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Fall 2013 OLLI Berkeleyuniversity of california Osher Lifelong Learning Institute New courses in Lafayette! Learn more on Sept. 12. Sept. 30 – Nov. 8 Courses Workshops olli.berkeley.edu Lectures An educational program for older adults who are learning for the joy of it. Community Fall 2013 Director’s Greeting Who We Are Starts Sept. 30 Mondays OLLI @Berkeley is an educational program Visit olli.berkeley.edu for syllabi, reading lists, and other course materials. OLLI @Berkeley is thriving, with new faculty, new programs, and for lifelong learners age 50 and up who are new offerings for a growing community of members. eager to explore traditional and new areas of knowledge — without exams or grades. While continuing to offer a wide range of courses, we are Distinguished Berkeley faculty members now organizing several course threads to support our core and other Bay Area teachers enjoy sharing programming. Around the theme of sustainability, we will their expertise with members whose life feature Nobel prize-winning scientist Dan Kammen, who will critique the financial experience and intelligence enrich the and political institutions that are unprepared for the transitions required for our exchange of ideas. world’s energy future. Author Susan Griffin will take a cultural approach to drawing Membership in OLLI @Berkeley is required connections between the exploitation of nature and the nature of social relations. to participate in the full range of offerings. It will be fascinating to learn from the scientist and the poet, to challenge our Joining OLLI @Berkeley means discovering assumptions on humanity’s relationship to the earth from two distinct viewpoints. new friends, new knowledge, and new ways to bring meaning and enjoyment to our lives. This term’s history thread explores both our individual and collective memories. OLLI @Berkeley is one of 117 Osher Roger Housden will take us to England’s breathtaking landscapes through the work Lifelong Learning Institutes nationwide. It is of its great writers and artists; Beverly Crawford and Christine Schoefer will ask us to supported by the University of California, reimagine Germany before and after it was divided; and Larry Bensky will kick off a Photo by ukgardenphotos Berkeley, OLLI members, and donors who new series, “Leaders in Our Lifetime,” with an in-depth look at Nixon. match the Bernard Osher Foundation’s Leaders in Our Lifetime: California State University, East Bay, where Discovering England Through contribution to OLLI. Continuing our successful relationship with the Lafayette community, we are pleased Nixon he has been on the faculty since 1992. Its Writers and Landscapes to offer two courses at the Lafayette Library. Film critic Michael Fox will discuss the Larry Bensky Director: Susan Hoffman Roger Housden 2013 Oscar contenders for the best documentary feature, and musicologist John Program Coordinator: Nicole Magnuson 10 a.m.–noon, UH Room 150 Joy of Singing 1–3 p.m., F&S Prescott will trace developments in classical music from the Middle Ages to today. Classroom Coordinator: Gerard Alcantara “Leaders in Our Lifetime” is a new series Lauren Carley Explore how English poetry and literature Communications Coordinator: Satya Levine This fall, whether you revisit the places you thought you knew or wander down of classes and lectures created and taught 10:30 a.m.–noon, UH Room 41B have created a richly layered landscape unexplored paths, we invite you on another extraordinary learning journey. Learn by Larry Bensky, who has been with OLLI Oct. 7 – Nov. 18 (no class on Sept. 30 or of the imagination that continues to more at the open house in Berkeley on Sept. 10 or at the info session in Lafayette since 2006. Future classes will study the Nov. 11) feed our idea of England today. The on Sept. 12. presidents since FDR. Whether you have always longed to sing landscape is a character as tangible as any When President Richard Nixon resigned in a chorus or have sung in one for years, other in the great novels, as well as the Susan Hoffman in 1974, he seemingly assured his status this course is open to you. Learn the subject of some of the greatest poetry. Director, OLLI @Berkeley as one of America’s lowest-ranking basics of sight-singing, as well as rounds, Through photos, paintings, and literary presidents. Yet a reevaluation is taking chants, and arranged music by composers excerpts, discover how and why the land place. Some people credit Nixon such as Bobby McFerrin — who creates remains the living history of the country’s Contact Us: More than 20 courses in two great locations! with achievements in environmental sound effects and percussion with his dreams, tragedies, aspirations, and artistic 1925 Walnut St. #1570 Meet faculty and OLLI members. protection, financial stability, and voice — and Ysaye Barnwell, a member achievements. University of California, Berkeley civil rights. Most historians, however, of the African American a cappella group Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 Roger Housden, a full-time author OPEN HOUSE INFO SESSION cite militarism and subversion of the Phone: 510.642.9934 Sweet Honey in the Rock. Join us to and lecturer, has published 20 books, Fax: 510.642.2202 Berkeley Lafayette democratic process as his overwhelming strengthen your voice and confidence and including the six-volume best-selling Ten Tuesday, Sept. 10 Thursday, Sept. 12 E-mail: [email protected] legacy. Survey Nixon’s origins, character, make a joyful noise! Poems series, and three travel books: Web site: olli.berkeley.edu and education; his turbulent political 10 a.m.