Start
October 14, 2021 - 6:45 pm
End
October 14, 2021 - 9:00 pm
Address
Old Parish House, Knox Rd, College Park View map*Hybrid Course* Philosophy & Arts – Online & In-Person
++Instructor++
Robert Craig Baum
Founder and Master Teacher, Wisdom1096 Project
PhD, European Graduate School
MA, Dartmouth College
BA, The Catholic University of America
++Syllabus Course Description++
2020 will be remembered generations from now as a plague year. But, Covid-19 is not simply a virus; it is a takedown of established ways of thinking and doing.
Unlike Bubonic or the Spanish Flu, the entire planet experienced Covid-19 as a seismic event simultaneously personal, communal, national, and international. We simply cannot escape ourselves or each other.
Using the power of critical reading, active viewing and listening, storytelling and memoir, this course will create a space for its teacher and students to reflect on the lockdown and its personal, professional, political, and spiritual a/effects.
To help us better understand our global dilemma, we will engage the life and work of William Irwin Thompson (planetary consciousness), Jean-Luc Nancy (the art of being together), Jane Goodall (direct engagement with nature inspires hope), and classics of “futurism” (Alvin Toffler and Adelaide Farrell’s FUTURE SHOCK) to help us create a better way of thinking and doing (thinking AS doing) to help us better understand a very basic question on everyone’s mind Fall 2021: what happened?
Covid-19 is viewed through the lens of this course as an unprecedented opportunity to revise and revolutionize our relationships with each other, our towns, our countries, and our understanding of others far away (or close).
++COURSE SCHEDULE++
Week 1 Th 10/14 @ 6:45-9:00pm – Old Parish House
Week 2 Th 10/21 Online Zoom @ 5:30-7:00pm ***note time change***
Week 3 The 10/28 Online Zoom @ 6:45-9:00pm
Week 4 Th 11/4 @ 6:45-9:00pm – Old Parish House
Weeks 5 & 6 Th 11/12 & 11/19 Online Zoom @ 6:45-9:00pm
No Class Thanksgiving Week
Weeks 7 & 8 Th 12/2 & 12/9 @ 6:45-9:00pm – Old Parish House
++COURSE WORK++
Notes, discussion participation, opting in or out of narrative evaluation and grade, final project (memoir or creative writing or philosophy).
++COURSE MATERIALS++
Course materials will draw from art history, contemporary arts, philosophy, literature, film, theatre, history, and sociology.
Free, but tips welcome ($40 suggested donation)
