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Winter
2020
Jan. 21 – March 9
Innovative education
for the 50+ learner
olli.berkeley.edu
510.642.9934
New!
Four courses
Online only in
Lafayette!
memberships
and courses.
See page 11.
Photo: Max Godino See page 10.
Who we are Letter from the Director
OLLI @Berkeley is an educational program for
lifelong learners age 50 and up who are eager to 2020 will be a pivotal year on many fronts — for
explore traditional and new areas of knowledge our country, for our communities, and for all of us
— without exams or grades. Classes are taught by at OLLI @Berkeley.
distinguished UC Berkeley faculty members and
other Bay Area experts. Membership is required to First, we have some exciting news to share with you.
participate in the full range of offerings. OLLI, along with two UC partners, has just been
awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation
OLLI @Berkeley is one of 122 Osher Lifelong (NSF). This is a huge deal! Our approved proposal seeks
Learning Institutes nationwide. It is supported to understand how and why older adults participate in
by UC Berkeley, OLLI members, and donors STEM learning experiences and to develop, pilot, and
who match the Bernard Osher Foundation’s assess measures of engagement and outcomes in those who do. OLLI members will
contribution to OLLI. have a chance to participate in the research. Stay tuned!
Director: Susan Hoffman Meanwhile, we have another enticing roster of courses and lectures on tap for our
Business and Operations Manager: Lisa Hardy winter term. Given the highly political year ahead — and the need to make sense of
Curriculum Coordinator: Matt Shears what’s happening — be sure to consider the exploration of whether voters of color
Marketing and Outreach Coordinator: Nancy Murr will make a difference in 2020, or ways to critique and understand foreign policy,
Classroom and Facilities Coordinator: military strategy and defense spending, and a new intergenerational dialogue on
Max Godino financing higher education and student debt.
Classroom Coordinators:
LaeCharles Lawrence, Jr., Rob Chew In the mood for deeper global awareness and cross-cultural understanding? Journey
Research Program Associate: Cheryl Brewster over to our courses on China, the Nordic lands and Russian culture or on films and
filmmakers that expand and challenge our perspectives.
Contact Us
Add in an array of offerings showcasing music (jazz piano, Verdi’s operas, Baroque)
OLLI @Berkeley
and science (nature and infectious diseases), and what you’ll learn with OLLI are new
UC Berkeley
ways to hear and experience the world.
1925 Walnut St. #1570
Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 Here’s to a new year and exciting discoveries inside and outside the classroom!
Phone: 510.642.9934
Susan Hoffman
E-mail: berkeley_olli@berkeley.edu
Director
Website: olli.berkeley.edu
33 courses in two great locations
Winter registration opens October 14
Info: 510.642.9934 or olli.berkeley.edu
Berkeley Lafayette
Info Session Info Session
Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020 Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020
10 a.m.–noon (doors open at 1:30–3 p.m. (doors open at 1 p.m.)
9:30 a.m.) Lafayette Library and Learning Center
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette
2020 Addison St., Berkeley
II Visit olli.berkeley.edu/courses for syllabi and other information.
Photo: Max Godino
Starts 1/27 (No class 1/20, 2/17) Monday
Photo: Jason Rosewell
Joy of Singing Modern China in Global Context Approaches to Nature,
Lauren Carley Lanchih Po Landscape, and Gardens
10 a.m.–noon, UH 150 10 a.m.–noon, CJC Achva Benzinberg-Stein
(Five weeks; begins 2/3) Price A 10 a.m.–noon, UH 41B
Price A Price B
This course emphasizes China’s national
Prepare your body, brain, and voice to sing history as a part of the global process Our assumptions about nature, landscape
with ease, expressiveness, and projection. from the 19th century to the present. and gardens have consequences that affect
Learn four traditional rounds and five-part Particular attention will be paid to China’s the health of our physical environment and
songs by ear, plus choral skills such as links to transnational migration, trade, contribute to the decline of ecosystems.
