Blog

The OLLI Blog showcases the voices and perspectives of the OLLI @Berkeley community as well as news from and about OLLI. Have a submission? Please contact Nancy Murr to learn more.

Kathleen Moran is a founder and faculty member of UC Berkeley's American Studies Program and has taught courses in History, English, Film, Geography, Architecture and Art History.
Richard B. Rosenthal is an appellate lawyer who has been involved in high stakes, high-profile legal disputes across the nation. He has served as a personal attorney to President Barack Obama and is a lifelong friend of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Looking back on my interest in the history of travel and tourism, I recall my first presentation, “Travel, History and the Researcher at Mills,” presented at a Mills Family…
We're delighted to be featured in the October issue of East Bay magazine, which devoted its cover story to the vital role of lifelong learning in maintaining long-term brain…
Our winter brochure lands in mailboxes soon and we couldn't be more excited about what's inside — dozens of courses designed to provide clarity and context, along with doses of beauty, joy and inspiration. (A little escapism, too.)
A recent invitation to write a chapter on “Monuments and Memorialization” for the Handbook of Heritage and Tourism, a book to be published by Routledge, led me to the study of monuments, their history, and why they are so important to us.
Bob Solomon taught at Yale Law School for decades before moving to UC Irvine as a Clinical Professor of Law. Henry Weinstein is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Lawyering Skills at UC Irvine.
We are thrilled to announce a brand-new addition to our travel adventures: an extraordinary small-group journey through Italy, curated by Collette, our trusted travel partner. …
Lying. This single word, with the exact same pronunciation, can mean either 1) making false statements, or 2) being in a horizontal resting position. While the two definitions seem far apart, there are moments in life when they just might overlap!
A leadership consultant and trainer for 40 years, Roberta Streimer “retired” in 2021 to work with people nearing retirement or already retired who want to live fully in the next phase of their lives.
An old saw is that the film adaptation of a novel is usually a pale shadow of the book. Three movies are exceptions to this rule: Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, and Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians.
There’s a 2020 book by Ruth Ben-Ghiat titled "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present" that explores the disordered personalities of authoritarian leaders throughout modern history.