RENESAN Institute for Lifelong Learning Our 25th Year: 1996–2021 “Lifelong Unlearning” Spring 2021 Catalog of Online Lectures & Courses See Page 6 Opera Immersion Week, April 5-8 Registration begins: Tuesday, January 19, 8AM @ www.renesan.org RENESAN Institute for Lifelong Learning BOARD of DIRECTORS RENESAN Institute for Lifelong Learning Officers St. John’s United Methodist Church President – Robert Glick 1200 Old Pecos Trail Vice President – Margie McGregor Santa Fe, NM 87505 Secretary – John Littrell Treasurer – Jeremy Sabloff 505-982-9274 Standing Committee Chairs [email protected] Board Development – Richard Moriarty www.renesan.org Curriculum – Jim Baker Finance – Jeremy Sabloff Marketing & Outreach – Jeff Clark For the health and safety of our students, At-Large Members instructors, staff, and community due to Marcia Angell Mary Jebsen the coronavirus pandemic, RENESAN Donna Encinias Lib O’Brien will conduct the Spring 2021 semester online using the Zoom platform. Please CURRICULUM COMMITTEE review our updated policies and procedures Chair & Catalog Graphic Design – Jim Baker on page 42 for more information about this virtual experience. Coordinators Nancy Baker – Lectures, Current Events Mark Davis – History, Law, Music Course format: George Duncan – Social Sciences For the Spring 2021 semester, we will provide Barbara Hadley – Art, Performing Arts two options for courses. Course descriptions Robert Hinton – Sciences, Social Sciences will indicate which format the instructor has Jo Ellen Jacobs – Literature, Performing Arts selected. Both options will be live rather than Barbara Lanning – Art recorded. Kathe MacLaren – Art, History Margie McGregor – Current Events Discussion-based courses: Participants Paula Miller – Social Sciences can see and hear each other as well as the Lib O’Brien – History, Literature instructor. Course size will be capped so Ifan Payne – Lectures, Sciences that the discussion is meaningful and not Mark Tiarks – Music, Performing Arts overwhelming. Sally Trigg – History, Literature Presentation-based courses: Participants STAFF can see and hear the instructor and any presentation materials, but participants are Executive Director – Kristin Pulatie not on camera and are muted. Participants can Administrative Assistant / Registrar – ask the instructor questions via a moderated Kim Washburn chat text box. Course size will not be capped. Audio-Visual Technician – Brett Davis Lectures will be presentation-based. Web Manager – Victoria Ballesteros RENESAN is an independent, volunteer-supported, nonprofit organization that provides affordable, academically oriented courses, lectures, and local trips for adults in Northern New Mexico. RENESAN® is the registered name of our nonprofit organization, tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations to RENESAN are tax-deductible as allowed by law. RENESAN SPRING 2021 PRESIDENT’S WELCOME W Dear Member of the RENESAN Family: experiences as babies, so much of what and how we learn about the world is really about E Ring out the old, ring in the new, opening ourselves up to new consciousness, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: new challenges, new ways to test what we L The year is going, let him go; think we know. That is what RENESAN Ring out the false, ring in the true. offers to the community. Learning is not just C — Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) about pouring ideas into a void; it is about a very sophisticated process of synthesis, Tennyson’s New Year’s poem was a wish for amalgamation, and intellectual evolution. O a better world after what was a particularly Like the past year, learning is about a process dark year for him personally. But I think of change, modification, adaptation. “Ring out M most of us fervently feel the same in 2020 as the old, ring in the new.” Tennyson did in 1850: “Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul We hope that the experiences we offer you E disease.” What a year! How nice to think in this catalog entice you to join us and our ahead to 2021! fellow “unlearners” and to add your particular personal and intellectual ingredients to the In addition to all the reasons to celebrate the special experience that is living in Santa Fe t New Year, at RENESAN there is an extra and Northern New Mexico. We look forward special reason to rejoice. This year marks to seeing you in our online classes, and look the Silver Anniversary for this very unique forward to the day when we can welcome you o organization in this very unique community. once again to our in-person offerings. In the For 25 years RENESAN has provided meantime, on behalf of the RENESAN Board, hundreds of learning experiences to literally I extend our heartfelt gratitude for your thousands of