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- Author: Mamta Chaudry
- Day of the week: Tu
- Date: 4/27/2021
- Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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- This Talk will be delivered in a "Distance Learning" format through Zoom. You will receive additional information regarding access to this Talk one week and then again one day before it is scheduled.
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Description: Her debut novel, Haunting Paris, published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, has been praised as “elegantly wrought” by The New York Times Book Review and “a heart-wrenching love letter to Paris” by Publishers Weekly. Marilynne Robinson called “this fine first novel . . . a small parable, pondering the nature of civilization itself,” and Russell Banks described it as “powerful and moving . . . with a heartbreaking, profoundly adult love story at its center.” Learn more at MamtaChaudhry.com
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- Author: Alan Crawford
- Day of the week: Tu
- Date: 5/25/2021
- Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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- This Talk will be delivered in a "Distance Learning" format through Zoom. You will receive additional information regarding access to this Talk one week and then again one day before it is scheduled.
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Description: His earlier books—all works of nonfiction—include Thunder on the Right: The New Right and the Politics of Resentment (Pantheon), Unwise Passions: The True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America (Simon & Schuster) and Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson (Random House). His next book, to be published by Knopf, is the story of the American Revolution in the South and the events leading up to the British surrender at Yorktown. Crawford has written for The Wall Street Journal for more than 25 years. He has also been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Constitution, as well as such magazines as Vogue, National Review, The American Conservative, The Weekly Standard, and the Progressive. His books have been reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, Fortune, the Economist and Newsweek. He has spoken at the Union League Club and the Cosmopolitan Club of New York, Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C., the Virginia Center for History and Culture (formerly the Virginia Historical Society), Harvard University, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira, N.Y., Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, the Virginia Festival of the Book, and many historical societies and book groups. He has been interviewed on the Motley Fool podcast, Coast to Coast AM, and C-Span’s Book TV, and has had residential fellowships at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and the Boston Athenaeum.
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OLLI AT UVA IS INTRODUCING SHARED INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs) An OLLI Shared Interest Group is formed by a nucleus of OLLI members with a shared interest in the same subject, and who are willing to participate as active, rather than as passive, learners. SIGs provide ongoing learning, friendship and support around the shared interest. Each group is different depending on its focus, and all provide interesting lifelong learning opportunities as well as a fun social experience that is ongoing through semesters and class cycles.
If you would like to start a SIG, contact Volunteer Coordinator Liz Courain at ec9w@virginia.edu or 434-923-3600.
Proposals for SIGs are taken at any time.
As SIGs are created, OLLI members will be notified through the weekly Eblast and invited to join. When at least six
members have expressed interest, the first meeting can be scheduled.
To join an established SIG, members ask to have their names placed on the email distribution list for the SIG, and
start participating. It’s that simple.
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- Instructor: John Ragosta
- Dates: 2/22/2021 - 5/31/2021
- This course is self-paced.
Member Benefit
This course will be delivered in a "Distance Learning" format through Coursera. You will receive additional information regarding access to this course through Coursera during the first week of the Spring 2021 semester.
Course Description: Patrick Henry was enormously popular during the American Revolution. Yet today, Patrick Henry is ill-remembered, most Americans might recall at best perhaps a snippet from his famous speech: "give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry, who helped to ignite a revolution, deserves better. This course will explore how Patrick Henry overcame challenges to reach the pinnacle of Virginia politics and unite Americans behind a challenge to Britain-the 18th century's super-power; why he opposed the U.S. Constitution; and why he then came out of retirement to defend the people's Constitution against the attacks of Jefferson and Madison.
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- Instructor: Larry Sabato
- Dates: 2/22/2021 - 5/31/2021
- This course is self-paced.
Member Benefit
This course will be delivered in a "Distance Learning" format through Coursera. You will receive additional information regarding access to this course through Coursera during the first week of the Spring 2021 semester.
Course Description: This course will explore the Presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of President John F. Kennedy. November 22, 1963 was so powerful a moment that in the more than 60 years since the assassination, virtually every U.S. President that followed JFK has used Kennedy's words and actions in an effort to craft their own political image. Why does Kennedy's influence persist, and will it continue? What are the effects?
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- Instructor: Louis Bloomfield
- Dates: 2/22/2021 - 5/31/2021
- This course is self-paced.
Member Benefit
This course will be delivered in a "Distance Learning" format through Coursera. You will receive additional information regarding access to this course through Coursera during the first week of the Spring 2021 semester.
Course Description: This course will provide a case study introduction to physics in the context of everyday objects. The goal of the course is to make physics useful, and to help you understand and manage the physical world around you.
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