Friday, Apr. 05, 2024
Peter Richardson has written critically acclaimed books about Hunter S. Thompson, the Grateful Dead, Ramparts magazine, and radical author/editor Carey McWilliams. A longtime…
Friday, Apr. 05, 2024
Summer is just around the corner, and so is the arrival of our summer brochure! Registration opens on Monday, Apr. 22, which is when you'll be able to view on our website — and…
Friday, Mar. 22, 2024
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is “the backup insurance policy for all the seed banks worldwide,” said its founder, Cary Fowler. The Vault, which stores 500 million seeds, is naturally three to four degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2024
Sunday's Beatles Singalong: An OLLI at UC Berkeley Musicganza & Fundraiser at Freight & Salvage was a joyous trip down memory lane!
Saturday, Mar. 09, 2024
Linda Haverty Rugg is a professor in Berkeley’s Scandinavian Department. She has taught OLLI courses on Ingmar Bergman, crime fiction, saga literature, eco criticism, and Mark…
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
A former Special Correspondent for The New York Times, John J. Geoghegan is a journalist, author and educator with four non-fiction books to his name. His articles have appeared…
Monday, Feb. 26, 2024
This winter, I've been attending some OLLI classes in person as well as online. Much as I appreciate the convenience of learning online — as well as the learning itself! — I…
Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
We might as well face the facts: we as individuals and as a society are not going to be the same as we were prior to the start of the pandemic. Whether it’s traveling or simply…
Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024
To say we are excited about our spring term would be an understatement. We are positively wowed by the subjects on tap, from explorations of war, peace and refuge, to deep dives…
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
I have roots in San Francisco. My great-great-grandfather landed there in 1854 as a 12-year-old immigrant from China. His children and grandchildren were all born in Chinatown. When the 1906 earthquake devastated the city, the entire clan consisting of three generations took refuge in Oakland – and stayed there. Thereafter, as younger generations branched out across the nation, San Francisco became a place rarely visited, barely remembered as our family’s original ancestral home.
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
We OLLI students, despite being older adults, choose to fill a portion of our time taking classes, reading, and writing to nourish our intellectual curiosity. We are back in school where we learn and question as well as read and write—all features of what our reality was when we were much younger during our years of formal schooling in that long ago stage of our lives.
Thursday, Jan. 04, 2024
After 40 years in the classroom, Peter Davis retired in 2017 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he served as Chair of the Theatre Studies and MA/PhD…