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Woman as Other, Woman as Lover: The Search for Self and the Politics of Love

Teacher: Jamie Warren

Jan. 13, 2017

A Dog Named Ego
What is ego? We say, “I have an ego,” which implies there is an “I” separate from the egoic self. We say, “that is just her ego talking,” which implies another her, larger than the ego.

Teacher: Michael Prettyman

July 26, 2018

Questioning the Origins of Sexual Desire
Where does desire come from? And what is at play when we question the origins of sexual desire?

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Feb. 23, 2018

What the Body Knows: Connecting Cells to Choreography
The Olio will be led by two teachers / dancers from the New School and the night will be made up of multiple exercises paired with conversations around theories of movement and the body.

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

June 1, 2018

OlioMuse | The Muse That Screams: Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8
Dedicated to "the victims of fascism and war", this work still resonates with the public—an audience (currently) in revolt.

Teacher: Whitney George

March 23, 2018

Everything Fragile Breaks: Finding Meaning in Black Swan Events
In his book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” Nassim Nicolas Taleb describes events, either positive or negative, that are improbable yet when they happen they create massive consequences. History is not a linear progression, no matter how much we imagine it to be so.

Teacher: Michael Prettyman

April 4, 2020

The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Two-Part Olio Series
The Great Depression and New Deal fundamentally altered our relationship with our government and redefined how Americans conceive of the word freedom. Crisis often breeds great change. It’s an important story. And a complicated one.

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

April 12, 2020

The Tyranny of Happy: On Contemporary Over-Performance
In this Olio, we will explore the manifestations and possible reasons for the repulsion people feel for their suffering peers, and how that repulsion might be connected to the pressure for performance in a narcissistic “burnout society” we live in.

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Aug. 15, 2019

Perverts, Creepers, and Freaks: A History of Sexual Perversions
In this Olio, we will explore the history of sexual perversions, examining how and why particular sexual desires and behaviors were labeled as bad, abnormal, and unnatural at certain periods in Western thought.

Teacher: Jamie Warren

March 9, 2018

Fear and Loathing in America: LSD and the Freak Politics of the 1960s
In this Olio, we’ll examine the impact and influence of LSD on American culture and politics in the 1960s. As the drug became popular among a wide range of radical thinkers, artists, and activists, a kind of “freak politics” attempted to merge personal transcendence and political liberation.

Teacher: David Parsons

June 25, 2020

New Toys and New Tyrants: Capitalism and the Rise of Platform Economics
In this Olio, Professor Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, will dissect the Big Five platform giants, put their economics under a microscope, and review the record of the online companies.

Teacher: Rob Larson

June 30, 2020

The History of the End of the World
We will examine the social and political forces that have historically produced such apocalyptic fantasies and the radical prescriptions for building a perfect society.

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

Jan. 12, 2018

Cancel Culture
Just like #MeToo, many movements have demanded greater accountability from public figures; leading to public humiliations, and have led to a source of great debate over the intricacies of internet ethics. Can free speech go too far and be weaponized? Or is free speech precisely the thing targeted by cancel culture?

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Aug. 9, 2020

What is Drag, Anyway?
What does it mean to suggest that drag is an art form expressed in the medium of gender? If the categories of "male" and "female" are obsolete, what function does drag serve in the world?

Teacher: Eric Shorey

July 9, 2020

Public Safety vs Economic Collapse
An overview of the monetary actions taken by U.S. policymakers to address the Covid-19 crisis and an exploration of the possible alternative routes that could have been taken

Teacher: Andres Bernal

July 10, 2020

Wishes of the Dead
We'll look into the complicated philosophical questions about why we give the dead so much power over our lives, and what this says about how we find meaning in our own lives given foreknowledge of our mortality.

Teacher: Barry Lam

Nov. 30, 2018

'I would die for you’: The Feminist Politics of a Broken Heart
Rather than viewing their weakness for love as a contradiction of feminist strength, this Olio will explore the possibilities for thinking of the broken heart as a breeding ground for radical thought and social transformation.

