Communities Under Capitalism: Meeting our Needs

Join us as we gather in a sacred circle and community to shake off the depths of winter’s cold and begin to shift our energies as we prepare to lay the groundwork to blossom and thrive in the spring. Shamanic healer and teacher Olivia Olkowski will guide us in shamanic practices and rituals that use the bright white light of the “Full Snow Moon”...

Go Behind the Counter at NYC's Top Pizzerias Without Leaving Home One of our Professional Pizza Nerds will show you what's happening in the kitchens of some of NYC's top spots through this live video experience! You can ask questions and interact in real time throughout the event or just sit back and enjoy the view. Each class will be recorded so...

Explore early stage technology businesses with Jeremy Liew, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Jeremy Liew is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, joining the firm in 2006. Jeremy was the firm’s first consumer specialist, focusing on massive-scale social media, commerce, new media, and financial services. Jeremy has funded several companies...

The Making of the Modern Middle East: From Postcolonialism to the Arab Spring The last decade has seen revolutionary movements take place throughout the Middle East and North Africa. From Tunisia and Egypt to Sudan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain, people have banded together (with mixed results) in attempts to overturn long-standing dictators and...

From the aerial views provided by army hot air balloons to the synchronized camera/machine-guns of World War I to the contemporary sensing operations of military drones, perception has always been linked to destruction. As Paul Virilio wrote, “the function of the weapon is the function of the eye.”  Militarized nation states understand this...

While conversations about race are seemingly everywhere, the definition of a race—what it means, and how we should understand it—remains remarkably under-explored. What, exactly, is race? What does it mean to be “racialized”? Rejecting at once pat dismissals of race as immaterial, Obama-era fantasies of a so-called post-racial society, and...

Eastern Medicine for the Western Mind & Body: Taoism & The Five Elements This 6-week OlioCourse, will go in-depth in three different aspects of Self-Care based on the The Taoist philosophy of Yin Yang and the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine. The three aspects we will cover are; the mind, movement and touch via the Taoist based practices...

Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin' and the Politics of Song “By 1962, Greenwich Village had become world headquarters for a folk music scene that, to its own occasional shock and horror, was beginning to matter in the music and popular culture business,” wrote the critic David Hinckley. “What made the Village folk community matter beyond...

Food affects each of our lives. It is a global issue in which all people are stakeholders. We all need to eat, and food production is the largest provider of jobs worldwide with over 1.3 billion people employed (GIS Geography). Recent research reports that there are maybe 10 more seasons of “regular” agricultural practices before our food systems...

In many ways, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a haunted book—and in turn, one that has haunted readers and writers since its publication in 1847. Join us for a series of lectures that begin with Brontë’s classic Gothic novel, then continue into its literary afterlife, up to the present moment. We will read Jane Eyre alongside texts that take...

Learn more details about bird identification, from field marks and songs to habitat and behavior. Then put this into practice on the walk. Join urban naturalist and environmental educator Gabriel Willow to explore the surprising diversity of wildlife and ecology in New York City. Sessions include a 45-minute lecture followed by a 45-minute bird-watching...

How do we confront and think critically about difficult ethical questions we all encounter in our daily, personal and professional lives? As biomedical advances have extended the realm of possibilities, how do we grapple with the moral and ethical quandaries of living and dying? Join us for an eight-week OlioCourse, exploring applied ethics and philosophy,...

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program.  If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. __________________ Join author Stephanie Rabinowitz for an exciting...

Explore growth marketing with Disney Streaming Services Vice President of Product Marketing and Subscriber Engagement Andrea Cutright. Andrea Cutright is vice president of product marketing and subscriber engagement for Disney+ streaming service. She is responsible for marketing intelligence, consumer insights, and product marketing touchpoints. Prior...

Psychedelics for Palliative Care and the Treatment of End-of-Life Existential Distress Existential despair, anxiety and depression are far too common at the end of life. This webinar will focus on findings from psychedelic research relieving the psychological and existential suffering associated with a life-threatening illness or the end of life.The...

Deschooling & Decolonizing: Systemic Change From the Inside Out This 8-week OlioCourse examines the settler colonial history of the university and the different ways we can create decolonial projects from the institution’s structure using Janelle Monae’s work. We'll be launching our conversations off la paperson’s "A Third University is...