Course Archives – Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies

2026

Andrew Shiva. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (detail). Photograph. Wikimedia Commons.

Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton

September 17 — October 8, 2026

Thursdays, 6:30 PM—9:30 PM ET

Thinking Palestine

Online

Piet Mondrian, Composition C (No. III), with Red, Yellow and Blue, 1935, oil on canvas, 56 × 52.2 cm, Tate, London.

September 16 — October 7, 2026

Wednesdays, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM ET

Borders and Boundaries

Online

Andrew Shiva. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (detail). Photograph. Wikimedia Commons.

Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton

September 15 — October 6, 2026

Tuesdays, 6:30 PM—9:30 PM ET

Thinking Palestine (In Person)

In person

Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait with Hand on the Forehead, 1910, etching and drypoint, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

September 14 — October 5, 2026

Mondays, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM ET

God’s Guilt: Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

Online

Portrait of Fernando Pessoa (1914), digitally recolored

Isabel Sobral Campos

September 13 — October 4, 2026

Sundays, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet

Online

Portrait of Fernando Pessoa (1914), digitally recolored

Isabel Sobral Campos

September 9 — September 30, 2026

Wednesdays, 6:30 PM—9:30 PM ET

Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet (In Person)

In person

John Heartfield, Hurrah, die Butter ist alle! (Hurrah, the Butter is Gone!), 1935, photomontage, published in Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ).

August 5 — August 26, 2026

Wednesdays, 6:30 PM—9:30 PM ET

Fascists and Fascism

Online

Philipp von Foltz, Pericles’ Funeral Oration (Perikles hält die Leichenrede), 1852, oil on canvas

August 2 — August 23, 2026

Sundays, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Athens Defeated: Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

Online

Theodor von Holst, illustration (frontispiece), in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, revised ed. (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831).

Anthony Galluzzo

July 16 — August 6, 2026

Thursdays, 6:30 PM—9:30 PM ET

Frankensteinism, or Catastrophe Old and New: Reading Mary Shelley Today

Online

Fritz Lang, dir., Metropolis (Berlin: UFA, 1927), film still.

Emilio Porras Vergara

July 6 — July 27, 2026

Mondays, 6:30 PM — 9:30 PM ET

Artificial Intelligence: Labor, Machinery, and Capital

Online

“Sappho” (Portrait of a Young Woman with Stylus), ca. 50–79 CE, fresco (Fourth Pompeian Style), National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Naples, Italy.

Cristina Pérez Díaz

June 4 — June 25, 2026

Thursdays, 6:30 PM—9:30 PM ET

Eros, Again: Sappho and Archaic Lyric

Online

Anselm Kiefer, Shulamith, 1983, oil, emulsion, woodcut, shellac, acrylic, and straw on canvas, Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

June 3 — June 24, 2026

Wednesdays, 6:30—9:30 PM ET

After Auschwitz: Adorno’s Political Thought

Online

"Ladies in Blue." Minoan, Neopalatial period, 1600–1450 BCE. Restored by Émile Gilliéron. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

May 10 — May 31, 2026

Sundays 2:00—5:00 PM ET

After Troy: The Odyssey

Online

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, oil on canvas, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit.

Isabel Sobral Campos

May 7 — May 28, 2026

Thursdays, 6:30 PM — 9:30 PM ET

Death, Desire, and the City: Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil

In person

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