Teacher: Jamie Warren

Feb. 28, 2020

Selective Histories: Memory, Aesthetics, & Urban Art
This Olio will focus on the many conflicting intents of urban art, from its use as state propaganda to its many forms of resistance to oppression.

Teacher: Lauren Hudson

Aug. 31, 2018

Unburdening the Earth: Hinduism and Ecology
Are we, humans, responsible stewards of our home, the Earth? Or are we a burden upon it?

Teacher: Vishwa Adluri

June 22, 2018

Sovereignty, Solidarity, & The Land Back Movement
This Olio will focus on select historical moments, geographical sites, and case studies to explore the complexities of life for indigenous peoples in the Pacific Islands and North America subject to the authority of the United States. Related themes to be presented include an examination of Indigenous peoples' varied political status in relation to questions of sovereignty and self-determination, structures of settler colonialism and resistance, and diverse forms of indigenous agency.

Teacher: J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Feb. 18, 2021

Should I Kill Myself or Have a Cup of Coffee?
Join us for an Olio about existential attitudes towards suicide, finding meaning in life, and coffee.

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

Sept. 7, 2018

"Places, Everyone!" - The History of Broadway & The Theater District in NYC
The evolution of the musical as a genre was sculpted and shaped by the radical changes in New York's Theater District and cultural revolutions over the last 100 years. In this Olio we'll trace the origins of the Theater District in New York and track the changes made over the last 100 years through important examples from the genre.

Teacher: Whitney George

Jan. 18, 2021

A Dialogue: Buddhism and the Stoics
Is it possible that philosophies and religious traditions are saying the same thing? Buddhism and the Greco Roman school of philosophy known as Stoicism have many striking similarities in both philosophy and practice.

Teacher: Bhante Kusala & Michael Prettyman

June 5, 2020

What Does it Mean to Be an American: Conformity, Silence, and Lies
A central feature of gaining “whiteness” is silence and erasure. This Olio will examine how these themes are reproduced in dominant narratives within institutions.

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

July 13, 2018

A New Contract with Black America: Where Do We Go From Here?
In this Olio, we’ll explore some of the real considerations missed in the conversation around the “Black Vote,” the misunderstood motivators as to how Black communities vote, and the dismissal in progressive and conservative spaces of Black independence, autonomy and choice. We'll then come together, in session two to process the aftermath of the election and shine some historical context onto the political stage playing out in front of us.

Teacher: Ifeoma Ike

Nov. 8, 2020

Nonsense on Stilts: Science, Pseudoscience & the Need for Critical Thinking
In this Olio, we will explore the good science/pseudo science landscape and learn some ways to exercise critical thinking.

Teacher: Massimo Pigliucci

Feb. 1, 2019

Intentional Amnesia & New York City's Missing Century
This Olio will highlight and celebrate the impact of the African Diaspora on New York City by starting with the question: "Where are the black people in the story of NYC?"

Teacher: Kamau Ware

Sept. 22, 2017

Cuba and The Commu-Capitalist Reality of Today
Take a departure from mainstream media's picture of Cuba and explore what life is like in Cuba today, 60 years after the revolution with Teresita Levy, professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College.

Teacher: Teresita Levy

May 10, 2019

Time
The first Strand Olio of 2020! Come celebrate the New Year with us as Jeanne Proust aptly discusses the concept of 'Time' through a philosophical lens.

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Jan. 10, 2020

Being One of Them and Being Who You Are: The Immigrant's Search for an Authentic Self

Teacher: Patricia Kim

Jan. 27, 2017

Manipulating the Material: Transcendence Through Drugs, Art and Religious Experience

Teacher: Michael Haltenberger & Michael Prettyman

March 3, 2017

Wakanda Forever: Rethinking Killmonger as Villain
US founding fathers have always intended for many people to be left out of the social contract. Enter Eric (Killmonger) Stevens, dual citizen of the U.S. and Wakanda and the antagonist of Marvel’s Black Panther.

