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THE INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING for NEW MEXICANS 2018 Fall 2019 Spring Catalog The intellectual challenge of a liberal arts experience for adults 50+.
2 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 Welcome Inside Part 1 S ince 1990, The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans (LLL) has offered daytime academic-level 2018 Fall Courses, education to stimulate the intellect and expand the Field Trips, Performances+ . . . .4 knowledge of adults 50+ in the Albuquerque area. 2018 Fall Registration Our member-driven, volunteer-run structure allows us to Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 keep quality high and fees low with no membership or processing fee. Anyone who enrolls becomes an LLL 2018 Fall Calendar . . . . . . . . . .17 member for a year. Part 2 To maintain our unique identity among the local adult- 2019 Spring Courses, education providers, we offer academic-style courses of up to six two-hour sessions. They are limited to 35 or fewer Field Trips, Performances+ . . .21 students to allow for meaningful exchanges with instructors. 2019 Spring Registration We partner with local groups to present Performances— Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 discounted performances with before and after lectures. Our field trips are usually limited to 20 or fewer students. 2019 Spring Calendar . . . . . . . .33 All our offerings are taught by experts. Our instructors Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 include professors and professionals working in or retired from their particular field, as well as professionals who have Other News intensively studied a particular area as an avocation. and Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 LifeLong Learning does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, ethnicity or sexual preference. Registration Forms: Forms are in this catalog and at LifeLongLearningNM.org which is updated often during the registration period to show full or cancelled offerings, and those available for walk-ins. Registrations are confirmed by postal mail. If a course is already full or is cancelled, a notice and a full refund will be sent. Withdrawals and Refunds: To withdraw from an offering The Institute for LifeLong and receive a refund, call 888-7370 at least one week before Learning For New Mexicans the offering start date. Leave your name, phone number, P.O. Box 35999 • Albuquerque, NM 87176 offering title, and state if you want a refund or prefer to President: Janet Ford contribute your fee to LLL (tax deductible). Refunds are Secretary: Cate Dixon mailed by the end of the semester. Treasurer: David Waymire Disclaimer: The opinions of our faculty members are theirs Registrar: Arlene Hohnstock and do not necessarily reflect the views of LLL. Directors: Susan Hunt John Shaw ! Shari Tarbet The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans is a private, non-profit organization as defined in Section 53-3-8-26 Facilities are handicapped accessible and have parking lots. LLL signs at entrances guide members toward classrooms. Performance+ and of the New Mexico Nonprofit Corporation Field Trip locations and parking are listed in course description. Act.
4 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 • PART 1 • 2018 Fall LifeLong Learning Courses, Field Trips, and Performance+ Mail-in Registration for 2018 Fall Must be postmarked by Friday, September 14
www.LifeLongLearningNM.org • 888-7370 5 2018 Fall Courses 2-6 sessions: $7 per 2-hour session, except where noted F-01—An Introduction to the Wisdom Frank Yates is parish associate at First Literature of the Hebrew Scriptures Presbyterian Church. He retired from St. Andrew Presbyterian Church after Instructor: Frank Yates serving there almost 16 years. He now $28/4 sessions • Mon, Sep 24-Oct 15, 10 am-12 noon teaches and preaches in other local con- Alta Vista classroom at La Vida Llena gregations. A longtime LLL instructor, This course will introduce you to four books in the Wisdom Literature of he also teaches at UNM, Lewis Univer- the Hebrew Scriptures: Job, Proverbs, Eccelsiastes (or Koholeth), and the sity, and St. Norbert College. Song of Songs (or the Song of Solomon). This course, which follows on the spring LLL course on the Psalms, will examine each of these writings in their original contexts. We will focus on how the first hearers of these writings would have understood them and then see how they have been understood over the years in various religious traditions, including Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. F-02—Oh, What a Life! David Oberg has guest Leonard Bernstein at 100 conducted orchestras in the U.S., Instructor: David Oberg England, and frequently, the $35/5 sessions • Tue, Sep 25-Oct 23, 10 am-12 noon National Polish Radio Symphony Covenant Presbyterian Church Orchestra (NPRSO). For 29 years he was the Music Director/ For a man blessed with unparalleled versatility, Leonard Bernstein, in his Conductor of the Chamber passport, simply called himself a “musician.” Bernstein was a conductor whose Orchestra of Albuquerque. He interpretive gifts brought Haydn, Mahler, Copland, and countless others to was a founder of the UNM John life. He was a composer not only of Broadway masterpieces like West Side Donald Robb Musical Trust and Story, but of ballet, opera, and orchestral music; chamber music and choral was on its board for 18 years. He works; and even a film score. He was a concert pianist and pioneering has served as an advisory panelist broadcaster; an educator and writer; a humanitarian and political activist; a for New Mexico Arts and the husband, father, lover, and a genuine celebrity. Yet, his life was not without National Endowment of the Arts. complications, incongruities, and critics. In this course, we will seek to gain a His recordings with the NPRSO deeper appreciation of Bernstein’s extraordinary talents while underscoring have been released on the Naxos, why we can say “Oh, What a Life!” North/South, and Opus One Active participation by students is a critical part of our learning process. labels. “ When you’re with like-minded folks, there’s ” something natural about it. I know many friendships have started up with LLL.
