Art & Architecture
American Landscape: Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School (Spring 2022)
The Arts Of The Viceroyalties Of The Spanish Empire (1522-1810) (Spring 2022)
Class 1 - Jan 31 - Part 1
Class 4 - Feb 28 *Second half of class N/A
Exploring Visual Images of Fortuna: The Fickle Goddess of Chance (Spring 2021)
Islamic Architecture and its Legacy to the West (Spring 2021)
Michelangelo: The Misconstrued Titan (Spring 2021)
Orthodox Iconography from Apostle Luke to Alyona Knyazova (Spring 2021)
Raphael, Painter of Beauty (Spring 2022)
Rembrandt in Context: His Horizon of Expectations (Fall 2020)
Titian’s Allegorical and Mythological Paintings: Venetian Poesie (Spring 2021)
Venetian Splendor: Color, Light & Fantasy (Fall 2021)
Vermeer: The Allure of the Studio and Street (Fall 2021)
Vienna: Medicine, Psychology and Art at the Turn of the 20th Century (Fall 2021)
Environment
Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020)
Inundated: Greater Boston's Water Challenges (Fall 2021)
Solving New England’s Biggest Environmental Challenges (Fall 2020)
History
American Tories: Loyalists in the First Civil War (Fall 2021)
The Best of All Worlds (Spring 2022)
Chinese Revolution – From Sun Yat-sen to Mao Zedong (Fall 2021)
Colonial Entrepreneurship 1620 to 1700: “Massachusetts Inc.” (Fall 2020)
The Dogs of War (Spring 2021)
The Dogs of War; Part II (Fall 2021)
Session 3 - October 21 - Recording Unavailable
Fifty Years of Affirmative Action: Remedy for Oppression or Reverse Discrimination? (Spring 2021)
Nationalism and Its Discontents (Fall 2020)
Pioneer Women in the Civil War (Spring 2022)
Pioneer Women on the Northern Plains (Fall 2020)
Presidential Health and Illness throughout History: Bloodletting, Bad Cherries and Ballistics (Spring 2022)
Class 2 - February 8 - Recording unavailable
Speaking in Tongues: Language, Langue and Parole (Fall 2020)
The Three Alices: Alice James, Alice Roosevelt & Alice Paul (Spring 2021)
We the People: The 500-Year Battle Over Who is An American (Fall 2020)
Winston Churchill: A Remarkable and Varied Life (Fall 2021)
Literature & Poetry
"The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni (Spring 2021)
The Poetic Visions of Frost & cummings (Fall 2021)
Return of the Woolf (Spring 2021)
Local Interest
Boston Uncommon: Five Boston Tours You Haven’t Taken (Fall 2021)
Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020)
Inundated: Greater Boston's Water Challenges (Fall 2021)
Solving New England’s Biggest Environmental Challenges (Fall 2020)
Music, Theatre & Film
Beethoven and His Times (Fall 2020)
Classics of Soviet Cinema (Spring 2021)
Contemporary Russian Cinema (Spring 2022)
Fred Astaire, His Partners, and Others (Spring 2021)
French Music between the Wars (Spring 2021)
Music and Representation (Fall 2020)
Class 2 - October 15, 2020 - Recording Unavailable
Portraits of Leadership in Classic Films (Fall 2021)
Producing Live Theatre: From Backstage to Centerstage (Fall 2020)
Staging History: Setting History to Music (Fall 2021)
Politics, Economics, Social Science
Can We Dig Ourselves Out of this Hole? Confronting Our Economic Choices and Challenges (Spring 2021)
Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020)
Fifty Years of Affirmative Action: Remedy for Oppression or Reverse Discrimination? (Spring 2021)
Modern Monetary Theory: Can We Print Our Way to Happiness? (Fall 2021)
Nationalism and Its Discontents (Fall 2020)
Speaking in Tongues: Language, Langue and Parole (Fall 2020)
Understanding Current Events: Both Domestic and Foreign (Fall 2020)
Water and Energy: Competing Priorities or Good Partners (Spring 2021)
Science
Copenhagen and Quantum Reality (Spring 2021)
Class 5 - March 3 - Recording Unavailable
Emerging Biosciences – Straight from the Lab (Spring 2022)
Science in the News (Spring 2021)
Class 1 - March 30 - Recording Unavailable
Stem Cell Medicine: Regenerating the Future (Fall 2020)
This is the way the world ends... (Spring 2022)
Unveiling the Cosmos (Fall 2021)
Unveiling the Cosmos (Spring 2021)
Vienna: Medicine, Psychology and Art at the Turn of the 20th Century (Fall 2021)