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coursesLafayette! at F&S! SeeSee calendar, page 11. page 2. Who We Are Letter from the Director The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at We began planning this fall term six months ago, UC Berkeley is a dynamic learning community reimagining OLLI as a hybrid learning environment. for explorers age 50 and up. An OLLI @Berkeley “Hybrid” is an odd term but recognizable now, as many membership opens up a world of discovery: parts of the world have had to find a way to exist in real smart, curated courses — with no exams or time as well as online. Our fall programming will have both grades — taught by Cal faculty and other scholars; in-person and online options, and it will provide ways for opportunities to participate in pivotal research; you to continue learning, whether you are at home or and a year-round lineup of lectures, workshops, traveling, or eager to rejoin the community face-to-face. discussion groups, club, and activities. Here’s what’s in store for the fall:

OLLI @Berkeley was established in 2007 with We will offer four courses on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Freight & Salvage, our venue generous support from the Bernard Osher partner; the team at F&S will welcome OLLI members inside with your safety in mind (and Foundation and is one of more than 120 Osher a new HVAC system). These in-person courses will be livestreamed as well as recorded. On Lifelong Learning Institutes in the country. Mondays and Wednesdays, we will offer a roster of remote courses. Fridays will continue to feature our special events. Director: Susan Hoffman Business and Operations Manager: Lisa Hardy Many of our fall offerings are informed by a rethinking of “security.” This theme was Curriculum Coordinator: Matt Shears initially chosen for Words Over Time, our intergenerational dialogue with Cal students, Communications and Marketing Coordinator: and extends to our lineup of courses and special events, from cybersecurity to an analysis Nancy Murr of cultural divisions to climate change. Classroom and Facilities Coordinator: Reciprocally, how can we better understand efforts to overcome division and divisiveness, Max Godino through multiple mediums both political and cultural? Our course offerings will provide Classroom Coordinators: both historical and contemporary accounts, exploring the power of music, theater, and LaeCharles Lawrence, Jr., Rob Chew social movements, and a retelling of American history from the Native perspective. Cheryl Brewster Research Program Associate: Our lecture series will explore this question: how can we be secure in a world that is Contact Us confronting the existential threat of climate change? Professor Dan Kammen will return OLLI @Berkeley with an assessment of current efforts to build a clean energy response to climate change. UC Berkeley Additional colleagues will investigate wildfires, species extinction, and environmental 1995 University Avenue, Suite 365 policy. And we will ask: what are local and state policies in which citizen action can matter? Berkeley, CA 94704-1570 We are very excited to reopen carefully and have you back this fall term. Website: olli.berkeley.edu Email: [email protected] Fiat Lux, Voicemail: 510.642.9934 Susan Hoffman Director

19 courses · Four in-person, 12 remote instruction, three encore Fall registration opens July 12 Information at olli.berkeley.edu

OLLI @Berkeley Faculty Showcase Thursday, July 15, 10 a.m.–noon Hear directly from faculty about their fall courses. The Zoom link to join will be available on our website and in digital communications.

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In the fall of 2021, we begin the process of reintegrating in-person instruction alongside our remote offerings. We will be returning to the Freight & Salvage (F&S) Coffeehouse on Tuesdays and Thursdays. F&S courses will run for six weeks, at two hours per session, beginning at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. These courses will also be livestreamed and recorded. OLLI members who register for our Tuesday and Thursday courses may choose to attend in person at F&S, participate in the class via livestream, and/or view a recording of the class at a later date.