6 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 F-03—Fascism: A Warning by Madeline Albright 4 Sessions A Study and Discussion Group 1. Hitler and Mussolini Discussion Leaders: Barrie Segall and John Horton and their followers $28/4 sessions • Tue, Sep 25-Oct 16, 1-3 pm Covenant Presbyterian Church 2. Why democracies Limited to the first 15 who enroll can lead to dictatorships Fascism is back in fashion. That, at least, is the message that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wants to convey with her new book, Fascism: A Warning. In many 3. Contemporary places, she notes, we see strongmen on the rise, and this authoritarian resurgence is dictators: Hugo accompanied by a conspicuous surge of ideas from the far right. Racists and xenophobes Chavez, Recep are popping up in places such as university campuses and high political office, where we Tayyip Erdogan, never expected to see them. What are the implications for our current administration? Vladimir Putin In each session, different class members will prepare questions that will be used to guide the 4. Is the U.S. headed stimulating discussion of the core book. toward Fascism? “ Everyone was very engaged—we Break time during "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind." Barrie Segall (center) leads a Study and Discussion Group on "Fascism: A Warning" by Madeline Albright ” were the ones this fall and one on "21 Lessons for the pu!ing it on. 21st Century" by Yuval Harari next spring. F-04—Puccini Masterpieces ly Instructor: Julius Kaplan Note ear e $43/5 sessions of 2 1/2 hrs • Fri, Sep 28-Oct 26, 9:30 am-12 noon start tim Covenant Presbyterian Church This class will explore one of the most talented and popular opera composers of Julius Kaplan has a PhD in all time to determine what it is that makes art history from Columbia his works so appealing and successful. University and taught for Through lecture, discussion, and DVD more than 35 years at selections we will experience some of his UCLA and California State greatest creations, one of which will University, San Bernardino. open the Opera Southwest fall season. A lifelong opera enthusiast, he is a member of the Board Operas to be covered in this class are: of Directors of Opera Manon Lescaut (1893), La Boheme Southwest. (1896), Tosca (1900), Girl of the Golden West (1901), and ll Trittico (1918) Giacomo Puccin i Getty Images “ Very interesting and knowledgeable instructor, great presentation ”
www.LifeLongLearningNM.org • 888-7370 7 F-05—How Things Work—Reprise Larry Anderson earned a PhD in electrical Instructor: Larry Anderson engineering from $21/3 sessions • Mon, Oct 1-15, 1:30-3:30 pm Stanford University and Alta Vista classroom at La Vida Llena spent most of his career In spring 2001, I first taught a course on “How Things Work.” This was an era when at what was then AT&T cathode ray TV sets, analog cordless phones, cassette music players, and photographic Bell Laboratories, first film were nearing the end of their runs. But you still had to drive your car, plot your as a scientist and then as route on a paper map, run behind your vacuum cleaner, and click a button to change the an engineering manager. TV channel. And your entertainment electronics didn’t listen to you and certainly did not Larry has taught talk back. Times have changed. technology-related In this course we will look at the basic technologies behind more recent consumer courses for LLL for gadgetry, some established, some emerging. These could include: Household robots, many years and is a Self-driving cars, “Smart” appliances, Personal assistants, “Smart” cell phones, and Global former president. positioning systems We will focus on basic principles and use simple analogies where appropriate, so no prior knowledge of physics or engineering will be required! F-06—How Colorado’s Geology Shaped New Mexico’s Geology Instructor: John Shaw $14/2 sessions • Wed, Oct 17-24, 10 am-12 noon John Shaw decided, in 1959, upon his first visit to Covenant Presbyterian Church the fossil beds at Bishop Cap near Las Cruces, that Although our state has wonderful and interesting geology he wanted to become a paleontologist. However, a spanning well over a billion years, the most significant feature small thing called Vietnam interfered. Although the is the Rio Grande Rift, which stretches from north of Navy paid for him to receive BS and MS degrees in Leadville, Colorado, through all of New Mexico and into geology from the University of Washington, Mexico. This rift is one of only five active terrestrial rifts on Admiral Rickover turned him into a nuclear earth. Current analysis seems to indicate that the origin of the engineer and he spent his career in nuclear Rio Grande Rift was from rotation of the Colorado Plate programs, as a nuclear submarine officer in the US when it was impacted by the Pacific Plate more than 70 Navy, and in various programs at Sandia National million years ago. This course will discuss how the motions of Laboratories. Nonetheless, he maintained his the plates starting in the late Mesozoic Era shaped both interest in geology and remains fascinated by the Colorado and New Mexico, giving both states their unique complex and interesting geology of New Mexico and beautiful geologic scenery. and how the geologic history of Colorado has been a major factor in the creation of what we see now in the geology of New Mexico.