legato, staccato, fermata, ritard, timbre, and and investment throughout the history Design forms seen in landscapes and gardens
head and chest voice. More experienced of Western colonization, the Pacific War reflect our attitudes regarding the exploitation
participants may sing in trios or anchor their and the Cold War, and socialism and post- of natural resources and the socio-economic
sections. We will perform for invited guests socialism. China has experienced complex systems of the societies inhabiting the land. By
during the last class. Open to all levels. metamorphoses in both its internal reframing the way in which we observe what
economy and governance, as well as with its we see, we can infuse more coherent and
Lauren Carley, mezzo, tours and records
relations within the region and the world. appropriate meanings into the actions we take
with her vocal ensembles In Other Words
working on and with the land.
and Polyhymnia. She is a natural voice Lanchih Po is associate adjunct professor
practitioner with a lifetime in pedagogy, Orff, in International and Area Studies and the Prof. Emerita Achva Benzinberg Stein is a
theater, mime, Alexander, and Feldenkrais. Department of East Asian Languages Fellow of the American Society of Landscape
She specializes in singing as a healing and Cultures at UC Berkeley. Her Architects and Distinguished Alumna of the UC
pathway for those with neurological trauma research interests encompass divergent Berkeley CED. She has taught and practiced in
and diseases. developmental paths in China’s transitional the US and abroad for non-profit organizations
economies and the socio-economic and governmental agencies. She currently
transformations associated with China’s teaches in the CED and continues her practice.
(sub)urbanization process.
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Monday cont’d
Toni Morrison, American When Italy Meets America History of San Francisco Bay
Treasure Margherita Ghetti Area Buildings
Stephanie Wells 1–3 p.m., CJC Linda Day
1–3 p.m., UH 150 Price A 1–3 p.m., UH 41B
Price A Price B
At the turn of the 20th century, Italian
Toni Morrison was one of our greatest people came in waves to North American The course is divided into three periods and
novelists. Her treatments of race, gender, shores, carrying along their families, goods, examines commercial and industrial buildings
and above all, humanity and love in America, and language. Cinema lent itself to the as well as residential buildings: 1846-1906,
were matched only by her ability to craft a representation of this encounter: exploring The Age of Mineral Extraction; 1906-1946,
sentence stunning enough to knock you to the imagery of the “American Dream” as well The San Francisco Earthquake to World
the ground. This course will focus on a small as challenging it. This course will also give War II; 1947-present: Skyscrapers and Track
selection of Morrison’s most important us a chance to investigate the stereotype Homes. We will examine the materials used
novels, as well as some of her critical of Italian-Americans as gangsters, tracing a in each of these periods, the buildings that
writings. historical arc up to big, award-winning Italian arose from them and the cultural shifts they
films packaged for the viewing pleasure of reflected and reinforced.
Stephanie Wells has a B.A. from Berkeley,
U.S. audiences.
an M.A. from University of Virginia, and Dr. Linda L. Day is an emeritus professor
a Ph.D. from UC Davis, with a focus on Margherita Ghetti holds a PhD in Italian of City and Regional Planning, Cal Poly, San
modernism and postmodernism in American Studies from UC Berkeley, where she wrote Luis Obispo, California; an author who writes
and British novels and poetry. She has been and taught about Hollywood and North about home, neighborhood, and city design;
a literature professor for over 20 years and American consumer goods, movie stars, and and a practicing planner with experience in
teaches at College of Marin. cultural models in Italian cinema. She has the public and private sectors. Dr. Day has an
worked as a film curatorial intern at BAMPFA, M. Arch. and a Ph.D. in Urban Policy.
and is a world cinema programming
researcher for the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Photo :Palace of Fine Arts by Yin-Yin-Low on Unsplash.com-
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Starts 1/21 Tuesday
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The Nordic Lands: Politics, Infectious Diseases in the News Building a Great Memoir
Society, and Culture Deborah Gold Louise Nayer
Darren Zook 10 a.m.–noon, UH 41B 10 a.m.–noon, UH 41C
10 a.m.–noon., F&S Price B Price C
Price A
In this course we will consider infectious Uncover potent moments from your past
The Nordic lands have always followed diseases that made history, those that are through the basic elements of memoir:
something of a separate path from the currently in the public eye, or both. We will sensory detail, scene versus summary,
rest of Europe, but aside from a few discuss the plague, then and now; influenza dialogue, time shifts, tension, and voice. Read
general reference points — the Vikings, from 1918 to recent strains; foodborne great memoirists to get started. Do in-class
Abba, and the much-vaunted but largely and healthcare related infections; and the exercises and work with peers. Hand in weekly
misunderstood “Nordic model” welfare resurgence of childhood related illnesses and pages for comprehensive instructor feedback.
state — much of what makes the Nordic the anti-vaccine movement. Leave the class with a body of writing.
lands what they are remains largely unknown.