There will be no make-up sessions for Tuesday and Thursday courses. Should public health mandates or other circumstances prevent us from delivering a class session in person, that session will be Photo: Max Godino offered remotely instead. Membership Tiers Membership is a prerequisite for Staying Healthy Course Structure participating in our learning community. OLLI @Berkeley will follow all UC Berkeley Remote Instruction: Courses run for eight Membership options are listed below. and City of Berkeley health mandates in consecutive weeks at 90 minutes per session. order to safely provide programming this fall. Single Term: All Access In-Person Instruction: Courses run for OLLI @Berkeley will also follow mandates Benefits: Access to registration for all courses, six consecutive weeks at 120 minutes per as interpreted by our venues. Updated events, and special program offerings. session. In-person courses will also be information will be provided on our website Price: $50 livestreamed and recorded. and in our digital communications. Please Annual: All Access understand that this situation remains fluid Note: Both remote and in-person courses Benefits: Access to registration for all courses, and subject to change. total 12 instruction hours. events, and special program offerings for four Fee Assistance Program Zoom consecutive terms. Fee assistance is available on a sliding scale if Zoom is a video conferencing tool that you Price: $100 costs present a barrier to your participation. will use to participate in livestream OLLI Premium Membership To be considered, download an application courses and special events. You must have Benefits: Access to registration for all courses, from olli.berkeley.edu/fee-assistance. a Zoom account to access courses and events, and special program offerings for four events. Zoom links will be made available on Affiliate Discount consecutive terms beginning fall 2021. Price A your member dashboard. Members of the following groups can and D courses are no additional cost; Price C receive a $10 discount on Annual or Course Changes courses are $80. Premium OLLI memberships: • Course schedules and faculty are subject Price: $950 • Cal Alumni Association (CAA) to change. Please refer to our website Annual: Encore Only • Current faculty/staff at UC Berkeley, for the most current listings. Benefits: Access to encore courses LBNL, and UCOP • Courses can be dropped up to seven and events. Discounts do not apply to Encore Only days prior to the start of the term for Price: $25 memberships. Additional discounts cannot a refund. Contact us at berkeley_olli@ be applied to Fee Assistance memberships. berkeley.edu prior to the deadline to be issued a refund.

OLLI @Berkeley 1 Calendar

MONDAYS TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS 9/20 – 11/8 9/21 – 10/26 9/21 – 11/10 9/23 – 10/28

9:30–11 a.m. 10 a.m.–noon 9:30–11 a.m. 10 a.m.–noon Cooking with Seasonal Diving Into the Movies Religious Nationalism Cybersecurity II: The Produce: Late Summer Harry Chotiner and Ethnic Conflict in Long-Awaited Sequel and Early Fall in the F&S, In Person (Livestream Contemporary India Darren Zook Bay Area only, 9/21, 10/5) Vasundhara Sirnate F&S, In Person Linda Carucci Livestream + Recorded Livestream + Recorded Livestream + Recorded Livestream + Recorded Price A Price A Price A Price A 1–3 p.m. 9:30–11 a.m. 1–3 p.m. 9:30–11 a.m. How the U.S. Spent the Building a Great Memoir The Politics of “WE”: Minority Voices in Early Legacy of the Greatest Louise Nayer Transformative Collective Folk, Soul, and Rock Generation Livestream Only Action Today Richie Unterberger Michael Baker Price C Sandra Bass Livestream Only F&S, In Person (Livestream F&S, In Person Price A only, 9/21, 10/5) Noon–1:30 p.m. Livestream + Recorded Livestream + Recorded Let it Rock: Six Great Price A Noon–1:30 p.m. Price A American Bands, Cultivating Human: How 1966–1996 Evolution, Diversity, and Pete Elman Communication Uniquely Livestream Only Shaped Human Beings Price A Carlos D. Torres Livestream + Recorded Noon–1:30 p.m. Price A Collective Imagining: Ensemble Devised Theater Noon–1:30 p.m. Evan Johnson Breaking the Frame: Livestream Only Introduction to Price C Metafiction Stephanie Wells 2:30–4 p.m. Livestream Only Shakespeare in Today’s Price A World: Exploring the Timeless Relevance 2:30–4 p.m. of Shakespeare’s Global Lens: The Masterpieces International Michael Socrates Moran Documentary Livestream + Recorded Michael Fox Price A Livestream + Recorded Price A 2:30–4 p.m. Meditation, Volunteering, 2:30–4 p.m. and Neuroplasticity iPhoneography Amelia Barili Yoni Mayeri Livestream Only Livestream Only Price C Begins 9/27; ends 11/15 Price C

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FRIDAYS 9/23 –11/12

Special Events (see p. 8)

TYPES OF COURSES

In Person courses (Tuesdays and Thursdays) will take place at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse (2020 Addison St., Berkeley). These courses will also be livestreamed Photo: Matthias Wilke, Pexels and recorded.

