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The History of Photography

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom

The Los Angeles Center of Photography is thrilled to produce an ongoing series on the history of photography. The series, typically offered the third Tuesday of each month, will be divided into the genres of photography. This year features lectures on notable Black and Women photographers in history, Street Photography, Still Life, Landscape and Documentary. Schedule: Tuesday, March 8, 5 pm, PST – Notable Black Photographers with Shawn Theodore...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Why The Electoral College?

West Los Angeles College

Why the Electoral College and Why Does it Decide Presidential Elections? Recent polls and surveys show that public interest in the 2020 presidential election is near an all-time high. One question millions of Americans ask is why we choose our presidents by the Electoral College, rather than the popular vote. Find out just what the Electoral College is, and examine its origins and history.  Learn why it’s likely to be a hot topic now, and...

(58) All levels 18 and older
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Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art

The Jewish Museum

Join us for an online workshop that explores the exhibition Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, currently on view at the Museum through January 9, 2002. The exhibition includes objects looted from Jewish collections during the World War II, including works by such renowned artists as Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Camille Pissarro, as well as rare examples of Jewish ceremonial...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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World Politics with Professor Ralph Buultjens

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

The New Political Economy: America and Global Power In the post-pandemic world, global economics is changing dramatically. How will this impact the balance of geopolitical power? Who will be the winners and losers? Will a slowdown in China affect its world position? Will it increase competition in Asia between Japan, India and China? Will America’s economic performance destabilize our politics and impact on our global outreach? How will oil prices...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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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.

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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...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Mining: Industry, Ecology, and Capitalism

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Delve into the explosive history of mining, from labor conflicts to environmental devastation, in this interdisciplinary course that examines mining's cultural status and political uses. Explore its ties to capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism, and uncover its role in shaping modern urban life.

(29) All levels 21 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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What is Participatory Democracy?

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

What is Participatory Democracy? Theory, Activism, and Power Since its first formulation in the early 1960s, the concept of “participatory democracy” has come to take on multiple meanings—some of them complementary, others conflicting. Promoted by a wide variety of theorists, activists, social movements, and political parties, conceptions of participatory democracy range from deepened civic engagement to procedural reform to the wholesale...

(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...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Happiness and Capitalism: Work, Wealth, and Misery(n)

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Happiness and Capitalism: Work, Wealth, and Misery “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” So observed the “father” of political economy, Adam Smith, in his classic The Wealth of Nations. Nearly 250 years later, Smith’s self-appointed children, secure in economics departments, central banks, and government agencies, are quick to insist that, in absolute terms,...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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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...

(29) Beginner 21 and older
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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...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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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...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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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...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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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...

(29) Beginner 21 and older
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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...

(29) Beginner 21 and older
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McCarthyism: American Politics and the Paranoid Style

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Senator Joseph McCarthy’s name is enshrined in the American lexicon to symbolize a style of paranoia and fear that goes far beyond his original red-baiting. Just as the path to McCarthyism was in fact paved decades earlier—as conservative factions deployed both ideological and state violence in their early fights against organized labor—the McCarthyist manner of politics has found new acolytes in the Trump era. From references to “outside...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Convalescence: Sickness, Society, and Resignation

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

In a world that is itself sick—with the irascible demands of production that continuously propagate new forms of exploitation—and that in turn sickens its inhabitants, what kind of response is retreat? In Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, a young scion of the bourgeoisie undergoes an unexpectedly protracted rest cure in a cloistered Swiss sanitorium, while the outside world is igniting for war. In Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, nearly a century later,...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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American Policing: History, Politics, and Society

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

For many Americans the existence of the police may seem as inevitable as a law of nature. From popular culture to political stump speeches to the oft-invoked impulse to “Call 911,” the idea of public order is widely presented as unimaginable without the existence of police to enforce it. Without the police, this reasoning runs, society itself would cease to exist. But the institution that is American policing has not always existed, let alone...

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