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Spring 2014 March 31 – May 10 an Educational Program Offering Courses, Workshops, and Lectures to a Vibrant Community of Older Adults Spring 2014 March 31 – May 10 An educational program offering courses, workshops, and lectures to a vibrant community of older adults. university of california New courses in Lafayette! OLLI Berkeley See page 10. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute olli.berkeley.edu 510.642.9934 OLLI @Berkeley 1 Who we are OLLI @Berkeley is an educational program for lifelong learners age 50 and up who are Spring 2014 Director’s Greeting eager to explore traditional and new areas of knowledge — without exams or grades. OLLI offers more than what reading an article or a book can Distinguished Berkeley faculty members and offer. It takes you deeper into complex issues. With expert other Bay Area teachers enjoy sharing their faculty and engaged classmates in the room, the alchemy expertise with members whose life experience is gold. This spring: and intelligence enrich the exchange of ideas. • Examine the history and underlying stories of World War I (Larry Membership in OLLI @Berkeley is required Bensky) or America in the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of its major films and to participate in the full range of offerings. directors (Russell Merritt). Joining OLLI @Berkeley means discovering new friends, new knowledge, and new ways to • Connect to the current news and issues of developing nations and bring meaning and enjoyment to our lives. their impact on the world in a course that explores Africa (Martha Saavedra) or various regions being torn apart by ethnic conflict (Gloria Neumeier). OLLI @Berkeley is one of 117 Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes nationwide. It is supported • Break down complex science in a course that links physics to events such as by the University of California, Berkeley, OLLI the Fukushima meltdown (Fred Schlacter), explains symmetry and asymmetry members, and donors who match the Bernard in nature (Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis), or delves into the psychology of Osher Foundation’s contribution to OLLI. goodness (Martin Pollard). Director: Susan Hoffman • Satisfy your hunger for the written word in a course on Scandinavian Program Coordinator: Nicole Magnuson crime literature (Linda Rugg), Shakespeare (Philippa Kelly), or Pulitzer Prize- Classroom Coordinator: Gerard Alcantara winning plays (Nina Solomita). Communications Coordinator: Satya Levine • Study art near and far, including a course on the landscape paintings of Program Assistant: Talia Walsmith Provence (Roger Housden), printmaking in the East Bay (Sylvia Walters), or the art and architecture splendors of Turkey (Kerrin Meis). Contact Us: 1925 Walnut St. #1570 These examples are just the tip of the iceberg. Please join us in Berkeley on March 11 or University of California, Berkeley Lafayette on March 13 to learn more. We look forward to studying with you this spring. Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 Phone: 510.642.9934 Susan Hoffman Fax: 510.642.2202 Director, OLLI @Berkeley E-mail: [email protected] Web site: olli.berkeley.edu 27 courses in two great locations! Learn about the courses in your neighborhood and meet the faculty and other OLLI members. OPEN HOUSE INFO SESSION Berkeley Lafayette Tuesday, March 11 Thursday, March 13 10 a.m.–noon (doors open at 9:30 a.m.) 3–4:30 p.m. Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse Community Hall, Lafayette Library and 2020 Addison St. (at Shattuck Ave.) Learning Center, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Reservations: 510.642.9934 or [email protected] Starts 3/31 Mondays The War to End All Wars or a beginner, you will be singing rounds, Richard Lichtman has a Ph.D. in philosophy Larry Bensky quodlibets, part-songs, spirituals, snippets of from Yale, taught in the philosophy 10 a.m.–noon, UH Room 150 classical pieces, and folk songs in no time. department at UC Berkeley, and has Learn five to eight songs as you make new specialized in social and political philosophy This year marks the 100th anniversary of the friends and take the plunge to let your voice and the philosophy of psychology. beginning of World War I. Before it ended make a joyful noise. in 1918, more than 65 million men from 20 nations were counted as combatants, and Lauren Carley, mezzo-soprano, has taught American Films of the 1950s an astonishing 57 percent of them were voice, acting, and writing for one-person Russell Merritt killed or wounded. Horrific new weapons, shows at the American Musical and Dramatic 1–3:30 p.m., UH Room 150 such as poison gas, flamethrowers, and aerial Academy, New York University, the Oakland (March 31 – April 28, five classes) bombardment, were used against essentially Public Conservatory of Music, the Oakland defenseless troops. Although the war cost Youth Chorus, and Colorado College. Her The films of the 1950s’ major directors — Elia an estimated $200 billion, impoverishing Renaissance quartet Schola Adventus tours Kazan, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, John large segments of many countries, its causes and records internationally. She teaches Cassavetes, and, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock never have been made clear. Reflexive, choral symposiums and residencies in — point to a rich variety of responses to ingrown militarism needed an outlet, and the United States, conducts community famous icons and motifs of the decade: rock nothing emerged to stop the slaughter until choruses, and leads “Joy of Singing” retreats ’n roll, Cold War paranoia, conformity, TV, populations and resources were exhausted. around the world. mass production, Marilyn Monroe, suburbia, and flying saucers. We’ll look less at how Larry Bensky, former national affairs movies perpetuated these themes and correspondent for KPFA/Pacifica Radio, The Fundamental Questions more on how, even as mass entertainment, has taught “The American Presidency” and of Philosophy they functioned as critical and surprisingly other government and politics courses at Richard Lichtman unpredictable probes into a culture of California State University, East Bay since 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41C affluence, sexual confusion, and drift. 1992. His interest in WWI has deepened through seven years of recent study of Antonio Gramsci wrote, “It is essential to Russell Merritt has been a visiting professor Marcel Proust and France in the late 19th destroy the widespread prejudice that and adjunct professor in film and media and early 20th centuries. philosophy is a strange and difficult thing … It studies at UC Berkeley for more than 35 years. 27 courses in two great locations! must first be shown that all men (and women) He has written numerous articles on ’50s Learn about the courses in your neighborhood and meet the are philosophers…” Rather, Gramsci believed cinema, films of the silent era, animation, and Joy of Singing that philosophy is contained in language, D.W. Griffith. Walt in Wonderland: The Silent faculty and other OLLI members. Lauren Carley common sense, and ways of seeing things and Films of Walt Disney, co-authored with J.B. 10 a.m.–noon, UH Room 41B acting in the world. With this in mind, we will Kaufman, won several awards, including the consider controversies concerning the good Kraszna-Krausz Award for the best book on Would you like to strengthen your singing life, the relationship between mind and body, the moving image. and speaking voice, increase your range and the nature of knowledge and reality, belief in projection, and grow in confidence? Whether God, and existence after death. you think you can sing or not, are experienced OLLI @Berkeley 1 Starts 4/1 Tuesdays African News — Beyond or mathematics — this course will cover Michael Fox has been a film critic and journalist the Headlines energy and the aftermath of the Fukushima since 1987. His current outlets include KQED. Martha Saavedra meltdown; terrorism and the development org/arts, Keyframe (fandor.com/blog), Oakland 10 a.m.–noon, F&S of nuclear weapons by North Korea and magazine and The (East Bay) Monthly. He (April 1 – May 13, no class May 6) Iran; radiation, including popular concerns curates and hosts the weekly CinemaLit series about cell phones, microwave ovens, and at the Mechanics Institute in downtown San How do we keep up with what is happening SmartMeters; medical-imaging technologies; Francisco and teaches documentary courses across Africa — a continent with 54 countries, and the future of transportation, particularly at OLLI at SF State. He is a member of the San more than 2,000 languages, and more than a whether our cars should be powered by Francisco Film Critics Circle. billion people? To explore current events, key electricity, hydrogen, gasoline. issues, and popular culture, we’ll first examine Fred Schlachter is a physicist retired from the reporting and circulation of news on Africa, Shakespeare, Time’s Scythe, as well as changing representations. Next, we’ll Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Timelessness review a range of print, video, audio, blogs, and following a research career in particle Philippa Kelly social media forms focusing on a particular event accelerators and atomic and molecular physics. 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41B or trend to gain a global perspective. Then we He has authored more than 150 research will cover political, economic, and social issues, publications and an article in Scientific American, How do Shakespeare’s characters’ views on and close on breaking news and how African and has lectured around the world. A member aging connect with Renaissance perceptions media approaches events elsewhere. of the Berkeley Energy Commission, his present of age, time, and timelessness? Age brings interests include public outreach, electrification with it opportunities and impediments to Martha Saavedra has been associate director of transportation, limitations to technology, and decision-making; perceptions of one’s own of the Center for African Studies at radiation and its potential health effects. degeneration (commonly pictorialized at the UC Berkeley since 1993. A political scientist, time in portraits and confessional memoirs); she has also taught at St. Mary’s College of compensations and fragilities; and generative California, Ohio University, and the Escuela Global Lens: The International contributions to youthful counterparts.
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