8 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 F-07—From Heaven to Earth, Architecturally Speaking! Instructor: Troy Ainsworth $21/3 sessions • Mon, Oct 22-Nov 5, 1:30-3:30 pm Troy Ainsworth holds a PhD from The Rio Grande Texas Tech University in Land-use Beginning fall 2018 and continuing spring 2019, these sessions will survey a Planning, Management, and Design wide-ranging overview of architectural creations that celebrate the human with a specialization in Historic condition. Our survey area will focus primarily on the American Southwest Preservation. He is the former and the West as we consider the commonalities and differences in the Historic Preservation Officer for the application of architectural languages to define human space. Several City of El Paso, Texas, and currently thousand years of human construction will be considered, from Chaco is the Museum Specialist with the Los Canyon to mid-20th century Los Angeles. We will examine archetypal Lunas Museum of Heritage and Arts. patterns in the context of design language, and how different cultures and Architectural history of the timeframes more closely resemble human common ground than not when Southwest is among his many critically examining building types. What is the source of this inspiration? Is research interests. it poetic, derivative, or divine? Or is it simply a pragmatic response to climate? These questions will serve as the gist of the interpretations of buildings throughout the region as we consider their purpose, aesthetics, and function. In the background of this survey is the notion that across the centuries humans have responded to their physical environment and designed buildings that both functionally and artistically respond to the land and its inherent characteristics. Both this fall and next spring, Troy Ainsworth, left, presents "From Heaven to Earth, Architecturally Speaking!" These courses survey a wide-ranging overview of architectural creations that celebrate the human condition. F-08—Tariffs, Trade Wars, and NAFTA: The Macroeconomics of It All Instructor: David Dixon $28/4 sessions • Wed, Oct 24-Nov 14, 1-3 pm Covenant Presbyterian Church Dave Dixon has a PhD in There has been a lot of talk about tariffs and trade wars. What do they mean? They Economics and a Masters mean a lot more than many people realize. Our modern global economy makes degree in Physics, both somebody unhappy all the time, but without a doubt most consumers, especially from UNM. For over 40 American consumers, have benefitted immensely from free trade. And we consumers years he worked as a have a lot to lose from restrictions on free trade. Meanwhile, what about the computer programmer North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)? It, and analyst in like other trade agreements, is the global economy manufacturing and in miniature. We'll look at the history of tariffs, complex systems research, trade wars, and the global economy, interwoven taking breaks to travel to with all the macroeconomics you need to remote parts of the world. understand the intertwined roles of money, David became a full-time employment, trade, and the free flow of capital. academic in 2012 and is Dave Dixon, left, presents "Tariffs, Trade Wars, and NAFTA: The presently a Lecturer in Economics at UNM. Macroeconomics of it All" this fall and "How Much Will Global Climate Change Cost? The Microeconomics of It All" in the spring.
www.LifeLongLearningNM.org • 888-7370 9 F-09—DNA Studies and Angel Cervantes is an avid genetic genealogical New Mexico History: Part I researcher; he has done historical and genealogical research in the Archives of Chihuahua, Colima, Instructor: Angel Cervantes Jalisco, and Zacatecas, Mexico. He has also worked $14/2 sessions • Sat, Nov 3-10, 10 am-12 noon as an archivist at the New Mexico State Archives in Covenant Presbyterian Church Santa Fe. In 2004, he pioneered the study of The New Mexico DNA Project: What Does It Tell Us? Anthropological Genetic Genealogy with the How do anthropologists use DNA research to establish the creation of the New Mexico DNA Project. He hopes ancestral origins of families and ethnic groups? More to help New Mexicans attain a greater knowledge of specifically, how can today’s New Mexicans learn if their their own history and heritage. DNA can be traced back to the first Spanish colonists in New Mexico? With the help of the New Mexico DNA Project’s more than 3,200 DNA samples of the descendants of these colonists, this class will explore how anthropological genetic genealogy works and how it relates to real people. Racial Bias in Colonial Spanish America and Modern DNA Studies In colonial Spanish America, civil rights and responsibilities were based on the degree of European blood one had. These racial classifications were often the result of impressions of skin color rather than definite knowledge of ancestry, and were often made arbitrarily by a priest or official recording the information. The instructor will show how this Spanish Castas (caste) system compares to DNA studies and the ramifications on modern identity. F-10—How and Why the F-11—Americana United States Entered Instructor: Donald Gluck World War II $42/4 sessions of 3 hrs Mon, Nov 12-Dec 3, 1:30-4:30 pm Instructor: Noel Pugach The Rio Grande $14/2 sessions Thu, Nov 8-15, 10 am-12 noon Four movies explore America: its Donald Gluck’s Covenant Presbyterian Church aspects, regions, cities, and towns. avocation is classic The 1968 documentary Salesman and foreign films. The disillusion over the failure of World War I to follows four door-to-door Bible This is his eleventh end all wars and the burden of the Great Depression pitchmen and their hard-pressed, year instructing fostered pervasive isolationist sentiment in the Roman Catholic customers. The for LLL. United States. And yet the United States found itself in the midst of a Second World War in December, camera captures scenes from a 1941. How and why did this occur? Was the bygone era, revealing the salesmen in full. Roosevelt Administration involved in a conspiracy Seemingly nostalgic and formulaic, more correctly to drag us into the war? Or were major American elegiac and complex, Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 The Last interests at stake? What were they? This course will Picture Show portrays 1951 Anarene, Texas. It received examine these questions and the circumstances that eight Academy Awards nominations and two wins: Ben made us a partner of the Allies. Johnson and Cloris Leachman. Noel Pugach is Professor Emeritus of history at Fargo (1996): A mystery unfolds in the pitiless light of UNM where he taught U.S. foreign relations and the far north. The pairing of Frances McDormand’s Jewish history for almost 39 years. Last spring, he Minnesota-nice with Coen Brothers grotesquery works taught a UNM course on the history of the quite well. Holocaust. He has a PhD in history from the The beach city’s sordid splendor is captured by Louis University of Wisconsin–Madison. Malle’s 1980 Atlantic City. It stars Susan Sarandon and Burt Lancaster.