Deborah Gold practiced in the field of Louise Nayer M.F.A., has been a professor
This course will explore what links all of the
infectious diseases for 31 years in a teaching of English and creative writing for over 30
Nordic lands — Finland, Norway, Sweden,
hospital and treated a broad range of years. Her book Burned: A Memoir won the
Iceland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and
infectious diseases including tuberculosis, 2011 Wisconsin Library Association Award
Greenland — and what makes each its own
HIV/AIDS, malaria, and infections involving and was an Oprah Magazine “Good Read.”
unique thing.
bones and heart valves. She has given over Her newest book is Poised for Retirement:
Darren Zook has taught for 15 years at UC thirty medical center grand rounds on From Anxiety to Zen. She is a member of the
Berkeley and has been recognized numerous topics such as Zika, Ebola, SARS, pandemic San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
times for his contributions to education on influenza, and penicillin allergy.
campus. He teaches courses on comparative
politics, security studies, human rights, and
conflict resolution; and has extensive field
experience in nearly every part of the world,
including two trips to North Korea.
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Tuesday cont’d
Viva Verdi! Opera and the Birth Plants, People, and Culture The Genocide in California’s
of Modern Italy Deepa Natarajan Closet
Kip Cranna 1–3 p.m., Magnes Robert McNally
1–3 p.m., F&S Price A 1–3 p.m., UH 41B
(No class 2/11; final class 3/3) Price B
Humans have utilized plants over millennia
PriCe A
for food, fiber, shelter, medicine, art, ritual, Most Californians are unaware that their
The leading artist of Italy’s reunification in scent, dyes, and more. Explore ethnobotany, state sponsored and funded a campaign to
the 19th Century was the great composer the study of the complex relationships exterminate the Indigenous population — a
Giuseppe Verdi. His operas brought to between people and plants, as we journey mass atrocity known under contemporary
the stage the values and issues of the around the world looking at biocultural international law as genocide. This course
“Risorgimento,” giving vivid creative diversity and the ways in which people explores what happened in California
expression to the ideals of his time. His use plants in their daily lives and how this between 1846 and 1900 and looks at how
stirring and melodious music provided impacts current issues of conservation and a democracy orchestrated a crime typically
a common bond for peoples divided transnational identity. We will also tour the associated with dictatorship. It also connects
by political boundaries, customs, and UC Botanical Garden, which has a globally California’s story with the larger United
his personal life became symbolic of an diverse collection of over 10,000 plants. States narrative of conquest, and considers
emerging nation’s vital spirit. the effects upon California society, culture,
Deepa Natarajan has coordinated the
and politics today.
Dr. Clifford “Kip” Cranna, dramaturg UC Botanical Garden’s public education
emritus at San Francisco Opera, was programs for 13 years, having the unique Robert Aquinas McNally is the author of
awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal, the opportunity to transform her love of plants The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the
company’s highest honor. He lectures and into a year-round series of classes focusing Dawn of America’s Gilded Age, which won a
writes frequently on music and teaches at the on horticulture, botany, art, and her primary 2018 gold medal from the Commonwealth
San Francisco Conservatory and the Fromm passion of ethnobotany. She holds a B.A. Club as the year’s best book on California.
Institute. He was dramaturg for the Kennedy in medical anthropology and an M.S. in His work has appeared in “California History,”
Center’s 2016 production of Wagner’s Ring. ethnobotany. “Indian Country Today,” “Wild West,” and
elsewhere.
