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Fall 2012 OLLI Berkeleyuniversity of California Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Fall 2012 OLLI Berkeleyuniversity of california Osher Lifelong Learning Institute October 1 – November 9 Courses olli.berkeley.edu Workshops Lectures An educational program for older adults who are learning for the joy of it. Community Spring 2012 Director’s Greeting Who We Are OLLI @Berkeley is an educational program As OLLI enters its sixth year, we proudly remain focused on our for lifelong learners age 50 and up who are core mission — to introduce new areas of knowledge to those eager to explore traditional and new areas who never want to stop learning. This year, OLLI welcomes seven of knowledge — without exams or grades. additional faculty members, further developing the scope of our Distinguished Berkeley faculty members offerings and helping us to reach our expanding community of and other Bay Area teachers enjoy sharing their expertise with members whose life lifelong learners. experience and intelligence enrich the We have generated exciting new content for two of our most popular exchange of ideas. courses: Michael Fox’s “Global Lens” and Harry Kreisler’s “Conversations With Membership in OLLI @Berkeley is required History.” Fox’s course will showcase six films featured at the recent INPUT 2012 to participate in the full range of offerings. public television conference in Australia, while Kreisler’s interviews offer unparalleled Joining OLLI @Berkeley means discovering insights into the minds of renowned international decision makers. new friends, new knowledge, and new ways to bring meaning and enjoyment to our lives. On a more intimate scale, OLLI’s creative writing courses aim to stir up the OLLI @Berkeley is one of more than 120 storyteller in you. Take advantage of many opportunities to flex your creative Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes nationwide. muscles through classes on poetry, screenwriting, crafting a play, or just gathering your It is supported by the University of California, stories for your family. Berkeley, OLLI members, and donors who match the Bernard Osher Foundation’s What’s more, OLLI opens you up to the Bay Area’s cultural scene through courses contribution to OLLI. that give you in-depth insights into the visual and performing arts. Our partnerships with Cal Performances, UC Berkeley’s Art Studio, and the San Director: Susan Hoffman Francisco Opera, among others, provide our members with a front-row seat to the Program Coordinator: Aileen Kim Program Assistants: Gerard Alcantara, creative process. Satya Levine I look forward to seeing you at the open house on September 11. Thank you for Research Assistant: Sandra von Doetinchem your interest in OLLI — and for embracing the joys of lifelong learning. Susan Hoffman Director, OLLI @Berkeley OPEN HOUSE Contact Us: 1925 Walnut St. #1570 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 University of California, Berkeley HEAR THE FACULTY AND MEET OLLI Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 MEMBERS Phone: 510.642.9934 Fax: 510.642.2202 9:30 a.m. Doors open E-mail: [email protected] 10 a.m.–noon Program Web site: olli.berkeley.edu Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse 2020 Addison St. (at Shattuck Ave.) Reservations: 510.642.9934 or [email protected] Web site: olli.berkeley.edu Fall 2012 term: October 1 – November 9 Starts Oct. 1 Mondays See the centerfold for a calendar and map. and groups and leads women’s retreats in finding one’s authentic voice through circle singing for joy, healing, and ritual. The Cosmos from Aristotle to Newton Richard Monson 1–3 p.m., UH Room 150 Take a journey through scientific astronomy to learn about Aristotle, who propounded the earth-centered universe; Copernicus, who boldly proposed the sun-centered system; Galileo, whose discoveries include the craters on the moon; and Sir Isaac Newton, famous for predicting the movement of celestial bodies with near-perfect mathematical rigor. We will also meet Ptolemy, Tycho Graffiti of Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party Brahe, and Johannes Kepler. Find out how our understanding of the cosmos Landmark Trials of the from 1975–76 and wrote The Sky’s the has shifted from god-based concepts to 20th Century Limit: People v. Newton, The Real Trial of the physical principles. 