2007 Programs
2007 Programs
Mocking the stereotype that translates ÒromanticÓ into ÒutopianÓ or Òlove possessed,Ó Dorothy Parker wrote:
Byron and Shelley and Keats,
A trio of lyrical feats Ð
ByronÕs fair brow was...
In this class we will read Karl MarxÕs Capital Vol. I (Vintage/Penguin) slowly and thoroughly as a text. The class will function as a study group and focus on the key question, Òwhat can we still learn...
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
This course is an investigation of how class works -- as a tool of analysis and as a reality in contemporary capitalism. We will concentrate on the marxist tradition in class analysis, though we will also give...
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At...
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
What started in May of last year as a teacherÕs strike for better wages and more resources for students erupted into a widespread insurgency for profound social change in Oaxaca. As the Oaxacan people...
YouÕre never too young or too old to write your memoirs. All you need is paper and pen and a desire to retrieve what you thought was lost. Unlike biography with its need for facts and dates, a memoir is your...
A Workshop for Educators
Why should even young children be informed on community and world events? Mainstream educators may feel that children should be shielded from the violence, inequities and complex problems facing society, while...
Both the morning and afternoon seminars will offer unique practical investment information. They are intended for individuals seeking deep understanding in relation to their current or future...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At...
Jose Rosa
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
Annette T. Rubinstein
We will read and discuss together ""Galileo"" and some of the ""Poems in Exile""
Tony Alessandrini
Tony Alessandrini teaches at Columbia University. He specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, with specific interests in diaspora studies, contemporary Arabic and Middle Eastern literature and...
Edith Chevat
YouÕre never too young or too old to write your memoirs. All you need is paper and pen and a desire to retrieve what you thought was lost. Unlike biography with its need for facts and dates, a memoir is your...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Kazembe Balagun
A reading group on this provocative book by James Boggs & Grace Lee Boggs.
Laurie Kellogg
When trying to speak in public, have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach? Has your mind gone blank? Or, have you found you were just rambling on and on? Um, like, ya know, well, uh ........ You are not...
Jose Rosa
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
29th Annual Intensive Introduction to Marxism
Stanley Aronowitz, Bhairavi Desai, Sujatha Fernandes, Forrest Hylton, Lisa Maya Knauer, Randy Martin, Biju Mathew, Rene Francisco Poitevin, Heather Rogers Anwar Shaikh & Others TBA
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In the face of the pervasive war, poverty and environmental destruction that mark our times and even threaten life on this planet, people are beginning to...
David Harvey
This course will undertake a close reading of Volume I of Marx's famous analysis of capitalist production, highlighting its relevance to contemporary conditions and its rootedness in working class politics....
William DiFazio
This class is continuing from the last term and welcomes new participants who can begin with Chapter 10 of Karl Marx's Capital Vol. I. The class functions as a study group and is reading the text slowly...
Rick Wolff
This course uses Marxian class analysis to examine the rise and collapse of the USSR between 1917 and 1989. We will show use how capitalist, socialist and communist class structures coexisted inside the USSR...
Edith Chevat
You're never too young or too old to write your memoirs. All you need is paper and pen and a desire to retrieve what you thought was lost. Unlike biography with its need for facts and dates, a memoir is your...
Rev. Luis Barrios
In this critical seminar, we attempt to analyze and discuss liberation theology as a humanistic school of thought and action and how faith inspires social justice. More specifically, how liberation theology...
A Reading and Writing Group
Kazembe Balagun & Julie Rosier
Conceived in the 1960s revolutionary upsurge, James and Grace Lee BoggsÕ Evolution and Revolution in the 20th Century became the one seminal texts of the New Left. Seeing personal transformation growing...
Seen Differently
Max-Fraad Wolff & Richard D. Wolff
Morning and afternoon seminars will offer unique practical investment information. They are intended for individuals seeking deep understanding in relation to their current or future responsibilities to invest...