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- Who Killed Jesus? In-Person
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Speaker: Rebecca Denova
Dates: 7/14/2025 - 7/14/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Modality: In-Person
Fee: $0.00
The tragic events of October 7, 2023, produced global protests from both sides. This has resulted in renewed studies of the origins of continuing antisemitism. Then, as now, religious convictions were not separated from cultural traditions, social conventions, and politics. The gospels are being re-evaluated in attempts to separate literary polemic (negative attacks against opponents) that were used to claim that Jews persecuted and executed the first Christians. Is there any historical evidence for the charge that remains fundamental to Christianity for 2,000 years?
Rebecca Denova, PhD, is senior lecturer emerita in religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She regularly teaches courses on the history of early Christianity (her specialty), ancient religions in the Mediterranean world, and several topics related to ancient popular religion and society.
This lecture will meet in person July 14
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- OLLI in the Context of the Community Engagement and Outreach Landscape Online
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Dates: 7/21/2025 - 7/21/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Modality: Online
Fee: $0.00
OLLI at Pitt, within the Office of Engagement and Community Affairs, has a unique opportunity to view its work through the paradigm of community engagement. OLLIs at several universities are similarly situated. This session will consider the unique context of OLLI as a part of the community engagement and outreach landscape in higher education, welcoming senior engagement and outreach leaders from different universities to provide their thoughts on the opportunities provided by this positioning, particularly as we consider OLLI of the future. The panel will close with thoughts about the future of community-engaged OLLIs, welcoming a provocative perspective on the potential for co-generational learning and social impact.
Lina Dostilio, EdD, is Vice Chancellor, Office of Engagement and Community Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. She sets and advances the University's community engagement agenda and catalyzes community-facing efforts across the University, including place-based engagement efforts, engaged scholarship, strategic partnership development, and community affairs. She is also an associate professor of practice within the Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy in the School of Education. Her research explores the community engagement professional in higher education and hyperlocal, place-based engagement.
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- Dopamine and the Brain: Facts and Myths that Shape Who You Are Lecture In-Person
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Speaker: Helen Schwerdt
Dates: 7/28/2025 - 7/28/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Modality: In-Person
Fee: $0.00
This lecture will deconstruct basic concepts about how dopamine and the brain work, and how these relate to our daily lives. We will cover diverse theories in science and in mainstream culture about dopamine function, ranging from reward and addiction to Parkinson’s disease and motor control. Where do all these wide-ranging theories and misconceptions come from? We will also discuss fundamental scientific experiments and observations that have shaped these views.
Please Note: This lecture will be hybrid. There will be two separate registrations: one for online and another for in-person. Please be sure that you are registered for your desired modality.
Helen Schwerdt, PhD, is researching how to build and apply tools to understand how different modes of neural signaling underlie our everyday behavior. She is especially interested in the neural circuits involved in motivation and learning, and the role of dopamine in these behaviors in health and disease. She received training in biomedical and electrical engineering, and neuroscience.
This hybrid lecture will meet July 28th.
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- Dopamine and the Brain: Facts and Myths that Shape Who You Are Lecture Online
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Speaker: Helen Schwerdt
Dates: 7/28/2025 - 7/28/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Modality: Online
Fee: $0.00
This lecture will deconstruct basic concepts about how dopamine and the brain work, and how these relate to our daily lives. We will cover diverse theories in science and in mainstream culture about dopamine function, ranging from reward and addiction to Parkinson’s disease and motor control. Where do all these wide-ranging theories and misconceptions come from? We will also discuss fundamental scientific experiments and observations that have shaped these views.
Please Note: This lecture will be hybrid. There will be two separate registrations: one for online and another for in-person. Please be sure that you are registered for your desired modality.
Helen Schwerdt, PhD, is researching how to build and apply tools to understand how different modes of neural signaling underlie our everyday behavior. She is especially interested in the neural circuits involved in motivation and learning, and the role of dopamine in these behaviors in health and disease. She received training in biomedical and electrical engineering, and neuroscience.
This hybrid lecture will be held on July 28.
