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Winter
2017
2022
Jan. 23 – March106
18–March
Innovative
Discover education
for yourself
for the 50+ learner
Courses, community, and
research for learners 50+
olli.berkeley.edu
olli.berkeley.edu
510.642.9934
Photos: (above, right) Keegan Houser; (below) Max Godino
Now within
Four courses
in-person
Lafayette!
andSee
remote
page 11.
offerings!
Who We Are Letter from the Director
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at
UC Berkeley is a dynamic learning community With the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, we will
for explorers age 50 and up. An OLLI @Berkeley have made our way through nearly two years of the
membership opens up a world of discovery: pandemic, more than a year of relative isolation, and then
smart, curated courses — with no exams or a fitful recovery.
grades — taught by Cal faculty and other scholars; The OLLI community has shown remarkable resilience,
opportunities to participate in pivotal research; and we have done our best to maintain momentum
and a year-round lineup of lectures, workshops, and creativity in our programs and courses despite the
discussion groups, clubs and activities. circumstances.
OLLI @Berkeley was established in 2007 with I am proud of our work together. We have all changed, adapted, and then adapted again.
generous support from the Bernard Osher As we look forward to next year, we anticipate more changes, including a wider return to
the live classroom. Some of the issues are simple: will traffic improve if confidence in public
Foundation and is one of more than 120 Osher
transit is restored? Some are more complex: if there are no new and worse variants, will we
Lifelong Learning Institutes in the country.
feel more comfortable being in a classroom?
Director: Susan Hoffman Even as we open up in-person courses, remote learning is here to stay. We are creating a
Curriculum Coordinator: Matt Shears flexible hybrid platform; you will have expanded choice and selections. The challenge is how
Marketing and Outreach Coordinator: to maintain both our live and online communities, and create a whole OLLI @Berkeley.
Nancy Murr
Writer Howard Rheingold defined virtual communities as “carrying on public discussions
Classroom and Facilities Coordinator:
long enough with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal relationships in
Max Godino cyberspace.” OLLI has done just that, and we will continue to do so even as we rebuild
Classroom Coordinators: our face-to-face community.
LaeCharles Lawrence, Jr., Rob Chew
Importantly, many of our courses this term will ask some fundamental questions about
Research Program Associate: Cheryl Brewster
America and our increasingly fractured world. How do we understand the concepts of
Contact Us “empire” and “the other,” whether it is the U.S., China, or India, or a sweeping look at
OLLI @Berkeley European art history, or even a declarative course on American opera?
UC Berkeley OLLI @Berkeley’s aim is to animate the world with new vision and understanding. We can
1995 University Avenue, Suite 365 promise you both in this winter term — whatever platform you choose.
Berkeley, CA 94704-1570
Website: olli.berkeley.edu May this be a year of positive memories and a welcome return to engaged learning!
Email: berkeley_olli@berkeley.edu Fiat Lux,
Susan Hoffman
Director
19 courses · Six in-person,
11 remote instruction, two encores
Winter registration opens October 11
Information at olli.berkeley.edu
OLLI @Berkeley Faculty Showcase
Friday, October 29, 1–2:30 p.m.
Hear directly from faculty about their winter courses. The Zoom link to
join will be available on our website and in digital communications.
II Visit olli.berkeley.edu/courses for syllabi and other information.
Photo: Max Godino
Information
Our large lecture courses will return to Freight Course Fees by Membership Tier
& Salvage (F&S) Coffeehouse on Tuesdays OLLI @Berkeley offers a range of dynamic courses, from large and lively lectures to smaller,
and Thursdays. F&S courses will also be hands-on workshops. Course fees are based on membership and course types.
livestreamed and recorded. OLLI members
who register for F&S courses may choose Single Term: Annual: Premium: Annual:
to attend in person, participate in the class All Access All Access All Access Encore Only
via livestream, and/or view a recording of
the class at a later date.
Lectures No additional
We will also reintroduce our small writing $155 $155 Unavailable
Price A cost
workshops as in-person courses. Writing
workshops will take place in room 41B in
University Hall and are neither livestreamed Workshops
$235 $235 $80 Unavailable
nor recorded. AlI in-person courses Price C
will run for six weeks, at 120 minutes
per session.
