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What I’ve Been Learning – Painting
I spent the weekend with a paintbrush in my hand, which is my favourite way to spend a weekend these days. About 3 years ago I decided to learn how to paint. I had been “art curious” for a while, but one weekend I decided to go ahead and just learn how to do it.…
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Fighting Disinformation: Disinformation, Propaganda and how to reclaim our information system
Register here. Your Instructor Brooke Binkowski is a veteran, award-winning journalist with a background in breaking news reporting, the U.S.-Mexico border, Indigenous rights, environmentalism, and post-conflict and humanitarian issues. After twenty years of reporting, she left those beats in 2015 to focus full-time on disinformation and propaganda campaigns, then called “fake news,” which were just…
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A Pedagogy of Possibility – critical reading and writing
Register here. Your Instructor Dr. Phill Simpson is an award winning author, teacher and educational consultant with over 20 years teaching experience in the classroom. He holds a Doctorate in Education and a Masters degree in Creative Writing. He is particularly interested in the writing process, and is a strong advocate of literacy in both…
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Future Thriving: Meeting the Challenge of Post-Growth Transition
Register here. Your Instructors Piers is an environmental anthropologist, a former fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a sustainability consultant, and post-growth advocate. As a university researcher, Piers pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to the interconnections of society, history, and ecology in South Asia, particularly in human-elephant-environment relations. His teaching career expanded…
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Throwing BRICS at feminism: What could possibly go wrong?
Register here. Dr. Tracey Nicholls was trained as a philosopher and has taught widely in philosophy, political theory, and women’s and gender studies. Her BA is from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, and her PhD was granted by McGill University, in Montréal. Her first academic position was in the United States, followed by…
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Welcome to Dark Times Academy!
These are hard times for those of us who love learning for the joy of learning and teaching for the joy of teaching. Dark Times Academy aims to offer a bright spot in all of this darkness–a place for affordable learning of the liberal and useful arts. A place where students can explore the world…