Livestream Only courses will stream live at the Cooking with Seasonal Produce: Respect: Minority Voices in Early scheduled time and will not Late Summer and Fall in the Soul, Folk, and Rock be recorded for viewing later. Bay Area Richie Unterberger Zoom links are found on your Linda Carucci 9:30–11 a.m. member dashboard. 9:30–11 a.m. Livestream Only Livestream + Recorded Livestream + Recorded Price A courses will stream live at the Price A scheduled time and will be Ethnic minorities have expressed some of their recorded for viewing later. The Bay Area’s late summer and fall harvests strongest and most influential social activism Course videos will post on bring us fruits, nuts, and vegetables imbued with through popular music. This course will examine Fridays and will appear in the magnificent color, flavor, and nutrients. Each week social commentary in early soul, reggae, rock, and course materials section of we’ll Zoom into the home kitchen of Oakland folk, focusing on the musical voices of African- your member dashboard. culinary educator Linda Carucci and watch her Americans, Jamaicans, Native Americans, and Encore courses are pre- prepare both savory and sweet recipes that Latinos. Among the artists featured will be soul recorded courses that were feature the best of the season’s produce. Please greats like Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder; provided live in a previous note: These are demonstration (not “cook- reggae superstar Bob Marley; Native American term. Course videos post along”) classes. singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie; and Latino on the first day of the term. rockers Santana and Los Lobos. Encore course listings can be Linda Carucci is the author of Cooking School found on page 9. Secrets for Real World Cooks, a finalist for James Richie Unterberger is the author of numerous Beard and Julia Child First Book awards. She’s rock history books, including volumes on the excited to share her craft with you. Beatles, the Who, the Velvet Underground, Bob Marley, and 1960s folk-rock. He’s taught courses on rock history at Bay Area colleges for the past decade, and gives regular presentations on rock and soul history throughout the Bay Area.

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Cultivating Human: How between the reader and the author, and iPhoneography Evolution, Diversity, and what happens when that contract is broken, Yoni Mayeri Communication Uniquely our readerly expectations violated? Whom 2:30–4 p.m. Shaped Human Beings can we trust if we can’t trust the author? Livestream Only Carlos D. Torres In this class, we will explore the boundaries Begins 9/27; ends 11/15 Noon–1:30 p.m. of narrative and examine texts with shifting Price C Livestream + Recorded perspectives, destabilized narrators, and Learn how to expertly capture images, edit, Price A contradictory plotlines. and create extraordinary photographs More than any other living creature, we Stephanie Wells has a B.A. from Berkeley, using solely your iPhone. Gain inspiration to Homo sapiens are most defined by our an M.A. from the University of Virginia, find your creative vision and expand your ability to communicate. This journey of and a Ph.D. from UC Davis, with a focus on technical knowledge. By the end of this human communication will travel from the modernism and postmodernism in American workshop, you will understand the ins and birth of communication on earth to times and British novels and poetry. She has been outs of iPhone photography. Presentations and places in human history where enduring a literature professor for over 20 years and will cover photography techniques and tips societal prejudicial framings of the world currently teaches at the College of Marin. for shooting, exposing, and processing using were questioned, illustrating some of the Global Lens: The International your iPhone; a review of all the features built unheralded stories in our past when open Documentary into the camera for shooting and Photos app exchanges of information flourished and for editing and organizing your images; and Michael Fox created societal growth, shared prosperity, live demos of third-party apps for editing, 2:30–4 p.m. and cultural understanding. Ultimately, special effects, and image manipulations Livestream + Recorded Cultivating Human outlines the great that will take your photographs from so-so Price A potential human beings have for overcoming to wow. We will review saving, printing, the prejudice and miscommunication that The view from abroad, courtesy of foreign accessories for the iPhone, and ways to has plagued us. filmmakers speaking primarily to viewers in share your photography. their own countries, is refreshing, revealing, Carlos D. Torres (Ph.D., anthropology) Yoni Mayeri is a professional photographer and occasionally jarring. The lineup is a media anthropologist who has spent who began her career at Polaroid and encompasses a range of documentary years researching the ways Maya people Nikon, and had studios in San Francisco and approaches and techniques, with each have adapted new media technologies to Berkeley. Her iPhoneography workshops film — most of which haven’t screened in tell stories derived from their own cultural have been presented at UC Berkeley, the U.S. — followed by a discussion of its legacy. Dr. Torres has recently opened Stanford University, Saint Mary’s College, goals, strategies, aesthetics, and ethics. We new research arenas in Europe, looking at Rancho La Puerta, Pacific Art League, will examine central aspects of nonfiction paleo art and the larger story of human Stanford Research Park, Google, the Garden filmmaking including the representation of communication. Club of America, and elsewhere. reality, the properties of storytelling, and the Breaking the Frame: interplay between advocacy and art. Introduction to Metafiction Michael Fox is a film journalist and critic for Stephanie Wells KQED Arts, among other outlets. A member Noon–1:30 p.m. of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Livestream Only Circle and inductee of the S.F. Film Society’s Price A Essential SF, he has taught documentary This course examines the genre of literature classes at the OLLI programs at UC Berkeley known as postmodernism, and more and San Francisco State for 15 years. specifically the concept of metafiction. As readers, we’re conditioned to expect an author to follow a certain set of conventions when we open a book. What is the contract