Teacher: Makeba Lavan

May 4, 2018

Dharma in a Crumbling Democracy: Ancient Wisdom for Troubling Times
Containing a critique of technology, rampant materialism and self-serving individualism, the Mahabharata appears surprisingly contemporary.

Teacher: Vishwa Adluri

March 24, 2017

Modern Art, the Work-Life Balance, and the Gig Economy
1) The personal stories of four artists remind us that the issues of "work/life balance" and women's shifting roles in male-dominated fields are nothing new. 2) The last 40 years of American economic “progress” has expanded the wealth gap to its largest in a century and put a stake in the heart of the “American Dream.”

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

Aug. 11, 2017

I'm Alive. Now What? Reading Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground
In this Olio we will use Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground" as a way of addressing a fraught human existence. How do we perceive the world and, in turn, how do we then perceive ourselves? We'll use the novel as a jumping-off point to locate our modern positions on issues like: The fallacy of rationalism and scientific utopias. Together, we will participate in an open dialogue to process experiences and emotions that result from our engagement with the work and reflect on who we are, our values, our shared fate.

Teacher: Patricia Kim

March 28, 2021

Communities and Their Pitfalls
Artists from HangNight™️ line the walls of the Strand while Jeanne Proust teaches an Olio on community from a radical perspective.

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Oct. 12, 2018

Time
The first Olio at Strand in 2020! Come celebrate the New Year with us as Jeanne Proust aptly discusses the concept of 'Time' through a philosophical lens.

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Jan. 10, 2020

Where is My "Self"? A Dialogue between East and West
Eastern and Western philosophers Darryl and Jeanne, will meet for the first time to discuss how consciousness, awareness, personal identity and agency can be explored and understood in radically different ways. They'll discuss concepts like self-care, narcissism, and personal identity during this hour long forum and leave plenty of time for audience questions.

Teacher: Darryl Aiken-Afam

March 23, 2021

Human Rights at the Edge of Darkness: We are the Resistance
Join us as we unpack the evolution of the modern international human rights movement, dissect its challenges and make the case that a robust defense of universal human rights is essential against the darkness of autocracy and intolerance. **This talk is accompanied by a performance from the cellist Dara Hankins**

Teacher: Phelim Kine

April 28, 2017

But How Are We Going To Pay For it? Modern Monetary Theory and the Public Purse
We will examine what MMT actually argues about the nature and origin of money, the purpose of taxes, and the issue of inflation. What do these words really mean and what can our government actually do? In fact, what the heck is money?

Teacher: Andres Bernal

April 10, 2020

Margaret Fuller, Beethoven, and Revolution in the Minds of Women
In this Olio, we will listen to musical performances by Groupmuse to both feel and think through what Fuller calls the “rapid transition; the spiral and undulatory movement” of music. How does music act on the individual and the collective to make one feel a part of something greater?

Teacher: Christina Katopodis

Aug. 22, 2019

What We Call Evil
What happens when we qualify an action or someone as being evil? What causes this moral judgment, and what effects may this judgment have?

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Nov. 2, 2018

Art or Image?
Vishwa Adluri draws parallels from ancient Greek and Indian myth all the way to modern Dada art, in order to see if we can completely rethink the relationship between art and reality.

Teacher: Vishwa Adluri

April 25, 2019

Housing for All? The Past, Present, and Future of Housing Justice in New York City
We will explore the complexity of the housing landscape of New York. We will examine immediate responses to the pandemic, goals like the cancellation of rent, and tactics, like rent strikes. We will then look to recent history, specifically the fight for stronger rent regulation.

Teacher: Oksana Mironova

April 30, 2020

Friendship Over Romance
​ We tend to talk about love as the type of personal relationship we should primarily seek and thrive for. But Isn’t friendship much more crucial in our lives?