10 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 F-12—Fakes and Forgeries Kathleen Waymire has an undergraduate in the World of Art degree in humanities and an MA and PhD in Art History. She has taught university courses Instructor: Kathleen Waymire on Modern Art, Southwestern Art, and $14/2 sessions • Tue, Nov 13-20, 1-3 pm American and European Art and Humanities, Covenant Presbyterian Church and has presented papers and lectured at many It has been estimated that as many as 50 percent of art works in conferences. She travels extensively to gain museums may be fraudulent. Recently, Yann Walther, the chief of further insights into art and culture and Switzerland’s Fine Art Expert Institute, claimed that estimates of 50 believes art is an invaluable resource for percent of art on the market being forged or misattributed are likely understanding ourselves and our history. conservative. Can this possibly be true, and if so, how and why? Kathleen enjoys sharing her passion for This two-session class will examine deception in the art world. learning with others. F-13—Origins of Christmas Traditions Shari Tarbet has a PhD in Mytho- Instructor: Shari Tarbet logical Studies and Depth Psych- $14/2 sessions • Thu, Dec 6-13, 1-3 pm ology from Pacifica Graduate Insti- Covenant Presbyterian Church tute. With more than 30 years’ experience as an English and writing Frazzled by gift wrapping? Fingers cramped from writing Christmas cards? teacher, she designed and taught a Had enough of decorating? One more Christmas carol, cookie, or eggnog Comparative World Mythology going to send you over the edge? Take a break with an amusing and course at Cibola High School, one of informative look at the archetypes of Christmas. This time, of shorter days only two in the district. She has taught and longer nights and of the winter solstice, has been celebrated and honored writing myth in fiction with South- since pre-historic times as steeped in significance. Join us and be delighted to West Writers group, and currently learn the meaning of archetypes such as “divine child,” “axis mundi,” or “wise teaches reading and composition at old man” and deepen your appreciation of the celebration of Christmas. Diné College, Crownpoint. 2018 Fall Field Trips . F-14—Tour Albuquerque’s Only Territorial Hacienda Instructor: Elaine Richardson Elaine Richardson is the $10/1 session • Sat, Sep 29, 10 am-12 noon Director of Special Events for Limited to the first 12 who enroll the Albuquerque Museum Directions and a map will be sent to those enrolled Foundation and is also the Batten House Project Manager. Built in 1875 by Juan Cristobal Armijo, and on the National Historic She has worked with a local Register since 1982, “The New Homestead” is one of very few territorial author on a biography about the hacienda residences enclosing a placita remaining in New Mexico from Batten Estate and has extensive before the 20th century and the only one in the Albuquerque area. Situated knowledge about the hacienda on 7.5 acres in Albuquerque’s North Valley it follows the classic New and its former owners. Mexican hacienda plan in which a series of rooms surrounds a courtyard or placita. The house and its contents were given to the Albuquerque Museum Foundation through the Lucia B. Batten Trust and the estate’s Trustee in 2005. Now called “Batten House,” the hacienda serves as the headquarters for the Albuquerque Museum Foundation. This is a rare opportunity for a private tour of the hacienda which is not normally open to the public.
www.LifeLongLearningNM.org • 888-7370 11 F-15—Come and See New Mexico’s Steam Locomotive Instructor: John Taylor $10/1 session • Wed, Oct 31, 10 am-12 noon Limited to the first 12 who enroll Directions and a map will be sent to those enrolled A unique opportunity to see the ATSF 2926, a 1944-vintage steam locomotive currently under renovation by the New Mexico Steam Locomotive and Railroad Historical Society. It is expected to be complete and under steam in September. Your guide will be John Taylor, the historian of the 2926 restoration. John will provide a short presentation on the locomotive, its history, and the history of the renovation, followed by an "up close and personal" tour of the locomotive and tender at the restoration site. John Taylor received an MS in nuclear engineering from Stanford University and retired from Sandia National Laboratories technical and management staff after a 35- year career. He is the author or co-author of two books and numerous articles on the Civil War in New Mexico. John has also authored or co-authored several additional books on New Mexico history. This fall's Field Trip "Come and See New Mexico’s Steam Locomotive" offers an up close and personal tour of the 1944-vintage steam locomotive and tender at the restoration site. F-16—Art of Devotion—A Visit to a Santero Studio Instructor: Adan Carriaga $10/1 session • Fri, Nov 2, 10 am-12 noon Limited to the first 20 who enroll At the age of 9 Adan Carriaga Directions and a map will be sent to those enrolled started carving to buy himself and his sister new bicycles. Today he is a well-known local artist who teaches An interactive tour of Santero, the younger generation the art of the Adan Carriaga’s studio, which NM Santero/a at his studio in the will include a history of this Sawmill Area of Albuquerque. Adan New Mexico Traditional Art has won awards at the prestigious with a live demonstration of Santa Fe Spanish Market; San Felipe making homemade gesso, de Neri Santero Market, Santero Trementina, and pigments. Market in Gallup. He has art in Finally, there will be a museum permanent collections and demonstration of how the art is art showcased in the book Saints, painted and finished. Santos, and Shrines (Annerino 2013).
