20 17 SPRING LLI MISSION STATEMENT COURSE SCHEDULE AND INDEX e mission of the Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard Friday Class Dates: March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 College is to: ■ provide enriching educational and social experiences in course FIRST PERIOD 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. page a community of mature adults by o ering noncredit and 1A The American West: Perception and Reality 2 noncompetitive courses under the sponsorship of Bard 1B Opera as Politics III 2 College; ■ encourage members to volunteer, according to their 1C Therapeutic Yoga 2 individual skills and interests; SECOND PERIOD 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ■ share ideas and experiences with students of all ages. 2A Jewish Practices of Mindfulness (No class April 14) 2 About LLI 2B Let’s Talk About Economics 2 LLI is affiliated with the Road Scholar Institute Network, 2C Nature Writing Workshop 3 a national organization that facilitates communication 2D Those Great Greeks 3 with similar groups. LLI is an all-volunteer, member- 2E Women in Religion 3 run organization that encourages active participation. Our presenters volunteer from our membership, the THIRD PERIOD 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. community, and the Bard faculty. LLI organizes two 3A Creating and Playing Music 3 seven-week semesters, a winter intersession series, and 3B Finding Your Voice 3 occasional special events. 3C Inside the Chef’s Studio 4 3D Reliving Historic Kingston and Rondout: A Revival 4 Donations, Grants, and Incentives 3E What Do You Think? 4 ■ Bard College Conservatory of Music: In 2012 LLI pledged FOURTH PERIOD 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. $25,000 to the Bard Conservatory, to be paid out over a 4A Conjunctions Multigenre Workshop (1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.) 4 five-year period. This donation was matched by a grant 4B Gender Fluidity: Male? Female? Or ??? 5 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 4C Global Crises – Far East 5 ■ Emeritus Dean of the College Stuart Stritzler-Levine 4D Mystery Masters: Hammett and Chandler 5 Seniors-to-Seniors Grant: Five graduating seniors receive grants to help them complete their Senior Projects. A Bard 4E Seeing Differently: Reading to Write 5 College committee chooses the recipients, who may use the 4F Tai Chi 5 grant in any way they deem necessary. Prior to graduation, FIFTH PERIOD 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. the recipients make a presentation at a high tea hosted by 5A Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz 5 the members of LLI. 5B Psychological Astrology 6 ■ Bard High School Early College Summer Intern Incentive: 5C Shocking Events: The History of Electricity and Magnetism 6 Bard’s Early College in New York offers selected students the opportunity to graduate with two years of college 5D Wine Tasting 6 credit. In the summer before their final year, many of the OFF-FRIDAY students participate in unpaid internships. LLI provides Hudson River School Monday/Tuesday, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. a small stipend to four students to pay their expenses 6A 6 (3 sessions) May 1, 9, 16 during this time. Nature and Historic Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. ■ Bard Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) Community 6B Rambling in the Hudson April 5, 12, 19, 26; May 3, 10 6 Action Awards: For the fourth year, LLI will award $3,500 Valley (6 sessions) to Bard College CCE to support student internships, Good Vibrations: A Life Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. travel, and other costs associated with student research 6C 7 of Harmony (4 sessions) projects related to civic engagement. April 12, 26; May 10, 24 The Articulate, Wednesdays, 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CONTACT: e Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard College, 6D Informed Dance 7 PO Box 22, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 Audience March 15, 29; April 5, 12, 26; May 3, 10 ■ Phone: 845-758-7314 E-mail: [email protected] Touring Historic Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. 