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OSHER LIFELONG
LEARNING INSTITUTE
where learning never retires
OLLI ONLINE
FALL 2020
Distinguished Lecture Series Session 1
The First 2019-20 Thursday Morning
Lecture Series
OLLI Reads! & More
DISTINGUISHED
LECTURE SERIES session 1
All programs will be offered online.
September 8, 2020, 10:00-11:30am Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Democracy and Debate Efforts by the Chronic Pain and
Fatigue Research Center
Michael Barr
Joan and Samuel Daniel Clauw
Weill Dean of Professor,
Public Policy at the Anesthesiology
Gerald R. Ford Medicine
School, University of (Rheumatology) and
Michigan Psychiatry, University of
Michigan
Dean Barr will explore the critical
issues facing the country during Dr. Clauw will speak on the
the Fall 2020 election, including work done by the Chronic Pain
the COVID-19 pandemic and the Research Center. He will highlight
economic crisis. accomplishments of the past, as
well as plans
Michael S. Barr is the Joan and for the future.
Samuel Weill Dean of Public Policy
at the Gerald R. Ford School, the Daniel Clauw is a professor
Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of anesthesiology medicine
of Public Policy, the Roy F. and (rheumatology) and psychiatry
Jean Humphrey Proffit Professor at the University of Michigan. He
of Law, and Faculty of the Center serves as Director of
on Finance, Law and Policy at the Chronic Pain and Fatigue
the University of Michigan. He Research Center. The Research
served from 2009-2010 as the Center is a multidisciplinary center
U.S. Department of the Treasury’s committed to improving the
Assistant Secretary for Financial understanding and management
Institutions, and was a key of disorders distinguished by
architect of the Dodd Frank Wall symptoms of chronic pain
Street Reform and Consumer and fatigue. Until January 2009 he
Protection Act of 2010. He received also served as the first Associate
his J.D. from Yale Law School; his Dean for Clinical and Transitional
Ph.D. in International Relations Research at the University of
from Magdalen College, Oxford Michigan Medical School.
University, as a Rhodes Scholar,
and his B.A. summa cum laude, Scholarships are available.Please
with Honors in History from Yale email OLLI Director Lisa Barton at
University. libarton@umich.edu
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Tuesday, December 8, 2020
What Happened Last Tuesday Women in American Soccer and
European Football: Different
Michael Traugott Roads to Shared Glory on the
Research Professor Field and in Society
Emeritus,
Center for Political Andrei S. Marcovits
Studies Karl W. Deutsch
Collegiate
The presidential election of 2020 Professor of
will be the most critical and Comparative Politics,
challenging in recent memory. University of Michigan
Results will determine the
composition of the U.S. Senate The lecture will highlight the
and House of Representatives and opposite paths that women
influence the future composition have traversed in the game of
of the U.S. Supreme Court. It will Associated Football on both
undoubtedly change the face sides of the Atlantic. Whereas
of both major political parties. the women in North America
Professor Emeritus Michael entered the field that was virtually
Traugott will talk about the open for them since men busily
November election outcomes, covered the playing fields and
including the campaigns, cultural space of hegemonic
primaries, and caucuses. team sports of baseball, football
(American and Canadian),
Prof. Traugott has studied mass basketball, and ice hockey; their
media impact on American European counterparts were forced
policies. He has a particular to contest what has arguably
interest in the use of surveys and been the most male-dominated
polls and how they are used to space in European public life
cover campaign and elections. throughout much of the 20th
Retired from the University of century. Both of these roads
Michigan, he is now Professor harbored immense obstacles. Both
Emeritus of Communication entailed challenges of their own
Studies and Professor Emeritus of that these pioneering women had
Political Science in the College of to overcome. However, spurred
Literature, Science and Arts as well by the massively important and
as Research Professor Emeritus of popular World Cup tournaments,
Political Science in the Institute of the last three decades have led to
Social Research. a rapprochement on both sides
of the Atlantic by catapulting
women’s soccer onto hitherto
This Distinguished Lecture Series
unexpected, maybe even
was planned by: Laurie Barnett,
unimaginable, heights.
Janet Fogler, Ron Frisch, Jerry
Gardner, Ed Marcus, Leo Shedden,
Marie Vitale, Katherine Woo,
Al Gourdji, Chair
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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES cont
Andrei S. Marcovits is the Karl W. Dr. Akil and her colleagues have
Deutsch Collegiate Professor of provided the first psychological
Comparative Politics and an Arthur evidence of endorphins, and
F. Thurnau Professor at the University showed that endorphins are
of Michigan where he has taught activated by stress and inhibit
for more than 20 years. In addition pain. In investigations of the
to being a multiple-award winning mechanism underlying stress
teacher, his many books and articles activity in anxiety and depression,
on a range of topics—from European she demonstrated that social
social democracy, labor and social defeat in rodents activates unique
movements to German-Jewish neural pathways resembling those
relations; and from comparative alerted in human depression. Her
sports cultures to dog rescue—have team has also focused on the role
appeared in 15 languages. His of specific genes in the pathology
two latest books are Women in of mood disorders.