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Diving Into the Movies Zoetrope Studios, and a story editor at CBS. held roughly two-thirds of the available gold Harry Chotiner He was also vice president of development reserves and controlled the most valuable 10 a.m.–noon at 20th Century Fox and Interscope currency in international markets. With this F&S, In Person and Livestreamed (9/28, 10/12, Communications, and has taught history rapid rise in power and influence, the U.S. 10/19, 10/26) and film courses at a college preparatory took on new responsibilities, signaling the Livestream only (9/21, 10/5) high school and in the school of professional beginning of the “American Era” of global All sessions will be recorded studies at New York University. leadership. The good, the bad, and the ugly of American power since 1945 will be Price A How the U.S. Spent the Legacy reviewed and discussed. In this course, we’ll take a look at six films of the Greatest Generation that seem worthy because of the interesting Michael Baker Michael Baker is a surgeon who had nature of their themes, issues, storytelling, 1–3 p.m. a parallel career in the military and has and acting. Students will receive notes before In Person and Livestreamed, F&S (9/28, 10/12, experience in strategic planning. He each class with suggestions regarding what 10/19, 10/26) retired as a Rear Admiral after 30 years of to look for when watching the film. After the Livestream only (9/21, 10/5) uniformed service to his country and was lecture, there will be a discussion about the All sessions will be recorded awarded his 3rd Legion of Merit, which he different elements of the film and whether Price A wore proudly alongside his U.S. Marine or not it should be considered a work of Corps Combat Action ribbon and his Officer World War II transformed the United States art. The class aims for the fun, vitality, and in Charge Riverine Warfare pin. from an isolationist, inward-looking nation warmth of friends sharing a conversation with minimal influence on the global stage about a great film they’ve just seen. Note: to an economic powerhouse and world more information about the films will be leader. After 1945 the U.S. was manufacturing provided as the term approaches. more than half of the produced goods in the Harry Chotiner has served as an editor world, and U.S. exports made up more than of Socialist Review Magazine, a reader at one-third of total global exports. The U.S.

