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AUTHOR TALK: Justene Hill Edwards has reached maximum enrollment.
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AUTHOR TALK: Justene Hill Edwards with
Day of the week: Tu, Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM.
Limit: 20
Sessions: 1
Dates: 5/6/2025 - 5/6/2025
Course Description: Justene Hill Edwards, Associate Professor, Corcoran Department of History, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences We are pleased to welcome Professor Hill Edwards back to OLLI to discuss her new book. Justene Hill Edwards’ research explores the intersection of African American history, American economic history, and the history of American slavery. Specifically, she examines slavery’s influence on the evolution of African American economic life. Her new book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank, chronicles the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company. Savings and Trust emphasizes the importance of the Freedman’s Bank and its collapse by connecting its failure to modern issues such as the racial wealth gap. Hill Edwards is also working on A Short History of Inequality, which will interrogate the ways in which inequality has pervaded and structured American life. Her book was recently featured on NPR’s Fresh Air.
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- Host: OLLI at UVA
- Day of the week: Tu
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
- Date: 4/29/2025
- Location: By and By Coffee , 140 E Beverley St Staunton, VA . By and By Coffee
We’re meeting before Mike Stahl’s Muckraker’s class in our favorite café to enjoy the back patio’s beautiful spring weather! You buy your coffee, and OLLI supplies the snacks. You are welcome to purchase a tasty sandwich lunch if you like, as well. Please RSVP HERE to help us pre-plan and to reach you in case of inclement weather. See you there!
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- Host: OLLI at UVA
- Day of the week: W
- Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
- Date: 4/30/2025
- Location: Riverview Park, 1909 Chesapeake Street Charlottesville, VA 22902.
It’s Springtime – and we are meeting out in nature! Join us at Riverview Park for a very casual, relaxing, riverside stroll along the Rivanna. Or if you’d rather just sit comfortably by the picnic tables, feel free to bring a comfy chair and sunhat. The choice is yours! We’ll be wearing comfy walking shoes and outdoor shorts, and we’ll be breathing in the beauty of being outside with friends. You are welcome to bring your dog, too! OLLI will provide the snacks, and you bring your water-bottle. Riverview Park is located at the end of Chesapeake Street at the eastern city limits and consists of 26.6 acres bordering the river. With a large, paved parking area, kiosk, playground, benches and an open field, this park is ideal for a social gathering. Please RSVP HERE to help us pre-plan and to reach you in case of inclement weather. See you there!
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- Host: OLLI at UVA
- Day of the week: Th
- Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
- Date: 5/8/2025
- Location: Merrie Mill Farm and Vineyard, 594 Merrie Mill Farm Keswick, VA 22947.
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Free and Open to the Public!
- Date: 5/16/2025
- Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
- Day of the week: F
- Location: Unity of Charlottesville, 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Presentation Description: A Bonus: We are adding a program in May because of the timely topic.
On May 16 Professor Dale C. Copeland of UVA’s Politics Department will speak on A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China. The topic is relevant. America’s new trade policies, including tariffs, are creating tensions with China, Mexico, Canada, and other countries.
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- Presenter: Rabbi Joel Schwartzman
- Dates: 4/22/2025 - 5/13/2025
- Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Days: Tu
- This schedule has been update.
Description: The program will touch upon the following elements crucial to an understanding of the Middle East and Israel’s place in it: issues of water, natural resources, religion, outside influences, regional alliances as well as survey the timeline of Israel’s military conflicts. Given the current wars with Iranian proxies: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Shiite militias in both Syria and western Iraq, Israel finds itself struggling to free itself from the noose Iran has attempted to place around its neck. Strategically, Israel has had to change focus from deterrence to survival. One entire session will be devoted to the War in Gaza: Operation Iron Swords. Finally, we will then examine Israel’s relations with its neighbors, along with threats to, and opportunities for, peaceful coexistence.
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