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Art & Architecture Art & Architecture American Landscape: Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School (Spring 2022) Course Description Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Class 5 - May 5 Class 6 - May 12 The Arts Of The Viceroyalties Of The Spanish Empire (1522-1810) (Spring 2022) Course Description Class 1 - Jan 31- Part 1 Class 1 - Jan 31 - Part 2 Class 2 - Feb 7 Class 3 - Feb 14 Class 4 - Feb 28 *Second half of class N/A Class 5 - March 7 Class 6 - March 14 Class 7 - March 21 Color: A Cultural and Scientific Journey (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - Feb. 8, 2023 Class 2 - Feb. 22, 2023 Class 3 - March 1, 2023 Class 4 - March 8, 2023 Class 5 - March 15, 2023 Class 6 - March 22, 2023 Ephemeral Architecture and Portable Artifacts in Islamic Art (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - March 6, 2023 Class 2 - March 13, 2023 Class 3 - March 20, 2023 Class 4 - March 27, 2023 Exploring Dutch Art at the Museum of Fine Arts (Fall 2022) Course Info Class 1 - October 12, 2022 Class 2 - October 19, 2022 Class 3 - October 26, 2022 Class 4 - November 2, 2022 Exploring Visual Images of Fortuna: The Fickle Goddess of Chance (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 23 Class 2 - April 30 Class 3 - May 7 Class 4 - May 14 Islamic Architecture and its Legacy to the West (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - February 5 Class 2 - February 12 Class 3 - February 19 Class 4 - February 26 Class 5 - March 5 Class 6 - March 12 Michelangelo: The Misconstrued Titan (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Class 5 - May 5 The Mystery of the Pompeian and Roman Murals (Fall 2023) Course Description Class 1 - October 6, 2022 Class 2 - October 13, 2022 Class 3 - October 20, 2022 Class 4 - October 27, 2022 Class 5 - November 3, 2022 Class 6 - November 10, 2022 The Nude: Problems in Classical Art (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - April 12, 2023 Class 2 - April 19, 2023 Class 3 - April 26, 2023 Class 4 - May 3, 2023 Class 5 - May 10, 2023 Orthodox Iconography from Apostle Luke to Alyona Knyazova (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 1 Class 2 - April 8 Class 3 - April 15 Class 4 - April 22 The Pre-Raphaelites' Love for Nature and Beauty (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - Feb. 9, 2023 Class 2 - Feb. 16, 2023 Class 3 - Feb. 23, 2023 Class 4 - March 2, 2023 Class 5 - March 16, 2023 Class 6 - March 23, 2023 Raphael, Painter of Beauty (Spring 2022) Course Description Class 1 - Feb 3 Class 2 - Feb 10 Class 3 - Feb 17 Class 4 - Feb 24 Class 5 - March 10 Class 6 - March 17 Rembrandt in Context: His Horizon of Expectations (Fall 2020) Course Description Class 1 - October 7, 2020 Class 2 - October 14, 2020 Class 3 - October 21, 2020 Class 4 - October 28, 2020 Class 5 - November 4, 2020 Titian’s Allegorical and Mythological Paintings: Venetian Poesie (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - February 3 Class 2 - February 10 Class 3 - February 17 Class 4 - February 24 Class 5 - March 3 Class 6 - March 10 Venetian Splendor: Color, Light & Fantasy (Fall 2021) Course Description Session 2 - October 14 Session 3 - October 21 Session 4 - October 28 Session 5 - November 4 Session 6 - November 11 Session 7 - November 18 Vermeer: The Allure of the Studio and Street (Fall 2021) Course Description Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - October 27 Session 5 - November 3 Vienna: Medicine, Psychology and Art at the Turn of the 20th Century (Fall 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Environment Environment Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7 Class 2 - October 14 Class 3 - October 21 Class 4 - October 28 Class 5 - November 4 Class 6 - November 11 Inundated: Greater Boston's Water Challenges (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - November 3 Session 5 - November 10 Session 6 - November 17 Solving New England’s Biggest Environmental Challenges (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 6, 2020 Class 2 - October 13, 2020 Class 3 - October 20, 2020 Class 4 - October 27, 2020 Class 5 - November 3, 2020 History History American Tories: Loyalists in the First Civil War (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 18 Session 2 - October 25 Session 3 - November 1 Session 4 - November 8 Session 5 - November 15 The Best of All Worlds (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Feb 3 Class 2 - Feb 10 Class 3 - Feb 17 Class 4 - Feb 