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Instructor: Jon Mikalson
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 2/25/2020 - 3/31/2020
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Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: OLLI Conference Room - Conference Room
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Location Address: 485 Hillsdale Drive Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: We will read and discuss five Athenian plays which treat issues still very much with us today. Sophocles' Antigone dramatizes issues of gender, generational differences, and the authority of the state. His Ajax is widely used today to illustrate issues of war, suicide, and PTSD. Aristophanes' Lysistrata has women stopping, by a sex-strike, their husbands' warmongering. His Wasps presents generational and political conflicts in the context of a hyperlitigious society. The Clouds is a sendup of the purposes and nature of "higher education." Trigger warning: some may be offended by Aristophanes' sexist and ageist language and ribald and often bad jokes.
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Instructor: Don Fry
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Sessions: 4 Dates: 3/10/2020 - 3/31/2020
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Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: Unity of Charlottesville - Sanctuary
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Location Address: 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $44.00
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Course Description: Albrecht Durer has dominated German and Northern European art for 500 years, His works include innovative oil paintings, woodcuts, engravings, etchings, drawings, watercolors, and book illustrations, all based on a sharp eye, vivid imagination, and flat-out genius. Durer made a fortune, dined with nobility, and changed the worlds of European art.
After a review of the artist's life, career, and techniques, we will discuss Durer's masterpieces to understand his Humanistic and religious thought, technical expertise, and insight. This is not a course in art history, but exercises in seeing precisely, interpreting complex creations, and thinking visually. No prior knowledge necessary.
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Instructor: Jeffrey Pugh
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Sessions: 4 Dates: 3/3/2020 - 3/24/2020
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Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
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Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $44.00
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Course Description: This course explores the roles, both good and bad, that Christianity played in one of the most horrific chapters of human history, the Shoah. Tracing the history of Christian anti-Semitism through two thousand years of history, this course shows how a majority of the church in Germany was prepared to support Hitler and embrace his call for racial purity. Drawing specifically on the German Church struggle between the "Deutsche Christen" and the Confessing Church, we explore why the church failed in the face of such a political onslaught, even though there were individuals, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who paid a high price for their resistance.
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Instructor: Elizabeth Donohoe
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Sessions: 1 Dates: 3/17/2020 - 3/17/2020
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Times: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: Jefferson School African American Heritage Center - Classroom
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Location Address: 233 4th St. NW Charlottesville, VA 22903
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Fee: $11.00
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Course Description: As issues of race, prejudice, and privilege dominate national media and political debate, our local schools struggle to close the academic achievement gaps that exist between students. Closing these gaps depends not only on our current and future efforts, but also understanding how the past has shaped the present. This one-day course will feature a panel discussion featuring community leaders and those who remember this turbulent time describing the effects of integration
in both our schools and neighborhoods and how our story today is shaped by events of our past.
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Instructor: Joel Salatin
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Sessions: 1 Dates: 3/3/2020 - 3/3/2020
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Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: Unity of Charlottesville - Sanctuary
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Location Address: 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $0.00
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Course Description: The title of this lecture has a double meaning: a model that heals agriculture, and an agriculture that heals the ecology, the economy, and our health. Using Polyface Farm as a template, Joel Salatin walks you through the essential components of a radically different type of farm/food system that builds soil, increases hydrology, encourages wildlife, protects pollinators, stimulates biodiversity, and yields more dense and balanced nutrition in the food.
Does this sound too good to be true? It is not and it's certainly not from Impossible Burger, hydroponic LED-grown vertical farms, genetically modified organisms or orthodox chemical industrial fare. Rather than dwelling on the negative, Salatin introduces you to the positive possibilities, already achieved during 60 years of his family's farming. If you ever wondered how to eat responsibly, this presentation will give you the answers.
NOTE: OLLI at UVa participants enrolled in this lecture will have the chance to sign up for a Polyface Farm tour ($20 charge) at a later date in the spring.
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Instructor: Stephen Kennamer
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 2/25/2020 - 3/31/2020
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: Meadows Presbyterian - Choir Room
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Location Address: 2200 Angus Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: Much of 20th century literary criticism insisted that the speaker of a poem is always a "persona" and must not be confused with the poet. This course offers a contrarian view by examining the strongly autobiographical currents in Shakespeare's sonnets and the most famous poems of Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dylan Thomas, and others.
NOTE: A follow-up course, The Poetry of Emily Dickinson (ARTS043) will be offered in the B Session for those who would like to continue their study
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Instructor: Richard Mason
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 2/25/2020 - 3/31/2020
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Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: Unity of Charlottesville - Large Classroom
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Location Address: 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: Conversation is being challenged by social media, changing values, and a lack of time. This course will focus on why conversation is important and how to make them more effective. To address the "how" of conversing, participants will practice in small groups how to start/stop a conversation; how to change direction; and tips on how to have that "difficult" conversation.
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Instructor: Evelyn Edson
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Sessions: 4 Dates: 3/17/2020 - 4/7/2020
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Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: OLLI Conference Room - Conference Room
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Location Address: 485 Hillsdale Drive Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $44.00
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Course Description: We will read The Odyssey together, discussing such issues as Greek religion, the nature of the hero (in this case, Odysseus), the role of women in Greek society and mythology, the sea and seafaring, and how the Odyssey has been reimagined by modern writers.
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Instructor: Michael Knapp
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Sessions: 3 Dates: 3/10/2020 - 3/24/2020
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Times: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: Tu
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Course Location: Unity of Charlottesville - Sanctuary
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Location Address: 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $33.00
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Course Description: Vivid descriptions of the doomed maiden voyage and sinking of the Titanic, of the ship's conception and construction, and of the trans-Atlantic shipping industry and Edwardian British and American societies of the period, will "put you on the ship" in 1912 to help experience what its passengers did. We will also explore the finding and exploration of the Titanic wreckage since 1985, and the sinking's portrayal in popular movies and literature. And the highlight of this course will be marine engineering and technical analysis over the last 20 years of why the ship sank the way it did.
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