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2018 Winter Session Schedule  All Classes 1:15 to 2:45 except Memoir Club 10:15 to 11:45

Social Services in the Windham Area: Past, Present and Future - January 9

Tuesday The Complete Hemingway: Medical, Psychiatric, Pharmacologic - January 16 CLIR’s purpose is to provide intellectual For registration questions ONLY, contact Slavery in America (continued) The Creative Class: How Hip-Hop Transformed the Cultural Landscape in the U.S. stimulus for adults from all walks of life Marilyn Diaz at 860-570-9012 or marilyn. and Abroad - January 23 America, the underground railroad, Fake News - February 6 through informal classes and discussions. [email protected]. For all other questions,

and racism today. Before the War: the Multicultural Empire of Vietnam (1428-1945) - February 13 There are no academic or age email CLIR President Steve Kenton at Why Europe Went to War in 1914 - March 20 Wednesday, March 14, 1:15 - 2:45 requirements. Come join us in the Vernon [email protected]. A Poetry Discussion - March 27 Donald Rankin, retired Yale-trained Cottage on UConn’s Depot Campus, with physician and surgeon and member Black Bears in Connecticut: When, Where, and How Many - January 3 free parking and access for the mobility- The CLIR schedule is also available on the Wednesday Poems from the Inner City - January 10 impaired. (GPS address: Witryol Place, Web at http://clir.uconn.edu of the Madison Historical Society, Mind Over Matter: Male/Female Brains and Quieting Your Mind in a the Friends of the Office of State Noisy World - January 17 Storrs, CT 06269) Archaeology, Friends of Books as Medicine: the Library War Service and Bibliotherapy - January 24 The Politics of Protection: The Endangered Species Act past, present and future – In case of bad weather, CLIR follows the UConn’s Osiris Quartet Hammonasset, and the National February 14 Mansfield Public Schools policy, announced Abolition Hall of Fame How Big is Your Water Footprint? - February 21 The quartet will perform selections Tastemaker Turks and Modish Mongols: How “Barbarians” Became the Arbiters of on local radio and TV stations: If they cancel, from Debussy and Brahms, and also High Society in Medieval Asia - February 28 we cancel; if they have late opening, we 44 discuss their experience in working What are Stem Cells and Why Should We Care? - March 7 cancel morning class; if they have early Have the Irish Lost Their Sense of Slavery in America and the Underground Railroad - March 14 as a group and making music, closing, we cancel afternoon class. If in Humor? A Two-Part Class on the Food Waste Epidemic – 32 discovering what collaboration in a If so, why, and if not, why not? Part 1: Implications of food safety and food quality as they impact food waste – doubt, contact Mansfield Community Center March 21 at 860-429-3015 or the UConn information quartet is about. Listen to our in-house Irishman Part 2: Environmental impacts of food waste and the global/national perspective – line at 860-486-3768. Thursday, March 1, 1:15 - 2:45 March 28 throw light on the subject and judge Mai Vestergaard, violin; Brian for yourself. Memoir Club - January 4 to March 29, 10:15 - 11:45 Roach, violin; Brandon Kaplan, Thursday Women in Engineering Across Countries - January 11 Thursday, March 15, 1:15 - 2:45 Woody Allen: Magician, Musician, Stand-Up Comic, Writer, Producer and 2018 Winter Session Schedule viola; Bronwyn Reeve, cello; guest Sean Kennelly, Irishman and Filmmaking Genius - January 18 clarinetist Noa Michaud laicized priest Words and Music - February 1 Devising Thread City: Performance as Public Dialogue - February 15 UConn’s Osiris Quartet - March 1 What are Stem Cells and Why Have the Irish Lost Their Sense of Humor? - March 15 Multi-Week Classes

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Single Classes Women in Engineering Across Countries Woody Allen: Magician, Musician, CLIR Registration Form The talk provides perspective on the Stand-Up Comic, Writer, Producer educational system, culture and work and Filmmaking Genius A- Name Mr./Mrs./Ms. environment in Greece, Germany and the The man and his work. U.S. Also included will be interaction with Thursday, January 18, 1:15 - 2:45 B- Name Mr./Mrs./Ms. young girls and women at UConn who Vin Rogers, Professor Emeritus of pursue a STEM career. Education, UConn, jazz trumpeter, Address Thursday, January 11, 1:15 - 2:45 horse lover and many other things Marisa Chrysochoou, Professor of Civil City State____Zip Phone Engineering, UConn The Creative Class: How Hip-Hop Transformed the Cultural Landscape Email in the U.S. and Abroad This talk explores the influence of hip- Democracy runs on an informed No. of household members x $20/each = total session fee hop over the last thirty years on citizenry, so journalism’s first

