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We all know Santa, Christmas trees, and Rudolph, but do we know where they came from? Learn where and how these and other classic Christmas traditions originated.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 36
Dates: 11/30/2026 - 11/30/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Andrew Bramlett
Building: UGA Campus at Gwinnett
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We all know Santa, Christmas trees, and Rudolph, but do we know where they came from? Learn where and how these and other classic Christmas traditions originated.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 98
Dates: 11/30/2026 - 11/30/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Andrew Bramlett
Building: Online via Zoom
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The second pandemic of plague, better known as the Black Death, arrived in Europe in 1348, but this wasn’t its only appearance. Frequent plague epidemics continued into the early-modern period but then ceased altogether. Why? This class will explore the many contending arguments historians have offered to explain the disappearance of plague from Europe.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 5
Dates: 11/17/2026 - 11/17/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Nan McMurry
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Gary Doster has amassed what he believes is the most extensive collection of antique Georgia postcards—many of which are the only images extant of now-demolished buildings. He will share a selection of these postcards along with stories and history of the people and places related to them. His vast knowledge of Georgia history, including that of Confederates, slaves, and Native Americans, will make the past come alive.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 17
Dates: 11/16/2026 - 11/16/2026
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Gary Doster
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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This class is sponsored by Patricia Dixen in appreciation of the OLLI@UGA Marketing Committee
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Howard Carter made one of the greatest discoveries in archaeology when he uncovered the tomb of king Tutankhamun in 1922. However, recent discoveries and applications of new scientific technologies have now told us more about the life and identity of the young king, as well as about the tumultuous period of the New Kingdom in which he lived. Meanwhile, long unanswered questions about Tut's suspected royal father, King Akhenaten, have begun to be answered through separate discoveries. Not only can we now confirm Akhenaten's paternity of king Tut, but also we can further understand the radical nature of Akhenaten's daring personal mission to transform the religion and culture of ancient Egypt. This class examines Akhenaten's program as arguably history's first monotheist, focusing on the unprecedented art and architecture of his reign, and follows his achievements—and failures—into the period of his famous young heir.
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: 18
Dates: 12/1/2026 - 12/8/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Tu
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Instructor: John Stephenson
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) was one of the greatest generals in history. He was Emperor of France from 1804 to 1814 and briefly in 1815. Renowned for his military campaigns during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon also implemented significant legal and administrative reforms, including the Napoleonic Code, which influenced many legal systems worldwide. We will look at his great campaigns, his contributions to the art of war, and his colorful life.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 28
Dates: 11/4/2026 - 11/4/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Lawrence Saul
Building: UGA Campus at Gwinnett
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This hour-long lecture and discussion brings Indigenous peoples, past and present, back into our collective consciousness and community—from the Paleolithic to Shell-Mound Dwellers; through the Mississippean Era; De Soto's devastating Entrada; Wilson Lumpkin’s campaign of ethnocide; to the present, where we see the return of the Muscogee Nation to homelands in joint partnership with the National Park Service at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: -3
Dates: 11/11/2026 - 11/11/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: James Brooks
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Members attending this class are invited to bring a brown bag lunch with them. After the class, anyone who wishes to stay can enjoy their lunch and socialize with other OLLI members from 11:30-12:30 in the River's Crossing sunroom, Room 114.
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In October 1940, the Red and Black ran five lines about a Black bandleader hired for an SAE house dance: "Red McAllister and his negro orchestra will play." Who was he? The newspaper trail answers in three names across thirty-four years — pianist, bandleader, agency owner, manager of Atlanta's Royal Peacock for twenty years. He packaged a touring R&B revue a decade before Motown. He supplied the opener when Otis Redding played UGA in 1964. This class recovers one architect of the Southern Black music economy from the primary sources he left behind.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 36
Dates: 12/7/2026 - 12/7/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Chris Jones
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Perhaps no episode in modern history can match the Russian Revolution for high drama and long-term significance. We get: [1] a breathtaking narrative of events (two convulsive revolutions in a single year, followed by an epic civil war); [2] the clashes of major historic figures (Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, just for starters!); and [3] consequences that, for good or ill, deeply influenced the course of the 20th century and beyond (without the threat of Communism…, no Fascism, or World War II, or Cold War, as we know them. And without Leninism as a model, no Maoist China).
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: -25
Dates: 12/1/2026 - 12/3/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Tu Th
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Instructor: Tom Keene
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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