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Dr. Hamilton will discuss her participation in an ekphrastic project focused on lithographs and prints by 20th-century Russian-modernist artist Marc Chagall that were inspired by stories in the Hebrew Bible. This session will introduce ekphrasis, a literary response to visual art, and give an overview of Chagall’s engagement with biblical topics. Hamilton will then discuss her interest in Chagall’s depiction of women from the Bible and describe the challenges of creating poems that respond not only to Chagall’s visual renderings but also to the biblical texts behind them. The session will include a reading of several poems from the project.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 28
Dates: 3/10/2026 - 3/10/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Patricia Hamilton
Building: River's Crossing
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Here we encounter two seminal figures in American arts: Composer Aaron Copland and poet Emily Dickinson. Copland's settings of Dickinson's poems is a landmark in the vocal repertory of American music. We will be looking at a selection of these, discussing the poems and then their musical settings, to discover what makes them so expressive. A basic ability to read music would be helpful but certainly not required.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 26
Dates: 4/20/2026 - 4/20/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Kevin Kelly
Building: River's Crossing
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This class explores how East Asian cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare engage multiple senses to articulate women’s experiences and amplify women’s voices within other spaces. By combining sensory analysis with a gendered lens, this study examines how the selected films employ auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory cues to represent female characters’ gendered melancholia, desires, and agency. As the focus shifts from mere visibility, the multisensory emerges as the mechanism through which the other space becomes experientially distinct, shaping the female characters’ lived experiences. Therefore, heterotopia provides the overarching theoretical framework, highlighting how other spaces in the films—whether natural landscapes, palaces, schools, or spaces of solitude—allow women to explore, negotiate, and reflect on their identities beyond socially prescribed roles.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 38
Dates: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Nayoung Bishoff
Building: River's Crossing
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This class explores how East Asian cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare engage multiple senses to articulate women’s experiences and amplify women’s voices within other spaces. By combining sensory analysis with a gendered lens, this study examines how the selected films employ auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory cues to represent female characters’ gendered melancholia, desires, and agency. As the focus shifts from mere visibility, the multisensory emerges as the mechanism through which the other space becomes experientially distinct, shaping the female characters’ lived experiences. Therefore, heterotopia provides the overarching theoretical framework, highlighting how other spaces in the films—whether natural landscapes, palaces, schools, or spaces of solitude—allow women to explore, negotiate, and reflect on their identities beyond socially prescribed roles.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 100
Dates: 5/12/2026 - 5/12/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Nayoung Bishoff
Building: Online via Zoom
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Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is his most enduring legacy. In this class, we will briefly consider the history of the song and its meaning before moving on to examine its role in various aspects of popular culture. We will end by looking at several responses to the work by contemporary artists and poets.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 31
Dates: 5/6/2026 - 5/6/2026
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Elizabeth Kraft
Building: UGA Campus at Gwinnett
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Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel was an immediate hit and continues to intrigue us three hundred years later. The book provided Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels talking points for economic theory; it served as inspiration for the enslaved Harriet Jacobs and for Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz; and it spawned many “sequels,” from Defoe’s own Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe to the television show Gilligan’s Island and the Tom Hanks film Cast Away. The myth of Crusoe has also received strong post-colonial critique in light of the relationship between the title character and “his man Friday.” Some find it a harmful book in this regard and have called for its boycott. In this class we will consider the various aspects that make the tale one of the most enduring and problematic narratives in the English language.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 23
Dates: 3/26/2026 - 3/26/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Instructor: Elizabeth Kraft
Building: River's Crossing
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Naomi Klein’s international best-selling books include No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, Doppelgänger, and No Is Not Enough. Although I consider Klein to be one of the most important writers and thinkers of our time, not only most Americans, but also most of my OLLI students are unfamiliar with this brilliant, prophetic witness. This discussion course is for fans of Klein and those previously unaware of her work. There is no required text for the class, but I especially recommend Klein’s 2017 book No Is Not Enough. I will also be recommending various online resources.
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Fee: $32.00
Capacity Remaining: 23
Dates: 5/20/2026 - 6/3/2026
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 3
Days: W
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Instructor: Dan Zins
Building: River's Crossing
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Journey up the Hudson River to explore the world that inspired Washington Irving, "America's author." This riveting 90-minute presentation by Master Storyteller Linda Schuyler Ford combines lecture, stunning visuals, and performance. Uncover the influences that shaped Irving, celebrate his unsung service to our country, explore Hudson River School art, and experience a hypnotic dive into The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 34
Dates: 4/17/2026 - 4/17/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Linda Schuyler Ford
Building: UGA Campus at Gwinnett
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This writing course is structured as an Action Class… well, as much action as a writing class can be. The instructor plans to solicit one or two students to serve as project guinea pigs. Guided by the instructor, the class will actively begin the process of turning the selected students' source material into memoirs. Each session will begin by sharing samples—written examples, and potentially a short video or two—from prominent memoirists or other relevant sources. Attendees will share selected portions of their writing for discussion and analysis. Homework will be assigned. The class will then move into the active process of turning the two chosen diaries or journals into memoirs. This process will incorporate advice from the instructor, the authors, and the entire class, thereby providing students with practical pathways toward doing the same with their own source material. There may or may not be lollipops.