24 Class 5 - March 3 Class 6 - March 10 Chinese Revolution – From Sun Yat-sen to Mao Zedong (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - October 27 Session 5 - November 3 Session 6 - November 10 The Cold War 1959 - 1973 (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - Feb. 7, 2023 Class 2 - Feb. 14, 2023 Class 3 - Feb. 21, 2023 Class 4 - Feb. 28, 2023 Class 5 - March 7, 2023 Class 6 - March 14, 2023 Colonial Entrepreneurship 1620 to 1700: “Massachusetts Inc.” (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 Class 2 - October 15, 2020 Class 3 - October 22, 2020 Class 4 - October 29, 2020 Class 5 - November 5, 2020 The Dogs of War (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 4 Class 2 - February 11 Class 3 - February 18 Class 4 - February 25 Class 5 - March 4 Class 6 - March 11 The Dogs of War; Part II (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October7 Session 2 - October 14 Session 3 - October 21 - Recording Unavailable Session 4 - October 28 Session 5 - November 4 Session 6 - November 11 Fifty Years of Affirmative Action: Remedy for Oppression or Reverse Discrimination? (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Class 5 - May 5 Class 6 - May 12 The Great Game or The Great Power Rivalry (1830-1895) (Fall 2022) Course Info Class 1 - October 24, 2022 Class 2 - October 31, 2022 Class 3 - November 7, 2022 Class 4 - November 14, 2022 Late Antiquity (Fall 2022) Course Info Class 1 - October 6, 2022 Class 2 - Ocotber 13, 2022 Class 3 - October 20, 2022 Class 4 - October 27, 2022 Class 5 - November 3, 2022 Class 6 - November 10, 2022 Class 7 - November 17, 2022 Class 8 - December 1, 2022 Nationalism and Its Discontents (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7, 2020 Class 2 - October 14, 2020 Class 3 - October 21, 2020 Class 4 - October 28, 2020 Class 4 - November 4, 2020 Class 5 - November 11, 2020 The Pacific War (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 9 Class 2 - October 16 Class 3 - October 23 Class 4 - October 30 Class 5 - November 6 Class 6 - November 13 Class 7 - November 20 Pioneer Women in the Civil War (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Jan 31 Class 2 - Feb 7 Class 3 - Feb 14 Class 4 - Feb 28 Class 5 - March 7 Pioneer Women of California (Fall 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Oct. 3, 2022 Class 2 - Oct. 17, 2022 Class 3 - October 24, 2022 Class 4 - October 31, 2022 Class 5 - November 7, 2022 Pioneer Women on the Northern Plains (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 5, 2020 Class 2 - October 19, 2020 Class 3 - October 26, 2020 November 2, 2020 November 9, 2020 Presidential Health and Illness throughout History: Bloodletting, Bad Cherries and Ballistics (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - February 1 Class 2 - February 8 - Recording unavailable Class 3 - February 15 Class 4 - February 22 Class 5 - March 1 Class 6 - March 8 Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins: Midwife of Entitlements (Fall 2022) Course Info Class 1 - October 12, 2022 Class 2 - October 19, 2022 Class 3 - October 25, 2022 Class 4 - November 3, 2022 Class 5 - November 10, 2022 Speaking in Tongues: Language, Langue and Parole (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 3: October 21, 2020 Class 4: October 28, 2020 Class 5: November 4, 2020 Class 6: November 11, 2020 Final Class 7 - November 18 The Three Alices: Alice James, Alice Roosevelt & Alice Paul (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1- March 29 Class 2 - April 5 Class 3 - April 12 Class 4 - April 16 Class 5 - April 26 We the People: The 500-Year Battle Over Who is An American (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 9 Class 2 - October 16 Class 3 - October 23 Class 4 - October 30 Class 5 - November 6 Winston Churchill: A Remarkable and Varied Life (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October8 Session 2 - October 15 Session 3 - October 22 Session 4 - October 29 Session 5 - November 5 Session 6 - November 12 Session 7 - November 19 Literature & Poetry Literature & Poetry "The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 3 Class 2 - February 10 Class 3 - February 17 Class 4 - February 24 Class 5 - March 3 Class 6 - March 10 In Her Eyes: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - April 14, 2023 Class 2 - April 21, 2023 Class 3 - April 28, 2023 Class 4 - May 5, 2023 The Poetic Visions of Frost & cummings (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 18 Session 2 - October 25 Session 3 - November 1 Session 4 - November 