2014 Programs
2014 Programs
Writer and Revolutionary
Richard Greeman
This semester follows Serge through his adventures during the Russian Civil War (1919-21), the German Revolution (1923), at Comintern HQ in Vienna (where he worked with Gramsci and Lukacs), and the battles of...
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Revolutions Study Group
In 1905, sections of the Russian working class and peasantry organized and fought in radical new ways, including building the first revolutionary Workers Councils in Moscow and St. Petersburg. We will study...
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...
A Workshop for the Aspiring Writer
Steve Bloom
Have you ever felt an inner poet is lurking, somewhere? The assumption of this workshop is that every human being has one. Come and explore. Discussion topics include:
What is poetry?
What is...
Silvia Federici
Based on the book Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, this class will focus on the the restructuring of gender relations through the witch-hunts, and other social/...
Jose Rosa
Jose Rosa, an immigrant from El Salvador, with 15 years experience teaching Spanish to teenagers and adults, will conduct classes to develop conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms...
A. Shahid Stover
In this class participants will explore how racism makes the very assertion of human agency by Black people within the context of a western imperialist continuum inherently ‘problematic’ and constitutive of a...
Russell Dale
Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence on much of what has happened in the world since his time (1770 – 1831) and is crucial to understanding much of modern social thought and philosophy as well as to...