OLLI @Berkeley 5 Wednesday Starts 9/22

Religious Nationalism and Ethnic Great Read and winner of the Wisconsin own homes? What might the value be in Conflict in Contemporary India Library Association Award, and most bringing something new to life with others? Vasundhara Sirnate recently, Poised for Retirement, Moving Through a series of interactive prompts, 9:30–11 a.m. from Anxiety to Zen. She is a member of the participants will explore the creative power Livestream + Recorded Writer’s Grotto and has been interviewed of collaboration, exploring cooperative Price A widely, including on NPR. models for generating bold, evocative, and heartfelt content. Using what we already Let it Rock: Six Great American The rise of Hindu Nationalism in India with have and embracing serendipity, we will make Bands, 1966–1996 the election of Narendra Modi as Prime rich use of metaphor, storytelling, and all of Pete Elman Minister, brought India to a democratic our senses to share, nurture, and develop Noon–1:30 p.m. crossroad where the idea of a secular India creative ideas within a supportive cohort. Livestream Only forged between 1947-1950 was forced to No previous experience required, just a Price A give way to a Hindu majoritarian India. This willingness to offer your own unique skills/ rub between the old ideology and the new The essence of rock and roll is the great talents, ideas, and inspirations. emergent ideology is the core tension in band — young musicians who elevated India today. What we are seeing in India Evan Johnson is an actor/creator, teaching having a good time into something more is the rise of a contemporary, neo-liberal artist, and community builder with over artistic and eternal. In this course, we will religious nationalism that anchors itself in 15 years of experience. He’s the director look at six groups: he mercurial psychedelic the ancient religious history of the South of the Cosmic Elders Theatre Ensemble, L.A. band the Doors, led by their eccentric Asian sub-continent. Like many other and he hosts regular gatherings, events, and poetic frontman, Jim Morrison; the political ideologies, Hindu nationalism and workshops. Evan’s background is in iconic Southern blues-rock band the Allman has also claimed many victims through physical theatre, improv, solo performance, Brothers, who despite early tragedies have engineered ethnic violence, communal strife and playwriting. soldiered on for 50 years; The Band, who and collective public violence. made their mark with Bob Dylan and went Shakespeare in Today’s Vasundhara Sirnate is a journalist and on to greatness; a shout-out to the East Bay World: Exploring the Timeless scholar who works on Indian politics, with hit machine Creedence Clearwater, led Relevance of Shakespeare’s militancy and terrorism in South Asia and by El Cerrito’s John Fogerty; and two bands Masterpieces collective public violence in India. with catalogs so deep they each require two Michael Socrates Moran parts; the Anglo-American giants Fleetwood 2:30–4 p.m. Building a Great Memoir Mac and America’s band, Tom Petty and the Livestream + Recorded Louise Nayer Heartbreakers. This will be fun. Price A 9:30–11 a.m. Livestream Only Pete Elman is a musician, producer, teacher, Why do Shakespeare’s plays remain relevant Price C writer, and author of a new book on unsung centuries after they were written? This minority sports , In the Shadow of class aims to reveal what has fascinated There are many ways to uncover potent Obscurity. He has taught many OLLI classes, and inspired artists for centuries, and the moments from our past — swinging through such as A Rock n’ Roll Road Trip, Country timeless paradoxes inherent in these classics the trees at twilight as a child or gazing out Music, Folk, Motown, Bruce Springsteen, Van that lie at the core of the human condition. the window after the death of a loved one. Morrison, It’s All About the Song, Memphis This course will focus on how Richard Learn about the basic elements of memoir Soul, and Great Voices. Let it Rock is his 13th III, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for such as sensory detail, scene vs. summary, new class for OLLI. Measure, and The Tempest speak to our dialogue, time shifts, tension, and character current moment of remaking our world as Collective Imagining: Ensemble development. Read great memoirists and a we (hopefully) emerge from a pandemic and Devised Theatre reader to help you get started. Do in-class an unfathomably tumultuous 2020. These Evan Johnson exercises and work with peers. Hand in pages works will be explored from the perspective Noon–1:30 p.m. for instructor feedback. Leave the class with of an actor and director. a body of writing and new writing friends. Livestream Only Price C Michael Socrates Moran is the founder Louise Nayer has taught creative writing and artistic director of the Oakland Theater How might we engage one another in for over 40 years and is the author of five Project. He is an award-winning director and books including Burned: A Memoir, an Oprah a playful way from the comforts of our

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actor, having directed over 20 classics and world premieres. He has acted professionally in Boston, New York, and Chicago, and holds an M.F.A. in directing from UC San Diego. Meditation, Volunteering, and Neuroplasticity Amelia Barili 2:30–4 p.m. Livestream Only Price C