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Feb. 15, 2019

OlioMuse | Beethoven's Minor Mood
Think Olio and Groupmuse team up for a live-music lecture. Professor Gil Harel, accompanied by a Group Muse duo of piano and violin will take us through the expressive qualities of these Beethoven works and discuss their role in revolutionizing music of the 19th century.

Teacher: Gil Harel

April 5, 2019

Pot and Punishment: Dissecting Marijuana Policy, Mass-Incarceration, and Mental Health
This talk will explore how far (or not) we’ve come and where we must go to ultimately adopt policies that support, rather than punish and stigmatize marijuana users.

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

April 20, 2018

Making Kerouac Our Bitch: On Being a Woman and a Reader of Misogynist Writers

Teacher: Jamie Warren

March 10, 2017

How the Past Stays with Us: The Big Lebowski and the Legacy of the 1960s
In this Olio, we will explore The Big Lebowski as a meta-text on the 1960s, unpacking how the film’s relentless references to specific events, movements, people, and other historical ephemera reveals a struggle to deal with the era’s many unanswered questions.

Teacher: David Parsons

May 29, 2020

Transparent isn't So Transparent: What the Hit Show Reveals About Rigid Social Structures

Teacher: Maureen Matarese

Feb. 24, 2017

Progressives, Radicals & Well-Meaning Liberals
Instead of looking at divides between liberals and conservatives, we'll address divides among progressives, namely liberals and radicals. How does liberal ideology reproduce classism and racism? What are the fundamental differences between liberals and radicals? **Proceeds from this Olio will go to The Women for Political Change, Frontline Fund.**

Teacher: Angie Beeman

June 11, 2020

Radical Jazz: A South African Model for Resistance & Revolution Through Music

Teacher: Sean Jacobs

Feb. 10, 2017

More Than A Hipster Touchstone: Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Join us for a special Olio where we look closely at the supreme poetry of the printed out lyrics for 60 minutes, and then listen to the whole album, and remember for a second what it is to be whole.

Teacher: Geoff Klock

June 9, 2017

Sex, Pleasure & Intimacy in the Time of Capitalism
Kim Nguyen explores how politics, money, power, and toxic masculinity are barriers to some of the most fulfilling aspects of our lives in the rare books room of the Strand.

Teacher: Kim Nguyen

May 24, 2019

The Holy Fool
Join Geoff Klock in the Strand's Rare Book Room as we look to Shakespeare, David Lynch, and other sources of pop culture to explore the idea that the stupidest characters might be our best source of groundbreaking wisdom.

Teacher: Geoff Klock

May 22, 2019

Man's Separation from Nature and Where to Go from Here
Our unsustainable relationship with Nature is fueled by a long held view in Western thought that Man is separate from Nature. This discussion will explain the origins of this separation and attempt to provide an idea of how we can actually go about discharging our responsibility for environmental harms.

Teacher: Manuel Rodeiro

June 23, 2017

Friday the 13th | Free Will, Determinism, or Fuck it all?
Join us on Friday, April 13th for an Olio Happy Hour exploring Free Will, Determinism, and Radical Nihilism

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

April 13, 2018

Villains, Violence, and Vogue
Aristotle first recognized the paradox of tragic art. Why do we enjoy watching fictional characters suffer when we would be horrified by the same thing in real life?

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

Aug. 16, 2018

Stoicism Symposium: Jeanne & Massimo in Conversation
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Jeanne Proust will question quotes like this one and Stoicism in general to shed light on its modern day application. Participants will have a chance to ask questions in a free flowing forum live on zoom.

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

March 5, 2021

How Shall I Live? The Path of Stoic Joy
One of the assumptions of stoic philosophy is that there is meaning and possibility in any given circumstance - each episode in the book of life is an opportunity to grow and to learn, especially when these chapters bring us difficulty.

Teacher: Michael Prettyman

May 1, 2020

Madame(s) X: Muses, Makers, & Shifting Identities
Behind some of the defining works of early modernism lie the remarkable biographies of the women who inspired the art. What did it mean to toe that line between art and life in an age when women’s rights were strictly curtailed?