people. Even the challenges of participation in our community. Best wishes 2020 did not stop us. Although we couldn’t — for a joyous holiday season and a happy and R and, for the time being, still can’t — meet healthy New Year. in person, we shifted to an all-new online E format and presented almost as many classes Robert A. Glick, President to almost as many “lifelong learners” as in RENESAN Board of Directors N previous years. We know that one of the primary benefits E we offer to our community (learners and instructors alike) is the social interaction S that comes during the RENESAN experience. And we can’t wait to get back to offering that once again. But in the meantime, we A have assembled another full semester of opportunities to keep our brains exercised. N We are happy to offer you our SPRING 2021 course offerings. As a theme for our 25th Anniversary we thought it would be appropriate to focus on “lifelong unlearning.” From our earliest See page 32 - 3 - RENESAN SPRING 2021 CATALOG of LECTURES & COURSES T President’s Welcome ................................................................................................................................. 3 A OPERA IMMERSION WEEK ......................................................................................... 6 B The Santa Fe Opera 2021 Season: Words and Music (Glick & Tiarks) OIW S21-01 The Marriage of Figaro L OIW S21-02 Eugene Onegin OIW S21-03 The Lord of Cries E OIW S21-04 A Midsummer Night’s Dream LECTURES ................................................................................................................................... 10 o LEC S21-01 Rebuilding the Department of State in the Biden Administration (Asquino) LEC S21-02 James Baldwin’s Life and Perspectives on American Racism (Wellington) LEC S21-03 The Silver Scream: Portrayals of Opera in Cinema (Tiarks) f LEC S21-04 Climate Change and Extreme Events (S. Rudnick) LEC S21-05 Harriet Taylor Mill: The Woman Who Inspired Suffragettes in the US and UK (J. E. Jacobs) LEC S21-06 Women in Uniform During the Civil War (Greene) LEC S21-07 Citizen Kane and the Art of Cinematography (Jackson) C LEC S21-08 Queen Elizabeth I: Lessons in Governance for Today’s Leaders (Bundesen) LEC S21-09 Why Do Prescription Drugs Cost So Much? (Angell) O LEC S21-10 Franz Schubert: His Life and Piano Music (Helin) N COURSES T Archaeology ........................................................................................................................................... 17 ARCH S21-01 Great Cities of the Ancient World (Tabbernee) E ARCH S21-02 The Search for Atlantis: Through the Eyes of Sherlock Holmes (Maples) Art ............................................................................................................................................................ 18 N ART S21-01 Seeing the Bible (Arnold) ART S21-02 From Tyndrum to Timbuktu: The Creative Path and the Ritual Process T (A. Huddleston) Current Events ...................................................................................................................................... 19 S CE S21-01 Mid-Day Current Events Discussion Group CE S21-02 Hot Spots: The United States in the World Today (Greentree) CE S21-03 Fact or Fiction: The New Yorker (Jones) CE S21-04 Health for Wealth: A Dystopian Exchange (Bauguess) CE S21-05 The Deadly Scourge of Terror in Africa (V. Huddleston) CE S21-06 International Climate Agreements: Will We Always Have Paris? (Gaba) CE S21-07 Predatory Lending in New Mexico: Problems and Solutions (Nathan) CE S21-08 It’s the People’s Data (Johnson) - 4 - RENESAN SPRING 2021 COURSES (Continued) T Film ......................................................................................................................................................... 24 FILM S21-01 Film Discussion (Adelsheim) A FILM S21-02 Storytelling and Mythmaking in Film (Cox) FILM S21-03 Cult Cinema (Leventman) B History .................................................................................................................................................... 26 HIS S21-01 1968: The Year It All Fell Apart (Stone) L HIS S21-02 A Brief History of African Americans in New Mexico (Berg) HIS S21-03 Railroads of Santa Fe County (Friedman) E HIS S21-04 Charles De Gaulle: Savior of France (Jones) HIS S21-05 Two Stories: The Real Jewish Catskills and the Borscht Belt (Ferate) Literature .............................................................................................................................................. 30 LIT S21-01 Dostoevsky’s The Idiot (Perazzini) o LIT S21-02 Hemingway’s WWI (Walkiewicz) LIT S21-03 Apeirogon (L. Rudnick) — CANCELLED — LIT S21-04 Coming of Age in an Unbecoming Age: Flaubert’s Sentimental Education (Glick) f