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Discover a world of history classes in NYC that will transport you back in time and deepen your understanding of the past. From ancient civilizations to modern events, explore fascinating topics and gain valuable insights to enrich your knowledge and perspective.

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How to Properly Collect, Invest, Protect & .....

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

How to Properly Collect, Invest and Protect and Preserve Antiques Join expert, Les Wolff, owner of Les Wolff Sports, a name synonymous with sports memorabilia, as he discusses how to properly collect, invest, protect and preserve antiques making sure you are getting the most out of your money while enjoying the value added to your life by being surrounded by history on a daily basis.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Talmud²

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Rabbi Scott Perlo (Associate Director of 92Y’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Life) teaches two nights of Judaism’s magnum opus, the Talmud, taught in English. Jump right into the text of this famous work of Jewish genius. For participants of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$36

2 sessions

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Babylon as Site and Symbol

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Babylon is a symbol of both pain and possibility for the Jewish diaspora. But it is more than just a symbol—it is a site in Iraq that still exists today. This three-part program will investigate the complicated relationships that Jews have with Babylon, an ancient city home to the first Jewish exile, the Babylonian Talmud, and, more recently, a US military base. We will explore how different parts of diasporic Jewish identities are interlinked...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Signal and Noise: An Introduction to Statistics

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY

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 and concepts of data quantification: linear regression, logistic regression, probability distribution,...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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Socrates

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 178 Stanton St, New York, NY

The trial, conviction, and execution of Socrates on the vote of the Athenian democracy is a founding myth in the history of Western philosophy. And yet very little is known with certainty about the historical Socrates, who himself wrote nothing, but whose way of life, as accounted by Plato (and others) has become a powerful and enduring paradigm of philosophical practice. To Athenian eyes and ears, Socrates was doubtless strange:  notoriously...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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Everyday Irrationalism: T. Adorno, Politics, and Reason

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 30 Irving Pl, New York, NY

Students in the course will read selections from a number of Adorno’s works, including The Stars Down to Earth, Minima Moralia, and The Authoritarian Personality. We will look at the famous dispute between Adorno and philosopher of science Karl Popper both to understand the grounds of their debate but also to understand their vast areas of agreement between empirical research and critical theory. We will pose a series of questions that emerge from...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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Empire, Nation-State, Caliphate: The Modern Middle East

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY

The transition from empire to nation-state was among the most consequential developments to shape the Middle East over the last hundred years. Beginning with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire at the close of WWI, the post-war international order invalidated heterogeneous forms of political organization in favor of the nation-state. It was a shift that rendered customary patterns of political and social life in the Middle East newly untenable,...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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Al-Andalus: Tolerance, Culture, and Violence in Spain

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 15 W 16th St, New York, NY

Al-Andalus: Tolerance, Culture, and Violence in Medieval Spain Between 711 and 1492, Islamic governments ruled over varying swaths of the Iberian Peninsula. Muslim Spain, or al-Andalus, still holds a powerful grip on the modern imagination as a time and place of religious tolerance—a “golden age” in which Muslims, Jews, and Christians peacefully coexisted and culturally thrived. In this course we will explore this common perception of al-Andalus...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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Carl Schmitt: Political Enemies

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 178 Stanton St, New York, NY

In this class, we will read several of Schmitt’s key works in their entirety, including The Concept of the Political, Political Theology, and The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, as well as key selections from later thinkers influenced by Schmitt. We will examine questions such as: what is “the political”? What is sovereignty? What is enmity and what is war? Why do we have a state? What are the boundaries between politics and reason? Students...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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Science, Race, and Colonialism

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 1216 5th Ave, New York, NY

At first glance, the work of science seems to provide empirically-grounded, universal explanations of natural and cultural phenomena. Yet as historians, anthropologists, and philosophers of science contend, such an understanding is at odds with the actual history of science, a history littered with racialized others serving as foils for the development of white, Euro-American subjects and societies. Moreover the “science” of racialized thinking–from...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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What is Money?