Encore No additional
$120 $120 $120
Should public health mandates or other Price D cost
circumstances prevent us from delivering an
in-person class session, that session will be
offered remotely instead. If we are unable to
Staying Healthy for eight consecutive weeks at 90 minutes
return to in-person courses, we will host the per session.
OLLI @Berkeley will follow all UC Berkeley,
courses remotely.
City of Berkeley, and venue-issued health
In-person Instruction: Courses run for
Membership Tiers mandates in order to safely provide
six consecutive weeks at 120 minutes
Membership is a prerequisite for programming. Updated information will be
per session. If we are unable to return to
participating in our learning community. provided on our website and in our digital
in-person courses, we will host the courses
Membership options are listed below. communications. This situation remains fluid
remotely, instead.
and subject to change.
Single Term: All Access Note: All courses total 12 instruction hours.
Benefits: Access to registration for all courses, Fee Assistance Program
events, and special program offerings. Fee assistance is available on a sliding scale if Zoom
Price: $50 costs present a barrier to your participation. Zoom is a video conferencing tool that you
To be considered, download an application will use to participate in livestream OLLI
Annual: All Access courses and special events. You must have
from olli.berkeley.edu/fee-assistance.
Benefits: Access to registration for all courses, a Zoom account to access courses and
events, and special program offerings for four Affiliate Discount events. Zoom links will be made available on
consecutive terms. Members of the following groups can receive
your member dashboard.
Price: $100 a $10 discount on Annual or Premium
OLLI memberships: Course Changes
Premium: All Access • Course schedules and faculty are subject
• Cal Alumni Association (CAA)
Benefits: Access to registration for all courses, to change. Please refer to our website
• Current faculty/staff at UC Berkeley,
events, and special program offerings for four for the most current listings.
LBNL, and UCOP
consecutive terms beginning winter 2022. .
Discounts do not apply to Encore Only • Courses can be dropped up to seven
Price: $950
memberships. Additional discounts cannot be days prior to the start of the term for
Annual: Encore Only applied to Fee Assistance memberships. a refund. Contact us at berkeley_olli@
Benefits: Access to encore courses berkeley.edu prior to the deadline to be
and events. Course Structure issued a refund.
Price: $25 Remote Instruction: Monday courses
and iPhoneography are remote instruction
courses that run for six weeks at 120 minutes
per session. All other remote courses run
OLLI @Berkeley 1
Calendar
MONDAYS TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS
1/24–3/7 1/18–2/22 1/19–3/9 1/20–2/24
(No class 1/17, 2/21)
10 a.m.–noon 10 a.m.–noon 9:30–11 a.m. 10 a.m.–noon
Race and European Art The Invention of Cooking with Winter Two Superpowers: China
Letha Ch’ien Tomorrow Produce and India
Livestream + Recorded Tamim Ansary Linda Carucci Darren Zook
Price A F&S, In Person Livestream + Recorded F&S, In Person
Livestream + Recorded Price A Livestream + Recorded
10 a.m.–noon Price A (Begins 1/27; ends 3/3)
Shored Against Our Ruin: 9:30–11 a.m. Price A
High Modernist Poetry 10 a.m.–noon Alvar Aalto: An Architect
Stephanie Wells Writing a Legacy Letter Designing in Nature 1–3 p.m.
Livestream Only Sara Orem Pierluigi Serraino The Kennedy Dynasty
Price A University Hall 41B, In Person Livestream + Recorded Mick Chantler
Price C Price C F&S, In Person
1–3 p.m. Livestream + Recorded
China’s Transitional 1–3 p.m. Noon–1:30 p.m. Price A
Economy: From Socialism I Hear America Singing: The Fab Four and the
to Global Capitalism… and Adventures in American Stones: How America 1–3 p.m.
Into the Unknown? Opera Surrendered to the Five Personal Pieces
Lanchih Po Clifford “Kip” Cranna Advance Guard of the Deborah Lichtman
Livestream + Recorded F&S, In Person British Invasion University Hall 41B, In Person
Price A Livestream Only Pete Elman Price C
Price A Livestream Only
1–3 p.m. Price A
Botanic Illustration in 1–3 p.m.
