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Winter 2011 OLLI Berkeleyuniversity of california Osher Lifelong Learning Institute January 24 – March 7 Courses olli.berkeley.edu Workshops Community An educational program for older adults who are learning for the joy of it. Travel Winter 2011 Director’s Greeting Even as we all cinch our belts to weather the recession, Who We Are OLLI @Berkeley is unwavering in its commitment to continue OLLI @Berkeley is an educational program offering an impressive breadth of programs with the very best for lifelong learners age 50 and up who are faculty. Take a peek at this winter’s eclectic selection: eager to explore traditional and new areas of knowledge — without exams or grades. • With several classes that explore the sweep of Distinguished Berkeley faculty members literature and the arts, you may choose to experience the poetry of and other Bay Area teachers enjoy sharing the most flamboyant and notorious of the Romantics, Lord Byron, the role their expertise with members whose life of women as victim versus heroine in European plays, or top selections in experience and intelligence enrich the exchange of ideas. music, dance, and theater being performed locally in the coming months. Membership in OLLI @Berkeley is required • To keep up with today’s most relevant issues, consider a course on to participate in the full range of offerings. the starkly dissimilar ways in which Turkey and Iran have modernized, the Joining OLLI @Berkeley means discovering practical and ethical aspects of recent advances in medicine, or the origins new friends, new knowledge, and new ways behind why so many people are jobless and homeless today. to bring meaning and enjoyment to our lives. • We are ramping up opportunities to experience firsthand the OLLI @Berkeley is one of more than 120 subjects you’re learning about in the classroom. Visit a sanctuary Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes nationwide. It is supported by the University of California, garden created as a place of refuge, a notable contemporary building, or Berkeley, OLLI members, and donors who UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory. match the Bernard Osher Foundation’s • Among several spectacular new faculty, we welcome Berkeley contribution to OLLI. Professor Hubert Dreyfus, whose podcasts on God and society are among Director: Susan Hoffman iTunes’ most popular; author and journalist Gail Sheehy, most notable for Program Coordinator: Aileen Kim her books on moving easefully through life’s stages; and Topher Delaney, Program Assistants: RJ Bruno, Satya Levine who designs gardens devoted to healing. Please come to the open house on Tuesday, Jan. 11 to hear about these and other fascinating offerings this winter. We hope that OLLI @Berkeley continues to expand your life with new knowledge and new friends. Susan Hoffman Director, OLLI @Berkeley Contact Us: Office/Library: 1925 Walnut St. #1570 Open House University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 Phone: 510.642.9934 Doors open at 9:30 a.m. Fax: 510.642.2202 Program 10 a.m.–noon E-mail: [email protected] Web site: olli.berkeley.edu Freight & Salvage Coffee House 2020 Addison St. (at Shattuck Ave.) Reservations: 510.642.9934 or [email protected] Contributing Photographers: Jennifer Graham, Keegan Web site: olli.berkeley.edu Houser, David Schmitz, and Virginia Yey Winter 2011 term: Jan. 24 – March 7 Starts Jan. 24 (No class 2/21) Mondays See the centerfold for a map of where the courses are held. The Sagas of the Vikings Linda Rugg 1–3 p.m., F&S In the 12th and 13th centuries, on an island in the north Atlantic, a literary miracle occurred. An ambitious group of people, most of them anonymous, began to write texts based on mythology, the stories of kings, and the history of the island’s first settlers. These stories, called sagas, represent Europe’s first great vernacular prose and were a major means for forming a nation of settlers. Discover Photo: Dorothea Lange the Icelandic stories of dragon slaying and outlawry, courtroom justice, family, friendship, and love. Be prepared to read! Fifty Great Women The Poetry of Lord Byron Visit olli.berkeley.edu for the syllabus and Photographers Morton Paley reading list. Kate Kline May 10 a.m.–noon, UH Room 41B Linda Rugg is a professor in the 10 a.m.