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OLLI Fall 2020 registration is open and events are listed below. Registration is available online or by U.S. Mail. In-person registration is not available for this session.
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 Afternoons with OLLI,
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Distinguished Lecture Series
Distinguished Lecture Series (09/08/2020 - 06/08/2021)
Distinguished Lecture Series Session 1 (09/08/2020 - 01/12/2021)
DLS - 9/8/20 Daypass - Democracy and Debate (09/08/2020)
DLS - 10/13/20 Daypass - Efforts by the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center (10/13/2020)
DLS - 11/10/20 Daypass - What Happened Last Tuesday (11/10/2020)
DLS - 12/8/20 Daypass - Women in American Soccer and European Football: Different Roads to Shared
Glory on the Field and in Society (12/08/2020)
DLS - 1/12/21 Daypass - Stress and Brain Health from Biology to Social Context (01/12/2021)
Distinguished Lecture Series Session 2 (02/09/2021 - 06/08/2021)Thursday Morning Lecture Series
Poverty, Inequity, and Disparity (series) (09/10/2020 - 10/15/2020)
Poverty, Inequity, and Disparity -- 9/10/20 Daypass -- Poverty: Causes, Consequences, and Cures (09/10/2020)
Poverty, Inequity, and Disparity -- 9/17/20 Daypass-- The Questions We Don’t Know to Ask:
Studying Poverty in 21st Century America (09/17/2020)
Poverty, Inequity, and Disparity -- 9/24/20 Daypass -- Access and Equity in US School Systems (09/24/2020)
Poverty, Inequity, and Disparity -- 10/1/20 Daypass -- The Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts of
Health Care Access for Low Income Americans (10/01/2020)
Poverty, Inequity, and Disparity -- 10/8/20 Daypass -- Building and Preserving Affordable Housing in
the United States: Federal Resources and Local Efforts (10/08/2020)
Poverty, Inequity, and Disparity -- 10/15/20 Daypass -- From the Edge of the Ghetto: The Quest of
Small City African-Americans to Survive Post-Industrialism (10/15/2020)
1619-Present - The Many Consequences of Slavery: The Cost of Historical Injustices (series) (10/22/2020 - 12/03/2020)
Advances in Science (series) (01/14/2021 - 02/18/2021)
Graphic Books, Memes, and More (series) (02/25/2021 - 04/08/2021)
Central America: Coffee to Caravans (series) (04/15/2021 - 05/20/2021)Lecture Series PackagesAfternoons with OLLI
Evenings with OLLI Fall Package (3 events) (09/22/2020 - 11/18/2020)
From Mobility to Accessibility: Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning (09/22/2020)
The 2020 General Election - Casting and Counting Ballots in Washtenaw County and Beyond (10/21/2020)
Love Starts Here: The Humane Society of Huron Valley and its role in the community (11/18/2020)OLLI ReadsShared Interest Groups (SIGs)Special Events
Election 2020 (series) (09/11/2020 - 12/09/2020)
Election 2020 -- 9/11/20 Daypass -- Voting During COVID-19: Nonpartisan Strategies on Campus (09/11/2020)
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 (series) (09/15/2020 - 12/15/2020)
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 -- 9/15/20 Daypass -- Health Perspectives on COVID-19 (09/15/2020)
Election 2020 -- 9/21/20 Daypass -- Citizen Activism: Driver of A Healthy Democracy (09/21/2020)
Election 2020 -- 10/07/20 Daypass -- Safe, Secure and Accessible Elections for All (10/07/2020)
Election 2020 -- 10/12/20 Daypass -- Michigan and Other Battleground States (10/12/2020)
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 -- 10/20/20 Daypass -- Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on
Underserved Communities: Lessons Learned from Flint and Implications for Reducing Health Disparities
Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic (10/20/2020)
Election 2020 -- 10/26/20 Daypass -- A Survivor’s Guide to Election 2020 (10/26/2020)
OLLI Dialog: The Use of Medieval Mythology in Current Political Culture and Propaganda with Martin
Shichtman (10/27/2020)
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 -- 11/17/20 Daypass -- Pandemic Update: Vaccines, Testing and
Treatments (11/17/2020)
Election 2020 -- 12/09/20 Daypass -- How Do We Heal the Widening Divide? (12/09/2020)
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 -- 12/15/20 Daypass -- Joy in the Time of COVID-19 (12/15/2020)Study Groups
Current Events (09/22/2020 - 12/22/2020)
American Democracy After the Pandemic (09/23/2020 - 10/28/2020)
The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election (09/23/2020 - 10/14/2020)
Understanding Current Issues Through Heroines of the Past: Women and Words 1880-1930 (09/23/2020 - 10/14/2020)
Alleviating Poverty in Detroit and Beyond: A Look at Interventions (09/24/2020)
The Underfunding of Mental Health Services in Washtenaw County: Systemic Origins and Possible
Reforms (10/01/2020 - 10/22/2020)
Israel and Palestine - Ethical Issues (10/06/2020 - 11/17/2020)
Mass Incarceration and How Criminal Justice Authorities Can Help End It (10/07/2020 - 10/21/2020)
Democratic to Authoritarian Rule (10/08/2020 - 10/22/2020)
Unsung Heroes: Everyday Women and Politics (10/08/2020)
The Soul of America (09/21/2020 - 11/02/2020)
Caravans, Cultures, and Chinggis Khan along the Silk Route (09/23/2020 - 10/21/2020)
Modern History of Iran (10/07/2020 - 10/28/2020)
Great Riddles in Archeology (11/03/2020 - 11/17/2020)
Reason and Moral Values Made the West Great -- Now What? (11/16/2020 - 12/14/2020)
The Magnificent Library of Abby E. Pope (11/19/2020)
Literary Short Fiction (09/16/2020 - 12/16/2020, FULL)
Reading Women’s Lives (09/18/2020 - 12/18/2020, FULL)
The Theban Plays of Sophocles (09/23/2020 - 10/28/2020)
Literature of Colonialism and Structural Racism (09/25/2020 - 12/18/2020)
Shakespeare’s Poetry (10/23/2020 - 11/13/2020)
Women in Greek Tragedy (11/11/2020 - 12/16/2020)
Poverty: Looking from the Inside Out (09/22/2020 - 10/04/2020)
Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, and Restoring Sanity by Margaret
Wheatley (09/22/2020 - 10/20/2020)
You’re Not Listening, But It’s Never Too Late to Learn (09/23/2020 - 11/11/2020)
Women’s Issues: In Our Prime- Ageism and Women (10/05/2020 - 11/02/2020)
Today’s Racial Divides: How Has Education Failed Us? (10/14/2020)