–noon (doors open at 3–4:30 p.m. Lauren Carley is the artistic director for Sacred Journeys in a Modern World; career; the development of the Nixon- 9:30 a.m.) Community Hall, Lafayette the community choruses Variety Pack Travels Through Sacred India; and Saved By Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse Library and Learning Center era Republican Party; and his legacy. Beauty: Adventures of a Romantic in Iran. 2020 Addison St. (at Shattuck) 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. and Rhythm Society. She leads women’s Larry Bensky, former national affairs retreats and teaches individuals and groups Housden moved to the United States correspondent for KPFA/Pacifica Radio, from England in 1998 and runs literary For information or to register, visit olli.berkeley.edu, call 510.642.9934, or to find their authentic voices through circle teaches “The American Presidency” at singing for joy, healing, and ritual. pilgrimages to England. email [email protected]. Fall 2013 term: Sept. 30 – Nov. 8 OLLI @Berkeley 1 Starts Oct. 1 Tuesdays Starts Oct. 2 Wednesdays Visit olli.berkeley.edu for syllabi, reading lists, and other course materials. Visit olli.berkeley.edu for syllabi, reading lists, and other course materials. Ideas and Power Harry Kreisler 10 a.m.–noon, F&S “Conversations with History” are lively interviews with distinguished people from all over the world who talk about their lives, their work, and the critical issues shaping our world. Watch and discuss interviews focusing on themes such as public opinion; the women’s movement and the search for equality; globalization and the emerging economies; the politics of environmental change; technology and war; U.S. intervention in other countries; and U.S. foreign policy toward Iran. Visit conversations.berkeley.edu to get a Courtesy of Sesame Workshop Photo by Malakhi Helel head start. review of his work, this class will focus on and artistic direction of several TV series, School of Public Policy. He is the terrorist speech; protests at military The Future of Energy Harry Kreisler is the former executive founding director of the Renewable funerals; WikiLeaks and government Tagore’s quest for human freedom. including “Sesame Street” and “Fraggle Daniel Kammen director of the Institute of International and Appropriate Energy Laboratory. secrets; FCC attempts to prohibit Rock.” Contrast Henson’s early comedic 10 a.m.–noon, F&S Studies and host and executive producer Clare B. Fischer, retired professor of He is a coordinating lead author for the “indecency” on radio and television; movies, such as “Muppet Movie,” to the of “Conversations with History” at religion and culture at the Graduate Energy is at the heart of the challenges Intergovernmental Panel on Climate prohibiting the sale of violent video games fantasy and epic narratives found in films Theological Union, has been studying and opportunities we face in the 21st Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel to minors; campaign finance reform; and UC Berkeley. such as “Labyrinth.” Discover modern- Rabindranath Tagore for many years as century. The rapidly rising demand for Peace Prize. In 2010, Kammen was whether there is a “constitutional right day artists Heather Henson, Julie part of a larger project on South and energy — combined with the increasing appointed chief technical specialist for to lie” about military service. Consider Taymor, and Bruce Schwartz, as well as pressures of climate change, fast-emerging India’s Visionary Artist: Southeast Asian visions of pilgrimage and renewable energy and energy efficiency at these and other major issues on the experimental puppet theater. Each week economies, and over a billion people Rabindranath Tagore the arts. She has taught classes on him the World Bank and serves the Secretary U.S. Supreme Court docket. will include a demonstration that shows without access to energy services — of State as an Environment and Climate Clare Fischer and visited his Bengali home, museum, William Bennett Turner has taught First how TV puppets are built and come to make our energy choices and their Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) 10 a.m.–noon, UH Room 41B and university (Santiniketan). Amendment courses at UC Berkeley for life on camera. impacts fundamental to managing a planet Fellow. He is the Lead Scholar for the the past 28 years. He practiced law for 45 in peril.