Summer Registration
Online Registration for Fee-Based Lectures
Summer 2024
Online & Phone Registration
- Register online starting Wednesday, June 5 at the registration page.
- Register by phone starting Wednesday, June 5: 707-664-2691 (8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.).
- Registered students will receive an email with class Zoom link the day before class starts with information on attending in person and remotely. The Zoom link is the same link for each class. Please save the email and link for the duration of your class.
- In Person classes: Registered students will receive an email the day before class starts with course location, directions, and parking information. There is a $5 daily parking fee at the SSU campus.
- If you do not receive an email please let us know promptly by emailing olli@sonoma.edu.
- Course materials are available at the course materials page.
If you were not able to register before your class begins, do not worry! Registration is available in person at all classes.
OLLI Summer 2024 Courses
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OLLI Summer 2024: Three-Week Classes
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A Brief Introduction to Environmental Political Theory
Emily Ray
Wednesdays, July 10-24, 10am - 12pm
**Location: Stevenson Hall 1102
Environmental political theory draws from social and political theory to better understand and explain the relationship between humans and the environment. Pulling especially from modern political thought, this course introduces foundational concepts and texts to help us navigate climate change, what it means to practice environmentalism, and our place in the living world.
**This class will be Hyflex, i.e., it will take place both in person and through Zoom. This class will be recorded and available for viewing at a later date.
Racism and Racial Justice
Megan Burke
Tuesdays, July 16-30, 10am - 12pm
Location: Online/Zoom
This course considers the personal, social, historical, and political forces that influence the persistence of racism in the United States. Students can expect to engage with philosophical debates over the meaning of racism, critical investigations into the lived experience of race and racism, and various conceptions of racial justice.
OLLI Summer 2024: OLLI à la Carte Classes
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Painting the Stethoscope: How Doctors, Nurses, Patients, and Diseases are Portrayed in Art
Charlie Goldberg
Thursday, July 11, 1:30 - 3:30pm
**Location: Stevenson Hall 1102
In this 2-hour. course we will look at how health practitioners have been portrayed through the ages, both positively, and negatively. We'll also look at different ways that diseases are shown, as well as how certain diseases have affected artists and their work. Most of all we'll all have fun looking at fabulous images, guided by your host, Charlie Goldberg, a former Emergency Department doctor.
**This class will be Hyflex, i.e., it will take place both in person and through Zoom. This class will be recorded and available for viewing at a later date.
Man vs Machine: Artificial Intelligence and the "Ballad of John Henry: Redux
Jesse Bengson
Thursday, July 18, 10am - 12pm
**Location: Stevenson Hall 1102
The phenomenon of Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing humanity. How do A.I. models work to replicate the thoughts and behavior of human beings? Are machines actually thinking? What are the societal impacts of A.I? Just as the invention of industrial machinery revolutionized society, A.I. is rapidly revolutionizing humanity. The next generation will grow up in a world in which interactions with simulated thought will be as common as interactions with the genuine thoughts of human beings. This lecture offers an overview of A.I. and how it simulates aspects of human cognition.
**This class will be Hyflex, i.e., it will take place both in person and through Zoom. This class will be recorded and available for viewing at a later date.
The Last of the Romanovs
Asys Pereltsvaig
Tuesday, July 23, 1-3 pm
Location: Online/Zoom
This year marks the 130th anniversary of the enthronement of Nikolai II of Russia, the last Tsar in the Romanov dynasty, and the 120th anniversary of the birth of his only son Alexei, the would-be tsar who was ill with hemophilia and later brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. In this lecture, we’ll take a sweeping look at Russia at the time of the last of the Romanovs and on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution, from the royal family down to peasants, who still constituted the majority of the Russian population despite rapid industrialization and urbanization. The lecture is richly illustrated not only by photographic images but by rare documentary footage of the Romanov family and historical events of that period.