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Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Ovid begins his Metamorphoses, “My soul would speak of bodies changed into new forms,” and it is the great theme of physical transformation that unites the poem’s many myths: humans becomes animals and plants, and vice versa; humans becomes stones and constellations; and humans change their sex. No poem from antiquity has so influenced Western European literature and art. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Dante creatively raided Ovid’s tales...
Thursday Jul 6th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Ethnopornography: Race, Erotics, and Domination
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Early anthropology had a sex problem. By day it studied kinship—how legitimately procreative sex produces a society—collected intimate items, and photographed naked subjects; by night, it hung around corners, pestered and menaced its way into intimate spaces. These early anthropologists were not alone. Their settler peers developed obsessions in schoolgirls and purchased wives, in erotic genres of parlor photography, in romantic rape literature,...
Sunday Jun 11th, 2–5pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Gershom Scholem: Mysticism & the Philosophy of History
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Friend to Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, and Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem may be the best known scholar of Jewish Studies in the 20th century. Above all he is associated with launching the modern academic study of Jewish mysticism. However, Scholem’s study of mysticism was only part of his much broader, and far more engaged and systematic thinking, about questions of contemporary politics and the Jewish historical condition. An...
Thursday Jun 8th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
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Gayl Jones: Mosquito
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Though Gayl Jones is one of the most important writers of the 20th Century, with work that spans prose and poetic examinations of Black women’s lives all across the world, the publication of her 1999 novel Mosquito was met with significant ambivalence. Henry Louis Gates refers to Mosquito as Gayl Jones’ “dissertation”—an imitation of actual oral storytelling, rather than “a linear narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end.”...
Monday Jun 5th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Don Quixote: Into the World of the Book
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is, perhaps above all else, a book about books. The title character’s voracious consumption of books of chivalry drives him mad, leading him to interpret windmills as giants, common inns as majestic castles, and prostitutes as highborn damsels. In addition to the medieval romances that Don Quixote reads, a variety of texts in different forms populate the narrative: Arabic manuscripts, short stories...
Wednesday Jun 14th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Reclaiming our Sacred Texts
Reclaiming our Sacred Texts: Reading the Bible in Pride Month In this queer-affirming class, we will explore the love stories of David and Jonathan and Ruth and Naomi. No text study (or even belief in God!) required — just bring your pride and an open mind.
Monday Jun 5th, 6:30–7:45pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Becoming Cyborg: Science and Science-Fiction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Feminist science studies scholar Donna Haraway writes: “By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are all cyborgs.” Haraway goes on to argue in her canonical essay, “A Manifesto For Cyborgs,” that to be a cyborg means to live in a world without tidy origin stories or innocent wholeness. Instead, it is about partial connections, complex...
Sunday Jun 11th, 2–5pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism: an Introduction to Mark Fisher Most of the writings of the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher began their life not as academic papers or monographs or fully wrought essays but as blog posts, online responses, and even internet comments. These writings—including those that would be later collected into his some of his most famous texts—reflect one of the most unique theoretical voices of the early 21st...
Tuesday Jun 13th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Creative Writing Weekly via Zoom
The Writing Studio @ Live Online via Zoom
In this class, you will learn first and foremost that you can write—and write well! In fact you will surprise yourself by the work you’ll be producing. The class is designed to enhance your creativity, imagination and personal voice while also teaching the skills of creative writing—memoir and fiction. This is an ongoing class geared toward those who are committed to writing and will continue this practice overtime....
May 29th
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Monday May 29th, 6:30–9:30pm Pacific Time
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Literature And Culture: Baudolino
Casa Italiana Language School @ 1776 G St NW, Washington, DC 20006
This novel is about the adventures of a young talented peasant boy named Baudolino. It takes place in the Christian word of the 12th century. Emperor Frederik “Barbarossa” tried to subdue the independent city-states of Northern Italy. And after the emperor died, Baudolino and his friends took a long journey in search of the kingdom of Priester John. After many adventures they returned to Constantinople, where the story began. Students will read...
$370
14 sessions
Literature And Culture: Saturnalia
Casa Italiana Language School @ 1776 G St NW, Washington, DC 20006
This book tells the story of the tenth case of Publio Aurelio Stazio in 46AD in Rome. Saturnalia is the equivalent of modern day “Carnival” in the time of ancient Rome. It is a time when everything transforms to opposites and all becomes a game. All, that is, except crime! Follow a new and surprising investigation by Pubio Aurelio Stazio, the detective of imperial Rome.
$370
14 sessions
Literature And Culture: Memorie Scritte Da Lui Medesimo
Casa Italiana Language School @ 1776 G St NW, Washington, DC 20006
The subject of this book includes only the first part of Casanova’s life. Casanova wrote the “Story of my life” which combines both his “memoires” and his autobiography. It is regarded as a source of the customs of European social life during the 18th century. This period represents the height of Venetian splendor before its decline. Students will research on the arts, architecture, music and fashion of Venice during this time.
$370
12 sessions