Colored Pencil iPhoneography Noon–1:30 p.m.
Jennifer Linderman Yoni Mayeri Human Impacts of Global
Livestream Only Livestream Only Climate Change
Price C (No class 1/25, 2/1; class will be Ken Verosub
held 3/1, 3/8) Livestream + Recorded
Price C Price A
2:30–4 p.m.
Global Lens: The
International
Documentary
Michael Fox
Livestream + Recorded
Price A
2:30–4 p.m.
Sustenance and Creative
Exploration in Chaotic
Times
Lauren Vanett
Livestream Only
Price C
2 Visit olli.berkeley.edu/courses for syllabi and other information.
Starts 1/24 (No class on 1/18 or 2/21) Monday
FRIDAYS
1/21–3/10
Special Events
(See p. 11)
TYPES OF COURSES
In-person lecture courses
(Tuesdays and Thursdays)
will take place at the Freight
& Salvage Coffeehouse
(2020 Addison St., Berkeley).
These courses will also be
livestreamed and recorded.
In-person workshops
(Writing a Legacy Letter
and Five Personal Pieces)
will take place in room 41B in
University Hall (2018 Oxford
St., Berkeley).
Livestream courses will
stream live at the scheduled Image: Copy of “Series of the Four Parts of the World. Asia” Luca Giordano, 1687–89
time and will not be recorded
for viewing later. Zoom links
are found on your member
dashboard. Monday courses are remote Where did these ideas come from? What can
instruction courses; sessions last we learn from art objects about the formation
Livestream + Recorded 120 minutes of race? And lastly, how do we think about
courses will stream live at the them now?
scheduled time and will be Race and European Art
recorded for viewing later. Letha Ch’ien Letha Ch’ien (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) is an assistant
Course videos will post on 10 a.m.–noon professor of art history at Sonoma State
the Friday following the live University. She has been a fellow at the Arizona
Livestream + Recorded
session of class and will remain Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at
available throughout the term. Price A
Arizona State University and the Townsend Center
How did European art create ideologies of race for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, in addition to
Encore courses are pre-
and racism over the centuries that produced being the recipient of Fulbright, Gladys Krieble
recorded courses that were
provided live in a previous some of the world’s most lauded art? We Delmas Foundation, and Mabelle McLeod Lewis
term. Course videos are posted consider the categories of “race” and “European fellowships. She has lectured internationally on
on the first day of the term. art” together, reflecting on how concepts in art visual art in early modern multi-ethnic societies.
Encore course listings can be have surprisingly long lives. As we reckon with She contributes regularly to the San Francisco
found on page 10. European art from antiquity, the Middle Ages, Chronicle.
Renaissance and the early modern period, we ask:
OLLI @Berkeley 3
Monday (cont.)
Shored Against Our Ruin: High Lanchih Po is associate adjunct professor
Modernist Poetry in global studies and the Department of East
Stephanie Wells Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley.
10 a.m.–noon She received her doctorate from the
Livestream Only Department of City and Regional Planning at
Price A UC Berkeley in 2001. Her research interests
encompass divergent developmental paths in
Modern poetry has been shaped by the
China’s transitional economies.
voices of a few giants whose innovations
redefined the way we understand the genre.
Botanic Illustration in
This class will examine what’s academically
Colored Pencil
referred to as “high modernism” in poetry,
Jennifer Linderman
focusing specifically on what constitutes
1–3 p.m.
modernism, against what sociohistorical
Livestream Only
events and artistic traditions is it reacting,
Price C
and how it fits into the larger literary
tradition of western English-language poetry. Botanic illustration boasts a rich history of
We’ll read works from T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, detail-oriented renderings of plants, flowers,
W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings, fruits and vegetables...and this class is no
William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. different! We will learn how to closely study
our live subjects utilizing methods deeply
Stephanie Wells has a B.A. from Berkeley,
seeded in the traditions of this very beautiful
an M.A. from the University of Virginia,
art form. Colored pencil will be used to
and a Ph.D. from UC Davis with a focus on
render our subjects, using techniques such as
modernism and postmodernism in American
color matching, layering, blending, and adding
and British novels and poetry. She has been
texture. Botanic illustration is a wonderful
a literature professor for over 20 years and
way to get back to nature and rediscover the
currently teaches at the College of Marin.
beauty of planet Earth!
