Barnard|Next Program Offerings Fall 2024
Barnard|Next Program Offerings Fall 2024
About Barnard|Next: Lifelong Learning & Community
How often do you hear about the incredible classes at Barnard? Ever wish you could dive (back) into coursework at Barnard too? Barnard|Next is the College's new way to learn from Barnard’s dynamic faculty while networking with the incredible Barnard community across career fields, class years, and interests.
In Fall 2024, we invite you to join us here on campus (or virtually) for these Barnard faculty-led programs and discussions:
Alumnae Reading Group
Join Professor Margaret Vandenburg and fellow alumnae as you draw parallels between today's culture wars and literary works. What can the historical fiction of Mark Twain, Faulkner, and Melville teach us about the American political spectrum? Meets monthly for eight sessions (October through May) on Zoom.
Enrichers
Start your next learning chapter with Barnard faculty’s expertly crafted curricula offering a diverse range of subjects tailored to lifelong learners. Whether you enrich your knowledge of fashion, movies, or literature through our stimulating classes, you will gain a deeper understanding of topics. Classes meet for four sessions of two hours each.
Explorers
Join a vibrant, supportive network of lifelong learners who share your passion for discovery and engaging discussions. Each course is designed to inspire, challenge, and connect you with new ideas and possibilities. Classes meet twice for an hour and half each.
Please join us!
Barnard families play such an important role in the College community, and we’re looking forward to welcoming you into the conversation this spring for debate, dialogue, and connection. Questions about Barnard|Next can be sent to barnardnext@barnard.edu.
Enrichers Series: Expand your knowledge
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4 Mondays 10/28, 11/18, 5:30 - 7:30 PM (ET) Online on Zoom Cost: $500 |
New York City in Film (taught by Professor Ross Hamilton, English) This course will explore the representation of New York City in film. Each seminar will examine a different topic: Early NYC, Jewish NYC, Gangster NYC, and Film Noir NYC. We will examine the way that film portrays social problems and either creates or responds to “social panics.” We will also examine the way in which film actively creates an idea of “New York” through cinematography, directing, acting and other aspects of filmmaking. Participants will be asked to screen two films beforehand. |
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4 Wednesdays 10/30, 11/6, 5:30 - 7:30 PM Barnard Campus Cost: $500 |
10 Crazy Reasons We Get Dressed the Way We Do (taught by Professor Anne Higonnet, Art History) Human beings create second, social, skins for themselves. Everyone designs interfaces between their bodies and the world around them. From prehistoric ornaments to global industry, clothing has always been a crucial feature of people’s survival, desires, and identity. This session studies theories of clothing from the perspectives of anthropology, architecture, art history, craft, economics, labor, law, psychology, semiotics, sociology, and sustainability. Some of the issues for discussion include gender roles, craft traditions, global textile trade, royal sumptuary law, the history of European fashion, dissident or disruptive styles, and the environmental consequences of what we wear today. |
Explorers Series: Light your intellectual spark
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2 Thursdays 11/7, 11/14 7 - 8:30 PM (ET) Online on Zoom Cost: $250 |
Emily Wilson's Iliad Emily Wilson (known for her 2017 translation of the Odyssey) is the first woman to have translated Homer's "war poem" into English. Published in September, 2023, the translation has been praised for its clarity and lack of archaic language. But it also gives us the opportunity to talk about the female voice in this most overtly masculine of poems, as well as more generally about issues of identity and translation. Prof. Kristina Milnor.
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2 Sundays 11/10, 11/17 12 Noon - 1:30 PM (ET) Online on Zoom Cost: $250 |
A History of Abortion: Gender, Religion, Law This mini course will address abortion in the medieval and early modern period, and then in the United States in the 1800's through today. We'll take a close look at the Dobbs decision in light of the history of common law in Britain and the U.S., and through the lens of what we learn about abortion in medieval and early modern Europe. Prof. Wendy Schor-Haim. |
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2 Mondays 10/21, 10/28 6:00 - 7:30 PM (ET) Online on Zoom Cost: $250 |
The Twilight of Democracy? A confluence of factors today renders our democracy vulnerable to what has been described as "the lure of authoritarianism." This session examines some of those factors, which include the rise of conspiracy theories, a yearning for an idealized past, the delegitimization of the media amidst cries of "fake news," the death of local news, the devaluing of expertise, the sophistication of "deepfake" technologies, and the discontents associated with what some deem "the myth of meritocracy." Amidst those challenges, this session considers how to sustain and revitalize American democracy. Prof. Paula Franzese. |
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Free Lecture on Wednesday, 10/23 7PM Barnard Campus Cost: Free |
Forecasting Elections Dive into the fascinating world of electoral forecasting. We will compare statistical models and prediction markets that shape our understanding of how elections are predicted. Prof. Rajiv Sethi |
Alumnae Reading Group
Culture wars have reached a fever pitch, posing "an existential threat to democracy" according to Americans across the political spectrum. If past is prologue, historical fiction might help us diagnose the disease and nurse the nation back to health. Prof. Margaret Vandenburg Classes meet Online on Zoom beginning at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time) and will last approximately one hour. Cost: $320 |
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10/15 @ 7PM (ET) | Herman Melville, Moby Dick | ||
10/29 @ 7PM (ET) |
Herman Melville, Moby Dick |
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12/10 @ 7PM (ET) |
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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1/14 @ 7PM (ET) |
Percival Everett, James |
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2/18 @ 7PM (ET) | William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! | ||
3/25 @ 7PM (ET) | E. L. Doctorow, Book of Daniel | ||
4/22 @ 7PM (ET) | Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony | ||
5/27 @ 7PM (ET) | Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies |