Monthly Lectures

OLLI-UW Lectures feature one-hour talks from experts on a wide range of subjects. Lectures are being held in-person at a few different locations. These in-person lectures are free to attend. RSVPs are required due to limited capacity and for COVID updates/cancellations (you will be asked to sign-in/create an account). Please note that OLLI-UW does not require vaccine status or masks.

OLLI-UW also offers two virtual lectures a month. All lectures are free to members. Once a quarter, OLLI-UW will also open up a lecture to the general public. These lectures will be live-streamed via Zoom or recorded while we continue to practice social distancing.

Thank you to our sponsors: ERA Living, The Mirabella Foundation, Emerald Heights, Mukilteo Senior Association, the City of Mukilteo, Heron’s Key in Gig Harbor and Regency at Ten Trails.

The Status of the Artist (In-Person)
Speaker: Miha Sarani
Dates: W, 3/29/2023 - 3/29/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Rosehill Community Center, Mukilteo

The lecture looks at the way the ideas of the artist, the artwork and the art public changed from the Renaissance to the 20th century. We will attempt to grasp the fundamental tension in the discipline of art history between art both as an archaeological object of study and art as autonomous or self-sufficient—that is separate from its historical context. Hopefully we will come to understand the history of art not just as a sequence of different interpretations of single art objects, but as an attempt to understand the relationship between the specific qualities of an art work and a larger conception of art—of what art means in a particular time and place—through the comparison of the different periods and cultures.

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The James Webb Space Telescope takes over from Hubble: First science results (In-Person Livestream and Zoom)
Speaker: Bruce Balick
Dates: F, 4/7/2023 - 4/7/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Trilogy-Cascade Club, Redmond

For the past 30 years the Hubble Space Telescope has fostered or revolutionized one field of astronomical research after another. Now the James Webb Telescope is poised to do the same. In this talk Balick will briefly review the messy history of Webb’s design, construction, and funding. Then we shall follow at it’s picture-perfect launch and deployment, introduce its first scientific images, and present its scientific promise and potential in a field whose research scope is set to explode once more.

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And Zoom Online

Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound (In-Person)
Speaker: David Williams
Dates: F, 4/21/2023 - 4/21/2023
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Rosehill Community Center, Mukilteo

Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound is a award-winning nonfiction account of the long story of the Sound, tracing human history from the earliest records more than 12,500 years ago to present. Williams also focuses on often overlooked species such as Olympia oysters, rockfish, geoduck, kelp, and herring, as well as salmon and orca. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters presents a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits Puget Sound and offers longtime residents new insights into and appreciation of the waters they call home.

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