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- Tour of Historic Oakmont Country Club
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Dates: 8/4/2025 - 8/4/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Modality: In-Person
Fee: $0.00
The host of a record 10 United States Opens, including the 2025 tournament, Oakmont Country Club is synonymous with major championship golf in America. A walking tour of the Oakmont Country Club clubhouse is conducted by the Oakmont C.C. Archives Committee, led by their historian and author, David Moore. The two-hour tour discusses the origins of the Club and its founding members - the Fownes family - as well as a walk through the 20 national championships conducted at the historic course. Learn the intimate details behind the victories of champions like Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller and more in this one-of-a-kind experience.
Note: Golf attire, including shorts and sneakers, are welcome, but no jeans or denim of any kind are allowed on the premises. Transportation is on your own. Tour is free, but open to members only.
Oakmont Country Club is located at 1233 Hulton Rd, Oakmont, PA 15139
This tour will meet Monday, August 4, 2025.
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- OLLI Greater Hazelwood Walking Tour
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Dates: 8/7/2025 - 8/7/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Days: Th
Sessions: 1
Modality: In-Person
Fee: $0.00
Join OLLI on Thursday, August 7th, from 9-11 a.m. for a scenic summer stroll and a multiple stop tour through Greater Hazelwood. This is a marvelous opportunity to learn about the University of Pittsburgh’s community development and engagement efforts happening in the heart of Hazelwood! Bring your walking shoes and get a firsthand view of Pittsburgh’s premiere location for innovation and biotechnology at Hazelwood Green.
The tour will begin at the OneValley Roundhouse, a modern, welcoming coworking space that fuses Hazelwood Green’s industrial past with Pittsburgh’s current innovative entrepreneurial culture. Next, the tour will continue to the BioForge where guests will have the opportunity to view the new state of the art biomanufacturing facility, Mill 19, and the site of Pitt’s future Community Engagement Center that will be located within the Center of Life’s forthcoming community hub.
Please Note: This is a two-hour walking tour that will involve steps and some uneven surfaces. Participants should be prepared to be on their feet for extended periods of time.
Directions: Free parking is available on Blair Street, outside the OneValley Roundhouse. You will notice signs which direct you to pay for parking – these can be ignored as the city has not yet installed parking kiosks. When you enter the building, check in using the tablet. The group will meet in the Café area! The 57 Hazelwood bus stops outside of the Roundhouse (4165 Blair Street, 15207).
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- Day at Chautauqua Institution In-Person
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Dates: 8/15/2025 - 8/15/2025
Times: 6:00 AM - 7:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Modality: In-Person
Fee: $140.00
Join us for a day at Chautauqua Institute! The main lecturer for the day is Thomas Friedman, the bestselling author of The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century and foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. Renowned for his direct reporting and accessible analysis of complex issues shaping the world, Friedman is the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes — two for international reporting from the Middle East and a third for his columns written about 9/11. It is this extensive reporting and analysis that will inform his remarks as he closes the week exploring “The Middle East: The Gulf States’ Emerging Influence.”(Speaker subject to change.)
After the talk, OLLI will have lunch at the historic Atheneum Hotel. After lunch, everyone will have a few hours to themselves to visit quaint shops, explore unique galleries, take a shuttle around the historic 750-acre compound, walk along the lake, or enjoy people-watching in the town square or on the Atheneum porches.
Cost: $140 · Fee includes motorcoach transportation, buffet lunch, and day admittance to Chautauqua Institution. ·
Online registration for event and/or parking ($10 in Soldiers and Sailors garage) is for members only. Each member is permitted to bring one guest. For guest registration purchases and/or guest parking reservations in Soldiers and Sailors Parking garage ($10), either call the office 412-624-7308 or visit our office (710 Alumni Hall).
July 31 is the last day for a full refund and to reserve parking.
We will meet outside Soldiers and Sailors garage on Bigelow Boulevard at 6:00 a.m. to board the bus.
This tour departs Soldiers and Sailors garage at 6:15 a.m. and returns approximately 7:30 p.m. on Friday, August 15, 2025.
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- Day at Chautauqua - Parking Registration In-Person
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Dates: 8/15/2025 - 8/15/2025
Times: 6:00 AM - 7:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Modality: In-Person
Fee: $10.00
Registration for secured parking at Soldiers and Sailors garage for the Chautauqua trip on August 15, 2025.
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