China’s Transitional Economy: Jennifer Linderman is a self-taught artist
From Socialism to Global with a passion for teaching art to all ages.
Capitalism…and Into the She is a mixed-media artist working mainly in
Unknown? colored pencil, markers, and ink. Her favorite
Lanchih Po subjects to draw/paint are animals, people,
1–3 p.m. and botanic subjects. Her work is known for
Livestream + Recorded using bright, saturated, and bold colors along
Price A with fun and contemporary patterns.
This course offers a comprehensive overview
of China’s political economy in the wake of
its economic reforms since the late 1970s.
We will discuss how a market economy
gradually emerged from a command
economy, the dramatic processes of
industrialization and urbanization, China’s
integration with the global market, and how
Xi Jinping is trying to remake the Chinese
economy.
Photo: Li Yang
4 Visit olli.berkeley.edu/courses for syllabi and other information.
Starts 1/18 Tuesday
The Invention of Tomorrow patients and families to express forgiveness, iPhoneography
Tamim Ansary thanks, and love. You will write the foundation Yoni Mayeri
10 a.m.–noon of a legacy letter in this class, with help from 1–3 p.m.
In Person at F&S Stanford legacy letter worksheets and other Livestream Only
Livestream + Recorded resources. No writing experience is required. (No class 1/25, 2/1; class will be held 3/1, 3/8)
Price A Price C
Sara Orem has published three nonfiction
History tells the story that brought us here. books and writes weekly with two local Learn how to expertly capture images,
The Invention of Tomorrow addresses the groups. Her writing has appeared in edit, and create extraordinary photographs
story that might unfold going forward from Minneapolis-area news outlets, the San using solely your iPhone. Gain inspiration to
here over the next 50 years. Based on what we Francisco Chronicle, and The Greater Good find your creative vision and expand your
are doing now, what does the future hold for Magazine (published by the Greater Good technical knowledge. By the end of this
our environment? Where is geopolitics headed Science Center at UC Berkeley). She has workshop, you will understand the ins and
— is China on the rise, and is the West in created legacy letters for her three daughters outs of iPhone photography. Presentations
decline? What will become of the nation-state and her beloved grandson. will cover photography techniques and tips
in the age of cyberspace? How will AI, robotics, for shooting, exposing, and processing using
and genetic engineering change what “human” I Hear America Singing: your iPhone; a review of all the features built
means? What is the future of parenting, family, Adventures in American Opera into the camera for shooting and Photos app
gender, and selfhood? Finally, what epic story Clifford “Kip” Cranna for editing and organizing your images; and
might we craft to give our species as a whole 1–3 p.m. live demos of third-party apps for editing,
the sense of shared peoplehood we will need In Person at F&S special effects, and image manipulations
to deal with the global crisis we are facing as a Livestream + Recorded that will take your photographs from so-so
global human “we”? Price A to wow. We will review saving, printing,
accessories for the iPhone, and ways to share
Tamim Ansary writes about history, culture, Take a journey through the multifarious
your photography.
and identity. His books include Destiny world of American opera, exploring the
Disrupted, A History of the World Through groundbreaking, distinctly American work Yoni Mayeri is a professional photographer
Islamic Eyes, and Games Without Rules, a of composers like John Philip Sousa, Scott who began her career at Polaroid and
history of Afghanistan. His latest book, The Joplin, George Gershwin, and Virgil Thomson; Nikon, and had studios in San Francisco and
Invention of Yesterday, explores world history masterful mid-century operas by Gian Carlo Berkeley. Her iPhoneography workshops
as an interaction among global narratives. Menotti, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, have been presented at UC Berkeley,
Aaron Copland, and Carlisle Floyd; repertoire- Stanford University, Saint Mary’s College,
Writing a Legacy Letter enriching works by Stewart Wallace, Mark Rancho La Puerta, the Pacific Art League,
Sara Orem Adamo, and André Previn, and more. The fertile Stanford Research Park, Google, the Garden
10 a.m.–noon fields of American opera beckon us to new Club of America, and elsewhere.
