Online

Zoom link will be sent upon signup.

This course will be held online using Zoom. There will be the professor and a facilitator who will handle the tech-side and coordinate interaction with participants.

Upcoming Olios at Online

Deschooling & Decolonizing: Systemic Change From the Inside Out

Venue: Online

Teacher: Kashema Hutchinson

May 28, 2021, 7 p.m.

“To Get Free of Oneself”: Power, Self, and the Possibility of Beauty in the Work of Michel Foucault

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jamie Warren

May 18, 2021, 6 p.m.

Theater and Climate Justice: Creative Tools for Building a Better World

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lanxing Fu & Jeremy Pickard

May 18, 2021, 7 p.m.

Reclaiming Health Through the Art of Fermentation

Venue: Online

Teacher: Sandor Katz

May 13, 2021, 6:30 p.m.

"Seeds Beneath the Snow": Utopia through Ecological Crisis

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lauren Hudson

April 23, 2021, 6 p.m.

Scarcity and Abundance: Foraging as an Ecosystem Service

Venue: Online

Teacher: Chris Baker

April 22, 2021, 8 p.m.

Between Two Worlds: The Olio Cinema Series

Venue: Online

Teacher: Whitney George

April 20, 2021, 7 p.m.

Disability and Perfectionism

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

April 19, 2021, 6:30 p.m.

Eastern Medicine for the Western Mind & Body: Taoism & The Five Elements

Venue: Online

Teacher: Darryl Aiken-Afam

April 15, 2021, 7 p.m.

Past Olios at Online

FOMO

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

March 26, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Counseling in Isolation

Venue: Online

Teacher: Patricia Kim

April 2, 2020, 7 p.m.

Documentary Club | For Sama

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

April 4, 2020, 4:30 p.m.

Everything Fragile Breaks: Finding Meaning in Black Swan Events

Venue: Online

Teacher: Michael Prettyman

April 4, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

The World Before Germs

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jamie Warren

April 7, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Book Club | Understanding the Green New Deal

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

April 8, 2020, 6:30 p.m.

But How Are We Going To Pay For it? Modern Monetary Theory and the Public Purse

Venue: Online

Teacher: Andres Bernal

April 10, 2020, 7 p.m.

Counseling During Isolation

Venue: Online

Teacher: Patricia Kim

April 11, 2020, 4 p.m.

Honeyland

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

April 11, 2020, 1:30 p.m.

The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Two-Part Olio Series

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

April 12, 2020, 7 p.m.

At Home

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

April 14, 2020, 7 p.m.

I Cannot Do Nothing - The Search for Meaning

Venue: Online

Teacher: Michael Prettyman

April 17, 2020, 8 p.m.

Taoism and Self-Care

Venue: Online

Teacher: Darryl Aiken-Afam

April 18, 2020, 6 p.m.

Documentary Club | American Factory

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

April 18, 2020, 1:30 p.m.

Book Club | Contagion

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

April 19, 2020, 3 p.m.

Poor Men Are Not Free Men

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

April 19, 2020, 7 p.m.

Thomas Paine & the Roots of American Progressivism

Venue: Online

Teacher: Michael Crowder

April 21, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Sold Out // Counseling in Isolation

Venue: Online

Teacher: Patricia Kim

April 23, 2020, 7 p.m.

Self Care & The Way of Virtue

Venue: Online

Teacher: Darryl Aiken-Afam

April 24, 2020, 7 p.m.

Documentary Club - Hail Satan?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

April 26, 2020, 1:30 p.m.

Apocalypse Now

Venue: Online

Teacher: Joydeep Bagchee

April 26, 2020, 3 p.m.

Poetry Workshop: Finding Poetry in the Everyday

Venue: Online

Teacher: Kat Rejsek

April 27, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Housing for All? The Past, Present, and Future of Housing Justice in New York City

Venue: Online

Teacher: Oksana Mironova

April 30, 2020, 7 p.m.

How Shall I Live? The Path of Stoic Joy

Venue: Online

Teacher: Michael Prettyman

May 1, 2020, 8 p.m.

Documentary Club - The Hottest August

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

May 3, 2020, 12:45 p.m.

Book Club - The Coronation by Charles Eisenstein

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

May 3, 2020, 1 p.m.

Contagion Book Club - Death in Venice

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

May 3, 2020, 2:30 p.m.

Counseling in Isolation

Venue: Online

Teacher: Patricia Kim

May 5, 2020, 7 p.m.

Labor & Space

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lauren Hudson

May 6, 2020, 8 p.m.

​Pornography & Prostitution: Philosophers Facing the Sex Industry

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

May 7, 2020, 8 p.m.

Documentary Club - Planet of the Humans

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

May 10, 2020, 1:30 p.m.

Counseling in Isolation

Venue: Online

Teacher: Patricia Kim

May 12, 2020, 7 p.m.

History of American Capitalism

Venue: Online

Teacher: Michael Crowder

May 13, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Philosophers & Pornography

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

May 14, 2020, 8 p.m.