Photo: Laura Grace Bordeaux UC Botanical Garden
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Starts 1/22 Wednesday
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What Economists Know About The Silver Age of Russian The Germans in France in World
Important Policy Issues Culture War II: Occupation and Memory
John Haveman Elena Sheygal-Placzek Bert Gordon
10 a.m.–noon, F&S 10 a.m.–noon, CJC 10 a.m.–noon, UH 150
Price A Price A Price A
Economics plays a central role in the Russian culture at the turn of the 20th We examine France’s path from victory in
functioning of every aspect of society, century was in a dynamic period of World War I through defeat and occupation
and is expressed through the actions of experimentation and outstanding discoveries by Nazi Germany in 1940, followed by the
governments at all levels. This course will in the visual, literary, and performing arts. establishment of an authoritarian regime
address a set of prominent policy issues The Silver Age produced a galaxy of brilliant under World War I hero Marshal Philippe
in which economics is at the core, their artistic talents: explore the poetry of Blok Pétain in the spa town of Vichy. We will
origins as policy matters, underlying data and Akhmatova; the music of Stravinsky and address the experiences of collaborators and
and evidence, and policy levers. The focus Scriabin; the paintings of Bakst and Malevich; resistors, as well as Jews and others targeted
will be on what the economics profession Diaghilev’s “Ballets Russes” enterprise. We will by the Germans and their French supporters.
collectively understands to be true about also discuss how the Bolshevik revolution of Finally, we will turn to the Liberation, its
the issue, not specific policy solutions. 1917 impacted the arts and the lives of writers, aftermath and postwar purges, and consider
musicians, and artists. how the Occupation has been remembered in
John Haveman is the executive director of
France and elsewhere.
the National Economic Education Delegation Elena Sheygal-Placzek is a retired
(NEED). NEED is an organization with a professor of the Volgograd University, Russia, Bert Gordon is a professor emeritus of
mission of spreading economic insights into and has a Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology. history at Mills College. He has taught courses
important policy issues throughout the She has taught courses in cross-cultural on German and Central European history.
electorate. He holds a Ph.D. in economics communication to Russian and American He had a Fulbright fellowship to Vienna and
from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in students and is the author of the English- his Ph.D. thesis, “Catholic Social Thought
economics from the University of Wisconsin. Russian Dictionary of U.S. Life and Culture. in Austria, 1815-1848,” received Honorable
She served as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley Mention for the 1969 Austrian History Award
in 2006. from the Austrian Institute in New York.
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Calendar
MONDAYS TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS
1/27 – 3/9 1/21 – 2/25 1/22 – 2/26 1/23 – 2/27
(no class 1/20, 2/17)
10 a.m.–noon, UH 150 10 a.m.–noon, F&S 10 a.m.–noon, F&S 10 a.m.–noon, F&S
Joy of Singing The Nordic Lands What Economists Know Van Morrison
Lauren Carley Darren Zook John Haveman Pete Elman
10 a.m.–noon, CJC 10 a.m.–noon, LLCH 10 a.m.–noon, CJC 10 a.m.–noon, LLCH
China in Global Context Baroque Music Silver Age of Russian Film Through the Eyes of
Lanchih Po Stephen Schultz Culture Immigrants
Elena Sheygal-Placzek Joe Lurie
10 a.m.–noon, UH 41B 10 a.m.–noon, UH 41B
Nature, Landscape, and Infectious Diseases 10 a.m.–noon, UH 150 10 a.m.–noon, UH 41B
Garden Deborah Gold Occupation and Memory Local Government
Achva Stein Bert Gordon Daren Fields
10 a.m.–noon, UH 41C
1–3 p.m., UH 150 Building a Great Memoir 10 a.m.–noon, UH 41B 1–3 p.m., F&S
Toni Morrison Louise Nayer Nuclear Arms Control Jazz Piano Trio, Part 2
Stephanie Wells Paul Rockett Jeff Denson
10 a.m.–noon, LLOR
1–3 p.m., CJC iPhoneography 10 a.m.–noon, UH 41C 1–3 p.m., Magnes
Italy Meets America Yoni Mayeri My Life is a Poem Voters of Color
Margherita Ghetti Devorah Major Alex Saragoza
1–3 p.m., F&S
1–3 p.m., UH 41B Viva Verdi 2–4 p.m., F&S 1–3 p.m., LLCH
San Francisco Bay Kip Cranna Bay Area Docs Use and Misuse of the
Area Buildings (No class 2/11; final class 3/3) Michael Fox Military
Linda Day Michael Baker
1–3 p.m., Magnes 2–4 p.m., UH 150
Plants, People, and Shakespeare 1–3 p.m., UH 41B
Culture Michael Moran Bay Area Short Story
Deepa Natarajan Writers
2–4 p.m., UH 41B Hilary Roberts
1–3 p.m., LLCH Gender Spectrum
Country Rock Erica Anderson 1–3 p.m., UH41C
Pete Elman (Begins 1/29; final class 3/4) Identity through Writing
Anita Amirrezvani
1–3 p.m., UH 41B
California Genocide
Robert McNally 12:30–1:30 p.m., F&S
Speaker Series
1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19
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FRIDAYS
1/24 – 2/28
Wednesday Lunchtime Speaker Series
12:30-1:30 p.m., F&S (2020 Addison St.)