20th Century?. Lise Pearlman Richard Monson, a chemistry professor 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 150 at Cal State East Bay from 1964 to 2000, has published numerous scientific Explore the polarizing issues brought Joy of Singing articles and two chemistry textbooks. to light by several epic trials — each Lauren Carley He has taught several courses for lifelong one championed by different historians 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B learners, including “Contemporary Issues and legal experts as the trial of the 20th in Science,” “Wine and Winemaking,” and century. By the end of the course, you can Whether you have always longed to sing “Science and Art Forgeries.” be the judge. Included in our review are in a chorus or have sung in one for years, the Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers this course is open to you. Learn the who were wrongfully accused in 1931 basics of sight-singing, as well as rounds, of raping two white women in Alabama; chants, and arranged music by composers Huey Newton, the co-founder and long- such as Bobby McFerrin, who creates time leader of the Black Panther Party; and sound effects and percussion with his Title IX, the 1972 law that requires gender voice, and Ysaye Barnwell, a member of equity in every educational program that the African American a cappella group receives federal funding. Sweet Honey in the Rock. Join us to strengthen your voice and confidence Lise Pearlman is an author/arbitrator, and make a joyful noise! mediator, and retired judge who has taught in the law schools of Santa Clara Lauren Carley is the artistic director for University and UC Berkeley. She was a the community choruses Variety Pack and Rhythm Society. She teaches individuals teaching fellow at Stanford Law School Harmonia Macrocosmica Plate 7 by Tycho Brahe Fall 2012 term: October 1 – November 9 OLLI @Berkeley 1 Continued Mondays The Art of the Mind and Pinter’s acceptance of the Nobel Prize Mental States for Literature, The Dead by James Joyce, Richard Lichtman as well as works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41B Henry James, Thomas Mann, Kafka, Eudora Welty, and Joyce Carol Oates. While therapists know the technical definitions of the various dysfunctions they Richard Lichtman taught political treat, the author Franz Kafka articulated philosophy and the philosophy of a form of anxiety that does not appear literature at UC Berkeley, where he in any psychiatric manual, just as Edvard received the Distinguished Teaching Munch painted a sense of angst and Award, and has been a professor at the dread in The Scream that had not been Wright Institute for 35 years. He wrote visually expressed before. To explore Essays in Critical Social Theory and The how the complexities of the mind are Production of Desire. presented in the arts, we will read Harold The Scream by Edvard Munch Starts Oct. 2 Tuesdays See the centerfold for a calendar and map. Global Lens: The University. He is a member of the San International Documentary Francisco Film Critics Circle. Michael Fox 10 a.m.–12 p.m., F&S Great Muses in Filmmakers in other countries have wider Their Own Right latitude to explore contemporary issues Kayleen Asbo and to reevaluate historical events. Watch 1–3 p.m., F&S a new or recent one-hour film in each class, Meet extraordinary women throughout then discuss various aspects of filmmaking history who are most often associated with such as the filmmaker’s point of view, the men they inspired. Among the women the effects of the camera’s presence, the we will encounter are philosopher Theano, balance between intellect and emotion, wife of Pythagoras; philosopher and abbess Clara Wieck lithograph by Andreas Staub and artistic aspirations. Gain a richer Heloise, wife of Peter Abelard; great understanding of how documentaries are Kayleen Asbo has taught at the San lyric pianist Clara Wieck, wife of Roberg constructed for maximum impact. Francisco Conservatory of Music and Schumann and muse of Johannes Brahms; Sonoma State University, as well as the Michael Fox has written about film for and psychoanalyst, novelist, poet, and OLLI program at Dominican University. She SF Weekly, SF360.org, and KQED.org, literary critic Lou Andreas-Salomé, student has long been interested in the intersection among other outlets. He curates and of Sigmund Freud, lover of Rainer Maria of art, music, history and psychology, ancient hosts the Friday night CinemaLit series Rilke, and muse of Friedrich Nietzsche. The Greece, and Medieval Europe. at the Mechanics’ Institute and teaches course will use lecture, music, and art to at the San Francisco Art Institute, OLLI convey these unrecognized heroines of art @Berkeley, and San Francisco State and philosophy. 2 Starts Oct. 3 Wednesdays See the centerfold for a calendar and map. The Full Spectrum: 2012 Election Countdown Radiation in Today’s World Larry Bensky Fred Schlachter 2–4 p.m., F&S 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B Without exaggeration, we can say that We live in a world that is bathed in our lives, the lives of millions around the radiation from both natural and human- world, and the future of our planet are at made sources. We also live with new stake in the November election. Explore technologies that can improve lives. While the election’s historical context, analyze the some radiation is beneficial, not all radiation strengths and vulnerabilities of our electoral is benign. Understand radiation so that system, and get to know the candidates. you, as an individual and as a member of Hear from guest speakers who will provide society, can make informed decisions about insight into campaign financing and the The Campaign in Virginia — “On To Richmond!” by Thomas Nast technology involving radiation.
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