Social Entrepreneurship
Naiidya Parekh
Tuesday, June 20, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
**Location: SSU Campus - Stevenson Hall 1102
Online registration deadline: Friday, June 16, 5 pm
Phone registration deadline: Monday, June 19, 5 pm
This course introduces the field of social entrepreneurship as an evolving dimension of its parent discipline - entrepreneurship and illustrates how 'doing good and well' is becoming the new norm of the field.
Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow
Richie Unterberger
Thursday, June 22, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
**Location: SSU Campus - Stevenson Hall 1102
Online registration deadline: Tuesday, June 20, 5 pm
Phone registration deadline: Wednesday, June 21, 5 pm
In early 1967, Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow became the first hit San Francisco psychedelic rock album, launching the San Francisco Sound as an international phenomenon. Featuring the hit singles “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit,” it was their first album with Grace Slick, who sang both songs and became one of the top stars of the psychedelic era. With video clips, audio clips, and pictures, rock historian Richie Unterberger discusses the evolution of this crucial classic record, which mixed folk and psychedelic rock and also featured stellar contributions from singer-songwriter Marty Balin and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.
Pangaea Supercontinent
Nicole Myers
Tuesday, June 27, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
**Location: SSU Campus - Stevenson Hall 1102
Online registration deadline: Friday, June 23, 5 pm
Phone registration deadline: Monday, June 26, 5 pm
Pangaea Supercontinent was the only supercontinent in Earth history that harbored life. Pangaea was not the first supercontinent, but the most recent in a lineage of supercontinents that have existed over the last 2.7 billion years. Geologists have discovered a planetary Supercontinent Cycle, but in this long history of supercontinent formation and destruction Pangaea was the only one to host life. Learn when Pangaea existed, how it changed the climate, and how life responded to its formation and destruction. Learn about the break-up of Pangaea and the related formation of the Atlantic Ocean, the evolution of the Dinosaurs, and the natural disasters that were initiated by the super-continental destruction. Life was never the same after Pangaea.
Brexit - What Have We Learned So Far?
Florence Bouvet
Thursday, June 29, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Online/Zoom
Online registration deadline: Tuesday, June 27, 5 pm
Phone registration deadline: Wednesday, June 28, 5 pm
This lecture focuses on the decision the UK took in 2016 to leave the European Union. It covers the main reasons behind the "leave" vote , and the economic and political consequences of this decision in the UK and for the rest of the EU.
Sculpture Garden: Paradise Ridge Winery
Linda Loveland-Reid
Tuesday, July 11, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
**Location: SSU Campus - Stevenson Hall 1102
Online registration deadline: Friday, July 7, 5 pm
Phone registration deadline: Monday, July 10, 5 pm
In 1960, Walter Byck proposed to his girlfriend, Marijke, in a sculpture grove in the Netherlands. By 1997, Walter and Marijke had permanently recreated this romantic moment as the pair developed an expansive sculpture garden on a perfect wooded grove in Santa Rosa, along with an award-winning Winery. Today, the 150-acre is home to stunning sculptures, many from Burning Man. We explore these wonders and get to know the artists. An optional on-site-tour will follow the class.
A Short History of Fossil Fuels
Leah Halper
Tuesday, July 18, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
**Location: Stevenson Hall 1102
Online registration deadline: Friday, July 14, 5 pm
Phone registration deadline: Monday, July 17, 5 pm
Human dependence on fossil fuels is a relatively recent phenomenon. This short, interactive course will look at how this complex, comprehensive relationship developed, and at a few historical roads not taken along the fossil fuel route. We will survey the economic and cultural development of fossil fuel-based economies, focusing on extraction, industrialization, urbanization, and consumerism. We will also explore growing awareness through the 20th century of the climate impacts of fossil fuels, and some personal and societal strategies to move beyond coal, gas, and oil so human history may continue.
The First Hooligans
Ian Livie
Thursday, July 20, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Online/Zoom
Online registration deadline: Tuesday, July 18, 5 pm
Phone registration deadline: Wednesday, July 19, 5 pm
Gangs...Murder...mayhem...this was the world of the “Hooligans” in late 19th century London, filling the pages of almost every newspaper with stories of teenage boys and girls who had turned their backs on 'civilized' society. This 2-hour social and cultural history course will explore the origins and culture of "Hooliganism" in late 19th and early 20th Century Britain. We will take a deep dive into the stories of two murders by so-called "Hooligan" gang members in the summer of 1898 that took over the pages of the popular press. From there, we will explore the intersection of gang culture and the moral panic over working-class deviance that led to the development of the enduring “Hooligan” archetype in British culture.
Vermeer Up Close
Lynn Ostling
Tuesday, July 25, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
**Location: Stevenson Hall 1102
Online registration deadline: Friday, July 21, 5 pm
Phone registration deadline: Monday, July 24, 5 pm
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam assembled 28 paintings by Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) to present what the Guardian described as "one of the most thrilling exhibitions ever conceived"—a show that sold out almost before it opened. Like many fans of Vermeer’s work, retired Art History professor Lynn Ostling was not able to attend the exhibition. Instead, she has prepared this lecture which will position Vermeer in the context of 17th-century Dutch painting, examine a number of his pieces "up close," explore his use of optical devices and symbolism, and discuss why this artist’s work has achieved such iconic popularity in the 21st century.