(Online)
What Economists Know
January 29 February 5
John Haveman
Student Debt and the Financing The New Global Politics of Waste
of Higher Education Kate O’Neill, Professor in the Department of
(Online) Jane Wellman, Consultant in Higher Ed Environmental Science, Policy and Management
The Nordic Lands Financing, and Brian Murphy, Center for the at UC Berkeley
Darren Zook Study of Higher Education, UC Berkeley
February 19
10 a.m.–noon, BAS February 12 The Surviving Communist Regimes:
Drawing Fundamentals The Seven Percent Solution: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba
Danny Neece Costing and Financing Universal George Breslauer, Professor of Political Science,
Health Coverage in California and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
1–3 p.m., BAS Richard M. Scheffler, Professor of the Graduate emeritus, UC Berkeley
Digital Photography School at the School of Public Health and the
Instructor TBD Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley.
LOCATION KEY
BAS
UC Berkeley Art Studio
UC Campus Words Over Time: An Intergenerational Dialog Event about Educational
Funding and Student Debt
BCC Facilitated by Darren Zook
Berkeley City College
Friday, February 7, 2020: 1–2:30 PM
2050 Center St., Berkeley
Freight and Salvage
CJC $15 per OLLI member (no discounts available)
California Jazz Conservatory Payment will be collected at the door; credit cards not accepted
2040 Addison St., Berkeley Limited to 60 OLLI members
F&S RSVP by sending an email to to berkeley_olli@berkeley.edu
Freight and Salvage
We rarely think of diversity in chronological terms, yet the phenomenon known as ageism involves
2020 Addison St., Berkeley
stereotypes and misunderstandings that affect young and older adults. Words Over Time: An
LLCH Intergenerational Dialogue seeks to address ageism through a dialogue between OLLI members and
Lafayette Library Community Hall UC Berkeley undergraduates.
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd., Lafayette
Facilitated by Darren Zook, the dialogue will bring multiple generations together to discuss the
LLOR
critical topic of educational funding and student debt. With the dramatic increase in the cost
Lafayette Library Oak Room
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd., Lafayette of attending college in the last three decades, student loan debt has been assumed by not only
younger adult students but also their parents and grandparents, burdening borrowers of all ages
Magnes and threatening the financial security of millions of families. This makes it a perfect topic for
Magnes Collection intergenerational dialogue. This event offers a platform to initiate civil, reflective, and meaningful
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
conversation across the chronological divide and across the social and political landscape.
UH
University Hall
2199 Addison St., Berkeley
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Wednesday cont’d
The End of Nuclear Arms meets ocean, and with more than tongue. of our own nature. After Hamlet, we will
Control Her most recent is and then we became. focus on Othello and Macbeth in the same
Paul Rockett She has taught at OLLI, California College of fashion - unearthing the paradoxes of the
10 a.m.–noon, UH 41B the Arts, and New College. human condition that continue to play out
Price B in our lives today. Lectures will include live
Bay Area Documentary performances.
The threat of nuclear war has returned, both Filmmakers
because of Russian actions on INF and US Michael Socrates Moran is the founder and
Michael Fox
actions with Iran and North Korea. We will Artistic Director of the Ubuntu Theater Project.