Embrace Uncertainty: Writing the Hybrid – "The White Album"

Venue: Online

Teacher: Amanda Krupman

May 14, 2020, 8 p.m.

Technology & Desire: Learning From the Ancients

Venue: Online

Teacher: Vishwa Adluri

May 15, 2020, 8 p.m.

*Sold Out* Where is Your 'Right Now'? The Philosophy of History Seminar

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jamie Warren

May 17, 2020, 4 p.m.

Where is your 'RightNow?' The Philosophy of History *Sold Out*

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jamie Warren

May 17, 2020, 4 p.m.

How to Live a Good Life?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Skye and Massimo

May 17, 2020, 1:30 p.m.

The Way of Virtue: Studying the Tao Te Ching

Venue: Online

Teacher: Darryl Aiken-Afam

May 20, 2020, 6 p.m.

Signature Touch: David Lynch and the Art of Music in Cinema

Venue: Online

Teacher: Whitney George

May 21, 2020, 8 p.m.

Think Olio Goes to Law School

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

May 26, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

What is Memorial Day? Historical Memory and Intentional Forgetting

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jamie Warren

May 26, 2020, 10 p.m.

Documentary Club - On the President's Orders

Venue: Online

Teacher: Member-Led

May 27, 2020, 8:30 p.m.

How the Past Stays with Us: The Big Lebowski and the Legacy of the 1960s

Venue: Online

Teacher: David Parsons

May 29, 2020, 8 p.m.

Apocalypse Now

Venue: Online

Teacher: Joydeep Bagchee

May 30, 2020, 2 p.m.

Heart in Hand: From Playboy to Poetry

Venue: Online

Teacher: Charlee Huffman

May 31, 2020, 6 p.m.

A Dialogue: Buddhism and the Stoics

Venue: Online

Teacher: Bhante Kusala & Michael Prettyman

June 5, 2020, 8 p.m.

Seeing the Subconscious: Mindfulness, Psychology, and the Road to Healing Racism

Venue: Online

Teacher: None

June 7, 2020, 7 p.m.

Regulating Business in a Capitalist Society

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

June 9, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Escape From The City

Venue: Online

Teacher: Ted Barrow

June 10, 2020, 8 p.m.

Progressives, Radicals & Well-Meaning Liberals

Venue: Online

Teacher: Angie Beeman

June 11, 2020, 8 p.m.

Plato Goes East: The Republic and The Bhagavad Gita

Venue: Online

Teacher: Vishwa Adluri

June 14, 2020, noon

Socialism, A Day in the Life

Venue: Online

Teacher: Danny Katch

June 15, 2020, 8 p.m.

Reproductive Rights & Morality Law

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

June 16, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Internet Omnipresence & Critical Thinking

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

June 22, 2020, 8 p.m.

Embracing Uncertainty: Writing the Hybrid

Venue: Online

Teacher: Amanda Krupman

June 24, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Fear and Loathing in America: LSD and the Freak Politics of the 1960s

Venue: Online

Teacher: David Parsons

June 25, 2020, 8 p.m.

Press Start to Begin: A Survey & History of Video Game Music

Venue: Online

Teacher: Whitney George

June 26, 2020, 8 p.m.

New Toys and New Tyrants: Capitalism and the Rise of Platform Economics

Venue: Online

Teacher: Rob Larson

June 30, 2020, 8 p.m.

Embracing Uncertainty: Writing the Hybrid

Venue: Online

Teacher: Amanda Krupman

July 1, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Seeing the Subconscious: Mindfulness, Psychology, and the Road to Healing Racism

Venue: Online

Teacher: None

July 5, 2020, 7 p.m.

What is Drag, Anyway?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Eric Shorey

July 9, 2020, 8 p.m.

Public Safety vs Economic Collapse

Venue: Online

Teacher: Andres Bernal

July 10, 2020, 8 p.m.

Truth & Certainty

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

July 16, 2020, 8 p.m.

How is White Supremacy Embodied in Me?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Kim Nguyen

July 19, 2020, 1 p.m.

Anglo-Artists in the Caribbean: Exploring Race, Place, and other Tropical Topics

Venue: Online

Teacher: Ted Barrow

July 23, 2020, 8 p.m.

Locked Out: The Attica Uprising and the Politics of Prison

Venue: Online

Teacher: David Parsons

July 28, 2020, 8 p.m.

Why do Bad Governments Happen to Good People?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Danny Katch

July 29, 2020, 8 p.m.

But is it Art?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Vishwa Adluri

July 30, 2020, 7 p.m.

Seeing the Subconscious: Mindfulness and the Road to Healing Racism

Venue: Online

Teacher: Darryl Aiken-Afam

Aug. 2, 2020, 7 p.m.

The Cinema of Evil

Venue: Online

Teacher: Eric Shorey

Aug. 4, 2020, 8 p.m.

A Deep Listening: Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel...

Venue: Online

Teacher: Whitney George

Aug. 6, 2020, 7 p.m.

