Lecture Archive 2012–2013
“My Life as a Conductor” – Lecture Series Organized by OLLI and Champaign-Urbana Symphony
Farkhad Khudyev (Guest Conductor, and Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the National Orchestra of Ashgabat)
No Denying: Delawareans Bear Witness to the Holocaust
Steve Gonzer (Retired educator, winner of Educator of the Year Award from the Delaware Association of Adult Community Educators)
New Mexico Travelogues (in conjunction with the spring 2013 OLLI trip to New Mexico)
Fred Christensen
Spielberg’s Lincoln as Film and History
Fred Christensen and Christine Catanzarite
Chaco Canyon (in conjunction with the spring 2013 OLLI trip to New Mexico)
Fred Christensen
“My Life as a Conductor” – Lecture Series Organized by OLLI and Champaign-Urbana Symphony
David Commanday (Guest Conductor, and founding Artistic Director and Conductor of the Heartland Festival Orchestra; named 2011 Professional Conductor of the Year by the Illinois Council of Orchestras)
“My Life as a Conductor” – Lecture Series Organized by OLLI and Champaign-Urbana Symphony
Alexander Platt (Guest Conductor, and Resident Conductor and Music Advisor, Chicago Opera Theater)
Maintaining and Enhancing Healthy Brains and Minds
Gillian Cooke, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lifelong Brain and Cognition Lab, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, U of I)
What I Learned About Education from Teaching in a Prison
Rachel Rasmussen (Tutor Coordinator, Education Justice Project, College of Education, U of I)
Russian Women at the Nexus of Family, Work, and Sex
Professor Theodore P. Gerber (Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison) (Coordinated in conjunction with the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, U of I)
The Academy Awards: History, Tradition, and Ritual
Christine Catanzarite
“My Life as a Conductor” – Lecture Series Organized by OLLI and Champaign-Urbana Symphony
Stephen Alltop (Guest Conductor, Music Director of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, and conducting faculty, Northwestern University)
Jazz in Chicago: Yesterday and Today (in conjunction with the August 2013 OLLI trip to the Chicago Jazz Festival)
Sam Reese (Associate Professor Emeritus of Music Education, U of I)
DNA Fingerprinting
Mary Severinghaus (Retired instructor of Biology, Parkland College)
Urbana-Champaign Community Smiles: Our Own Currency
Tracy Satterthwaite (Executive Director of Public Relations, UC Smiles) and Sten Johansen (Board Member, UC Smiles)
Creating a 21st Century Corps of Discovery
Michael Jeffords and Susan Post (Researchers, Illinois Natural History Survey)
Thieves of Book Row
Travis McDade (Curator of law collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library; and Instructor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, U of I)
Citizen Kane: A Film Screening and Discussion
Connie Hosier (Retired Humanities instructor, Parkland College)
The Physics of Baseball
Alan Nathan (Professor Emeritus, Physics, U of I)
The Color of Pomegranates: A Film Screening and Discussion
Peter A. Michalove (Composer) and Teresa Prussak-Wieckowska (Retired crystallographer, Chemistry Department, U of I)
A Butterfly Big Year
Michael Jeffords and Susan Post
Building a Maritime Museum in the Cornfields
Dr. Charles Lozar (Retired architect and instructor, U of I)
The Musical Peregrinations of St. Anthony of Padua
Peter A. Michalove
A Dream of Serpents: Taking Down the Gang That Hijacked Liberia
George Gollin (Professor of Physics, U of I)
Eastern Illinois Foodbank
Andrea Rundell (Director of Programs, Eastern Illinois Foodbank)
Lightning
Eric Snodgrass (Director of Undergraduate Studies and Instructor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, U of I)
When Stars Attack! In Search of Killer Supernova Explosions
Brian Fields (Professor, Astronomy and Physics, U of I)
Intergenerational Mentoring: An Opportunity for OLLI Members
Susan Gershenfeld (Director, Illinois Promise, U of I)
Egyptian Pulley
Stephen Blakely (Chief Technology Officer, Neurovision Medical Products)
Fort Dearborn 1812: The Site and the Battle in History and Archaeology
Fred Christensen (This lecture was held at Clark-Lindsey Village, a residential senior community in Urbana; it was open to OLLI members, Clark-Lindsey residents, and guests. This was the first in a series of collaborative presentations that will be co-organized by OLLI and Clark-Lindsey in the coming year.)
Tornadoes
Eric Snodgrass
School of Metaphysics
Dr. Pam Blosser (Director, School of Metaphysics, Champaign-Urbana)
Baedeker! Travel, Tourism, and the World’s Best Guidebooks
Fred Christensen
Stealing the "General”: A Civil War Double Feature and Discussion
Craig Cutbirth (Associate Professor Emeritus, Communication, Illinois State University) and Fred Christensen
Fabulous Fans—Objects of Art, Fashion, History, and a Cool Breeze
Robin Goettel (Associate Director for Education, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program, U of I)