2–4 p.m., F&S
examine possible global futures by studying He is an award winning director and actor
Price A
the practice of Nuclear Arms Control, its (nominated for the role of Hamlet), having
history, organization, and uses. No prior Nonfiction films are more essential than ever, directed over 20 classics and world premieres.
political or scientific knowledge is required. but the subject matter typically overshadows He has acted professionally in Boston, New
the process for making them. In fact, the York City and Chicago and holds an MFA in
Paul Rockett is a consultant with 20 filmmaker’s narrative, thematic, and aesthetic directing from UCSD.
years of experience in arms control choices are as important as the material itself.
and nonproliferation. Retired from the Each session will feature a recent or in-progress Gender Spectrum
Department of Energy National Labs, he film followed by a candid discussion with Erica Anderson
holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and worked the director. We’ll focus on the practical and 2–4 p.m., UH 41B
extensively on the development of arms ethical challenges of making documentaries, (No class 1/29; Final class 3/4)
control technologies and policies from from conception through production and Price B
START, CTBT, and CWC to Open Skies, postproduction to distribution.
and follow-on treaties. The Bay Area has been ground zero for
Michael Fox is a journalist and film critic at social change in the areas of civil rights, free
My Life is a Poem KQED.org/arts, Oakland magazine, and The speech, resistance to oppression, sexual
Devorah Major (East Bay) Monthly. He curates and hosts the revolution, waves of feminism, and gay
10 a.m.–noon, UH 41C CinemaLit series at the Mechanics’ Institute liberation. Now we face another dramatic
Price C in San Francisco, and teaches documentary revolution in understanding gender and
courses at OLLI at SF State. Fox was learning how to live in a society in which
Memories are lovely mosaics pieced
inducted in 2015 into Essential SF, the SF gender is expressed on a spectrum. New
together by time and circumstance. Poetry is
Film Society’s ongoing compilation of “local knowledge, healthcare practices, and cultural
a wonderful way to reclaim our lives in ways
cinematic luminaries.” challenges bring us into a time to learn who
that ask for truth over facts, and moments
we are and how to build an inclusive and
over monuments. This course will provide Why Shakespeare Matters in accepting society.
fresh lessons for new and returning students Today’s World
to consider our lives through poetry. We will Erica Anderson is a clinical psychologist
Michael Moran
look at memoir poems of others, become who has held academic appointments in
2–4 p.m., UH 150
aware of new established poets, invite you health psychology, public health, clinical
Price A
to create your own poems, and discuss and psychology, healthcare management,
write poems in class. In session six, we will This course will focus on how Shakespeare’s and pediatrics. She works in UCSF’s Child
have a class poetry reading and bring in two greatest works remain relevant in today’s and Adolescent Gender Clinic in Pediatric
poems for a workshop anthology. socio-political context and why. Beginning Endocrinology and has a private practice in
with an in-depth look at Hamlet, the course Oakland. She has consulted on transgender
Devorah Major, poet and novelist, was San will illuminate why it has inspired and vexed issues in Sweden and is the president elect
Francisco’s third poet laureate and is poet- artists for centuries and the mysteries of USPATH, an organization that focuses on
in-residence at the SF Fine Arts Museums. inherent in it that reveal the mysteries transgender health.
Her books include street smarts, where river
8Starts 1/23 Thursday
Van Morrison: Musical The Jazz Piano Trio, Part 2 Bay Area Living Masters of the
Mysticism of the Belfast Cowboy Jeff Denson Short Story
Pete Elman 1–3 p.m., F&S Hilary Roberts
10 a.m.–noon, F&S Price A 1–3 p.m., UH 41B
Price A Price B
The piano trio is a powerful ensemble
Over the past 55 years, Van Morrison has with a rich history. We will examine In this discussion-centered class we’ll delve
produced 40 albums. His eclectic career has six groundbreaking performers that into stirring creations from our rich roster
ranged from the early blues-influenced days helped to establish the piano trio as of living Bay Area story writers, both known
of his Irish band Them, to his acclaimed twin a permanent fixture in jazz: swinging pianists and lesser known: Joyce Carol Oates, Tommy
masterpieces, Astral Weeks and Moondance, Erol Garner and Wynton Kelly, members of Orange, Tobias Wolff, Molly Giles, Amy Tan,
into the 1970s, when he parlayed R&B- the first Miles Davis Quartet in the 1950’s; Namwali Serpell, Olga Zilberbourg, Kim
based rock into superstardom. Morrison McCoy Tyner, a member of the John Addonizio, Kara Vernor, Peter Orner, Ethel
has eloquently displayed an ability to move Coltrane Quartet; the ever ever-adventurous Rohan, Adam Johnson.
between genres, yet staying true to the twin Herbie Hancock; and the passionate
Hilary Roberts is an author, educator and
themes of jazzy rhythm and blues and the virtuosity of Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
editor who has taught at UC Berkeley, UC
Celtic folk of his ancestors.