Teacher: Ted Barrow

April 9, 2019

How to Live a Good Life?
With a special emphasis on Stoicism and existentialism, we will discuss the importance of reflecting on and challenging one’s philosophy of life, appreciating the sheer variety of philosophical views on life, and how entering into conversation with other perspectives can help to better understand others who have chosen differently.

Teacher: Skye and Massimo

May 17, 2020

**Olio Seminar** // Woman as Other, Woman as Lover
This seminar will go deep, straight to the intellectual bone, as we wrestle with our own demons of self, sex, love, and our longing for authentic freedom.

Teacher: Jamie Warren

July 9, 2017

Modern Privacy: Reclaiming Our Self Narratives
“If you’re not doing anything wrong then you should have nothing to hide.” Lawrence Cappello will walk us through this statement and it's implications while also arguing that privacy is one of the foremost issues of our civilization.

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

Oct. 4, 2019

How Did NYC Become the Birthplace of Global Capitalism?
A history of capitalism and settler colonialism helps us understand better the various logics of exclusion and elimination.

Teacher: Olio Happy Hour

June 15, 2018

James Baldwin, Individual Responsibility and the Terror of Change
Drawing mostly from his essays, we will ask how Baldwin understands the demands for a multi-racial democracy in the United States. How do the democratic ideals of liberal democracy, ideals such as individualism, liberty, and equality, reckon with the foundational racism of the United States?

Teacher: Ruth Mas

Feb. 28, 2021

What If: How Sci-Fi Designs for Climate Crisis
From DUNE to Star Wars, to Three-Body Problem, science fiction writers have not only imagined extreme weather conditions but preempted climate change and created according strategies to address these threats. Together we will examine how speculative design is a key to climate preparedness and how imagining the future we want can help determine the tools and strategies we propose.

Teacher: Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri

March 22, 2021

The Circular Road: Art and the Religious Imagination
In this Olio we will examine our assumptions about what art is, what constitutes creativity and look at the “two lives” of art- the goopy and messy creation of art in the studio, and the critical presence of the witness in completing a work of art.

Teacher: Michael Prettyman

Feb. 22, 2019

Death, Sex, Race, and Other Lies We Tell Our Bodies
Join Jamie Warren for an Olio dedicated to the often overlooked chapter in Foucault's "History of Sexuality" entitled 'Right of Death and Power Over Life' Why does a book about modern sexuality conclude with a thesis on death?

Teacher: Jamie Warren

July 11, 2019

Sound and Silence in the Urban Jungle
This Olio takes a peek at how the surrounding environment of man-made sounds of the 20th century have forever changed the way we approach composing for percussion.

Teacher: Whitney George

Jan. 23, 2018

The Myth of Progress: Our Most Violent Fantasy
Let us look closely at the myth of historical progress and ask ourselves just how we came to believe that the past exists in service to the future.

Teacher: Jamie Warren

May 11, 2018

Consciousness Hacking: Seeking Enlightenment Through Technology, Psychedelics, and Meditation

Teacher: Christopher Kelley

Feb. 3, 2017

Poor Men Are Not Free Men
The Great Depression and New Deal fundamentally altered our relationship with our government and redefined how Americans conceive of the word freedom. Crisis often breeds great change. It’s an important story. And a complicated one.

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

April 19, 2020

The Emergence of Sexuality: Foucault, Sexual Identities, and the Modern Self

Teacher: Jamie Warren

June 21, 2016

Woman as Other, Woman as Lover: The Search for Self and The Politics of Love
In this Olio, we will examine how the experience of being other shapes women’s relationship to the world around them, and perhaps more importantly, to themselves.

Teacher: Jamie Warren

Oct. 17, 2018

Thomas Paine & the Roots of American Progressivism
Who exactly was Thomas Paine, and why is someone like Andrew Yang talking about him? Paine’s life and legacy have always hovered as a specter over the American political left, and this class explores how and why.