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 275 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Money seems like a straightforward aspect of our daily lives. But underlying its everyday functionality in facilitating transactions, measuring the market value of goods and services, and serving as a store of wealth over time is a stubborn question about what money actually is. As the economist Perry Mehrling observes, “Money is always difficult, and it is more difficult than ever today.” We often conceive of money as a “neutral” medium...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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Crisis and Capitalism

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 275 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Do capitalist societies have an inherent tendency toward economic, social, and political crises?  Political economists have, over the course of the past 250 years, offered different frameworks to understand the existence of crises within capitalism: from Adam Smith’s “general glut” (when production exceeds demand) to Marx’s belief that the contradictions inherent in capitalism will lead to its eventual demise and the Keynesian attempt...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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Ethnobotany for Educators: Exploring Local History

Continuing Professional Studies at Bank @ 610 W 112th St, New York, NY

Ethnobotany for Educators: Exploring Local History and Ancestral Foodways Thru People The relationship between people and plants have shaped our foodways for thousands of years. This workshop examines our food system at the intersection of history and culture. We will explore how indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans, and European colonists cultivated plants for ceremony, medicine, and food. Each participant will receive historically and culturally...

(17) All levels 18 and older
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$295
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Flying University - Sciencewashing

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

Flying University is a re-education in hidden histories.    This talk series is named after the underground university in Russian-occupied Poland that taught subjects banned by the state-run schools. This rebel organization also educated women, who were barred from attending the official university, including Marie Curie. In that spirit, each Flying University talk highlights a piece of history that has been “conveniently forgotten”. ...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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A Lot On The Mind: Epilepsy

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

Come join us for a night of educational and theatrical fun while learning about some of the most misunderstood and stigmatized neurological disorders! Each month we’ll highlight a different neurological disorder and address the science behind the disorder, research being done in that field, and the stigmas patients face, featuring performances from patients themselves. Would you know what to do if someone had a seizure? Join BraiNY and Epilepsy...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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The Secret Lives of Coffee and Tea

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

Tea! What is it? What does it mean to be a "milk in first kind of girl"? Why did Americans throw it in to Boston harbor? Why do most Americans drink coffee, but guzzle iced tea in the south? And where did bubble tea and kombucha come from? Sarah will reveal all the answers to your caffeinated queries. Coffee! Is it going to kill you? Make you stronger? Both, simultaneously? Soma will pick apart the science of coffee and tea, weighing the costs...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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Masters of Social Gastronomy: The Secrets of FAKE MEAT!

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

Each month, the Masters of Social Gastronomy take on a curious food topic and break down the history, science, and stories behind it. Up this month: MEAT ANALOGS! Sarah Lohman will give you a run-down of vegetarianism in the west. From Benjamin Franklin’s ”Tow-fu” to Dr. Kellogg’s commercial “Protose,” we’ll explore just how long we’ve been eating things that masquerade as meat. Soma will be taking charge of all your favorite...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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Rediscovering American Wisdom: The Teachings of Emerson

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

This prophet and sage drew from antiquity and Eastern thought but created a quintessentially American search for truth, freedom and self-knowledge. We will explore three key aspects of Transcendentalism—the Oversoul, Universal Mind and the Divine Will—as well as delve into the importance of seeking guidance from within and living in accord with Higher Law.

(299) All levels 18 and older
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From Radical Doubt to Absolute Certainty

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 18 Bridge St, New York, NY

Descartes’ Meditations: From Radical Doubt to Absolute Certainty “To demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations…to devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.” This is the project that René Descartes sets forth in the first of his Meditations on First Philosophy: to dismantle all acquired belief, then start science over from scratch.  In this course, we will...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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God or Nature: Spinoza’s Ethics

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY

In the Latin edition of Baruch Spinoza’s magnum opus, the Ethics, he writes, “That eternal and infinite being we call God, or Nature, acts from the same necessity from which he exists.” This formula – Deus sive Natura, God or Nature – is the cornerstone of a radical new philosophy that Spinoza fashioned in the wake of Descartes’ mind-body dualism. Rejecting Descartes’ view, Spinoza argued instead for a monistic materialism, claiming...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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