12 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 2018 Fall Performance+ A performance at a discounted price with before and after lectures F-17—The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Instructor: Leslee Richards $14/2 sessions • Thu, Oct 4-11, 1:30-3:30 pm On-site at the Vortex Theatre, 2900 Carlisle NE, Leslee Richards is an actor, just south of Candelaria on the east side. director, designer and board Class members will make their own reservations for the play at a discounted member for the Vortex price. Performances run September 21-October 14, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 Theatre. pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Mark Haddon's best-selling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, has been brought to the stage in an adaptation by Stephen Simons, winning the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding New Broadway Play, the 2015 Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play, and the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play. Now it's coming to the Vortex. Talk to the director, designers, and actors about building the production and bringing the script to life, then see the play and return with your questions and insights. “ So much to learn to appreciate what goes into a production—and ” participating in the two discussions made an excellent play even be!er. Paul Ford, left, explains how he, as director of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and scenic designer Dahl Delu collaborated on the set design. This Fall at Oleanna • Aug 17-Sep 9, 2018 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night • Sep 21-Oct 14, 2018 Farragut North • Oct 26-Nov 18, 2018 A Tuna Christmas • Nov 30-Dec 23, 2018 The Vortex Theatre 2900 Carlisle Blvd. NE • Albuquerque, NM 87110 • 505-247-8600 • www.vortexabq.org
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www.LifeLongLearningNM.org • 888-7370 21 • PART 2 • 2019 Spring LifeLong Learning Courses, Field Trips, and Performance+ Mail-in Registration for 2019 Spring Must be postmarked by Friday, January 18 NOTE: You can mail the 2019 Spring registration form anytime, just so it is postmarked by January 18. AND You can mail in another (and another) registration form as long as it’s postmarked by January 18! Blank lines at the end of the Classes section on the 2019 Spring registration form are in case we add more courses. You can fill them in and register for them. If we do, we’ll let you know all about the courses at our December 5th Annual Meet- ing, on our website, and by email.
22 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 2019 Spring Courses 2-6 sessions: $7 per 2-hour session, except where noted S-18—(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About the Bible Instructor: Frank Yates Frank Yates is parish associate at First $28/4 sessions • Mon, Feb 4-25, 10 am-12 noon Presbyterian Church. He retired from St. Alta Vista classroom at La Vida Llena Andrew Presbyterian Church after This course will provide something of an overview of the Bible, which serving there almost 16 years. He now contains the Hebrew Scriptures, the Christian Scriptures, and for some teaches and preaches in other local groups the Old Testament Apocrypha (or the Deutero-canonical texts). congregations. A longtime LLL This course will try to answer the following questions: Exactly what is instructor, he also teaches at UNM, Lewis the Bible? Where did it come from, who wrote it, and who preserved it? University, and St. Norbert College. What are some distinctive traits of the overall Biblical narrative (the main characters and the main plot)? How has the Bible been interpreted over the years? What are some of the highlights and the low lights of the Bible? What are we to do with the Bible in 21st century North America with our scientific and secular worldview? And we will consider questions that the participants bring to the class. All are welcome. No background in the Bible is required or assumed. S-19—Hormone Disruptors in the Environment Instructor: Indira Nair $21/3 sessions • Tues, Feb 5-19, 10 am-12 noon Indira Nair is retired from Covenant Presbyterian Church Carnegie Mellon University where she was a professor of In the course of 3 sessions, we will learn about synthetic compounds in the engineering and public policy environment that cause harm by mimicking natural hormones. Hormones are (EPP) and the vice provost for chemical compounds our bodies make to control and regulate different education. EPP educates technical processes of our physiology. They are specific to processes essential for life students about the interface of including digestion, growth, reproduction, and mood control. In a healthy technology and society. She holds person, hormones are made and released as needed by special glands. a PhD in physics from Disruption of our hormonal cycles has been shown to result in health Northwestern University. Her problems such as obesity, infertility, mood, and sleep disorders, and even research has included risk fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and “allergies.” In the first half of the last assessment and communication, century, as chemical engineering found ways to manufacture new compounds, green design, bioelectromagnetics many organic compounds were released into our water, air, and soil, as and pedagogies for scientific, pesticides and in other forms, many involving chlorine. Others entered our environmental, and global food supply in small quantities through products we handle. The body literacy. She chairs the national mistakes some of these to be vital hormones. We will examine some of the still Global Learning Leadership emerging health effects and risks of hormone disruption, their frequent Council of the American occurrence in daily products such as plastics and cosmetics, why these are hard Association of Colleges & to detect or avoid in the modern world, what precautions and policies are Universities. being put in place, and what we can do individually to protect ourselves. “ Relevant information, challenging discourse, engaging presentation. ”
www.LifeLongLearningNM.org • 888-7370 23 S-20—Byzantium: A Closer look at its Art and Culture Instructor: Kathleen Waymire Kathleen Waymire has an undergraduate $28/4 sessions • Thu, Feb 7-28, 1-3 pm degree in humanities and an MA and PhD in Covenant Presbyterian Church Art History. She has taught university courses on Modern Art, Southwestern Art, On May 11, 330 A.D., Constantine moved the capital of Rome to and American and European Art and Hu- Byzantium and renamed the city after himself, Constantinople manities, and has presented papers and lec- (Modern day Istanbul). This city today, as then, stands at the tured at many conferences. She travels crossroads between East and West. The Byzantine Empire lasted 1000 extensively to gain further insights into art years longer than the Roman Empire in the West and had a profound and culture and believes art is an invaluable impact on western culture. This class will focus on the artistic resource for understanding ourselves and our traditions of the Byzantine Empire and how these reveal important history. Kathleen enjoys sharing her passion aspects of its culture, its history, and its relevance for today. for learning with others. S-21—A History of Musical Recording Technology Larry Anderson Instructor: Larry Anderson earned a PhD in $14/2 sessions • Mon, Feb 11-18, 1:30-3:30 pm electrical engineering Alta Vista classroom at La Vida Llena from Stanford University and spent We will trace