University Hall 41B, In Person Only discoveries, and you are invited to join in the
Price C journey of ground-breaking masterworks from
the early 20th century through our own time.
The last third of our lives is the perfect time
to conceive a legacy letter that evokes the Kip Cranna, Dramaturg Emeritus of San
meaning of our lives and those we love. “It is a Francisco Opera, served on the staff for 40
non-legal document that passes on important years. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from
information to our loved ones,” writes Beth Stanford. Kip has taught at OLLI @Berkeley
LaMie in the book Legacy Letters From Your since 2018 and also teaches at several other
Heart. Also called an ethical will, the legacy Bay Area institutions, including the Fromm
letter began as a Jewish practice over 3,000 Institute at USF. In 2008, he was awarded the
years ago. More recently, Stanford geriatrician San Francisco Opera Medal, the company’s
VJ Periyakoil started a writing tradition with her highest honor.
OLLI @Berkeley 5
Wednesday Starts 1/19
Cooking with Winter Produce architecture, and his work and writing have Human Impacts of Global
Linda Carucci been published in professional and scholarly Climate Change
9:30–11 a.m. journals. Ken Verosub
Livestream + Recorded 12–1:30 p.m.
Price A The Fab Four and the Stones: Livestream + Recorded
How America Surrendered Price A
The Bay Area’s winter harvest brings us fruits
to the Advance Guard of the
and vegetables imbued with magnificent Has media coverage of climate change got
British Invasion
color, flavor, and nutrients. Each week, we’ll you confused? This eight-session course
Pete Elman
Zoom into the home kitchen of Oakland will look at each aspect of global climate
Noon–1:30 p.m.
culinary educator Linda Carucci and watch change (including global warming, sea-
Livestream Only
her prepare both savory and sweet recipes level rise, drought, flooding, and extreme
Price A
that feature the best of the season’s produce. weather) using straightforward language
Please note: These are demonstration (not In 1964, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones — no sophisticated mathematical formulas,
“cook-along”) classes. Downloadable recipes came, saw, and conquered. They took our no fancy theoretical models, no impractical
will be provided each week. original art form, rock and roll, and shoved it policy proposals, no magic bullets. Just
back in our faces, showing us how it could — plain talk. For each topic, we will look at the
Linda Carucci is a former California
and should — be done, and making history underlying causes, current observations
Culinary Academy dean and granddaughter
and untold millions while doing it. This and trends, future expectations, and
of an Italian cheesemaker. She is the author
course will examine how American blues, realistic mitigation methods. By the end of
of Cooking School Secrets for Real World
rock and roll, rockabilly, and R&B served as this course, you should be better able to
Cooks, a finalist for James Beard and Julia
the musical launching pad for arguably the understand global climate change and to
Child First Book awards. She’s excited to
two greatest bands of all time. The course follow its evolution into the next decade.
share her craft with you.
will examine eight phases in the history of
Ken Verosub is distinguished professor
each band. Although the Rolling Stones have
Alvar Aalto: An Architect been together since 1962, our class will only
emeritus in the Department of Earth and
Designing in Nature look at that period when both bands were
Planetary Sciences at UC Davis. His interests
Pierluigi Serraino range from understanding the Earth’s
active, from 1962 to 1970. We will take a look
9:30–11 a.m. magnetic field to deciphering the Earth’s
at why one band lasted seven years — but
Livestream + Recorded climate. At present, he is studying the
their music will last forever — while the other
Price A interface between geologic processes and
band has lasted nearly 60 years.
human activity.
