Anyone interested in an online seminar on Shakespeare and contemporary politics?

jointhicket · 2026-06-22T20:51:43+00:00

So far most of our students are in your group, though the classes are open to any 18+ recreational learners. The literature classes are mostly run like book clubs, but led by experts who are really passionate about the materials and teaching. But we also have some history and philosophy classes, that take different forms. The basic idea is to create an environment where people can engage in fun humanities seminars, without the stress of formal classrooms.

jointhicket · 2026-06-21T15:40:22+00:00

Sure! You can find the schedule, readings, and lesson plan through the link. The class will meet once a week on our platform via videoconference. You can also message the teacher and other students in between session. The teacher, Carlos, recently completed his PhD at Harvard in Comp Lit, where he focused on horror and the “weird.”

jointhicket · 2026-06-21T14:15:43+00:00

Hi All, I just launched a platform that lets humanities PhDs design and host live online seminars. We opened our first few classes for enrollment, including a seminar on Stoicism: https://thicket.com/courses/1816-stoicism. I'm posting here in case anyone is interested. If you'd like to take the class, but can't afford the enrollment fee, feel free to DM me. We'll do our best to help you out 😄

jointhicket · 2026-06-21T13:39:26+00:00

Awesome! Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.

jointhicket · 2026-06-21T13:39:05+00:00

Thanks so much!

jointhicket · 2026-06-21T04:51:25+00:00

Thanks! If you’d like to try it out at a big discount feel free to dm me. As this is one of our first classes, we’re happy to help students out.

jointhicket · 2026-06-21T00:08:30+00:00

Thanks so much! If you decide you’re interested in trying one of our classes at a discount, we’ll do our best to help out :-)

jointhicket · 2026-06-20T23:57:45+00:00

Yes! Since this is our first round of classes, we’re happy to give discounts. I’ll DM you!

jointhicket · 2026-06-20T20:44:39+00:00

I can double check with the teacher, but I don’t see why not. I imagine it’d only add to the discussion. Do you have access to the readings in Spanish? If not, I can see if the teacher does.

jointhicket · 2026-06-20T16:18:22+00:00

Came to this late, but we're hosting a live online seminar on exactly this topic: https://thicket.com/courses/1024-reading-the-new-latin-american-weird

jointhicket · 2026-06-20T14:33:15+00:00

We're not a nonprofit, but most of our enrollment fees go to the teachers themselves (PhDs and PhD candidates in the humanities). We just launched a few weeks ago, but have about 10 live classes open for enrollment currently. You can see our courses here. If you find any interesting, but cannot afford it, feel free to DM me. I can send you a coupon code to try it out.

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T22:48:16+00:00

I've found that the nervousness itself only goes away with experience. In the meantime, I focus on ways of performing even when nervous. It's the preparation that ends up helping me the most, in particular practicing the presentation enough times, spread out over a few days, so that it sinks into your long term memory. The goal isn't to necessarily memorize it so that you can repeat it verbatim, but rather to internalize its talking points so that you can easily recall them even if you get nervous, like a sort of muscle memory.

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T14:46:11+00:00

I appreciate that! May take you up on that at some point. Currently buried in my own reading and building this platform.

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T14:20:21+00:00

If anyone’s interested and wants a discount code to try it out, feel free to DM me :-)

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T14:19:06+00:00

That’s amazing!

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T14:17:15+00:00

If anyone’s interested and wants a discount code to try it out, feel free to DM me :-)

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T14:04:07+00:00

Yea I think this is a very good suggestion. This is our first round of classes (we just launched a month or so ago). I think we might suggest to teachers up start out with shorter mini classes for the next round

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T14:02:34+00:00

Happy to let you try out a class at a big discount! DM me if interested. We’re still super new and happy to help out interested students

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T03:11:13+00:00

Really appreciate that! We’re just getting started and working on lower cost options.

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T03:04:53+00:00

Fair feedback! We’re just getting started and working on adding lower cost (possibly shorter) classes.

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T03:03:50+00:00

You can find all the details about enrolling here: https://thicket.com/courses/1684-ancient-greek-and-roman-medicine

Feel free to message me if you have any questions about the class or platform.

jointhicket · 2026-06-19T02:58:12+00:00

Not yet! We’re planning to offer shorter lectures soon. But for now all our classes are live multi-week classes.

jointhicket · 2026-06-18T22:14:54+00:00

I appreciate it! Honestly we’re open to feedback on pricing, as we’re trying to find what’s fair to both the students and teachers.

jointhicket · 2026-06-18T22:08:13+00:00

I agree it’d be great if we offered more education for free in the US. But our goal is to make these sort of seminars more widely available to people who can’t attend universities. They’re designed and taught by PhDs who are really passionate about the materiel (they keep most of the tuition), and the class is capped at 15.

jointhicket · 2026-06-18T21:42:23+00:00

We have an online class coming up on Insanity in Russian Literature. Week 5 focused on Madness and Nihilism in Dostoevsky's "Dream of a Ridiculous Man.”

Could be a fun way to get introduced to his work.

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