Jeff Denson is a full professor at the Santa Cruz, and Contra Costa College.
Pete Elman has performed, composed, California Jazz Conservatory, an international
arranged, produced, and taught all genres touring and recording artist, and the artistic Exploring Your Identity Through
of popular music since 1962. He has taught director of Ridgeway Arts. Writing
several popular classes on 20th-century Anita Amirrezvani
music with OLLI. Election 2020: Will Voters of 1–3 p.m., UH 41C
Color Make a Difference? Price C
Local Government from the Alex Saragoza
Your unique family, heritage, culture, and
Ground Up 1–3 p.m., Magnes
traditions offer a rich source of material.
Daren Fields Price A
Learn how to draw on your own background
10 a.m.–noon, UH 41B
This course will examine voter turnout in to generate stories that are deeply
Price B
light of recent patterns among three major meaningful to you, the people you love,
Have you ever wondered what a mayor minority groups — Latinos, Asians and and even to complete strangers. Writing
really does? Have you ever thought about African Americans — considering such assignments will include nonfiction and
where your local tax dollars actually go? things as regional variations, differences fiction. Sharing work will be encouraged but
This course provides an introduction to of age, class, and gender, and urban/rural not required. Leave class with a roadmap for
cities, counties, school districts, and special permutations. We will discuss how the two expanding your material.
districts. Examine how they are organized, major parties have addressed the role of
Anita Amirrezvani was born in Tehran and
what services they provide, and how they minority voters in party platforms, campaign
raised in San Francisco. She has written two
impact our daily lives. Discuss local and state spending, and strategies, and will take up the
novels,The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the
ballot measures in the November election debate over “voter suppression” laws and
Sun. Amirrezvani co-edited the anthology
and their impact on local government. Learn gerrymandering and their implications for
Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American
how you can make a difference in your communities of color.
Writers. She teaches at the California College
community.
Alex Saragoza is professor emeritus of of the Arts.
Daren Fields is currently a consultant in history in the comparative ethnic studies
local government having served for over program at UC Berkeley. Alex has taught
25 years as a department head, assistant courses on Mexico, Cuba, the Latino
city manager, and city manager for several electorate and the 2016 Election for OLLI @
municipalities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Berkeley.
Visit olli.berkeley.edu/courses for syllabi and other information. OLLI @Berkeley 9Friday Starts 1/24
Photo: Elena Zuchova
Drawing Fundamentals Digital Photography Beginning 1/24,
Danny Neece Instructor to be determined
10 a.m.–noon, BAS 1–3 p.m., BAS
Online Only courses
Price C Price C Registering for the online-only version
of these courses enables you to view
Explore the key elements of drawing, Move beyond the automatic settings of
the recorded lectures throughout the
including line, shape, tone, compositional your digital SLR camera and start creating
winter term. Weekly lectures will be
design, and the drawing field. Learn how to works of art. Learn about the photographic
available on Fridays. This option is not
creatively establish relationships, proportion, process, including exposure, composition,
interchangeable and does not grant
and the illusory third dimension, and touch lighting, and subject matter, and share your
access to the in-person class. For
on different modes of abstraction. We will work with the class. Participants should have
information, see page 12.
address the role of drawing in imagination, a basic understanding of how their camera
invention, and image development. Whether works and how to retrieve photos from it. A
What Economists Know
you are a beginner or experienced, you digital SLR or digital point-and-shoot camera
(online only)
can develop a free and fluent command that changes shutter speed and aperture is
John Haveman
of the drawing process and a conceptual required.
Price D
understanding of key principles.
Instructor TBD
See course descriptions and bios, pg. 5.
Danny Neece holds a B.F.A. in illustration
from the California College of the Arts. He
The Nordic Lands
has freelanced for Shambhala Sun Magazine,
(online only)
Hyphen Magazine, Intel Developers Forum,
Darren Zook
14 Hills: The SFSU Review, Trader Joe’s,
Price D
Buddhadharma: Practitioner’s Quarterly,
and Saint Mary’s College; and he teaches at See course descriptions and bios, pg. 3.
the Berkeley Art Studio. View his work at
dannyneece.com.