The seminal work of Finnish master Alvar
Pete Elman is a musician, producer, teacher,
Aalto (1898-1976) has a profound and lasting
writer, and author of a new book on unsung Global Lens: The International
effect in architecture and product design.
minority sports heroes, In the Shadow of Documentary
This course delves into the principles feeding
Obscurity. He has taught many OLLI classes, Michael Fox
the conception of numerous landmarks
such as A Rock ’n’ Roll Road Trip, Country 2:30–4 p.m.
that are rooted in their sites and time while
Music, Folk, Motown, Bruce Springsteen, Van Livestream + Recorded
embodying universal ideas. His relationship
Morrison, It’s All About the Song, Memphis Price A
with Northern California architects and the
Soul, Great Voices, and, most recently, Let
North American scene will be examined for The view from abroad, courtesy of foreign
it Rock.
its influence in the development of design filmmakers speaking primarily to viewers in
culture in the United States. their own countries, is refreshing, revealing,
and occasionally jarring. This course’s
Pierluigi Serraino is a practicing architect,
lineup of films encompasses a range of
author, and educator. He holds multiple
documentary approaches and techniques,
professional and research degrees in
with each film — most of which haven’t
architecture from Italy and the United
screened in the U.S. — followed by a
States. He is the author of eight books on
6 Visit olli.berkeley.edu/courses for syllabi and other information.
Starts 1/20 Thursday
discussion of its goals, strategies, aesthetics, China and India: A Tale of Two White House. In addition to their political
and ethics. We will examine central aspects Superpowers impact, the Kennedys became cultural icons,
of nonfiction filmmaking including the Darren Zook spawning fashion trends, and epitomizing a
representation of reality, the properties 10 a.m.–noon certain brand of American “cool.” Whether
of storytelling, and the interplay between In Person at F&S one admired the Kennedys or hated them,
advocacy and art. Livestream + Recorded no one can deny their lasting significance. In
(Begins 1/27; ends 3/3) this course, we will examine the personal lives
Michael Fox is a film journalist and critic for
Price A and careers of these remarkable figures.
KQED Arts, among other outlets. A member
of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics China and India have long aspired to Mick Chantler has been a student of
Circle and inductee in the San Francisco superpower status, not just within Asia but American history for over 50 years. His
Film Society’s Essential SF, he has taught on a global scale as well, and yet the two primary interests include the Revolutionary
documentary classes at the OLLI programs countries could not be more different in War period and the Civil War/Reconstruction
at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State for both their path to get there and their vision era. Mick teaches at a number of Bay Area
15 years. of what to do once they have arrived. This Osher programs, including UC Berkeley,
course will examine both countries in great Sonoma State, Dominican University, and the
Sustenance and Creative detail — not just in terms of geopolitics but University of Santa Clara.
Exploration in Chaotic Times also in terms of cultural, social, and economic
Lauren Vanett change — both on their own terms and Five Personal Pieces:
2:30–4 p.m. in comparative perspective. What does Experimenting with
Livestream Only their rise mean for the rest of Asia? For the Autobiography
Price C United States? And will this continue to be a Deborah Lichtman
superpower rivalry, or is there any prospect 1–3 p.m.
Since the pandemic, we’ve all had to grapple
of cooperation and collaboration between University Hall 41B, In Person Only
with many unknowns and still function in
the two? We’ll answer those questions and Price C
the best possible way. In this interactive,
so much more as we explore both of these
experiential, and supportive class, you’ll look This course will give you the tools to identify
dynamic and fascinating countries.
back at what you’ve done for sustenance and dramatize important memories. You’ll
so far and move forward by creating Darren Zook teaches global studies and practice literary techniques that we study in
something new for yourself — a practice, political science at UC Berkeley, where he has published works. You’ll write in class, share
an experience, or a project (something been a faculty member for 19 years. your work with others, and submit some
concrete). We’ll use guided meditations pages, if you choose, for the instructor’s
and other techniques along with principles The Kennedy Dynasty feedback. Your life story will emerge in
of creativity and evidence-based strategies Mick Chantler sketches of character and setting, action
from positive psychology, neuroscience, and 1–3 p.m. and dialogue, sensory description and
mindfulness to help us gain more flexibility, In Person at F&S retrospective reflection, in a portfolio of five
choice, and ease with the challenges of living Livestream + Recorded personal pieces, each with a different focus.