the history of the recording and reproduction of music most of his career at from well before Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877 to the what was then AT&T present day’s focus on all things digital. We will review the sometimes Bell Laboratories, first fitful evolution of musical storage media from paper tape, primitive wax as a scientist and then cylinders, plastic discs, magnetic tape, and other media to today’s as an engineering concept of “cloud” storage. We will make extensive use of audio manager. Larry has samples from the various eras of taught technology- recording technology to trace the related courses for LLL progress (or lack of it) in providing for many years and is a faithful reproductions of the original former president. musical experiences. Early Phonograph Wax Record, Getty Images S-22—The Emancipation of European Jewry in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries: Causes and Consequences Instructor: Noel Pugach $14/2 sessions • Wed, Feb 27-Mar 6, 10 am-12 noon Covenant Presbyterian Church Noel Pugach is Professor Emeritus of history at UNM where he taught For centuries, European Jews were denied equality and civil and political U.S. foreign relations and Jewish rights. Then in the late 18th century these norms were challenged, and Jews history for almost 39 years. Last were granted emancipation and equality. They were accorded full citizenship spring, he taught a UNM course on in most of Western and Central Europe. This course will investigate the the history of the Holocaust. He process of emancipation, the people involved, the debates that occurred, and has a PhD in history from the the outcome. It will then discuss the major consequences, positive and University of Wisconsin–Madison. negative. Western Jewry would never be the same.
24 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 Note early S-23—Early Wagner start time Instructor: Julius Kaplan $43/5 sessions of 2 1/2 hrs • Mon, Mar 4-Apr 1, 9:30 am-12 noon The Rio Grande In the first half of Wagner's career, he Julius Kaplan has a PhD in art developed many of the revolutionary ideas history from Columbia about audience experience and musical University and taught for expression that changed opera forever. We more than 35 years at UCLA will explore his progress through the and California State traditional and prevalent Italian, French, University, San Bernardino. A and German styles and will experience lifelong opera enthusiast, he is some of the beautiful and stirring works a member of the Board of that remain in the standard repertory. Directors of Opera Southwest. The culmination of this period is Lohengrin which is Opera Southwest's 2019 spring production. The operas to be covered in this class are: Das Liebesverbot (1836), Rienzi (1842), The Flying Dutchman (1843), Tannhauser (1845), and Lohengrin (1850) Wagner S-24—Reading Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time Instructor: Anthony Hunt Anthony Hunt (PhD $28/4 sessions • Tue, Mar 5-26, 10 am-12 noon UNM-1971) taught for 30 Covenant Presbyterian Church years at the University of Ernest Hemingway’s first published collection of short stories, In Our Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. Time (Boni & Liveright 1925), is considered by many scholars to be an He was a Senior Fulbright- early masterpiece of 20th century prose. Many of these tales reflect upon Hays lecturer in American Hemingway’s personal life but more generally they are stories of Literature at universities in initiation, early love, marriage, male bravado, and isolation played out Poland and Croatia. against a background of war (WWI) and violence. Publications include his Thematically pervaded by alienation and loss, the poems, scholarly articles, stories (some as short as a half a page) serve, and a book on the poet stylistically, as exemplars of narrative irony and Gary Snyder (recently shifting points of view and demonstrate what reissued in paperback). In came to be known as Hemingway’s “iceberg November 2015, he was a theory” of fiction. Students will read and discuss keynote speaker at a selected stories in order to gain a sense of the conference on Literature collection as a whole and the very specific craft and Ecology at Hunan of one of America’s best-known authors. University in Changsha, (NOTE: The stories are included in The China. He has read poems Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway at Albuquerque's "Sunday (Scribner's) and many of them are readily Chatter" since its inception. available on the internet; the instructor will provide handouts for the shorter stories.) Ernest Hemingway 1923 passport photo
www.LifeLongLearningNM.org • 888-7370 25 S-25—21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harari A Study and Discussion Group Discussion Leaders: Barrie Segall and John Horton $42/6 sessions • Wed, Mar 13-Apr 17, 10 am-12 noon Covenant Presbyterian Church Limited to the first 15 who enroll Why is liberal democracy in crisis? Is God back? Is a new world war coming? What does the rise of Donald Trump signify? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news? Which civilization dominates the world: the West, China, Islam? Should Europe keep its doors open to immigrants? Can nationalism solve the problems of inequality and climate change? What should we do about terrorism? What should we teach our kids? In each session, different class members will prepare questions that will be used to guide the stimulating discussion of the core book. Best-selling author Yuval Harari’s new book builds on his two previous books to take the pulse of the current political climate. The book invites us to consider values, meaning, and personal engagement in a world full of noise and uncertainty. Window in a window at Chaco Canyon National Historic Park in New Mexico • Getty Images S-26—From Heaven to Earth, Architecturally Speaking! Instructor: Troy Ainsworth $21/3 sessions • Mon, Apr 1-15, 1:30-3:30 pm The Rio Grande Beginning fall 2018 and continuing spring 2019, these sessions will survey a wide-ranging overview of architectural creations that celebrate the human condition. Our survey area will focus primarily on the American Southwest and the West as we consider the commonalities and differences in the application of architectural languages to define human space. Several thousand years of human construction will be considered, from Chaco Canyon to mid-20th century Los Angeles. We will examine archetypal patterns in the context of design language, and how different cultures and timeframes more closely resemble human common ground than not when critically examining building types. What is the source of this inspiration? Is it poetic, derivative, or divine? Or is it simply a pragmatic response Troy Ainsworth holds a PhD from Texas Tech to climate? These questions will serve as the gist of the University in Land-use Planning, Management, interpretations of buildings throughout the region as we and Design with a specialization in Historic consider their purpose, aesthetics, and function. In the Preservation. He is the former Historic background of this survey is the notion that across the Preservation Officer for the City of El Paso, centuries humans have responded to their physical Texas, and currently is the Museum Specialist environment and designed buildings that both with the Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and functionally and artistically respond to the land and its Arts. Architectural history of the Southwest is inherent characteristics. among his many research interests.
