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On Ulysses S. Grant

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

The inner lives of great people are often more mysterious and fascinating than their public lives. Dr. Gail Saltz, the author, psychoanalyst and contributor to the Today show, invites experts and brings her own expertise to bear as she examines the psychology of people who have shaped history. In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield...

(1062) All levels 18 and older
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The Unanswered Question

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

Full Course Name: The Unanswered Question: Exploring Bernstein's Norton Lectures Leonard Bernstein gave six brilliant lectures at Harvard University in 1973, which he titled “The Unanswered Question.” His purpose was two-fold: first, to explore the evolution of sound, meaning and form in music; and then to confront the fundamental musical crisis of the 20th Century, tonality—music that’s rooted in a key or tonal center—versus atonality—music...

(1062) All levels 18 and older
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Ella Fitzgerald: Duets

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

Will Friedwald’s Clip Joint: Scenes from the American Songbook Ella Fitzgerald: Duets Will Friedwald, feature writer for The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair and the author of nine books on popular music, presents curated video clips from his extensive vintage collection to illustrate the great artistry of the performers and composers of the American Songbook. The presentations will be driven both by a profundity of rare and fascinating video...

(1062) All levels 18 and older
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Francine Segan in Conversation

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

Francine Segan in Conversation with Emma's Torch Founder Kerry Brodie and Culinary Director Chef Alexander Harris Recently ranked as one of the World’s Greatest Places of 2018 by TIME Magazine, Emma’s Torch is a nonprofit restaurant in Brooklyn that provides culinary training, job placement, and English lessons to refugees and survivors of human trafficking. Join Founder & Executive Director, Kerry Brodie, and Culinary Director Chef,...

(1062) All levels 18 and older
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Schubert, Barber, and the String Quartet

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

Full Course Name: Schubert, Barber, and the String Quartet: Death and the Maiden and the Adagio for Strings Schubert’s greatest and most popular string quartet is one of the essential works of the string quartet repertory. Named for the main theme of the second movement, which Schubert based on a song he had written in 1817, the quartet was composed in 1824, not long after Schubert was diagnosed with an illness that would eventually prove fatal. ...

(1062) All levels 18 and older
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Meditation for Beginners

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

In this session, we will explore what actually happens to our mind, bodies and emotions when we meditate. A meditation practice has the power to dissolve stress through profound, deep rest, transforming our physiology on a cellular level, and we will dive into the neurochemistry behind this phenomenon. What shifts can we expect to experience and what is the tangible impact that a meditation practice can have on our lives? This talk is strictly informative...

(1062) Beginner 18 and older
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POILÂNE: The Secrets of the World-Famous Bread Bakery

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

Bread. Paris. Poilâne. Apollonia Poilâne, third-generation baker and owner of the bakery on the rue du Cherche-Midi that produces the most revered loaf in the world, sits down with award-winning writer and New York Times food columnist Melissa Clark to share stories and recipes from her first cookbook, POILÂNE: The Secrets of the World-Famous Bread Bakery.  Apollonia shares never-before revealed secrets to reproducing the venerable Parisian...

(1062) All levels 18 and older
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Lateral Cooking: One Thing Leads to Another

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

Niki Segnit used to follow recipes to the letter, even when she’d made a dish a dozen times. But as she tested the combinations that informed The Flavor Thesaurus, she detected the basic rubrics that underpinned most recipes. Join her as she shares these formulas, which are infinitely adaptable. The result is greater creativity in the kitchen through improvisation, resourcefulness and the knowledge and confidence to cook by heart. New Yorker’s...

(1062) 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.

(1062) All levels 18 and older
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$36

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Advanced Poetry with Lynn Melnick

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

This course will explore how we tell our stories through poetry, whether directly or slant, and ways we can be more adventurous, musical and honest. Experience with poetry-writing will be expected. Students will be required to turn in a poem a week to be workshopped by the group. Experience with reading poetry is also a must. Familiarity with the poetry that is being written and published right now is crucial to understanding, appreciating, and...

(1062) Advanced 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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Gayatri Spivak: The Margins and the Center

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 3009 Broadway, New York, NY

Referred to as the “doyenne of post-colonial studies,” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been a trailblazer “of the margins,” wrestling with hegemonic narratives of Western and non-Western canons to explore deconstructed meanings of and relationships between culture, feminism, language, the postcolonial, privilege, and power. This pioneering cultural critic, feminist, and literary theorist is widely cited in a range of disciplines, and has written...

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Disaster Capitalism

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

Turn on the evening news and you will see a parade of disasters: from banking crises to pandemics, from floods to superbugs, from the instantaneous loss of life following an earthquake to the slowly accumulating effects of global climate change. Why is it that we seem to live in a uniquely calamitous age? This course proposes that the proliferation of risk management technologies is remaking our relationship to the future, turning the mere threat...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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Alternative Economies: Ecology and Economics

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

Students of economics are often puzzled to learn that markets are normally treated as self-standing, self-contained systems. But as people experience the increasing effects of global climate change, this form of thinking moves from dubious to deadly. All those unaccounted “inputs” and “externalities” turn out to have a frighteningly high cost. This is a challenge not only for common mainstream economic analyses, but also for many alternative...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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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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Lived Experience: An Introduction to Phenomenology

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 75 Broad St, New York, NY

What is phenomenology? Drawing on lived, first-person experience, phenomenology is the attempt to analyze and understand the very structures of human experience and consciousness. What are the elements of perception, and why do different people, different subjects, perceive things differently? What’s universal about consciousness? In what ways do individual identity, circumstance, history, language, and memory condition lived experience—and thus...

(29) Beginner 21 and older
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$315

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On the Heights of Despair: an Introduction to E.M. Cioran

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 200 East 38th Street, New York, NY

Delve into the mind of philosopher Emil Cioran, as he explores themes of despair, doubt, and skepticism in a world without God. Join this thought-provoking course and discover Cioran's aphoristic style and its connection to his unconventional philosophy. Explore his life, influences, and the meaning of existence in this engaging exploration of a philosopher of unremitting despair.

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$335

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A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: An Introduction to Marx

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

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young Karl Marx wrote, in the form of a published open letter to Arnold Ruge: “But if the designing of the future and the proclamation of ready-made solutions for all time is not our affair, then we realize all the more clearly what we have to accomplish in the present—I am speaking of a ruthless criticism of everything existing, ruthless in two senses: The criticism must not be afraid of its own conclusions,...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Symbolic Geometry & Sacred Beauty

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

Symbolic Geometry & Sacred Beauty from Four World Traditions Note: This free intro and series will now be offered online. It will be recorded and shared with registrants after each online program for a limited time only. Symbolic geometry creates beautiful visual metaphors to illustrate the important questions of our time, such as “Who are we?”, “Where are we?”, and “Where are we going?” In this hands-on, interactive class, we...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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$155

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Free Intro: Jin Shin Jyutsu® Self Care

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

Jin Shin Jyutsu® Self Care is an easy to learn, energetic, mind-body-spirit practice that uses light touch on various locations on each side of the body. Jin Shin Jyutsu® Self Care exercises help to balance, harmonize, and keep the energetic pathways clear and flowing which helps alleviate symptoms of stress, anxiety, and fatigue.

(299) All levels 18 and older
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