6E 7 Website: bard.edu/lli Kingston (4 sessions) April 6, 13, 27; May 11 MEMBERSHIP & FEES: Annual membership is $125 per person, non-transferable. e current membership year runs from September 2016 through August 2017. Only LLI members may attend classes. Members may not bring guests to classes or O -Friday events. e membership fee does not include books, transportation, entrance fees, or use of the Stevenson Gym. bard college | 2014 | 1 20 Course Listings 17 SPRING FRIDAY CLASSES at the current state of opera as a political SECOND PERIOD FRIDAY CLASSES vehicle are part of the course. Students will view operatic video performances in class as 2A. AN INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH political themes are developed. PRACTICES OF MINDFULNESS FIRST PERIOD Presenter: Chuck Mishaan (LLI) has been Fridays: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. an opera a cionado since the days of $2.00 1A. THE AMERICAN WEST: March 24, 31; April 7, 28; May 5, 12 tickets at the old Met. He brie y appeared PERCEPTION AND REALITY (no class April 14) in a non-singing role on stage at the new e Torah is the Jewish guidebook to cre- Fridays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Met and is a regular attendee there. He ating a just and compassionate society in March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 was an adjunct professor at NYU, teaching which each individual becomes a channel about technology and its impact on health “Go West, young man, and grow up with for loving-kindness in the world. Torah care, and consults with health-care provid- the country!”—Horace Greeley says that one can become such a channel ers on automating their clinical practice. e saga of the American West began with through mindfulness practices embedded the Pequot Massacre (1637) and ended at Producer: Chuck Mishaan in an ethical frame. is experiential class Wounded Knee (1890) and Fredrick will explore Jewish mindfulness practices 1C. THERAPEUTIC YOGA Jackson Turner’s “Frontier esis” (1893). in daily life, noting their e ects and their In between, the class encounters Lewis Fridays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. connection to the God named “I AM” at and Clark, Jackson’s “Trail of Tears,” March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 the burning bush. e class is for people of Manifest Destiny, the Oregon Trail, and Yoga can be a valuable addition to the any or no religious persuasion. Transcontinental Railroad (1861 –1869). toolbox for practices of self-care. is class Class Limit: 20 (minimum 8) Students examine the gap between the real will highlight di erent yoga techniques to Presenter: Gail Albert, Ph.D., (LLI) is a clin- West and the West of legend and memory support healing and health. Topics cov- ical psychologist, Jewish meditation teacher, through the lens of such as Owen Wister, ered will be yoga for a better back, yoga to author of Mending the Heart, Tending the Zane Grey, Karl May, Tom Mix, Edna Ferber, relieve stress and anxiety, yoga practices Soul: Directions to the Garden Within (a Larry McMurtry, and Cormac McCarthy. for stronger bones, and yoga for depres- meditative commentary on Torah), and Presenter: Mark D. Isaacs, M.Div.; S.T.M.; sion. Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidre and nature photographer. She has given classes D.Min.; Ph.D. currently A.B.D. status in Open Focus Meditation will be among the and workshops on Torah, meditation, the D.Litt. program at Drew University. He techniques introduced. and forgiveness at the Woodstock Jewish is pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Class Limit: 24 Congregation, Izlind Wellness Center, and Wurtemburg in Rhinebeck and an adjunct Presenter: Susan Blacker (LLI) began yoga a variety of synagogues and churches. Her economics professor at the Culinary teacher training at Kripalu Center for website is galbertphd.com. Institute of America. While engaging in Yoga and Health and was certi ed to Producer: Ellen Foreman postdoctoral work and teaching, he has teach in 2002. She continues to take work- traveled to Europe, India, and Israel. shops in Yoga of Heart®—Cardiac and 2B. LET’S TALK ABOUT ECONOMICS Producer: Dacie Kershaw Cancer, Healing Art of Yoga, Yoga for a Fridays: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Better Back, and Yoga for Students with March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 1B. OPERA AS POLITICS III Health Challenges. She teaches classes in e class will discuss current economic Woodstock and Saugerties, and gentle yoga Fridays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. issues from an economic point of view— classes from home. March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 that is, not from a Democratic or Republican Producer: Jane Diamond Opera has been a major art form in Western point of view. Students will apply the basic society for over 400 years, with much to principles of economics that appear in every say about politics. Part III of this course economics textbook to many of the prob- continues to look at governmental, sexual, lems that confront society today. economic, and religious politics as expressed Presenter: Andy Weintraub is a for- in opera. A close examination of important mer professor of economics at Temple 19th- and 20th-century operas and a look University, a forensic economist who 2 | lifetime learning institute Course Listings 20 SPRING 17 specializes in estimating the value of lost 2E. WOMEN IN RELIGION THIRD PERIOD earnings, a magician, and the founder Fridays: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. and past president of e CENTER for March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 3A.