26 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 S-27—Climate Change: The Result of Human Interference? Instructor: John Shaw $14/2 sessions • Tue, Apr 2-9, 10 am-12 noon When John Shaw was in graduate school in Covenant Presbyterian Church geology at the University of Washington, both UW and the University of Oregon (UO) Both the earth’s weather and climate change over time. Some were involved in studying the oceanic plates changes are cyclical, and some are not. Some have been driven by off the coast of Oregon and Washington. major geologic events, such as the Permian-Triassic Extinction These studies found something very about 250 million years ago. At least one, the Cretaceous-Tertiary interesting: “methane ice” on the bottom of Extinction about 66 million years ago, was driven by external the ocean. Both UW and OU have been forces. The current increase in earth’s atmospheric temperature studying the methane ice for nearly 50 years over the last 250 years appears to be driven largely by the increase and have noted that as oceanic temperatures in greenhouse gasses (largely carbon dioxide and methane) go up, the rate of “melting” of the methane resulting from the actions of humans. This course will review the ice is increasing. John has been interested in analyses and conclusions, to date, that have come from the subject since he first studied methane ice atmospheric, sedimentary geologic, and oceanic analyses that have and other indications of climate change. been conducted over the last 50 or so years. S-28—How Much Will Global Climate Change Cost? The Microeconomics of It All Instructor: David Dixon Dave Dixon has a PhD in $28/4 sessions • Tue, Apr 2-23, 1-3 pm Economics and a Masters degree in Covenant Presbyterian Church Physics, both from UNM. For over 40 years he worked as a You may have heard it called global warming, but that's not quite the computer programmer and analyst problem. The increasing heat stored in Earth's atmosphere will make some in manufacturing and complex places warmer (they love that in Saskatchawan and Siberia). The real systems research, taking breaks to problem, however, is that changes to Earth's atmosphere can cause travel to remote parts of the world. catastrophic changes in regular weather patterns. Some places will get hotter, David became a full-time academic some colder. Some places will get drier, others wetter. Polar ice melts and sea in 2012 and is presently a Lecturer levels will rise. While weather patterns have in Economics at UNM. changed over the age of the earth, there didn't used to be so many people or expensive investments in buildings, infrastructure, agriculture, communications, or cultural institutions. That's why rising sea levels are a much bigger issue than they were ten thousand years ago: now there's nearly a billion people living in coastal areas. We'll look at the impacts of climate change to individuals, communities, and countries, interwoven with all the microeconomics you need to understand why choices now have costs in the future. “ His students are lucky to have this UNM lecturer. Does an excellent job of explaining a complex subject ” in an understandable manner.
www.LifeLongLearningNM.org • 888-7370 27 S-29—Origins of Easter Traditions Shari Tarbet holds a PhD in Mythological Studies and Depth Instructor: Shari Tarbet Psychology from Pacifica Graduate $14/2 sessions • Thu, Apr 11-18, 1-3 pm Institute. With more than 30 years’ Covenant Presbyterian Church experience as an English and Ahhh Spring. Life is returning to the world. Warm weather is creeping writing teacher, she designed and upon us and snow is beginning to melt away, and a young man’s fancy taught a Comparative World turns to love. Baby animals of every species abound. Renewal is Mythology course at Cibola High everywhere. This is the time of year when the days grow to equal School, one of only two in the the length of the nights, and the archetypes surrounding this annual district. She has also taught writing rebirth such as eggs, rabbits, and sacrifice, have been celebrated and myth in fiction with SouthWest honored since pre-historic times. Join us and discover the origins of Writers group, and currently spring equinox traditions. Learn how ancient peoples celebrated teaches reading and composition at this season. Diné College—Crownpoint. S-30—Three Iconic Films and Early Fellini Instructor: Donald Gluck $42/4 sessions of 3 hrs • Mon, Apr 22-May 13, 1:30-4:30 pm The Rio Grande “With its stunning camera work and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film as the young maiden who died for ‘God and France.’ ” The Children of Paradise (1946) is an intimate drama on a vast stage. It is a love letter to the theater, to love lost, and to the panorama of Paris in the 1840s. It features Garance and Baptiste: she, loved by four men, played by Arletty; he, the mime-actor, astonishingly played by JeanLouis Barrault of the Comédie-Française. In Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 The Seventh Seal, a knight returns from the Crusades to encounter a plague-racked land. Called “a medieval allegory, unbearably bleak and comical,” it is a singular film posing difficult questions. “Haunting images include the knight playing chess with Death at the water’s edge.” The White Sheik (1952): Confusion between illusion and reality is deftly posed in Federico Fellini's first film, a comic-satire, about a couple honeymooning in Rome. Donald Gluck’s avocation is classic and foreign films. This is his eleventh year instructing for LLL.