8 Session 5 - November 15 Session 6 - November 22 Return of the Woolf (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - February 1 Class 2 - February 8 Class 3 - February 22 Class 4 - March 1 Class 5 - March 8 Class 6 - March 15 Worlds in Chaos: Dystopian Science Fiction of the 1950s (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - April 3, 2023 Class 2 - April 10, 2023 *No class Patriot's Day Monday, April 17 Class 3 - April 24, 2023 Class 4 - May 1, 2023 Class 5 - May 15, 2023 Local Interest Local Interest Boston Uncommon: Five Boston Tours You Haven’t Taken (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October7 Session 2 - October 14 Session 3 - October 21 Session 4 - October 28 Session 5 - November 4 Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7 Class 2 - October 14 Class 3 - October 21 Class 4 - October 28 Class 5 - November 4 Class 6 - November 11 Inundated: Greater Boston's Water Challenges (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - November 3 Session 5 - November 10 Session 6 - November 17 Solving New England’s Biggest Environmental Challenges (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 6, 2020 Class 2 - October 13, 2020 Class 3 - October 20, 2020 Class 4 - October 27, 2020 Class 5 - November 3, 2020 Music, Theatre & Film Music, Theatre & Film America through Russian Eyes – Images of America in Soviet and Russian Cinema (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - Feb. 7, 2023 Class 2 - Feb 14, 2023 (Recording begins after breakout discussion sessions.) Class 3 - Feb. 21, 2023 (Recording begins after breakout discussion sessions.) Class 4 - Feb. 28, 2023 (Recording begins after breakout discussion sessions.) Class 5 - March 7, 2023 (Recording begins after breakout discussion sessions.) Beethoven and His Times (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1: October 6 Class 2 - October 13 Class 3 - October 20 Class 4 - October 27 Class 5 - November 3 Class 6 - November 10 Classics of Soviet Cinema (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 2 Class 2 - February 9 Class 3 - February 16 Class 4 - February 23 Class 5 - March 2 Contemporary Russian Cinema (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - February 8 Class 2 - February 15 Class 3 - February 22 Class 4 - March 1 Class 5 - March 8 Fred Astaire, His Partners, and Others (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 2 Class 2 - February 9 Class 3 - February 16 Class 4 - February 23 Class 5 - March 2 Class 6 - March 9 French Music between the Wars (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - May 5 Class 2 - May 12 Class 3 - May 19 Class 4 - May 26 Mozart's German Operas (Fall 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Oct. 4. (Note you can fast-forward through the technical difficulties experienced approximately 1 hour into this session.) Class 2 - Oct. 11, 2022 Class 3 - Oct. 18, 2022 Class 4 - Oct. 25, 2022 Class 5 - Nov. 2, 2022 Class 6 - Nov. 9, 2022 Music and Representation (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 8, 2020 Class 2 - October 15, 2020 - Recording Unavailable Class 3 - October 22, 2020 Class 4 - October 29, 2020 Class 5 - November 5, 2020 Class 6 - November 12, 2020 Class 7 - November 19, 2020 Music in Salzburg 1650 to 1705 (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - February 10, 2023 Class 2 - February 17, 2023 Live Class & Concert - March 10, 2023 Class 4 - March 17, 2023 Class 5 - March 24, 2023 Class 6 - March 31 One Hundred Years of Judy Garland (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - Feb. 8, 2023 Class 2 - Feb. 15, 2023 Class 3 - Feb. 22, 2023 Class 4 - March 1, 2023 Class 5 - March 8, 2023 Class 6 - March 15, 2023 Portraits of Leadership in Classic Films (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 5 Session 2 - October 12 Session 3 - October 19 Session 4 - October 26 Session 5 - November 2 Session 6 - November 9 Producing Live Theatre: From Backstage to Centerstage (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 Class 2 - October 26 Class 3 - November 2 Class 4 - November 9 Class 5 - November 16 Class 6 - November 23 Staging History: Setting History to Music (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 5 Session 2 - October 12 Session 3 - October 19 Session 4 - October 26 Session 5 - November 2 Session 6 - November 9 Philosophy & Religion Philosophy & Religion King Solomon Shares His Wealth: Gaining Wisdom from the Bible (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 18 Session 2 - October 25 Session 3 - November 1 Session 4 - November 8 Session 5 - November 15 Session 6 - November 22 Politics, Economics, Social Science Politics, Economics, Social Science Can We Dig Ourselves Out of this Hole? Confronting Our Economic Choices and Challenges (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - Jan 31- Part 1 Class 1 - February 2 Class 2 - February 9 Class 3 - February 16 Class 4 - February 23 Class 5 - March 2 Class 6 - March 9 China and the United States: Can this Marriage be Saved? (Fall 2022) Course Info Class 1 - October 11, 2022 Class 2 - October 18, 2022 Class 3 - October 25, 2022 Class 4 - November 1, 2022 Class 5 - November 8, 2022 Culture Wars: The 1619 Project Controversies (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - April 6, 2023 Class 2 - April 13, 2023 Class 3 - April 20, 2023 Class 4 - April 27, 2023 Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7 Class 2 - October 14 Class 3 - October 21 Class 4 - October 28 Class 5 - November 4 Class 6 - November 11 Fifty Years of Affirmative Action: Remedy for Oppression or Reverse Discrimination? (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Class 5 - May 5 Class 6 - May 12 Modern Monetary Theory: Can We Print Our Way to Happiness? (Fall 2021) Course Info Class 1 - Feb 3 Session 1 - October 5 Session 2 - October 12 Session 3 - October 19 Session 4 - October 26 Session 5 - November 3 Nationalism and Its Discontents (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7, 2020 Class 2 - October 14, 2020 Class 3 - October 21, 2020 Class 4 - October 28, 2020 Class 4 - November 4, 2020 Class 5 - November 11, 2020 Speaking in Tongues: Language, Langue and Parole (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 3: October 21, 2020 Class 4: October 28, 2020 Class 5: November 4, 2020 Class 6: November 11, 2020 Final Class 7 - November 18 Understanding Current Events: Both Domestic and Foreign (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7, 2020 Class 2 - October 14, 2020 Class 3 - October 21, 2020 Class 4 - October 28, 2020 Class 5 - November 4, 2020 Class 6 - November 11, 2020 Water and Energy: Competing Priorities or Good Partners (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - March 30 Class 2 - April 6 Class 3 - April 13 Class 4 - April 20 Class 5 - April 27 Class 6 - May 4 Science Science Biomedical Advances: From the Bench to the Bedside and Beyond (Spring 2023) Course Info 1) Feb. 10, 2023 - Stress and Heart Health 2) Feb. 10, 2023 - Brain Aging 3) Feb. 17, 2023 Lectures 4) Feb. 24, 2023 Lectures 5) March 3, 2023 Lectures 6) March 10, 2023 Lectures 7) Final Lecture - March 17, 2023 Copenhagen and Quantum Reality (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 3 Class 2 - February 10 Class 3 - February 17 Class 4 - February 24 Class 5 - March 3 - Recording Unavailable Class 6 - March 10 Emerging Biosciences – Straight from the Lab (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Feb 4 Class 2 - Feb 11 Class 3 - Feb 18 Class 4 - Feb 25 Class 5 - March 4 Class 6 - March 11 The Human Heart (Fall 2022) Course Info Class 1 - October 6, 2022 Class 2 - October 13, 2022 Class 3 - October 20, 2022 Class 4 - November 3, 2022 Class 5 - November 10, 2022 Pandemics: Past, Present and Future (Spring 2023) Course Info Class 1 - Feb. 7, 2023 Class 2 - Feb. 14, 2023 Class 3 - Feb. 21, 2023 Class 4 - Feb. 28, 2023 Class 5 - March 7, 2023 Class 6 - March 14, 2023 Class 7 - March 21, 2023 Science in the News (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - March 30 - Recording Unavailable Class 2 - April 6 Class 3 - April 13 Class 4 - April 20 Class 5 - April 27 Stem Cell Medicine: Regenerating the Future (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 2 - October 15, 2020 (Click this link to view the class 2 recording.) Class 3 - October 22, 2020 (Click here to view this recording.) Class 4 - October 29, 2020 Class 5 - November 5, 2020 Class 6 - November 12, 2020 This is the way the world ends... (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Feb. 2 Class 2 - Feb 9 Class 3 - Feb 16 Class 4 - February 23 Class 5 - March 2 Class 6 - March 9 Unveiling the Cosmos (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - October 27 Session 5 - November 3 Session 6 - November 10 Unveiling the Cosmos (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 4 Class 2 - February 11 Class 3 - February 18 Class 4 - February 25 Class 5 - March 4 Class 6 - March 11 Vienna: Medicine, Psychology and Art at the Turn of the 20th Century (Fall 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28