Cancel Culture

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Aug. 9, 2020, 2 p.m.

Know Your Rights! A Constitutional History of American Protest

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lawrence Cappello

Aug. 13, 2020, 7 p.m.

The Great Revelator: The Exploitation of the Black Body from Slavery to Covid 19

Venue: Online

Teacher: None

Aug. 16, 2020, 4 p.m.

Marx Was Right: Capitalism Failed

Venue: Online

Teacher: Hadas Thier

Aug. 19, 2020, 8 p.m.

Embracing Uncertainty: Writing the Hybrid | Found Forms

Venue: Online

Teacher: Amanda Krupman

Aug. 20, 2020, 8 p.m.

'A Poem About My Rights': Reading June Jordan

Venue: Online

Teacher: Christina Katopodis

Aug. 25, 2020, 8 p.m.

A Farce of Nature

Venue: Online

Teacher: Rob Larson

Sept. 3, 2020, 8 p.m.

Staying at Home with Emily Dickinson

Venue: Online

Teacher: Christina Katopodis

Sept. 9, 2020, 8 p.m.

Who is it Built for? The Power and Influence of Design

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri

Sept. 16, 2020, 8 p.m.

Who is it Built for? The Power and Influence of Design

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri

Sept. 16, 2020, 8 p.m.

Am I Normal?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Sept. 24, 2020, 8 p.m.

Society Must be Defended

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jamie Warren

Oct. 4, 2020, 4 p.m.

Our Changing Planet

Venue: Online

Teacher: Spiro Alexandratos

Oct. 7, 2020, 7 p.m.

The Good Life? An 8-week Journey

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Oct. 20, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

The Erotic As Power: Wild Nights with Women Poets

Venue: Online

Teacher: Christina Katopodis

Oct. 26, 2020, 8 p.m.

Interspecies Design: Treating Plant and Animal as the Client

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri

Oct. 27, 2020, 8 p.m.

Your Hands in My Doorway like Rainbows: Audre Lorde's Love Poems

Venue: Online

Teacher: Christina Katopodis

Nov. 5, 2020, 8 p.m.

A New Contract with Black America: Where Do We Go From Here?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Ifeoma Ike

Nov. 8, 2020, 8 p.m.

"I Don't Think Any of Us Are Normal": Behind the Music of Wes Anderson Films

Venue: Online

Teacher: Whitney George

Nov. 13, 2020, 8 p.m.

Conjuring the Senses: Food Photography and American Society

Venue: Online

Teacher: Allie Wist

Nov. 24, 2020, 8 p.m.

OlioFest: A 12-Hour Audio Experience

Venue: Online

Teacher: OlioFest

Jan. 16, 2021, noon

"Places, Everyone!" - The History of Broadway & The Theater District in NYC

Venue: Online

Teacher: Whitney George

Jan. 18, 2021, 8 p.m.

The Tyranny of Happy: Contemporary Over-Performance

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

Jan. 21, 2021, 7:30 p.m.

Communities Fight Back: Meeting our Needs During Capitalist Crisis

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lauren Hudson

Jan. 27, 2021, 7:30 p.m.

Defund the Police?

Venue: Online

Teacher: Briana Toole

Jan. 28, 2021, 8 p.m.

Reconstruction 101: The True Beginning of the Nation We Live in Today

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jamie Warren

Feb. 7, 2021, 3 p.m.

Riot and Insurrection: The Many Faces of Nationalism

Venue: Online

Teacher: Edward Burt

Feb. 11, 2021, 8 p.m.

Sovereignty, Solidarity, & The Land Back Movement

Venue: Online

Teacher: J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Feb. 18, 2021, 8 p.m.

James Baldwin, Individual Responsibility and the Terror of Change

Venue: Online

Teacher: Ruth Mas

Feb. 28, 2021, 3 p.m.

Stoicism Symposium: Jeanne & Massimo in Conversation

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

March 5, 2021, 6 p.m.

Olio Film Night: Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'

Venue: Online

Teacher: Whitney George

March 19, 2021, 7 p.m.

What If: How Sci-Fi Designs for Climate Crisis

Venue: Online

Teacher: Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri

March 22, 2021, 8 p.m.

Where is My "Self"? A Dialogue between East and West

Venue: Online

Teacher: Darryl Aiken-Afam

March 23, 2021, 6 p.m.

I'm Alive. Now What? Reading Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Venue: Online

Teacher: Patricia Kim

March 28, 2021, 3 p.m.

Here Comes a New Challenger: How Video Games Are Shaping the World

Venue: Online

Teacher: Vincent Hui

March 30, 2021, 7:30 p.m.

The Bioethics of Birth and Living: An 8-Week Course

Venue: Online

Teacher: Jeanne Proust

March 30, 2021, 7:30 p.m.

Privilege and Its Discontents: Arendt, Assimilated Jews, and the Academy

Venue: Online

Teacher: Joydeep Bagchee

April 10, 2021, 2 p.m.

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