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Participants read short selections from classical and current fiction and nonfiction. Through conversation with each other, attendees achieve greater appreciation for the material, gain interesting insights, and enjoy social engagement. Class members determine the reading selections, which vary each semester. Each selection is independent of others, so missing a session or more is no problem.
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Fee: $78.00
Capacity Remaining: 9
Dates: 8/26/2026 - 12/2/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 8
Days: W
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Instructor: Kathryn Kyker
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Participants read short selections from classical and current fiction and nonfiction. Through conversation with each other, attendees achieve greater appreciation for the material, gain interesting insights, and enjoy social engagement. Class members determine the reading selections, which vary each semester. Each selection is independent of others, so missing a session or more is no problem.
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Fee: $78.00
Capacity Remaining: 20
Dates: 8/26/2026 - 12/2/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 8
Days: W
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Instructor: Kathryn Kyker
Building: Online via Zoom
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Even though it was published 300 years ago, Gulliver’s Travels remains a recognizable story with modern audiences. Whether we encountered it as an abridged children’s book, the four-part satirical novel, or one of many adaptations that have appeared since its publication, the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver have enjoyed a sustained afterlife well beyond its initial release. What makes this novel so popular, and why is it worth reading today? This discussion will follow on the heels of my own participation in a London-based workshop celebrating this tercentenary, so I’ll bring back highlights of Gulliver’s “afterlives” discussed at this event. (Re)reading the novel is not required, but a familiarity with the text would be helpful.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 36
Dates: 11/2/2026 - 11/2/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Leigh Dillard
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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John Donne was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson. He grew from London playboy to faithful husband and father and finally to the famous Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Although his sermons and meditations were well known during his lifetime, his poems became widely popular only in the early 20th century. We will read aloud and discuss some of his poems in the context of his life and times. No textbook or homework required.
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Fee: $32.00
Capacity Remaining: 29
Dates: 9/21/2026 - 9/25/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 3
Days: M Tu F
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Instructor: Jack Armistead
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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In addition to Oates’s fiction, this course will also give attention to Greg Johnson’s authorized biography, and the literary criticism, cultural criticism, interviews, teaching, and journals of this incredibly-prolific artist. This is a course for both JCO fans and newcomers. Recommended text for participants: High Lonesome (short-story collection), and the class also discuss Oates’s novel Expensive People and perhaps a number of others.
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Fee: $51.00
Capacity Remaining: 20
Dates: 11/4/2026 - 12/9/2026
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 5
Days: W
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Instructor: Dan Zins
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Why would thousands of women with health insurance take out high-interest loans, fly to South Florida, and have pelvic mesh surgically removed at a strip-mall clinic? The answer involves a convicted felon, rogue surgeons, predatory call centers, data breaches, and lawyers who turned injured women into legal commodities. And it all happened inside America's own court system.
The Pain Brokers is a true-crime investigation by the presenter, who spent years reporting on one of the most brazen fraud schemes in American legal history. In this discussion, Burch guides participants through her book and behind the scenes of her investigation—the women who were victimized, the unlikely heroes who exposed the scheme, and what this story reveals about all of us as patients, consumers, and citizens. No legal background needed. Come ready to discuss, question, and be outraged.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 35
Dates: 9/15/2026 - 9/15/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Why would thousands of women with health insurance take out high-interest loans, fly to South Florida, and have pelvic mesh surgically removed at a strip-mall clinic? The answer involves a convicted felon, rogue surgeons, predatory call centers, data breaches, and lawyers who turned injured women into legal commodities. And it all happened inside America's own court system.
The Pain Brokers is a true-crime investigation by the presenter, who spent years reporting on one of the most brazen fraud schemes in American legal history. In this discussion, Burch guides participants through her book and behind the scenes of her investigation—the women who were victimized, the unlikely heroes who exposed the scheme, and what this story reveals about all of us as patients, consumers, and citizens. No legal background needed. Come ready to discuss, question, and be outraged.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 100
Dates: 9/15/2026 - 9/15/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Building: Online via Zoom
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Both Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon were careful revisers of their poems. We will look at a selection of their remarkable works and consider how and why some of them changed over time. The first class will introduce Heaney's work and the second, Mahon's.
