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American Museum of Natural History: Un-Highlights Tour
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Museum Hack
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Upper West Side
Central Park W , New York, New York 10024
Dinosaurs! Science! Adventure! Break out your pith helmet as we embark upon a brazen expedition through the halls of New York City's world-famous American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Join your maverick tour guide as we deftly navigate this massive 27-building, 1.6 million square foot landmark cultural institution. Learn the science...
The Handmaid and the Hound
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Think Olio
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Union Square
828 Broadway, New York, New York 10003
For a new generation of readers, the fears of the future funneled through these two contemporary classics have achieved critical mass and are more forecast than creative fancy. And that’s because they project an eerie déjà vu quality to the tumult of 2017. In varying measures, “Handmaid’s Tale” and “Fahrenheit 451” speak to the...
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Queens Then and Now
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Q.E.D.
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Astoria
27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, New York 11105
The borough of Queens has seen many historical and geographical changes throughout its illustrious history. Marshlands, woods, and farms gave way to factories, thriving communities, and the nation's premier arterial highway system. Queens: Then & Now offers a rare historical look at New York City's largest borough, featuring many never-before-seen...
Thomas Paine and the Flame of Revolution
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This Olio examines the life and writing of Thomas Paine at the end of the eighteenth century. Starting with Common Sense and The Crisis Papers, the talk focuses on Paine’s role in the American Revolution and the creation of an “American” political ideology.
The Eleusinian Mysteries
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Brooklyn Brainery
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Prospect Heights
190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Course Name: The Eleusinian Mysteries: Occult Secrets of the Ancient Greeks Every year in the Ancient Greek city of Eleusis, people gathered from far and wide to worship the power of nature with a series of religious rituals called the Eleusinian Mysteries. Although it was kept secret from all but the initiated, the cult of the Mysteries...
New Amsterdam: The Birthplace of New York Walking Tour
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Brooklyn Brainery
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Financial District
Battery Park, New York, New York 10004
On this walking tour, we’ll discover the life of pirates and prostitutes living in the scrappy Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, long before New York was New York. Step into the wooden shoes of the early settlers and see what life was like being an employee rather than a colonist. Based on exciting new research taking place over the...
The Women Rebel: Women Who Shook New York
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Q.E.D.
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Astoria
27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, New York 11105
Imagine you are at a party with the anarchist Emma Goldman, the dancer Isadora Duncan and the women’s health pioneer Margaret Sanger. Two things are probably true: you are at Mabel Dodge’s celebrated Wednesday Night Salon, and Marcel Duchamp is swinging from the chandelier. When Dodge began her salon in 1912, she claimed, “every thinking person...
What is Liberalism?
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Brooklyn
432 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238
While for many in the United States liberalism is understood as a loose category of political identification – whose definition has shifted significantly and not always transparently over the past century – fewer people are familiar with liberal political philosophy despite its overwhelming influence on political discourse both left and right....
Contemporary Debates in Race & Ethnicity
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The New School
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Manhattan
10011
Through an interdisciplinary engagement with contemporary literature and scholarship on race and ethnicity, this course considers the following questions: How do race and ethnicity organize the social world? What are the historical conditions under which the various definitions of racial and ethnic difference emerge? What is at stake in the institutional...
Queer New York
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The New School
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Manhattan
10011
This course traverses the geography of New York City, exploring queer life from the 1960s to the present. Through engagement with literature, performance, and film, students look at experiments in the production of queer art and culture. From Jack Smith's trash aesthetics to Dynasty Handbag's performance of abjection, queer art practice has...
The African Burial Ground: Black Archaeology
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Brooklyn Brainery
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Brooklyn
1233 Prospect Ave Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, New York 11218
For two hundred years they waited beneath lower Manhattan, entirely forgotten. Even after their recent rediscovery – which occurred by accident during the construction of a new office building –their importance was denied, debated, and almost destroyed. Who are ‘they’? The thousands of African-Americans who lived in New York City during the...
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Fundamentalism: An Introduction
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Lower East Side
178 Stanton St, New York, New York 10002
“Fundamentalism” emerged in the late nineteenth century to describe groups of Protestant Christians in the United States that, although varying, most frequently orbited around a key set of practices and principles: a literalist and unmediated reading of text, a desire to purge “new” ideas, and a return to “original” precepts and foundations. ...
Great Decisions 2017
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92nd Street Y
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Upper East Side
1395 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10128
Join the longest-running informal foreign affairs discussion program in the country. Increase your awareness and understanding of timely, thought-provoking foreign policy issues involving the US. Each week another thematic/geographic issue is placed in its historical context. Includes Great Decisions 2017 book.
Reading Herodotus
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Lower East Side
178 Stanton St, New York, New York 10002
Since antiquity, Herodotus has been proclaimed the Father of History and the Father of Lies; and others have found in Herodotus the origins of western ethnographic writing. In our course, we will read and discuss the entirety of Herodotus’ Histories, with particular attention to the dialogic variety of narratives—historical, anthropological,...
Gifts of the Sun: The Cuisine of the Aztecs
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Brooklyn Brainery
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Brooklyn
190 Underhill Ave Brooklyn, NY 11238, Brooklyn, New York 11238
When the first Spanish conquerors arrived in present-day Mexico in the 16th century, they were astounded by what they found. The cultural achievements of the native peoples of Mesoamerica rivaled anything back in Europe: there was great architecture, great literature, and yes, great food. Despite lacking large domestic animals, the Aztecs...