Many scientific studies show that meditation and volunteering support good health for the heart, brain, and whole being. Combined, Photo: Nancy Murr they foster positive neuroplasticity. In this course, participants study discoveries of Cybersecurity II: The Long- The Politics of “WE”: the “Neuroscience of Meditation” and learn Awaited Sequel Transformative Collective contemplative practices to open their heart Darren Zook Action Today to new perspectives in relating to members 10 a.m.–noon Sandra Bass of different cultures and socioeconomic In Person and Livestreamed, F&S 1–3 p.m. backgrounds. They also volunteer outside All sessions will be recorded In Person and Livestreamed, F&S of class for one to two hours each week at Price A All sessions will be recorded Refugee and Immigrants Transitions, the Price A Berkeley and San Francisco school districts, This course will build upon its predecessor and Casa Mora. This experiential learning (though taking the first version is not Since our inception, the idea of who “we” deepens their knowledge of other cultures required to understand this class) by are (who belongs and who does not, who as they assist low-income students, refugees, introducing new topics and offering determines belongingness, and how this and immigrants with their school skills and updated and expanded perspectives on impacts privileges, protections, and rights) their transition into American life. old ones. Aside from offering practical has been a defining fracture in American hints and tips on how to keep your cyber- politics. Today these fractures animate our Amelia Barili, an award-winning UC Berkeley faculty member, teaches a environment secure, this course will also politics in ways that threaten our democracy. systematic embodied approach for brain address topics such as artificial intelligence, Yet across the country, there are active fitness and personal transformation, machine learning, algorithms, blockchain, efforts to organize and mobilize around integrating discoveries of neuroscience with cryptocurrency, and quantum computing. articulating a new “we.” This course will meditation and service learning. She received No technical background is needed — just introduce OLLI members to the philosophies the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service an inspired sense of curiosity. and strategies of organizations advocating to in 2008. reimagine criminal justice, civic engagement, Darren Zook teaches global studies and climate change, and combat white political science at UC Berkeley, where he has nationalism, among other causes. What been a faculty member for 19 years. are the perils and possibilities of moving forward together?

Sandra Bass, Ph.D. is the associate dean and director of the Public Service Center at UC Berkeley. She has worked on women’s leadership, girls education and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa and as a faculty member in criminology and political science at the University of Maryland.

OLLI @Berkeley 7 Friday Starts 9/24

Special Events October 8 Words Over Time: Finding Hope (For Biodiversity An Intergenerational Friday Special Events are all offshoots of Conservation) in an Era of Rapid our traditional speaker series. Friday Special Global Change Dialogue Events will take place from 10:30–11:30 a.m. Bree Rosenblum, Associate Professor, unless otherwise noted. Zoom links to public Department of Environmental Science, Rethinking Security: How to events will appear on the events calendar on Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley Make the Post-COVID World a our website (olli.berkeley.edu/programs/ Safer Place for All events) and will be made available in our October 22 Facilitated by Darren Zook digital communications. Please be sure to Understanding Wildfire and Its Friday, October 15 check our website for updates to the lineup. Impact in California 10:30 a.m.–noon Limited to 60 OLLI members America’s Unfinished Work is an ongoing John Battles, Professor of Forest Ecology, RSVP by sending an email to berkeley_olli@ OLLI @Berkeley series featuring leading Department of Environmental Science, berkeley.edu thinkers engaged in the examination and Policy & Management, UC Berkeley eradication of systemic racism to create a Security links together every sphere of more humane, just, and equal society. October 29 activity — from micro to the macro, from the individual to the international — and Words Over Time offers a unique : Turning Climate it has come under increased scrutiny and opportunity for OLLI @Berkeley members Solutions Into Policy at Scale Ken Alex, Director of Project Climate at attracted greater concern due to a variety to engage in an intergenerational dialogue UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, of factors. The COVID pandemic has with UC Berkeley undergraduates, bringing and Environment created a long list of serious repercussions, together people from different generations ranging from tensions in global politics to to understand and learn from the the disturbingly violent attacks on persons perspectives of one another. November 5 of Asian heritage in the United States. The Technology Innovation for ongoing and uneasy discussion on race Older Adults: September 24 relations in the United States has given us, Consequences of the Pandemic America’s Unfinished among other things, the idea of “defunding David Lindeman, Director of the CITRIS Work: Proposals for the police,” yet what exactly that means and Health Initiative, Director of the Center for Neighborhood Security how it will affect different groups remain Technology and Aging, and Co-director of Speaker/s to be announced uncertain. Is it possible to build a safer, more the Center for Innovation and Technology in secure world for all, and if so, how should we Public Health, UC Berkeley October 1 do it? Where should we start? This Words The Clean Energy Transition and Over Time intergenerational dialogue will COP26 address these and other questions in a way Dan Kammen, Professor of Energy, with that is engaging, innovative, transformative, parallel appointments in the Energy and and empowering. Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley

