Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill

The catalog of courses for our “Spring” Semester (which begins January 14th) will be out in just over a month.  If you are not a current member, you will be able to download the catalog from this page.  If you’d like a reminder email sent to you when the catalog is available (and are not already on our mailing list), add your name to our mailing list by following this link: ADD ME TO THE SHARED LEARNING EMAIL LIST.  Our classes will be held at our new location: In Southern Village, with the address of 105 Market St., part of the complex of buildings of the Christ United Methodist Church.

On Friday, Sept. 28th, at 11 a.m., Jack F. Matlock, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia gave a powerfully convincing talk to a packed audience at Shared Learning’s first Gray Lindgren Public Lecture of this academic year.  The title of Dr. Matlock’s address was Our Russia Policy: What is it? What Should it Be? but most of the talk focused on the end of the Cold War, the end of Communism in the Soviet Union, and the breakup of that country.  Matlock is the author of Reagan & Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended.

For further information, download the flyer <-HERE.

Our Lindgren Lectures are free and open to the public.  We hope you joined us!

Shared Learning Members and Visitors:

The Fall 2018 Shared Learning catalog is available to all current and former members and to visitors to our site.  Remember, your academic year membership of $60 entitles you to enrollment in more than 20 courses during this Fall as well as all courses offered during Spring 2019. To get started, jump to our Course Description page or get an overview of courses on the Course Schedule page. To register for courses, download and print the Registration Form or the Entire Catalog.  (Note that in addition to the 3 courses marked CLASS FILLED, Beginning Spanish is also now filled.)  The Fall Calendar and Inclement Weather policy is available here.

On Friday, February 23rd, at 11 a.m., Shared Learning was proud to host Professor William Ferris, Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC Chapel Hill, who gave our February Gray Lindgren Public Lecture at our Association’s meeting location, Expand Church, 114 Weaver Dairy Rd., Chapel Hill.

Professor Ferris’ lecture was based on his book, The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists, a fascinating set of interviews with 26 of the most luminous artists and thinkers in American culture — from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward.

Dr. Ferris described to us how he chose subjects and conducted one-on-one interviews, over the past forty years, with such outstanding cultural representatives of the American South; how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity; and how the work of southern and southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South.

Like all of our Lindgren Public Lectures, Dr. Ferris’ talk was free and open to the Chapel Hill area community. We invite you to taste the intellectually invigorating and socially inviting climate that has characterized our organization since its founding by retired UNC faculty members nearly 40 years ago.