10 Visit olli.berkeley.edu/courses for syllabi and other information.Lafayette Library
Info session 1/9, 1:30 - 3:00 pm, 3491 Mt.Diablo Blvd., Lafayette
History of Baroque Music Country Rock, 1965 – Present for AFS International, he has directed
Tuesdays, Jan. 21 – Feb. 25 Tuesdays, Jan. 21 – Feb. 25 academic programs abroad in Ghana and
Stephen Shultz Pete Elman Kenya and lectured for Cal Discoveries in
10 a.m.–noon, LLCH 1–3 p.m., LLCH South Africa and France.
Price A Price A
Strategy and Foreign Policy:
This class will be a chronological This class will cover the historically significant The Use (and Misuse) of the
retrospective of music from the Baroque country-rock movement which started in American Military
era, covering the years 1600-1750. All major LA in 1965 and spread across the country, Thursdays, Jan. 23 – Feb. 27
composers of instrumental and vocal music changing the musical landscape of popular Michael Baker
will be discussed including Monteverdi, music. We will explore how two roots- 1–3 p.m., LLCH
Corelli, Vivaldi, Couperin, Handel, Telemann, oriented genres — country music and rock Price A
Rameau, and Bach. From the birth of opera and roll — borrowed from each other and
through the major works of J.S. Bach, we will merged to create a new genre which has The U.S. military has been used (and
analyze the styles of the three main musical since spawned many sub-genres, each with misused) for the last 75 years as a foreign
centers of composition: Italy, France, and its own unique approach to country-rock. policy cudgel in an uneven and often
Germany. inexplicable fashion. The results are
Pete Elman, See bio, pg. 9 embarrassing – the world’s most powerful
Stephen Schultz plays solo and principal military has not won a war in 75 years, has
flute with the Philharmonia Baroque Understanding Film Through the destroyed numerous societal systems,
Orchestra and Musica Angelica. He is Eyes of Immigrants created millions of displaced refugees, and
teaching professor in music history and flute Joe Lurie
spawned disdain for our policies along with
at Carnegie Mellon University and director of Thursdays, Jan. 23 – Feb. 27
creating numerous enemies. We will look
the Carnegie Mellon Baroque Ensemble. 10 a.m.–noon, LLCH
at case studies of American foreign policy
Price A
fiascos which have eroded the image and
iPhoneography reputation of America around the world.
Using selected films, we’ll explore cultural
Tuesdays, Jan. 21 – Feb. 25
realities, clashes and misunderstandings
Yoni Mayeri Dr. Michael Baker is a retired general
through the eyes of Chinese, Japanese,
10 a.m.–noon, LLOR surgeon and trauma surgeon who also
Iranian, Sudanese and Latino Immigrants.
Price C served his country in uniform for 30
Background readings and intercultural tools
years. In his role as a Navy officer, he has
Learn how to expertly capture images, edit, will be offered to facilitate understanding of
experience in operational medicine, combat
and create extraordinary photographs cultures to be featured, and where possible,
deployments, and strategic planning, and
using solely your iPhone. Gain inspiration to film makers and cultural informants will
retired with the rank of rear admiral.
find your creative vision and expand your be invited as resources. We’ll conclude by
technical knowledge. By the end of this highlighting attitudes about the elderly
workshop, you will understand the ins and across cultures and break some stereotypes
outs of iPhone photography. with Lives Well Lived, a film featuring
inspirational stories about seniors in the
Yoni Mayeri began her photographic
United States.
career at Polaroid and Nikon. She has
presented her iPhoneography workshops at Joe Lurie, author of Perception and
UC Berkeley, Stanford, Saint Mary’s College, Deception, A Mind-Opening Journey Across
Rancho La Puerta, The Pacific Art League, Cultures, is executive director emeritus of
Google, and many other locations. Berkeley’s International House and a cross-
cultural communications trainer. A former
Peace Corps Volunteer and Vice President
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Joy of Singing A The Nordic Lands A What Economists Know Van Morrison A What Economists
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