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National Science Encore Courses housing, starting with the Victorian era’s Foundation Design small upright redwood boxes, yields lessons Encore courses are previously recorded for habitable and affordable housing today. Challenge courses that were well-received by the Bungalow builders responded to population As part of OLLI’s National Science membership during their live run. Encore growth with pattern-book housing in Foundation (NSF) research grant, we are course videos are made available on the streetcar suburbs linked to job centers. seeking 25 OLLI member volunteers to be first day of the term (Monday, September Automobiles allowed the ranch house to part of a two-day NSF Learning Experience: 20) and remain available throughout the spread across suburban landscapes. With duration of the term. One live conversation increasing land cost, designers put more Saturday, September 18, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 with the instructor is also included. housing on less land. California brought p.m.: Workshop space-saving designs and the integration Before the Storm (America of interior and outdoor spaces to America The 25 OLLI members will be oriented to 1815–1850) technical design development by Professor with lessons for sheltering people of all Mick Chantler Grace O’Connell from UC Berkeley’s School income levels. Live Conversation 10/15, 9–10 a.m. of Engineering. Price D Linda Day is an emeritus professor of city and regional planning at Cal Poly in San Sunday, September 19, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 During this period in America, great cities Luis Obispo. She holds a Ph.D. in urban p.m.: Design Challenge sprung up in the east, vast lands in the policy and politics from Syracuse University The 25 OLLI members will be joined by 12 west were opened to millions of pioneers, and an M.Arch. from the University of undergraduate Fung Fellows in a session and many came to see “the good life” as Wisconsin, Milwaukee. conducted by Dr. Jennifer Mangold, the head theirs for the taking. All this came at a price: of the Fung Fellowship. Native Americans were pushed out of their Native History 1900–Present traditional lands, a brutal slave empire grew Enrique Lima Attendance at both the Saturday and Sunday in the South, and the forests east of the Live Conversation 10/22, 11 a.m.–noon sessions is required. Mississippi were largely destroyed. In this Price D The Learning Experience will be held at a lecture course, we will trace the impact of In this survey course about issues affecting location on UC Berkeley’s campus to be several key players: Andrew Jackson, Henry Native peoples, we will discuss historical determined; however, the location will allow Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John events such as the assimilation era and for compliance with any UC Berkeley COVID- Quincy Adams, and slave-rebels Nat Turner its devastating policies of allotment and 19 requirements that are in place at that and Cinque. Indian education; the shift toward the time. Free parking will be provided. If you Mick Chantler holds an M.A. in history Indian New Deal and its decriminalization are interested in participating in this NSF and has been a student and instructor of of Native identity and strengthening of Learning Experience, please contact Cheryl early American studies for over 40 years. His Native government; the backsliding into the Brewster at [email protected]. primary interests include the Revolutionary destructive federal policies of termination War and Civil War eras. He currently teaches and relocation, which utterly transformed at several Bay Area OLLI programs, including Native communities; the response to those at Sonoma State University, Dominican termination by Red Power activists; and, University, and UC Berkeley. beginning in the 1970s and continuing into the present, the era of Native sovereignty California History of and self-determination. Residential Design Linda Day Enrique Lima holds a Ph.D. from Stanford Live Conversation 10/22, 9:30–10:30 a.m. University. He teaches history and culture in Price D the Departments of Native American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Design is critical when money is tight and spaces are small. The history of California

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19 courses · Four in-person, 12 remote instruction, three encore Fall registration opens July 12 Information at olli.berkeley.edu OLLI @Berkeley Faculty Showcase Thursday, July 15, 10 a.m.–noon Hear directly from faculty about their fall courses. The Zoom link to join will be available on our website and in digital communications.

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