The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI @Berkeley) offers an ongoing program of six-week courses, a weekly lecture series, and special events that provide opportunities for discussion with visiting lecturers, special guests, and other students.

OLLI provides older adults an intellectual, cultural, and creative connection to the Cal community, as well as a place for Berkeley’s distinguished faculty and others to share their research and interests. Discounted fees for Cal alumni.

Join us in attending this free open house (we're not organizing it, just participating as ordinary attendees) introducing this semester's offerings, meet the faculty, staff, and students, and think about your plans to keep on learning and growing as you age.

Doors at 9:30, presentation from 10 'til noon. We may do an informal lunch gathering at noon nearby afterwards if people are interested.

The winter term runs January 30 - March 12, and features:

• Larry Bensky (of KPFA fame) on Proust and His World
• Joy of Singing
• Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
• Experiencing Theater
• Dynasty: Rise and Fall of the Great Houses of Europe
• Taking Charge of Your Health, with a biofeedback guru
• Italian Renaissance Gardens
• Complex Cultural Identity of the Balkans
• Obama's Economy
• Europe's Destiny
• Implications of the DNA Sequence Bonanza
• The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde
• Contemporary Cuba
• The Anthropology of Art
• Women's Human Rights Make the News
• Punishment and Crime: The California Prison System, taught by a retired San Quentin associate warden
• The case against Democracy
• Reading and Reciting Great Poems in English
• Creating your own Website
• Experimenting with Autobiography
• Become Your Own Brain Fitness Coach

Learn more at:

http://olli.berkeley.edu/

(note that we are inviting folks as a public service, and have no affiliation with OLLI, although Betsy has taken some of their courses before)