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With and Without my Father, Norman Mailer

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

As Norman Mailer’s first born, Susan Mailer was a witness to her father’s growing fame, to the changes in his personality during the tumultuous 1960s, and to the arrival of her eight siblings from his five subsequent wives. After her parents’ divorce in 1952, her mother moved from New York to Mexico, and Susan shuttled between the two countries, becoming bicultural and bilingual from an early age. She graduated from Barnard in 1971, and in...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Memoirs: Jewish Authors on Identity, Culture, Language

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

Memoirists write their personal stories in a way that appeals to the emotions and experiences of their readers. Jewish memoirists Esther Amini, Angela Himsel, and Ilan Stavans will sit down with author Marcia Butler to talk about how they use the memoir format to express their identity and history.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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How Creatures Helped Create New York City

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

Full Course Name: Horses, Oysters and Pigeons: How Creatures Helped Create New York City Yet the city is also shaped by forces that are not as obvious or visible but nonetheless have had significant impact on the city: its animal inhabitants. Join us as we look at the city’s culture and history through horses, oysters, and pigeons—those unexpected and unique beings that make New York, well, New York! We’ll explore how these species...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$81

3 sessions

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Iconic Cocktails and Café Traditions of France

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

Whether you're longing to return to France or have never had the pleasure of a visit, New York Times bestselling author and most recently, Drinking French, David Lebovitz, will make you feel like you've stepped into the "City of Lights." Lebovitz delves into trendy cocktails, quintessential apéritifs, café favorites, and complementary snacks that make France’s drinking culture like no other and what that may look like moving forward. He will...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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The Five Great Works of Fiction You Need to Read…Now

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

Join author Stephanie Rabinowitz for an exciting exploration of relatively unsung American literary gems that you should be reading. From Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop to John Williams’s Stoner, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, and Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose, Rabinowitz will focus on the rare and masterful ability of these authors to create narrators with...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Sondheim, Part III: John Weidman on Pacific Overtures

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

Sondheim, Part III: John Weidman on Pacific Overtures—A Conversation with the Author Pacific Overtures is perhaps the most unique show to ever open on Broadway. The score is remarkably fresh and sophisticated; a splendid blend of theater and classical styles richly influenced by music from Japan; and the book is brilliantly conceived, surprisingly funny and heartbreaking. After the wonderful session we did with John Weidman this past spring...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin'

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

Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin' and the Politics of Song “By 1962, Greenwich Village had become world headquarters for a folk music scene that, to its own occasional shock and horror, was beginning to matter in the music and popular culture business,” wrote the critic David Hinckley. “What made the Village folk community matter beyond itself, however, was that it had become an important certified subgroup within two larger movements:...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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David Allen Sibley: What It’s Like to Be A Bird

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

Learn more details about bird identification, from field marks and songs to habitat and behavior. Then put this into practice on the walk. Join urban naturalist and environmental educator Gabriel Willow to explore the surprising diversity of wildlife and ecology in New York City. Sessions include a 45-minute lecture followed by a 45-minute bird-watching walk in nearby Central Park. Bring binoculars if you have them! Pre-registration for all tours...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$60

7 sessions

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Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY

Can a woman “suffice to herself and be happy”? This is one of the questions at the heart of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1881), which tells the story of Isabel Archer, an American navigating the constraints of European society in the late 19th century. First serialized in The Atlantic Monthly and MacMillan’s Magazine, this novel of James’s middle period displays an exhilarating combination of high style and psychological...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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Proust in Time: The Prisoner

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY

The Prisoner, the fifth volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and the opening passage of le roman Albertine, “the Albertine cycle,” is a portrait of obsessive love. Albertine, the prisoner of the title, prowls the golden cage of the narrator’s house, swathed in luxury, the object of his jealous, possessive fixation. How does romantic love work? And what does Proust’s picture of the tragicomedy of romantic love in belle époque France...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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Aesthetics and the Senses

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY

The event of art, Jacques Rancière writes, plays out in “form, a burst of colour, an acceleration of rhythm, a pause between words, a movement, or a glimmering surface.” Art, in other words, transforms the “sensible fabric” of life “at the cost of constantly merging its own reasons with those belonging to other spheres of experience.” This course will put Rancière’s assertion to the test, examining the ways in which theories of the...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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Robert Moses: Power, Urban Planning, and Inequality

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY

From urban parks to the interstate highway system and suburban developments (and the racial redlining that went along with them) Robert Moses definitively shaped the way Americans live. Equal parts city planner and social engineer—visionary and, according to many, despot—Moses became a household name with the 1974 publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker. In it we read not only of Moses the urban planner, but also of the political...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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Virtual Lecture: The Black Death: 14th Century Pandemic

Christine Axen @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

A survey of the causes of, and cultural and artistic reactions to, the pandemic that struck the world in the 14th century: the Black Death. We'll provide context and comparison for our current experience of COVID-19. The course will showcase art and contemporary documents that help communicate the thoughts and practices of medieval people who endured a disease that they did not comprehend. About the Instructor: I am a professor with a PhD in...

(124) All levels 14 and older
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Electric Light Technology: Revisiting the LEDs

New York School of Interior Design @ 170 E 70th St, New York, NY

Many design professionals and consumers have become overwhelmed by the rapidly changing selection of electric sources of light. The trend of manufacturers revising and refining their vast menu of lamp ( light bulb ) product types in response to increased energy legislation shows no signs of slowing down.  Attendees of this course will receive a comprehensive overview of electric light technologies, from the traditional incandescent lamp to...

(176) All levels 18 and older
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$185
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Virtual Class: The Psychology of Sex and Gender

Kelly Sisson @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

In this course, we will explore the vast terminology around the psychology of gender, where students will be able to differentiate between sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexuality. Students will evaluate social gender roles in Western culture and examine their own perspective of gender through guided discussion. As an introductory course, no prior knowledge of psychology, sex, or gender is required, but may be helpful. Materials...

(1) Beginner 16 and older
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Political Circus

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

Elections are complicated and complex and make us both excited and stressed out. Lucky for us, political scientists have been studying pretty much every aspect of how they work for a long time. In this series, you’ll learn the biggest ideas and most important concepts that actually help us better understand the madness.  You’ll learn things like: Why is it hard to design a truly fair election? What actually gets people to vote (and...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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Virtual Lecture: History Happy Hour

Christine Axen @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

History Happy Hour!  Raise your glass to the past, and come discover the odd and fascinating things people thought and did in the Middle Ages and beyond.  Professor of History will offer a short presentation, and then open the floor to animated conversation over drinks!  No previous knowledge required.  Each week something different will be discussed. Current schedule is as follows, a single ticket purchase is for...

(124) All levels 21 and older
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality

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

Friedrich Nietzsche is among the most notorious and controversial thinkers in the western intellectual tradition. He aimed to philosophize “with a hammer,” to demolish the philosophical tradition founded by Socrates and Plato and slaughter its most sacred cows. Central to that tradition is the value placed on truth, reason, objectivity, and a moral system based on altruism and self-sacrifice. In contrast to forming the bedrock of a stable political...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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Sex, Gender, and the Avant-Garde

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

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...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$335

4 sessions

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