Classes & Seminars

Monday, February 4
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
10-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Revolutions
Mexico: 1910-1920 – Part 2
Michael Lardner with Gerardo Renique

This reading group will take up Alan Knight’s in-depth two-volume study, The Mexican Revolution, as our main text along with other readings to be provided during the sessions.

This is...

Friday, February 8
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
12-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
POSTPONED DUE TO STORM-- Will begin Feb 15
Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Russell Dale

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy. Kant's works are the starting point of “classical German philosophy” which culminates...

Friday, February 8
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
POSTPONED DUE TO STORM - Class will begin Feb 15
The Invention of the White Race
Jeffrey B. Perry

Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical...

Monday, February 11
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
10-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Co-sponsors: New York Review of Books & Haymarket Books
Victor Serge & the Novel of 20th Century Revolution
Part I: The Cycle of Revolution
Richard Greeman

On Monday, February 11, Richard Greeman will deliver thei lecture originally sceduled for Saturday, February 9, that was postponed due to the storm. The event is open to the general public as well as those...

Friday, February 15
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
12-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Russell Dale

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy. Kant's works are the starting point of “classical German philosophy” which culminates...

Friday, February 15
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
The Invention of the White Race
Jeffrey B. Perry

Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical...

Tuesday, February 19
5:30 pm
14-WEEK CLASS/READING GROUP BEGINS
Black Reconstruction in America
By W.E.B. DuBois
Tim Schermerhorn

Black Reconstruction is an essential and primary building block in understanding the culture and politics of the United States.  It is also an excellent (arguably the best) place to start...

Saturday, February 23
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
4-SESSION CLASS OR STAND-ALONE SEMINARS
The Housing Question
Housing & Displacement after Sandy
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

Government policies to address climate change after Sandy are geared towards protecting private property and reproduce deep social and environmental inequalities. How can our communities advance alternative...

Saturday, February 23
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
6-SESSION READING BROUP BEGINS
Critique of Everyday Life
Lisa Maya Knauer & Friends

Are you tired of capitalism (and its good buddies like racism, patriarchy, homophobia and militarism)? Are you tired of the life you find yourself living, a life you're seemingly forced to live? Are you...

Monday, March 4
5:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Beginning Spanish Class
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...

Wednesday, March 6
7:30 pm
8 SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Intermediate Spanish
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...

Friday, March 8
7:30 pm
Class Series
Co-sponsor: the thedore allen-hubert harrison society
The Invention of the White Race

“The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America,” the second volume of “The Invention of the White Race” (Verso Books, 2012) by Theodore W. Allen will be discussed this Friday night...

Saturday, March 9
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR SERIES
The Housing Question
The Creeping Privatization of Public Housing
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

In the last three decades federal, state and local housing agencies have drastically reduced public housing subsidies, demolished many projects, and entered into public-private partnerships that give banks...

Sunday, March 17
4:00 pm
6-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Co-sponsor: South Asia Solidarity Initative
South Asia
Beyond Boundaries, Building Solidarities

The course will serve as a ‘primer’ for progressives and leftists on contemporary South Asian politics in the region, while also providing a historical context for current events.  The...

Saturday, March 23
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR SERIES
POSTPONED TO APRIL 6
The Housing Question
Mortgage Foreclosures: Socially Just Solutions
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

NOTE: Due to illness, this session is POSTPONED to APRIL 6.

How can residents in homes being foreclosed best be helped to stay in their homes? Should only those who can afford them...

Saturday, April 6
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR SERIES
The Housing Question
Mortgage Foreclosures: Socially Just Solutions
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

How can residents in homes being foreclosed best be helped to stay in their homes? Should only those who can afford them be helped to stay? Should banks or lenders be made whole by government help if there...

Saturday, April 20
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
POSTPONED TO APRIL 27
The Housing Question
Rent Control: Economics & Social Justice
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

What are the net economic effects of rent controls? Do they restrict private development, keep the middle class in the city, slow gentrification, help the poor, endanger good housing maintenance, or punish...

Saturday, April 27
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR
The Housing Question
Rent Control: Economics & Social Justice
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

What are the net economic effects of rent controls? Do they restrict private development, keep the middle class in the city, slow gentrification, help the poor, endanger good housing maintenance, or punish...

Friday, June 14
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
12-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790)
Russell Dale

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy in spite of the fact that he explicitly defended the most outrageous views about people of color. Kant...

Monday, June 17
7:30 pm
Summer Literature & Revolution Series: Mutually Assured Destruction
M.A.D. Fiction
Selections from the American Cold War Scene
Michael Lardner & Members of the Revolutions Study Group

Schedule:
June 17: Opening discussion
June 24, July 1 & 8: Philip Roth’s I Married A Communist
July 15, 22 & 29: E.L. Doctorow’s...

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