #644, Bealeton, VA , USA, Bealeton, VA 22712
Smartphone Photography: Story-Telling at the National Museum of American History This safari is especially designed for smartphone users! Her face says it all: “You can make me sit in a segregated part of this train, but you can’t break my spirit.” Her face is proud, resolute, her chin is held high, her lips are tight, her hands firmly clasped in her lap, as if to say: “Someday, one day, we will be able to sit anywhere we want. I might...
Saturday Dec 16th, 2–4pm Eastern Time
Georgetown Foodie Tour
Mangia DC Food Tours @ 3430 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Georgetown is a prestigious neighborhood in DC well known for being home to some of the city’s most notable residents, embassies, local commerce, and culinary gems. This is the perfect neighborhood to eat your way through! Your local expert guide will take you off of the main M Street drag where you will be surprised to learn about the significant political and cultural history of its famous residents including the Kennedys and an Emmy award-winning...
Friday Sep 29th, 1–4:30pm Eastern Time
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Psychoanalysis is often called “revolutionary,” with its dethronement of human pretensions to self-mastery drawing comparisons to the innovations of Copernicus and Darwin. But, if psychoanalysis produced a revolution in knowledge, what has it meant for politics? Is psychoanalysis an inherently political enterprise? Do its insights into the unconscious and interior life undermine social order and political solidarity? Must we be repressed in order...
Sunday Oct 22nd, 2–5pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
What is Social Democracy?
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
The left’s recent electoral resurgence has given new life to an old term: social democracy. First coined in the 19th century to designate Marxists (as opposed to utopian socialists), the term came gradually to signify a reformist brand of socialism that, rather than seeking to smash capitalism and the state, aimed to use the instruments of liberal democracy to engineer full employment and economic equality. And for much of the mid-twentieth century,...
Sunday Oct 22nd, 2–5pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
A Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Critical Theory and the Now: a Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School In 1930, Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. Along with his colleagues and a broader orbit of external scholars, he inaugurated the first wave of what came to be called “critical theory.” This course is an introduction to some of the key works and concepts of the Frankfurt School, including thinkers like...
Tuesday Nov 14th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
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Mining: Industry, Ecology, and Capitalism
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
An underground industry, mining is never entirely out of sight. Literally explosive, it’s produced some of the most violent conflicts in the history of labor. The environmental devastation wrought by mining is undeniable; its relationship to colonial and imperial state building explicit; and the destruction it visits on the communities that make its operations possible is wide-ranging and immense. Yet the industry has significant political and...
Tuesday Oct 17th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Feminist Sex Wars: the Politics of Pleasure
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a series of acrimonious disagreements exploded the US feminist movement—over pornography, prostitution, sadomasochism, and other matters of sex and power, pleasure and violence. What were the terms and stakes that shaped the several “sides” of the so-called “feminist sex wars”—beyond and in excess of the “pro-sex” and “anti-porn” positions to which the history of feminism’s belligerent parties...
Sunday Nov 19th, 2–5pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
“Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.” – Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism When Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951 she set out to provide a political framework for understanding the phenomenal appearance of National Socialism in the world, and its...
Tuesday Oct 17th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Decolonial Theory: an Intro
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Too often, colonization is understood as a thing of the past, the work of decolonization having been completed in the wave of anti-colonial revolutions that shook the mid-20th century. But colonization and the work of decolonization are far from over. The long-term legacies of colonial domination, or what’s sometimes called coloniality, have outlived and outlasted formal colonial rule, seeping into every fissure of our world and shaping everything...
Wednesday Oct 18th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Make Money Pet Sitting
Mt. San Antonio College @ Virtual Classroom
Do you love animals...especially dogs? Learn how to make extra money after school or work by watching dogs or other pets, usually in the pet's home. You will learn about feeding, watering, and exercising pets, how to make a good impression as well as what questions to ask when interviewing for a pet sitting job, and what to do when a dog has behavioral issues. You will also discover other services you can offer to make more...
Friday Oct 6th, 4–6pm Pacific Time
Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project Walter Benjamin once wrote that The Arcades Project was “the theater of all my struggles and all my ideas.” Never completed and well over a decade in the making, The Arcades Project takes on the presentation and history of an entire era and place: the Parisian Arcades of the early 19th century. Via quotations, observations, commentaries, philosophical...
Tuesday Oct 17th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Expressive Writing for Emotional Healing
Infinity Foundation - Virtually Online
Processing the experiences of overwhelm, trauma, or other difficulties in healthy ways is important for your wellbeing. Expressive writing is an evidence-based technique that helps relieve the pain of difficult emotions. Effective processing helps you get unstuck so you can live your life in the present moment. Practice expressive writing to resolve your most troubling memories. Develop a framework of language that helps move unresolved thoughts...
Saturday Dec 9th, 9am–12pm Central Time
Memoir 1: Memorable Memoir Workshop
Have you ever thought about turning your life’s trials and tribulations into a NY Times bestseller? In this five-week Online Memoir Writing Workshop, Erika Schickel (2 Memoirs, LA Times) will share her secrets for turning your life’s twists and turns into lively drama! Her fun, all new in-class exercises will help you infuse your most fascinating memories with authenticity and personality. She’ll cover crucial topics such as how to craft a...
Saturday Oct 14th, 10am–1pm Pacific Time
(5 sessions)
Welfare: Law, Poverty, and Social Reproduction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
“Welfare” is often equated simply with money. In fact, it’s a body of law, implemented by administrative agencies and aimed at the regulation of working-class families. Sometimes referred to as “the criminal law for women,” the latter family regulation system, like the criminal legal system, has a long history as a state apparatus of racialized social control. As Dorothy Roberts has pointed out, “the family policing system played an...
Wednesday Nov 15th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
HypnoBirthing (Online)
Sakinah Birth @ Online Class
What Is HypnoBirthing - The Mongan Method? The HypnoBirthing Philosophy is simple: Birth is instinctive and can be experienced in a calm, joyful and more comfortable manner. Fear, anxiety, and anguish do not have to accompany pregnant women and their birthing experiences. Why HypnoBirthing? HypnoBirthing is a comprehensive and evidence-based childbirth education program. This amazing program teaches both mother and partner about birthing in a...
Sunday Oct 15th, 3–6pm Central Time
(5 sessions)