28 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 S-31—DNA Studies and New Mexico History: Part II Instructor: Angel Cervantes $14/2 sessions • Sat, Apr 27-May 4, 10 am-12 noon Angel Cervantes is an avid Covenant Presbyterian Church genetic genealogical researcher; he has done The Sephardic Jews and their Origins in the Iberian Peninsula historical and genealogical Sephardic Jews is a general term referring to the descendants of Jewish settlers, research in the Archives of originally from the Near East, who lived in the Iberian Peninsula until 1492. Chihuahua, Colima, Jalisco, Accordingly, the term Sephardic Jew refers to Jews who follow Sephardic and Zacatecas, Mexico. He has Halakha (religious law). The term comes from Sepharad, a Biblical location also worked as an archivist at which is disputed. However, ''Sepharad'' was identified by later Jews as the the New Mexico State Iberian Peninsula and still means “Spain” in modern Hebrew. The class will Archives in Santa Fe. In 2004, explore how Y-DNA testing has helped trace the origins of this ancient he pioneered the study of civilization. Anthropological Genetic The Sephardic Jews and the Colonization of New Mexico Genealogy with the creation The connection between the Sephardic Jews and certain New Mexican families of the New Mexico DNA will be explored through Y-DNA results and family history. We will also discuss Project. He hopes to help which families show the markers that are most identified with this ancient New Mexicans attain a greater civilization. Included will be the colonial Inquisition and its role in judicial knowledge of their own policy of the New Mexico colony. The results of this research may surprise you. history and heritage. 2019 Spring Field Trips . S-32—50+ Years of Transforming Old Town, 1966-2018 Instructor: Ed Boles Ed Boles completed a 27-year ca- $10/1 session• Fri, May 3, 10 am-12 noon reer in state and local government Limited to the first 20 who enroll• Park at The Albuquerque historic preservation programs. Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd. NW. We’ll gather outside the entrance. He was honored by Creative Al- An April 13, 1966 aerial photo of Old Town shows a plaza very similar to that of buquerque with a 2013 Creative today, but with big differences in nearby areas. This walking field trip is about Bravo Award to recognize his role how 50+ years of policy changes, public capital spending and private initiative in preserving some of the city’s have enhanced the attraction of Old Town to local residents and visitors alike. historic and cultural properties. A We will study the 1966 photo and other records of the changes we see in the area registered architect, Ed enjoys east of the plaza—including the park, museums, sawmill-area redevelopment, re- leading excursions that combine made old houses and warehouses, and new hotel construction. history and design. 2019 Spring Performance+ A performance at a discounted price with before and after lectures S-33—Stay tuned for our 2019 Spring Performance+ The spring season was not available in time for our catalog printing. When it becomes available, we will select a production and email information to you and post it on the website.
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38 The Institute for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 Locations Albuquerque Rio Rancho Albuquerque Covenant Presbyterian Church 9315 Candelaria Rd NE Covenant Presbyterian Church Spain NE 9315 Candelaria Road NE Montgomery Blvd NE Just west of Eubank, on north side of Candelaria. I-25 (Use east door with code box. Code will be Candelaria Rd NE provided at the 1st class.) Wyoming Blvd NE Eubank Blvd NE I-40 NE Alta Vista Classroom na Road at La Vida Llena Osu 10801 Lagrima De Oro Rd NE Morris Street N E Lomas Blvd NE Juan Tabo Blvd. NE St. Stephen’s United Alta Vista Classroom at La Vida Llena— Methodist La Vida Church Llena in a separate building in Alta Vista section of La Vida Llena.10801 Lagrima De Oro NE d oa Lagrima De Or o R Lagrima De Oro runs east and west 1 block north of Flying Star Montgomery, just past Flying Star Cafe. Montgomery Blvd NE Café Turn west onto Lagrima De Oro NE by St. Stephan's Church. You may park in the west end of the St. Stephan’s Church parking lot. • Or go past the lot and make 1st right turn into La Vida Llena at a small sign for the Alta Vista and Casitas entrance. • Once inside, follow the lane for a short distance and make 1st left turn. • Follow the lane along front of building for handicapped parking. • You may also park in any available non-covered, non-reserved spot. • Use entrance marked “Overlook” near west end of building. • Someone will meet you and direct you to the classroom. Rio Rancho A Rio Rancho Golf Course Rd C The Rio Grande d Unser Blv I-25 2331 Westside Blvd SE, Rio Rancho 528 Via Alameda/NM 528: From Alameda/Corrales Pase Alameda Rd. (Coors) lights, continue west on Alameda (it o De l Norte becomes 528 here) and up the hill to turn left at the light onto Westside Blvd. Go 1.5 miles to The Rio Grande TRG on the right. 2331 Westside Blvd Via Unser: From Unser, go east on Wellspring Golf Course Rd Rd. (just north of Rust Medical Center) 1/4 mile Unser to left turn onto Westside to TRG on the right. We NOTE: No access to TRG going south on lls 528 pri ng Ave Westside Blvd Westside. ser Un
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