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: 30
Dates: 10/12/2026 - 10/19/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 2
Days: M
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Instructor: Simon Gatrell
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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This class will examine Butler's thoughts on the human as articulated in some of her seminal works, focusing on topics such as transhumanism, the posthuman, extraterrestrials, identity making, and Butler's theory of the human contradiction. Octavia Butler (1947-2006) was a pioneering American science fiction and speculative fiction writer and one of the first African American and female writers in those genres. Her narratives often critique societal hierarchies and power dynamics. Among her many influential works are the Patternist series, the Xenogenesis trilogy, the Parable series, and Kindred.
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Fee: $42.00
Capacity Remaining: 35
Dates: 8/24/2026 - 11/23/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 4
Days: M
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Instructor: Jerry Jenkins
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Required reading for the class: Kindred (1979), Dawn (1987), Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995), and Parable of the Sower (1993),
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Until the invention of the printing press, every copy of every text had to be written out by hand – hours of painstaking work. Over the centuries, and countries, how a manuscript was put together changed, allowing us a glimpse into how information disseminated across time and space. This class will over a brief overview of the study of Paleography – concentrating on a couple of interesting examples, including why Moses has horns.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 36
Dates: 10/28/2026 - 10/28/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Timothy Meehan
Building: UGA Campus at Gwinnett
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Some of Frost's most familiar poems concern manual labor: haying, repairing, and sawing, for instance. We will discuss several of these poems, including "Mending Wall," to see what attitudes toward this work they express.
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: 34
Dates: 11/6/2026 - 11/13/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 2
Days: F
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Instructor: David Robinson
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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This lively conversation with seasoned publishing professionals will help you to understand the broad landscape of book publishing, from New York to Athens; explore key market trends that shape what gets published and why; get tips on crafting your own book proposal and how to find a publisher.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 34
Dates: 9/29/2026 - 9/29/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Lisa Bayer, Nate Holly
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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This class provides a brief history of wealth distribution in the U.S. as well as some of the founding motivations behind Congress’s passing ERISA in 1974, which included its most successful and least known retirement vehicle: the employee stock ownership plan. Since then, more than 6,500 ESOPs, 1,000 worker co-ops, and around 100 employee ownership trusts have pioneered best practices that distribute wealth more evenly in society. The ESOP's architect, Louis Kelso, envisioned "capital participation" as a remedy for wealth inequality and saw firm ownership as a crucial complement to home ownership in building and maintaining the American middle class. Some three million baby boomers (silvered) are expecting to transition out of their small to medium businesses over the next 10 years, and yet the succession planning in these businesses is often not robust or fully communicated with key stakeholders. These businesses don't have to just close up shop. This class will elucidate concrete actions anyone, including OLLI members, can take today to help keep main street thriving.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 8/21/2026 - 8/21/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Marie Davis
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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In A Rake’s Progress (1732-34), 18th-century visual artist William Hogarth produces a series of eight paintings to reveal the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who moves to London after inheriting his miserly father’s fortune. Without proper guidance on whom to trust and how to spend this money, Tom makes all the wrong choices. Hogarth’s “modern moral subjects” like this one and A Harlot’s Progress (1731) offer cautionary tales on contemporary topics and were wildly popular during his own time. Even today, Hogarth’s works are considered as recognizable elements of London’s rich visual culture. As part of our interactive discussion of A Rake’s Progress, we’ll look at both the paintings and corresponding engravings for this visual narrative along with an overview of Hogarth’s techniques used to create the series.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 37
Dates: 10/26/2026 - 10/26/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Leigh Dillard
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Henry David Thoreau—mystic, transcendentalist, sage, ethicist, prophet, seer, ecologist, gardener, economist, citizen, abolitionist, journalist, lecturer, educator, patriot, radical, conservative, artist, saunterer, contrarian, iconoclast, humorist, and bad subject but good neighbor—came into the world in 1817. More than a century and a half after his death, this often misunderstood “dead white male” might well be the voice we need to hear more than any other on the most pressing and troubling issues of our own radically-different age. This multi-session course will involve reading passages from Thoreau and discussing them through the lens of the modern world. “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Fee: $51.00
Capacity Remaining: 15
Dates: 8/18/2026 - 9/15/2026
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 5
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Dan Zins
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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