Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2021
Vincent Resh has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 1975, has taught over 20,000 students, and is the recipient of the campus Distinguished Teaching Award. His research…
Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2021
The mythology of E. Pluribus Unum that most people in our age group were taught while growing up turns out to have been just that — mythology. We were taught that “George…
Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2021
OLLI member Audrey Webb reflects on the passing of her wife Karen from COVID.
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
Enrique Lima teaches history and culture in the Departments of Native American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. We recently interviewed him about his upcoming OLLI…
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
Last October, Charles Henry, Professor Emeritus of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, frequent OLLI faculty member, and author of Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial…
Monday, Feb. 15, 2021
As I reviewed our spring courses, I discovered a thread weaving through many of them: the focus on discovering not only what we know but how we know it.
For example:
Berkeley…
Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021
For those of us who grew up in the 1950s, a book from that era that stands out is John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage about people in government who publicly stood for causes…
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021
Great thanks to our wonderful faculty and many hundreds of blue-hand-raising, chat-box-filling members for launching our winter term with gusto. There's so much stellar learning…
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021
Let’s start with the definition of the title of this essay: Empathy. Empathy is “a person’s ability to identify with or experience the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another…
Monday, Jan. 11, 2021
Given the storming and siege of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, we thought we'd share this important conversation we held with Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal, founder and chair of the UC…
Monday, Jan. 11, 2021
Over 20 years ago, friends and I started a men’s book group which has met monthly ever since. We have jointly read nearly 250 books, both fiction and non-fiction. One lesser…
Tuesday, Jan. 05, 2021
Great thanks to film journalists and critics, Harry Chotiner and Michael Fox, for a terrific conversation recently "What the hell happened to movies in 2020?" (Thank you, Harry,…