QUEST CLASS VIDEOS – FALL 2024

Below is the table of contents for live-streamed Quest classes that were recorded during the fall 2024 semester.

Classes are posted in chronological order under the courses to which they belong. Click on any course name below to access that course’s video page, or use the links in the sidebar to navigate the entire site.

Once you get to a course page, you will see all the class descriptions with their respective links. Click on any link to watch that video.

PLEASE NOTE: These videos are provided for educational purposes only and are not intended for the public domain. They are for the exclusive use of Quest Members. Do not share video URLs.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(Monday, A Week, PM, Auditorium)

  1. A History of Artificial Intelligence, Steve Allen
  2. How AI Hires, Fires, and Promotes Employees in Today’s Workplace, Wayne Cotter
  3. AI and You, Tracey Lee
  4. Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property, Jim Brook
  5. AI and Games, Steve Allen

ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK
(Tuesday, B Week, AM, Auditorium)

  1. Metropolitan Museum European Art Collection: Look Again, Marian Friedmann
  2. Dutch Painters of the 17th Century Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Others, Lynnel Garabedian
  3. The Art of Dutch Daily Life in the Golden Age, Tamara Weinberg
  4. Spanish Artists of the 17th Century, Sandy Gordon
  5. Landscape Painting, Ann Goerdt
  6. Venetian Art of the 16th Century, Ellen Shapiro
  7. Friendships, Rivalries, and Influences on Italian Renaissance Artists, Susan Diehl

CINEMA QUEST
(Wednesday, A Week, PM, Auditorium)

  1. Three Films: Ferrari, Coup de Chance, Thelma and Louise, Lois Klein, Arlynn Greenbaum, Howard Salik
  2. Three Films: Wicked Little Letter, Thelma, Hit Man, Yona Rogosin, Marian Friedmann, Vince Grosso
  3. Three Films: Kidnapped, The Graduate, Unfrosted, Judy Winn, Saul Makon, Bob Reiss
  4. Three Films: Jules, The Grapes of Wrath, War Games, Dena Kerren, Kathy Cook, Madeline Brecher
  5. Three Films: Last Summer, Fargo, His Three Daughters, Hedy Shulman, David Judlowitz, Vice Grosso
  6. Three Films: Lee, Farewell Mr. Haffman, The Pawnbroker, Marian Friedmann, Paul Adler, Sandra Abramson
  7. Three Films: Ezra, Conclave, Vertigo, Gail Spitalnik, Len Lavitt, Sol Makon

DISTINGUISHED GUEST LECTURES
(Wednesday, B Week, PM, Auditorium)

  1. We Refuse to Be Enemies: How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship at a Time, Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby
  2. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues, Ross Perlin, Ph.D.
  3. The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism, Adam Nagourney
  4. Knowing What We Know, Simon Winchester
  5. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, Annette Insdorf
  6. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of An American Organized-Crime Boss, Margalit Fox

FASCINATING NONFICTION
(Wednesday, B Week, AM, Auditorium)

  1. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and
    Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War     by Erik Larson,     Bob Reiss
  2. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Journey to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning by, A. J. Jacobs, Harriet Finkelstein
  3. You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything
     by Walter Hickey,     Ruth Ward
  4. Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss, Paul Golomb
  5. Proust and the Squid The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf, Larry Shapiro
  6. Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and The Renaissance by Malyn Newitt,Paul Adler
  7. Rachel Carson: Her Life, Her Legacy, Harriet Finkelstein

GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY
(Monday, B Week, AM, Auditorium)

  1. Ten Musicals that Changed Broadway, Peter Dichter
  2. The Broadway Musicals of Leonard Bernstein, Sol Makon
  3. Annie Get Your Gun, Ellie Schaffer
  4. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lauren Gee
  5. The Secret Life of the American Musical, Steve Allen
  6. Show Boat, Michael Wellner
  7. Yiddish Theater’s Influence on Broadway, Hedy Shulman and Debbi Honorof

HISTORY OF NYC
(Tuesday, A Week, PM, Room 27)

  1. The Real Native New Yorkers, Sandra Abramson
  2. How New Amsterdam Became New York, Michael Wellner
  3. Slavery in New York before the Revolution, Susannah Falk Lewis
  4. The English Colony, Larry Shapiro
  5. From the Battery to the Wall, Paul Golomb
  6. New York City During the American Revolution, Ilene Winkler
  7. Class Canceled,

NYC AND ITS ENVIRONS
(Thursday, B Week, AM, Room 15-17)

  1. New York City Bridges, Bob Reiss
  2. NYC: Beneath the Streets, Karen Cullin
  3. Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton, Susan Altman
  4. Harlem on Our Minds, Dr. George Stevens, Emeritus Professor at SUNY Dutchess
  5. NYC Architecture, Bob Reiss
  6. Gentrification in NYC and Government Policy, Sandra Abramson
  7. Class Canceled,

THE SUPREME COURT
(Tuesday, A Week, AM, Auditorium)

  1. The Supreme Court and our Future, Sandra Abramson, David Judlowitz, Michael Wellner
  2. Affirmative Action, Robert Belfort
  3. Separation of Church and State, Ilene Winkler
  4. The Many Questions of Clarence Thomas, Babette Ceccotti
  5. The First Amendment to the Constitution, Jim Brook
  6. John Roberts, Sandra Abramson
  7. The Role of the Supreme Court — As Envisioned by the Founding Fathers, and After the Recent Election, Bob Gottfried, Sandra Abramson, Bob Belfort, Babette Ceccotti, Sandy Kessler, Stu Parker and Ken Sasmor

UPHEAVALS IN AMERICAN CULTURE
(Wednesday, B Week, AM, Room 15-17)

  1. The Upcoming Election, Maureen Berman, Michael Wellner
  2. The Unintended Consequences of Healthcare Legislation, Connie DiMari, MD, MSsc
  3. Upheavals in the Workplace, Debbi Honorof
  4. Election Polling, Steve Allen
  5. Yesterday’s Election, Maureen Berman
  6. The Unintended Consequences of Healthcare Legislation, Connie DiMari, MD, MSsc
  7. Film as Philosophy in the Movies of Terrence Malick, CWE/CCNY Professor Martin Woessner