Tuesday, May. 11, 2021
devorah major is San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate, an award-winning poet and fiction writer, creative non-fiction writer, performer, editor, and part-time senior adjunct…
Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2021
Thank you to everyone who attended our Summer Showcase on Friday. We recorded all of the faculty presentations and are delighted to share them with you here, on individual summer…
Thursday, Apr. 15, 2021
In early April, OLLI @Berkeley hosted its third Town Hall of the acadmic year "A Path to Unity? American Democracy, Social Trust, and Civil Society in the Biden Era" with a panel…
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2021
91-year-old Lillie Braudy has been an orphan (at 15), a realtor, dress designer, corporate employee, deli owner, agent for artists, and much more. And now she’s a writer.
Friday, Mar. 19, 2021
Dear OLLI Community,
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…