–noon, UH Room 150 What pleasures can we expect from Scandinavian Department at Deepen your appreciation of the lives reading Byron? Among our explorations UC Berkeley. She teaches courses on and work of women photographers will be The Giaour, a broken tale in which August Strindberg, ecology and culture, from the 20th century, including Gerda an archetypal outsider tracks his lover’s crime fiction, whiteness in American Taro, often seen as the first woman to murderer; Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, which culture, and Scandinavian film. She has photograph war and to die while doing casts a cold eye on the politics of post- published work on photography and so; Imogen Cunningham, celebrated Napoleonic Europe; the erotic adventure autobiography, cinematic autobiography, for her bold images of botanicals and Don Juan, with its (almost) innocent hero; ecology and culture, and race. nudes; Diane Arbus, known for her and the drama Cain, subtitled A Mystery. startling depictions of those living on the Experience the variety and sweep of his Space Science margins; and Dorothea Lange, whose poetry, along with his famous Byronic Matt Fillingim photos humanized the tragedies of the irony (what is that, anyway?), lyrical 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41B Depression. Discuss the obstacles they intensity, and passionate commitment to faced, as well as their brilliant success in liberty. When we think about weather, the late 20th century. temperatures, wind, and rain or snow Morton Paley is professor emeritus of typically come to mind. Space has Kate Kline May is an internationally English at UC Berkeley. Among his books weather too, just not in the same way. known photographer who delves into on the poetry and art of the Romantic Explosions on the Sun create radiation the beauty of landscapes, wine, and food. period are The Apocalyptic Sublime, storms, fluctuating magnetic fields, and She has a photo portfolio, “Innocents,” Coleridge’s Later Poetry, and The Traveller in swarms of energetic particles. When in the permanent collection of the the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake. these phenomena travel through the Oakland Museum, and three films in the solar system and arrive at Earth, complex permanent collection of the Pacific Film interactions occur. Learn how the magnetic Archive at UC Berkeley. environments of the Sun and Earth OLLI @Berkeley 1 interact to create space weather. Investigate Moon, and the upper atmosphere of Mars. the technological and societal impacts, and He is also an adjunct instructor at Berkeley imagine how what it’s like on other planets. City College and teaches astronomy and A fieldtrip to Berkeley’s Space Sciences space weather courses. Laboratory is planned. Matt Fillingim, a research physicist at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, studies such interesting topics as the northern lights, Earth’s magnetic field, the Starts Jan. 25 Tuesdays See the centerfold for a map of where the courses are held. period partly characterized by a radical excellence? Get exposed to concerns that transformation of the arts; and World inform the debate around these questions War I and its aftermath. and the production of contemporary architecture worldwide. You will have the Larry Bensky is a political and literary option to choose between two fieldtrips journalist. He is currently executive to visit a noteworthy local building or producer and host of the Radio Proust architecture firm. web site (bard.edu/radioproust). A former Paris editor of the Paris Review, Pierluigi Serraino is a practicing architect he has also worked as a book editor at in the Bay Area. He holds numerous Random House and editor of the New professional and research degrees from York Times Book Review. He retired in Italy and the United States and has 1997 after almost 40 years with KPFA authored many books, including Eero and Pacifica Radio, most recently as Saarinen, Modernism Rediscovered, and Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland national affairs correspondent. NorCalMod. His articles and projects have appeared in Architectural Design, ArcCa, Proust and His World Global Architecture, Costruire, Architettura, New Conversations on and Journal of Architectural Education. Larry Bensky Architecture 9:30–11:30 a.m., UH Room 41B Pierluigi Serraino Joy of Singing Delve into a multimedia exploration of 10 a.m.–noon, F&S the life and times of the great French 6 classes between Jan. 25 – March 8 Lauren Carley writer Marcel Proust, best known for his (includes one fieldtrip) 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m., UH Room 41C monumental work In Search of Lost Time. Why do architects need theory? What Whether you have always longed to sing To better understand his writings, we’ll constitutes a great building? How does in a chorus or have sung in one for years, discuss events such as the defeat of France talent play out in the conception and this course is open to you. Learn the in the Franco-Prussian War; anti-Semitism execution of a building? What value system basics of sight-singing, as well as rounds, and the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal do architects hold onto in the pursuit chants, and arranged music by composers involving the conviction for treason of a of their idealized notion of architectural such as Bobby McFerrin, who creates young Jewish officer; the Belle Époque, a 2 sound effects and percussion with his the forces that shaped art and architecture, predicaments as they changed in voice, and Ysaye Barnwell, a member of this course will explore artistic treasures contemporary times.