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4 classes in-person in Chicago have spots left, and 11 classes live online are available.

African American Genealogy: Mixing Online & Offline

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610

Using the Newberry’s collections as a starting point, this class will provide an introduction to African American genealogy research. Not sure where you should begin with researching your genealogy? In this introductory class, discover your family’s journey by creating a solid foundation, working from the known to the unknown. This session will cover oral history, interviewing techniques, and a virtual guided tour of Ancestry’s Library Edition...

Saturday Sep 30th, 9am–12pm Central Time

Seeing Race Before Race - Exhibition Series

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610

Discuss the topic of abortion and contextualize recent Supreme Court decisions in this six-session class. In this class, you’ll consider the recent Supreme Court decisions on abortion and school prayer in the context of historical understandings of the separation of church and state. The class will begin in the colonial era, discuss the radical changes in people's thinking during the Revolution and Constitutional periods, and proceed to a consideration...

Saturday Oct 21st, 1–3pm Central Time

 (3 sessions)

$195

3 sessions

Pruning for Professionals

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL 60022

Gain a comprehensive understanding of basic pruning practices and techniques for landscape professionals through lecture and demonstrations in the field. Discussion includes a review of pruning tools and equipment care. Please dress for the weather. Lunch is on your own.

Thursday Nov 2nd, 9:30am–3pm Central Time

How to Meet and Connect with Women (3-Day Bootcamp)

Craft of Charisma

This bootcamp is an intensive program designed to help a man learn how to approach women, start conversations, and set up a dates. The program includes lecture, role-play, infield practice, and real time feedback from some of the world's top dating coaches. Day 1: Evening Session 1 Understand and overcome your fears: We start by explaining the causes of approach anxiety, answering your questions, and then working with you to understand and confront...

Friday Sep 29th, 7:30–11:30pm Central Time

 (3 sessions)

$4,000

3 sessions

Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project Walter Benjamin once wrote that The Arcades Project was “the theater of all my struggles and all my ideas.” Never completed and well over a decade in the making, The Arcades Project takes on the presentation and history of an entire era and place: the Parisian Arcades of the early 19th century. Via quotations, observations, commentaries, philosophical...

Tuesday Oct 17th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time

 (4 sessions)

$335

4 sessions

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The Ramayana: Myth, Morality, and Conflict

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

An ancient epic and foundational text for a great variety of peoples, the Ramayana has had a lasting influence on everything from popular art to classical South Asian thought to contemporary Hindu politics. The Ramayana tells the sweeping story of the exile and return of the ruler Rama from the kingdom of Ayodhya. Rama’s adventures—including the abduction of his wife Sita by the demonic Ravana and the ensuing war to rescue her—become the ground...

Wednesday Oct 18th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time

 (4 sessions)

$335

4 sessions

Sophocles: Tragedy and the Limits of Knowledge

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

What kinds of knowledge can be found in the fraught space between insight and taboo, between enlightenment and horror? In Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus, once the truth Oedipus’ paternity has been revealed, the Chorus cries to its king: “I pity you, but I cannot look at you, though there’s much I want to ask and much to learn and much to see.” Continuously in Sophocles’s work, in the Oedipus plays and beyond, heroes and heroines tread...

Wednesday Nov 15th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time

 (4 sessions)

$335

4 sessions

Samir Amin: Dependency, Development, and the Making of the Global South

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Samir Amin was one of the most important and innovative Marxist economists of the 20th century. Building on French and Latin American heterodox thought and maturing in the cradle of the social and national revolutions of the 20th century (from China to Egypt, Ghana, and Cuba), Amin’s life experience led him to re-think Marxism from and for the periphery. His contributions were dazzling, from dismantling orthodox theories of development to building...

Sunday Nov 19th, 2–5pm Eastern Time

 (4 sessions)

$335

4 sessions

John Maynard Keynes: Beyond Economics

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

John Maynard Keynes is rightly regarded as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. Yet often overlooked is Keynes’s equally significant social and political theory. Preoccupied by the new challenges of democratic politics, Keynes rejected earlier radical vocabularies of freedom and popular power. His innovation, which is not captured by treating him simply as an economist, was to design a new art of government with ‘the economy’...

Sunday Nov 19th, 2–5pm Eastern Time

 (4 sessions)

$335

4 sessions

The Death Drive: Psychoanalysis and Self-Destruction

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

“The aim of all life,” observed Sigmund Freud in 1920, “is death.” A century later, the so-called Death Drive remains perhaps the most controversial, misunderstood, and ominously relevant of all the intellectual legacies of Freudian psychoanalysis. Freud first formulated the idea of a Death Drive (or Death Instinct) to grapple with nightmares both figurative and literal: The carnage of World War I, which represented a bloody rebuttal...

Sunday Nov 19th, 2–5pm Eastern Time

 (4 sessions)

$335

4 sessions

2023 Urban Forest Symposium: Interweaving Indigenous Eco-Ethics & Healing into Urban Forestry

UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class

Come join us for the 2023 Urban Forestry Symposium, focusing on Indigenous eco-cultural environment stewardship, decolonizing climate justice narratives, food sovereignty and access, and Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standards for action setting in urban forestry.

Thursday Nov 2nd, 10am–4:30pm Pacific Time

AMA's Training Certificate Program

American Management Association

Our training for trainers program: how to build confidence and engage your audience The training field can change fast, which makes training for trainers crucial. New methodologies. New discoveries about the way adults learn. Changing expectations from trainees—and from your company. Our training the trainer courses give you the practical platform skills and confidence you need to succeed. This powerful seminar puts the latest trends and techniques...

Wednesday Oct 18th, 9am–5pm Eastern Time

 (3 sessions)

$2,695

3 sessions

Fan Fiction Writing Workshop

Los Angeles Writers Group

Are you a novice writer or a seasoned fan fiction writer who wants to take your writing to the next level? Then this workshop is for you. Our new monthly Fan Fiction Workshop is different every month. Each meeting will focus on a specific topic, and you can attend any session you'd like. At each meeting, you'll have the opportunity to generate new writing from original prompts, get valuable writing tips, and learn what's working in your writing...

Monday Oct 16th, 5:30–7:30am Pacific Time

Screenwriting III: A Master Screenwriting Workshop

Writing Pad

You have a movie script in progress, but as you move through the acts, plot twists, and scenes, you get stuck. Have no fear. Veteran scribe Chris Reed (12 scripts sold) will help take your script to the next level in this five-week online master screenwriting workshop. Before the first session, you will fill out a brief survey detailing your script challenges, and from this, Chris will create custom lectures based on your issues to teach you advanced...

Thursday Nov 2nd, 6–9pm Pacific Time

 (5 sessions)

$525

5 sessions

Childbirth Education Basics (3 Hours)

Birth Day Presence @ Online Classroom

Birth Day Presence childbirth preparation classes are well rounded and accessible. As doulas and childbirth educators, we have assisted thousands of expectant parents through a wide range of birth choices and experiences. We welcome all types of families and individuals. Designed for the busy New Yorker. Pricing is per couple or single + support person. Class is a blend of lecture, video, demonstration and practice and will include, but not be...

Tuesday Oct 3rd, 6–9pm Eastern Time

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