American Soccer and European
Football; Different Roads to Shared Dr. Huda Akil is a graduate of the
Glory published in 2019; and The University of California, University
Boundaries of Pluralism; The World of Iowa and the American
of The University of Michigan’s University of Beirut. She is the
Jewish Students in 1897-1945, co- Gardner QuartonDistinguished
authored with Kenneth Garner and University Professor of
published in 2020. Neurosciences at The Molecular &
Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at the University of Michigan. She
Stress and Brain Health from has made unique contributions
Biology to Social Context to the understanding of the brain
biology of emotions, including
Huda Akil pain, anxiety, depression and
Professor of substance abuse. She is the
Neurosciences, author of over 500 original
The Molecular scientific papers and has been
& Behavioral elected to the American Academy
Neuroscience Institute, of Arts and Science.
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social meet up. Free informal gatherings that meet during the month are listed
in our catalog and will be updated on our website. These gatherings invite conversation
and member engagement and are created and led by an OLLI member or staff.
OLLI READS co-hosted with the Ypsilanti District Library
Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our
Political Epidemic By Abdul El-Sayed
Moderated by: Dilip Das, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, UM
Day/Date: Monday, October 19 Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Location: Live Stream
Free and open to the public - no registration required
Zoom Link to join this programming: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91645713215
Audio only dial: 1-312-626-6799 Webinar ID: 91645713215
In Healing Politics Dr. El-Sayed draws on his experience as a physician, a public health official, and
an epidemiologist to diagnose the causes of our broken political system. As an advocate for social
justice, he moves beyond that and gives a prescription and a treatment plan.
OLLI DIALOG The Use of Medieval
Mythology in Current Political Culture and
Propaganda with Martin Shichtman
Day/Date: Tuesday, October 27 EMU Professor Shichtman studies the
Time: 10:00-11:30am ways by which medieval symbols have been embraced by
Cost: $10 political movements to represent uncorrupted purity.
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LECTURE PRICING
All 43 Tuesday, Thursday,
and Summer Lectures
$180
$180 Lecture Package
and OLLI Election 2020
Series $210
All TLS Package $140
TOTAL All DLS $55
Session 1 DLS $30
To find out more about classes and lectures: TLS #1 $35
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Any oversubscribed study groups and shared interest Questions:
groups will be subject to a lottery. 734-998-9351
See OLLI website and OLLI fall catalog for details. olli.info@umich.edu
Upcoming Lecture Series THE LASTING IMPACT OF COVID-19 This series is co-hosted by OLLI-UM and the UM Turner Senior Wellness Program We don’t know the progression of COVID-19, but we do know it will still be with us and impacting us for months and years ahead. This series will provide up-to-date information, as well as look ahead to our lives during and after COVID-19. Third Tuesday from September to December 10:00-11:30am Free – No registration needed All programs will be offered online. Health Perspectives on COVID-19 Tuesday, September 15 Preeti N. Malani, M.D., MSJ, Chief Health Officer and a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UM Joy Ensor, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist Jimena Loveluck, Health Officer, Washtenaw County Health Department Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Underserved Communities: Lessons Learned from Flint and Implications for Reducing Health Disparities Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic Tuesday, October 20 Debra Furr-Holden, Ph.D. Lawrence Reynolds, M.D. Pandemic Update: Vaccines, Testing and Treatments Tuesday, November 17 Dr. Emily Toth Martin Joy in the Time of COVID-19 Tuesday, December 15 Victor J. Strecher, Ph.D., MPH, UM Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education Upcoming afternoonS WITH OLLI EVENTS All programs will be offered online. Please note the new time for the fall. From Mobility to Accessibility: Transforming Urban Transportation and Land- Use Planning with Jonathan Levine Wednesday, September 18 3:30-5:00pm, $5 From Mobility to Accessibility flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance, arguing for an “accessibility shift” whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people’s ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast. Jonathan Levine is a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Fall Online Kickoff
AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 2, 10:00am-noon
Attend all or sessions of your choice!
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Free and open to the public at the University of Michigan
(no registration necessary) 2401 Plymouth Road
Suite C, Room 1163
More information at: Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2193
https://www.olli-umich.org/2020-all-things-
kickoff
Answers to questions about: Program Events,
New Member Q&A, Volunteer Opportunities,
and Catalog and Registration.
Check out the Art Show!
Wednesday, September 2, 10:00am-Noon
THE FUTURE OF MUSICAL ARTS POST-
PANDEMIC with MATTHEW VANBESIEN
While COVID-19 has created many challenges
for the performing and musical arts field, UMS is
pursuing opportunities to extend its reach and
impact in new directions.
Online registration: www.olli-umich.org
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734-998-9351 or olli.info@umich.edu
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