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Fee: $32.00
Capacity Remaining: 23
Dates: 3/23/2026 - 4/6/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 3
Days: M
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Instructor: Bowen Craig
Building: River's Crossing
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This is another three-part workshop series on healing through writing for those who want to write about their trauma and get past the roadblocks of anger, sadness and grief. Using a framework of tools and strategies developed by licensed clinical therapists, tap into your emotion to turn grief and pain into your superpower of descriptive storytelling. We will employ new writing prompts and positive techniques for deep writing. Note: This is a continuation of the grief and trauma writing class from Fall 2025, but Part I is not a prerequisite for Part II. Anyone can join.
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Fee: $32.00
Capacity Remaining: 11
Dates: 3/11/2026 - 3/25/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 3
Days: W
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Instructor: Tracy Coley
Building: River's Crossing
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This is another three-part workshop series on healing through writing for those who want to write about their trauma and get past the roadblocks of anger, sadness and grief. Using a framework of tools and strategies developed by licensed clinical therapists, tap into your emotion to turn grief and pain into your superpower of descriptive storytelling. We will employ new writing prompts and positive techniques for deep writing. Note: This is a continuation of the grief and trauma writing class from Fall 2025, but Part I is not a prerequisite for Part II. Anyone can join.
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Fee: $32.00
Capacity Remaining: 19
Dates: 3/11/2026 - 3/25/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 3
Days: W
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Instructor: Tracy Coley
Building: Online via Zoom
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Welcome to the world of Ursula le Guin—one of the greatest writers of science and fantasy fiction. Each of this class’s four sessions will cover an aspect of le Guin’s writing. To provide a focus for the wide-ranging scope of her novels and stories, the instructor will spend some time on one work in each of four general categories. In this 4 session class, you will cover: Session 1- Introduction and Earthsea I The first trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, Session 2 - Earthsea II The second trilogy: Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind; Session 3 - The trilogy Annals of the Western Shore: Gifts, Voices and Powers; Session 4 - Other novels and stories
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Fee: $42.00
Capacity Remaining: 34
Dates: 4/7/2026 - 4/28/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 4
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Simon Gatrell
Building: River's Crossing
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The focus of the class will be on reading and responding to selected poems of Oliver and Berry rather than on technical analysis. We will look at the ways these poets use a sense of place and the natural world to connect to broader themes and to the human experience. Emphasis will be on the pleasure found in the work of these two poets and on the connections and resonances experienced between poems, poets, and readers.
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: -5
Dates: 3/5/2026 - 3/12/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Th
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Instructor: Marilyn Rieger
Building: River's Crossing
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We read short selections from some of the world’s best fiction and nonfiction including those from the Great Conversations book series. 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: $69.00
Capacity Remaining: 2
Dates: 2/4/2026 - 4/29/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 7
Days: W
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Instructor: Kathryn Kyker
Building: River's Crossing
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This Class is sponsored by Bill Loughner
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We read short selections from some of the world’s best fiction and nonfiction including those from the Great Conversations book series. 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: $69.00
Capacity Remaining: 35
Dates: 2/4/2026 - 4/29/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 7
Days: W
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Instructor: Kathryn Kyker
Building: Online via Zoom
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This class is an exploration of the choices poets make to create meaning in their work. Each of four sessions will amplify our understanding of the fullness and intentionality of those choices. We'll read a lot of examples and even try our hands at emulating them.
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Fee: $42.00
Capacity Remaining: 30
Dates: 2/27/2026 - 3/20/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 4
Days: F
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Instructor: Adrien Helm
Building: River's Crossing
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John Ciardi's ""How Does a Poem Mean"" is the basis of the course. Suggested but not required reading.
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This class is an exploration of the choices poets make to create meaning in their work. Each of four sessions will amplify our understanding of the fullness and intentionality of those choices. We'll read a lot of examples and even try our hands at emulating them.
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Fee: $42.00
Capacity Remaining: 99
Dates: 2/27/2026 - 3/20/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 4
Days: F
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Instructor: Adrien Helm
Building: Online via Zoom
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