Osher Lifelong Learning Institute @ Brandeis University (BOLLI) Lunch & Learn Speakers Spring Semester 2015 – Preliminary Calendar Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 3 / 10 Karen Muncaster 3 / 11 Yehuda Yaakov 3 / 12 Tom Melville VP of the Rabb School for Consul General of Israel to New News Director, WBUR Continuing Education at Brandeis England “A life in Journalism: The “Online and Off: The Future of “Creativity in Israel” Changing Media Landscape” Learning” 3 / 17 Bill Littlefield 3 / 18 Eric Schwartz 3 / 19 Judith McMorrow Host of Only A Game on NPR Co-founder of Citizen Schools Professor, Boston College Law “Only A Game…Except when It Executive Chairman, US2020 School Isn’t” "The Opportunity Equation: Topic TBD The growing U.S. wealth-based achievement gap and what to do about it" 3 / 24 Hugh Buchanan 3 / 25 Andrew Koh 3 / 26 Nick Capasso POW Survivor and Pilot Archeologist and Chemist at Brandeis Director, Fitchburg Art Museum “Six and a Half Years As a and MIT “Creating A Community- Prisoner in North Vietnam” “A Canaanite Palace Wine Oriented Art Museum” Cellar Found in Israel" 3 / 31 Prof Douglas Starr 4 / 1 Joe Bergantino 4 / 2 David Fixler Co-director of Graduate Program Executive Director, Managing Editor Historic Preservation Expert in Science Journalism at Boston and Co-Founder of the New England "Mending Modern - Preparing University Center for Investigative Reporting the Legacy of Modernism for the “19th Century Pioneers in “The Future of Investigative 21st Century” Forensic Science” Reporting” 4 / 7 HDS Greenway 4 / 8 Robert Brustein 4 / 9 Mitchell Zuckoff Long-term OpEd Founding Director of the Yale and Professor of Journalism at Boston columnist; former editorial page the American Repertory Theatres University editor of the Globe; author of “The Evolution of Jewish “ The Story Behind the Story of recent memoir, “Foreign Humor: What Cooks with Mel 13 Hours: The Inside Account of Correspondent” Brooks?” What Really Happened in “Foreign Correspondent” Benghazi” 4 / 14 Joanna Weiss 4 / 15 Kathy Lawrence 4 / 16 Bob Lobel Columnist for the Boston Globe Senior Lecturer in the English Co-host of Sports Legends New “What’s New? Remarks on the Department, Brandeis; authority on England, former sportscaster for Topics of the Day” Henry James WBZ-TV "How Henry James Re- Topic TBD discovered Walt Whitman and Discovered Himself" 4 / 21 Mo Freedman 4 / 22 Dr. Donald Levy 4 / 23 Yarden Fanta-Vagenshtein Chief Engineer, Boston Waterfront Assistant Clinical Professor of Ethiopian-Israeli Educator and Park and Sea Plaza of Long Wharf Medicine at Harvard Medical Postdoc at Harvard's Graduate “Evolution of Urban Renewal: School; Medical Director of the School of Education The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” Osher Clinical Center for “Jewish Identity in Africa and Integrative Medicine at BWH the Exodus to Israel” “Mind and Body: A Role for Integrative Medicine” 4 / 28 Mary Crowe 4 / 29 Jenna Russell 4 / 30 TBD Sondheim and other Reporter for the Boston Globe jazz/Broadway songs “Long Mile Home: Marathon Topic TBD Bombing” 5 / 5 Hank Philippi Ryan 5 / 6 Jill Greenlee 5 / 7 Robert Sharenow Channel 7 Investigative Reporter Associate Professor Producer of Lifetime; Project and Writer of Mysteries Politics Department and Women's, Runway Topic TBD Gender, and Sexuality Studies Topic TBD Program Brandeis University "Racial Attitudes in the 21st Century" 5/12 Nicholas Burns 5 / 13 Nancy Armstrong 5 / 14 Scene-iors Professor of the Practice of Politics Adjunct Associate Professor of the and International Practice in Theater Arts/Singing Relations,Harvard's Kennedy “Great American Songbook” School of Government Topic TBD Schedule Lunch 12:00 -12:30 Lecture 12:30-1:30 .