Lecture Classes in NYC, New York

This course welcomes people of all genders and sexualities and is a safe space! In this course we will explore important facets of a fulfilling, pleasurable, happy and healthy sex life! We will focus on how to optimize pleasure, both solo and with a partner or partners, how to reshape the ways we think about sex and our bodies, and of course how...

Enjoy painting botanical illustrations in the super easy to learn and forgiving medium of gouache, also known as opaque watercolor. This class is designed for both inexperienced students and those who wish to improve their skills. We will cover basic as well as more advance gouache techniques to paint a beautiful flower in a style I like to call "soft...

It's true! As women we’re full of compassion, we’re intuitive and we want to help! We want to make things better!! But in the business world, women are sometimes accused of being TOO SENSITIVE, or even worse, “too emotional”. What a career killer! So where do we draw the line? How do we overcome career setbacks and professional disappointments...

3 Keys to Prioritize Self Care during Challenging Times for Women in the Work Space and at Home As Women, taking care of ourselves has never been more challenging or more essential to our well being and the well being of our loved ones. Deep down we all know, if we don’t take care of ourselves we won’t really be able to take care...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Join two of the world’s foremost Shakespeare scholars for a lecture and conversation about the some of the Bard’s most beloved, mysterious, and satisfying works—his sonnets. Shakespeare wrote sonnets for both personal and professional reasons, and taken into consideration together—as Edmondson and Wells do in their new volume, All the Sonnets...

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...

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...

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...