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Mental Health & the Law: Politics, Psychology & Profit

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

What is “mental health” and how has it been shaped by the law? From defining wellness to restricting the rights of the unwell, setting parameters for treatment, and regulating and protecting the pharmaceutical companies that develop and market psychological drugs (often to immense profits), government laws are fundamental to the ways mental health is experienced, perceived, policed, and commodified. But, how did the modern legal regime of mental...

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Radical Theology: an Introduction to Karl Barth

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Karl Barth is the most influential, and perhaps most polemical, Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. Drawing deeply on Søren Kierkegaard’s fervent view of Christianity, Barth starkly criticizes theologians in the tradition of liberal Protestantism. At the same time, he is known as the “Red Pastor” who cares for the interests of his rural, blue-collar parishioners and rejects the collusion of the Christian faith with bourgeois life....

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Ethics by Design Series: Overview & Human Rights

General Assembly

When you design or engineer a product, you believe that it will have a positive impact on your target market. But do you have the resources to think about how your technologies might affect society as a whole? This evening workshop will introduce you to the basics of ethical thinking and will help you implement ethics in your working day. ***This is a standalone module in the Ethics by Design Series, which encourages you to think more deeply...

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How to Advocate for Transformative & Intersectional

Be Social Change

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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The Gilded Age Palaces of Newport, RI

Bronxville Adult School @ Virtual Classroom

When Edith Wharton purchased her “Lands’ End” cottage in Newport, RI, she found it “incurably ugly” and immediately renovated it into a comfortable vacation home. But surrounding her, the small resort town of eclectic, shingle cottages developed into a row of American palaces, each outdoing the next. See nearly one hundred vintage and contemporary photographs and learn how Gilded Age “old” money–like the Astors and Goelets–tried...

(20) All levels 18 and older
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Bell Hooks: Race, Feminism, and Freedom

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

For much of its early history, feminism centered a female subject based almost exclusively on the experiences of a particular sort of woman: white and middle-class. “When women are talked about,” noted a Stanford undergraduate named Gloria Watkins, “the focus tends to be on white women.” In response, Watkins, writing under the pen name bell hooks, published Ain’t I a Woman—a landmark text that permanently altered the terms of feminist...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Exploring the Impact of Environment on identity

Premise Institute

Full Course: How does place shape us? Exploring the impact of environment on identity. Our relationship with our surroundings is a fundamental aspect of human experience. From the natural world to the built environment, the places we inhabit shape our perceptions, behavior, and sense of self. This course will delve into the philosophical questions surrounding the impact of place on personal identity, exploring how our relationship with the environment...

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Sex, Gender, and the Avant-Garde

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

The early 20th century avant-gardes—from Futurism to Dada, Constructivism to Surrealism—hailed and aimed to generate, via new aesthetic experience, new forms of social and political consciousness. Gender norms and sexual hierarchies, as relics of a past imaginary no longer apropos of the present, came under fire by an eclectic, international generation of artists. Hannah Höch dissected and montaged the aspirational image of the era’s vaunted...

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Psychoanalysis and Politics

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Explore the intersection of psychoanalysis and politics in this course that delves into the political history and potential of psychoanalysis. From its association with political projects to its links with Marxism and critiques within that tradition, this course examines the impact of psychoanalysis on social order and political solidarity. Join this survey course and discover the insights into desire, nationalism, trauma, and more through a curated selection of psychoanalytic theorists.

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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.

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