Learning In Retirement
The Learning in Retirement (LIR) program, continuing its seventh year, just finished its spring ses sion with the following free courses for Center constituents (retirees from UC Berkeley, UC Office of the President and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and their guests). LIR is back this fall starting with a series on the Victorian Novel, space is often limited and registration is required - contact the Center to sign up.
Fall 2009 LIR is complete, thank you for a wonderful semster, listed below are summaries of the lectures from Fall 2009.
If you are interested in learning about the history of LIR click on the link below.
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The Victorian Novel |
| Presented by Professor Catherine Gallagher, Eggers Professor of Literature, Department of English |
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Over 10,000 novels were published in Victorian Britian' we'll read for of the best. The course will emphasize the variety of forms the novels take, their functions and importance in Victorian culture, and the persistence of their narratives in our own time, especially through screen and television adaptations.
Books this lecture series looked at included, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Charles Dicken's Great Expectations and George Eliot's Middlemarch
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From Stalemate to Checkmate: The Great War 1914-1918 |
| Presented by Professor Thomas Barnes, Boalt Hall School of Law, Department of History, Canadian Studies Program |
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The First World War—Britain’s “Great War,” France’s Guerre de Quatorze—on the Western Front, stretching 440
miles from the Franco-Swiss border near Basel to the North Sea at Nieuport, Belgium, was fought in three stages.
The stages;Guerre de Course, Stasis and Mobility Regained were covered in one lecture and discussion each.
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Bells, Bells, Bells – and a Chance to Meet the Berkeley Carillonist |
| Co-Sponsored with The Faculty Club |
This special event was hosted in September. Retirees enjoyed a special concert by Jeff Davis, the University Carillonist, on the Sather Tower bells. After the concernt Retirees and Mr. Davis joined together for dinner in the Faculty Club's Great Hall.
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For more information or to register for programs contact the Center.
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