in chaotic times. Price A
Deborah Lichtman has taught literature
Lauren Vanett, an educator for 40 America has had a number of prominent and writing for 30 years. She directed the
years and an OLLI instructor since 2010, family political dynasties — the Adamses, MFA in Writing Program at the University of
teaches hands-on courses utilizing positive the Roosevelts, and the Bushes immediately San Francisco and was visiting professor at
psychology, creativity, neuroscience, come to mind. But no family was more Mills College and UC Berkeley. She holds a
mindfulness, and the wisdom of grief. influential, or glamorous, over a prolonged doctorate in English from UC Berkeley. This is
Now retired, she spent most of her career stretch of time than Joseph Kennedy and his her 10th year of teaching at OLLI @Berkeley.
creating programs for the community at San progeny. For over seven decades, a Kennedy
Francisco State University. served in the diplomatic corps, in the halls
of Congress and the Senate, and in the
OLLI @Berkeley 7
Friday Starts 1/28
Photo: Original black and white, Marion S. Trikosko, 1963. Colorized, Jordan J. Lloyd, Library of Congress.
Friday Special January 28
TOWN HALL
February 18
AMERICA’S UNFINISHED WORK
Events Understanding Others: Charting
a Better Path to Diversity and
Voter Suppression
Abdi Soltani, Executive Director, ACLU of
Friday Special Events are traditional speaker Social Justice Northern California
series events and are open to the public. Facilitated by Darren Zook
Specially focused speaker series events
February 25
include “America’s Unfinished Work,” an
February 4 AMERICA’S UNFINISHED WORK
ongoing investigation of race in America,
AMERICA’S UNFINISHED WORK Bans on Inclusive Education
and Town Halls, featuring panel discussions
Defund Fear: Safety Without and How to Fight Them: A
that address a central theme. Friday Special
Policing, Prisons, and First Amendment Litigator’s
Events take place from 10:30–11:30 a.m.,
Punishment Perspective
unless otherwise noted. Zoom links to public
Zach Norris, Executive Director, Ella Baker Emerson J. Sykes, Senior Staff Attorney,
events will appear on the events calendar on
Center for Human Rights Speech, Privacy and Technology Project,
our website (olli.berkeley.edu/programs/
ACLU
events) and will be made available in our
digital communications. February 11
BioInspired Design: Compressed
Cockroaches, Gliding Geckos,
and Smart Squirrels
Robert Full, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
8 Visit olli.berkeley.edu/courses for syllabi and other information.Encore Courses
Encore Courses Ensuing lectures will consider and evaluate
his foreign and domestic policies over the
separation of church and state to the
Vatican’s complete synthesis of the Catholic
Encore courses are previously recorded past 20 years. church and state, or from Indonesia’s
courses that were well-received by the Muslim-majority secular democracy to the
George Breslauer has been a UC Berkeley
membership during their live run. Encore Islamic Republic of Iran, there is a seemingly
professor since 1971. He is the author or
course videos will be made available on the endless array of ideas and examples of how
editor of 13 books on the USSR, post-Soviet
first day of the term (Tuesday, January 18) to relate religion and politics. Where does
Russia, and the evolution of communism
and will remain available throughout the the relationship work best? Where does it fall
around the world. A Distinguished Teaching
duration of the term. Encore courses include apart and even lead to violent conflict? Using
Award recipient, Breslauer is also a fellow of
one live conversation with the instructor. examples from around the world and a broad
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
selection of world religions, this course will
programs, including those at Sonoma
try to answer the eternally vexing question
Putin’s Russia State University, Dominican University, and
of when, if ever, politics and religion can fit
George Breslauer UC Berkeley.
together.
Live Conversation: Friday, March 4, 11 a.m.–
noon Faith in Politics Darren Zook teaches global studies and
Price D Darren Zook political science at UC Berkeley, where he has
Live Conversation: Friday, March 4, 10–11 a.m. been a faculty member for 19 years.
This course will examine the entirety of
Vladimir Putin’s leadership. We will begin by Price D
examining the inheritance bequeathed to What role, if any, should religion play in
Putin by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. politics? From the French system of the
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