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Thanks for your interest in A Beautiful Mind: The Science and Practice of Building Wisdom and Resilience with Scott Fulton!

This opportunity begins 3/17/2026.

Online registration for this program is currently closed.

  • Online registration closes one week before the start date to allow time for preparation, and/or
  • Registration remains closed once the program has begun.

You may still be able to participate.
Call the OLLI Office at 434‑923‑3600 to register. Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
There are 4 seats available.

  • Dates: 3/17/2026 - 4/21/2026 
  • Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Days: Tu 
  • Fee: $78.00
  • Course Location: Homewood Suites (opens in new tab) - Albemarle Room
  • Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
  • LOCATION CHANGE.

Description: 

Brainspan — extending how long our mind stays sharp, steady, and capable. Participants will build a personalized Cognitive Health Scorecard to guide long-term resilience. This six-week course explores how the brain ages and what the latest science shows about protecting memory, function, balance, and clarity. We’ll distinguish normal vs abnormal cognitive changes and focus on practical, hands-on, evidence-based prevention strategies. Each session includes fun, active, self-assessments, and take-home activities.
 

Thanks for your interest in Emma, A Novel by Jane Austen with Evelyn Edson!

This opportunity begins 4/9/2026.

Online registration for this program is currently closed.

  • Online registration closes one week before the start date to allow time for preparation, and/or
  • Registration remains closed once the program has begun.

You may still be able to participate.
Call the OLLI Office at 434‑923‑3600 to register. Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
There are 1 seats available.

Description: 

The novel, a work of prose fiction in an unheroic setting, came to maturity in the 19th century. Not only were many of the most outstanding works written by women, but majority of their audience was also female. Jane Austen, one of these novelists, is still widely read and admired today. “Emma,” her last major work, centers on the title character about whom Austen remarked,” I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” The opening sentence of the novel: “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with little to distress or vex her.” The reader can imagine that this is about to change.
 

Thanks for your interest in International Relations with Patricia Wrightson!

This opportunity begins 2/13/2026.

Online registration for this program is currently closed.

  • Online registration closes one week before the start date to allow time for preparation, and/or
  • Registration remains closed once the program has begun.

You may still be able to participate.
Call the OLLI Office at 434‑923‑3600 to register. Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
There are 1 seats available.

  • Dates: 2/13/2026 - 4/24/2026 
  • Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Days: F 
  • Fee: $78.00
  • Course Location: OLLI at UVA (opens in new tab) - Terrace Level
  • Location Address: 1 Morton Drive, Terrace Level Charlottesville, VA 22903
  • *Meets Every Other Week

Description: 

This course is an introduction to how and why nation states behave toward each other the way they do. We will look at the four drivers of international relations—need, greed, gumption, and guns—and how they compel nations to vie for, challenge, and give in to power. We will also look at how the impact of modern technology—in weaponry, transportation, communications and now intelligent machines—affect the struggle for power. Finally, we will examine the conditions under which it might be possible to have a world ‘at peace’.
 

Thanks for your interest in There’s No Fool Like an Old Fool: Three Old Men in Shakespeare with Shelley Bryant!

This opportunity begins 3/19/2026.

Online registration for this program is currently closed.

  • Online registration closes one week before the start date to allow time for preparation, and/or
  • Registration remains closed once the program has begun.

You may still be able to participate.
Call the OLLI Office at 434‑923‑3600 to register. Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
There are 22 seats available.

Description: 

As a citizen of the Renaissance Shakespeare copies Aristotle in the belief that humans fulfill their potential only within a civilized society. With this, human error often results from an excess in either eros—the sensual appetites—or thumos, the noble anger that manifests as arrogance. Within this worldview, Shakespeare likes to remind us that age and wisdom are often not the best of friends. We will examine this idea with three older characters: Sir John Falstaff (from Henry IV Parts One and Two), King Lear, and Prospero (from The Tempest). Though reading the plays will enhance understanding and discussion, it is not required, as the instructor will provide thorough background and many excerpts during class time.
 

With God on Our Side: Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy has been cancelled.
 

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