Teacher: Michael Crowder

April 21, 2020

At Home
What is it to have a home? Homebirds, homebodies, homelovings: what are the benefits of a stay-at-home life? Mona Chollet takes us on a journey about how time and space have been transfigured, even disfigured, in today's ultra-productive society.

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

April 14, 2020

History of American Capitalism
What does it mean, historically speaking, to label the United States capitalist at its origins?

Teacher: Michael Crowder

May 13, 2020

What is Memorial Day? Historical Memory and Intentional Forgetting
Let's join together on the day after Memorial Day for this political action of reading and remembering. Indeed, this holiday of remembering is about much more than honoring dead soldiers.

Teacher: Jamie Warren

May 26, 2020

Truth & Certainty
We are nowadays all confronted with a very uncertain future, and it seems that our primary reaction to it is discomfort. Where is this discomfort coming from and what does it say about our relationship with the future? Is uncertainty always a dreadful thing? Why do we seek certitude?

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

July 16, 2020

Labor & Space
To geographers, everything that happens to us happens in space. This includes the ways we work. From company towns to working from home, all work happens in some space--even as that space becomes more and more abstract or we become further and further alienated from production.

Teacher: Lauren Hudson

May 6, 2020

Shakespeare Happy Hour | Think Olio 3rd Anniversary
We'll look at a few scenes in Shakespeare where characters seem to know that they are in a play — and what that can tell us about mindfulness, our own relationship to art and to our lives.

Teacher: Geoff Klock

March 2, 2018

Press Start to Begin: A Survey & History of Video Game Music
Come with cartridges cleaned and a fresh pair of AA batteries in your Game Boy as we enjoy some retro classics and how they have inspired some current greats.

Teacher: Whitney George

June 26, 2020

Somebody to Love: A Feminist Reading of Freddie Mercury
We will talk about whether identity categories provide strength and solidarity, or do they limit the radical and creative possibilities just beneath the surface of political life?

Teacher: Jamie Warren

Jan. 11, 2019

Marx Was Right: Capitalism Failed
Author and activist, Hadas Thier, will break down the workings (or failings) of our economic system and discuss its connection to society’s greatest political challenges. We'll go through the basic concepts laid out by Karl Marx, and discuss how these ideas provide a radical analysis of capitalism and critical tools for activists who seek to dismantle the world of the 1 percent.

Teacher: Hadas Thier

Aug. 19, 2020

Humanity's Place in the Solar System: Latest Discoveries and a Tour of the Universe

Teacher: Michael Hamburg

March 17, 2017

I Cannot Do Nothing - The Search for Meaning
Amidst new daily routines, changing relationships with work and shifting identities during this pandemic, Michael Prettyman will guide us through Viktor Frankl's seminal text “Man’s Search for Meaning”, which proposes that we can and must find meaning in any situation we face, regardless of the circumstance. "

Teacher: Michael Prettyman

April 17, 2020

The Woman Question
The woman question actually posed the inquiry: 'What are women good for?' Let's discuss the psychic and social ramifications of being a question.

Teacher: Jamie Warren

June 30, 2017

The Secret Role of Zelda Fitzgerald: A Deeper Look at the Creative Life of a Jazz Age Legend
An insider's look into the creative life of a Jazz Age legend, including the secret role she played in the revision of The Great Gatsby.

Teacher: Charles Riley

April 7, 2017

The World Before Germs
In this Olio we will learn about the history of germ theory, and the contentious efforts made to convince the public that their most feared killers were invisible.

Teacher: Jamie Warren

April 7, 2020

Anti-Education
What do we want out of a modern university? What kind of education supports the growth of an ethical and creative individual and community? We'll look to some of Nietzsche’s prophetic lectures to understand what's gone awry in the university and how it might be transformed.

Teacher: Vishwa Adluri

Nov. 22, 2019

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