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Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003The Rare Book Room at Strand Bookstore boasts an elegant venue, the walls lined with leather-bound treasures from a book hand printed in 1480 to a limited edition Ulysses signed by Henri Matisse, the illustrator, and by James Joyce.
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Olios at Strand Bookstore
Upcoming:
Feb 22
The Circular Road: Art and the Religious Imagination
Taught by Michael Prettyman
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Past:
Feb 15
Feb 1
Nonsense on Stilts: Science, Pseudoscience & the Need for Critical Thinking
Taught by Massimo Pigliucii
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jan 11
Somebody to Love: A Feminist Reading of Freddie Mercury
Taught by Jamie Warren
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Nov 30
Nov 2
Oct 12
Sep 28
Sep 21
Time, Desire, and Action: Ramayana and The Cosmic Game
Taught by Vishwa Adluri
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Sep 7
Aug 31
Selective Histories: Memory, Aesthetics, & Urban Art
Taught by Lauren Hudson
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Aug 16
Jul 26
Jul 13
What Does it Mean to Be an American: Conformity, Silence, and Lies
Taught by Olio Happy Hour
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jun 22
Jun 15
How Did NYC Become the Birthplace of Global Capitalism?
Taught by Olio Happy Hour
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jun 8
Jun 1
What the Body Knows: Connecting Cells to Choreography
Taught by Olio Happy Hour
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
May 25
May 18
How to Talk About Privacy (Without Sounding Like a Conspiracy Theorist)
Taught by Lawrence Cappello
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
May 11
May 4
Apr 20
Pot and Punishment: Dissecting Marijuana Policy, Mass-Incarceration, and Mental Health
Taught by Olio Happy Hour
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Apr 13
Friday the 13th | Free Will, Determinism, or Fuck it all?
Taught by Olio Happy Hour
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Apr 6
The Importance of Being Two: What It Means to Have a Divided Mind
Taught by Michael Haltenberger
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Mar 23
OlioMuse | The Muse That Screams: Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8
Taught by Whitney George
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Mar 16
Mar 9
Perverts, Creepers, and Freaks: A History of Sexual Perversions
Taught by Jamie Warren
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Mar 2
Shakespeare Happy Hour | Think Olio 3rd Anniversary
Taught by Geoff Klock
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Feb 23
Feb 9
The Body in a Cage: Modern Prisons, External and Internal
Taught by Jamie Warren
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Feb 2
Jan 23
Jan 12
Nov 10
*OlioMuse* In Search of Proust's Music: Recognizing the Musical Motif
Taught by Charles Riley
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Nov 3
Oct 27
Turning the Soul: Humanities and the Hero's Journey
Taught by Vishwa Adluri
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Oct 13
Buddhism and Psychedelics: Moving Towards a Human Rights Culture
Taught by Christopher Kelley
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Sep 29
Sep 22
Intentional Amnesia & New York City's Missing Century
Taught by Kamau Ware
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Sep 15
The Talking Heads, NYC Culture, and Fear of the Suburban Life
Taught by Jessica Rogers
8 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Aug 11
Modern Art, the Work-Life Balance, and the Gig Economy
Taught by Olio Happy Hour
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Aug 4
*OlioMuse* An Exploration of the String Quartet Across Time
Taught by Whitney George
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
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Jul 21
Inventing The Concept of Race: There's Nothing Natural About Segregation
Taught by Angie Beeman
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jul 7
Free As Gods: Picasso, Calder and Artists Take Center Stage
Taught by Charles Riley
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jun 30
Jun 23
Man's Separation from Nature and Where to Go from Here
Taught by Manuel Rodeiro
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jun 9
More Than A Hipster Touchstone: Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Taught by Geoff Klock
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jun 2
The Legal Roots of Reproductive Rights and the Birth Of Planned Parenthood
Taught by Lawrence Cappello
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
May 26
A Radical Peace Education: Responding to Useless Learning, Structural Violence and the School to Prison Pipeline
Taught by Hakim Williams
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
May 19
May 5
Buddhist Realism and Dark Comedy: It's Funny Because It's True
Taught by Christopher Kelley
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Apr 28
Human Rights at the Edge of Darkness: We are the Resistance
Taught by Phelim Kine
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Apr 14
The Psychology of Relationships: How Experimental Science, Empirical Data, and Seinfeld Help us Understand Love
Taught by Marisa T. Cohen
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Apr 7
The Secret Role of Zelda Fitzgerald: A Deeper Look at the Creative Life of a Jazz Age Legend
Taught by Charles Riley
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Apr 7
Mar 24
Dharma in a Crumbling Democracy: Ancient Wisdom for Troubling Times
Taught by Vishwa Adluri
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Mar 17
Humanity's Place in the Solar System: Latest Discoveries and a Tour of the Universe
Taught by Michael Hamburg
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Mar 10
Making Kerouac Our Bitch: On Being a Woman and a Reader of Misogynist Writers
Taught by Jamie Warren
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Mar 3
Manipulating the Material: Transcendence Through Drugs, Art and Religious Experience
Taught by Michael Haltenberger & Michael Prettyman
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Feb 24
Transparent isn't So Transparent: What the Hit Show Reveals About Rigid Social Structures
Taught by Maureen Matarese
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Feb 17
Privacy and the Profit Motive: “If you’re not doing anything wrong then you should have nothing to hide.”
Taught by Lawrence Cappello
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Feb 10
Radical Jazz: A South African Model for Resistance & Revolution Through Music
Taught by Sean Jacobs
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Feb 3
Consciousness Hacking: Seeking Enlightenment Through Technology, Psychedelics, and Meditation
Taught by Christopher Kelley
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jan 27
Being One of Them and Being Who You Are: The Immigrant's Search for an Authentic Self
Taught by Patricia Kim
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jan 20
Inside the Entertainment-Industrial Complex: How Guilty Pleasures Take the Edge Off Reality
Taught by Ward Regan
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jan 13
Woman as Other, Woman as Lover: The Search for Self and the Politics of Love
Taught by Jamie Warren
7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Nov 28
Macbeth: Toxic Masculinity, Misogyny, & Monarchy
Taught by Geoff Klock
7:30 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Oct 13
Emergence of Sexuality: Foucault, Sexual Identities, and the Modern Self
Taught by Jamie Warren
7:30 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Aug 3
What Would Buffy Do? A Radical Feminist Seeks Answers from The Slayer
Taught by Jamie Warren
7:30 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jul 19
The Myth of Women and Madness: Sylvia Plath and Zelda Fitzgerald
Taught by Dahlia Valle
7:30 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Jul 6
The Other Side of Genius: Hemingway, Gershwin, cummings, Leger, & Picasso
Taught by Charles Riley
7:30 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