everything from fashion to politics and obligation is to the truth. But in this Cut along dashed line and mail registration form with your check or money how we communicate. age of alternative facts, biased news reporting, and increasing disregard for order (payable to UConn/CLIR) to: Tuesday, January 23, 1:15 - 2:45 Jeffrey Ogbar, Founding Director of the evidence-based knowledge, lying is Department of Extension/CLIR Center for the Study of Popular Music commonplace and stigma-free, and we W.B. Young Building, Rm. 233 are finding ourselves without a and Professor of History, UConn 1376 Storrs Road, Unit 4036 reliable map to navigate society. Tuesday, February 6, 1:15 - 2:45 Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4036 Books as Medicine: the Library War Lynn Mardon, Philosophy Instructor, Black Bears in Connecticut: When, Service and Bibliotherapy You will receive confirmation by email if you provide an email address. Where, and How Many This talk examines the history of an CT Community College System, Post University Dr. Rittenhouse studies where wild idea familiar to every reader: that books animals live and how they travel can serve as medicine. Beginning in PLEASE NOTE: We can notify you of last minute changes to CLIR’s Before the War: the Multicultural through habitats. She will tell us about the first world war, librarians and schedule only by email. Therefore, if you do not have email, please arrange for Empire of Vietnam (1428-1945) a 4-year research project on the state’s physicians believed they could make it a friend who does to keep you abreast of last minute email alerts concerning Prior to the military conflicts that black bear population. a science, eventually calling their work changes in the CLIR schedule. Thank you. Wednesday, January 3, 1:15 - 2:45 The Complete Hemingway: Medical, bibliotherapy. engulfed Southeast Asia after WWII, Psychiatric, Pharmacologic Wednesday, January 24, 1:15 - 2:45 Vietnam was a vibrant empire with Tracy Rittenhouse, Assistant Professor, Devising Thread City: Performance as Public Dialogue A look at the author, his medical and Mary-Margaret Mahoney, graduate connections to China and Europe. Department of Natural Resources and The talk covers the process of devising the theatrical production “Thread City” at psychiatric issues and his relationship with student in history, UConn This presentation sketches its history the Environment, UConn Eastern. The play is an original multimedia performance about the immigrants drugs. with a view toward its role in the early who built the town of Willimantic. Social Services in the Windham Tuesday, January 16, 1:15 - 2:45 modern world. Thursday, February 15, 1:15 - 2:45 Area: Past, Present and Future Alex Cardoni, MS Pharm, BCPP, Associate Tuesday, February 13, 1:15 - 2:45 Kristen Morgan, Associate Professor of Theatre and Coordinator of the new Media Issues and the programs that address Professor Emeritus, UConn, Senior Scientist Bradley Davis, Assistant Professor of Studies Major, ECSU, and Alycia Bright Holland, Assistant Professor of Theatre them discussed by a social activist who at the Institute of Living History, Coordinator of Asian Studies has had a long career in community Minor, ECSU How Big is Your Water Footprint? service. Mind Over Matter: Male/Female Brains Over the past four years Connecticut has experienced varying degrees of drought. Tuesday, January 9, 1:15 - 2:45 and Quieting Your Mind in a Noisy The Politics of Protection: The Learn how small changes in your lifestyle can make a substantial difference in Jeffrey Beadle, Executive Director, World Endangered Species Act past, protecting our state’s water resources. Windham Regional Community This three-part experiential class begins by Words and Music present and future Wednesday, February 21, 1:15 - 2:45 Council investigating the power of the imagination, Internationally known singer June The 1973 law that protects imperiled Michael O’Neill, Associate Dean, UConn Extension and then explores basic differences between Bisantz and pianist Alex Nakhimovsky species and their habitats is among the Poems from the Inner City female/male and left/right brains and how to of the Hartt School of Music join Vin most politically controversial laws of Dr. Donaghy will read and discuss move beyond those differences to create Rogers in an exploration of the familiar, our time. We will explore the social Tastemaker Turks and Modish Mongols: How “Barbarians” Became the poems, his own as well as the work of clear and positive communication. And unfamiliar, and often misunderstood and political forces that affect it and Arbiters of High Society in Medieval Asia others, that examine the vicissitudes of finally, we will create a calming experience highlights of America’s musical theatre. its effectiveness, and whether the act The Turks and Mongols who conquered the Middle East beginning in the tenth urban life. that you can recreate on your own when you Thursday, February 1, 1:15 - 2:45 itself is currently endangered. century had been (and still often are) considered uncultured, yet they reshaped the Wednesday, January 10, 1:15 - 2:45 want to quiet your mind. Vin Rogers, Professor Emeritus of Wednesday, February 14, 1:15 - 2:45 tastes of high society in the Islamic world and in China. Daniel Donaghy, Professor of English, Wednesday, January 17, 1:15 - 2:45 Education, UConn, trumpeter, horse Kristen L. Epp, Assistant Professor, Wednesday, February 28, 1:15 - 2:45 ECSU, and Windham’s poet laureate Aline Hoffman, Artist / pyrographer lover and many other things Dept. of Biology, ECSU Stefan Kamola, History Dept., ECSU