Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything (Reading Group) [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $280 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down menu. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 4 Weeks | Mondays July 21-August 18 (no class August 11) | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
By re-writing the past, this book offers genuine hope for the future. Read it together and get excited about what humanity has been and can be!
Many of the ideas that shape policy, practices, and beliefs about culture and society are grounded in broad-sweeping myths about the past. Either we were “born free” and now “everywhere in chains” or born in a hostile “state of nature” that pitted us against each other so that we needed rationality and rule to form a society. But why did those myths emerge and how did those made-up ideas come to lie at the heart of disciplines like economics and political science? In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, authors David Graeber and David Wengrow deploy anthropology and archaeology to show that the past was in fact very different than we have been taught, thus giving us a very different understanding of the present, and new possibilities for the future, too. The publishers describe the books as: “A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.” Join us as we read together to make sense of what we believed and what is possible. The book is long and challenging, but that means it’s the perfect book to study in community! We’ll spend each meeting trying to get a grasp on the history that’s being contested, the new possibilities Graeber and Wengrow share, and formulating our own ideas about what they mean for us.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full or mid-level tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $280 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down menu. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 4 Weeks | Mondays July 21-August 18 (no class August 11) | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
By re-writing the past, this book offers genuine hope for the future. Read it together and get excited about what humanity has been and can be!
Many of the ideas that shape policy, practices, and beliefs about culture and society are grounded in broad-sweeping myths about the past. Either we were “born free” and now “everywhere in chains” or born in a hostile “state of nature” that pitted us against each other so that we needed rationality and rule to form a society. But why did those myths emerge and how did those made-up ideas come to lie at the heart of disciplines like economics and political science? In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, authors David Graeber and David Wengrow deploy anthropology and archaeology to show that the past was in fact very different than we have been taught, thus giving us a very different understanding of the present, and new possibilities for the future, too. The publishers describe the books as: “A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.” Join us as we read together to make sense of what we believed and what is possible. The book is long and challenging, but that means it’s the perfect book to study in community! We’ll spend each meeting trying to get a grasp on the history that’s being contested, the new possibilities Graeber and Wengrow share, and formulating our own ideas about what they mean for us.
—
This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full or mid-level tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $280 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down menu. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 4 Weeks | Mondays July 21-August 18 (no class August 11) | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
By re-writing the past, this book offers genuine hope for the future. Read it together and get excited about what humanity has been and can be!
Many of the ideas that shape policy, practices, and beliefs about culture and society are grounded in broad-sweeping myths about the past. Either we were “born free” and now “everywhere in chains” or born in a hostile “state of nature” that pitted us against each other so that we needed rationality and rule to form a society. But why did those myths emerge and how did those made-up ideas come to lie at the heart of disciplines like economics and political science? In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, authors David Graeber and David Wengrow deploy anthropology and archaeology to show that the past was in fact very different than we have been taught, thus giving us a very different understanding of the present, and new possibilities for the future, too. The publishers describe the books as: “A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.” Join us as we read together to make sense of what we believed and what is possible. The book is long and challenging, but that means it’s the perfect book to study in community! We’ll spend each meeting trying to get a grasp on the history that’s being contested, the new possibilities Graeber and Wengrow share, and formulating our own ideas about what they mean for us.
—
This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full or mid-level tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.