Four to five times a year, the Shared Learning Association hosts lectures, free and open to the general public. Our next “Lindgren Lecture” is January 23rd, 2020. Time and meeting location still under consideration. It is by Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke, speaking on Dark Money in Politics. For a list of this year’s Lindgren Lectures, click HERE.
Room Assignments for Fall Courses
Here are Room Assignments for our Fall Courses. Please note that if you are in Science Cafe, that course will not start until September 26th. If you are a participant in another course and will be missing weeks at the start of the term, you may wish to contact your moderator. Their contact information is in our catalog at the beginning of their course description .
SL Room Assignments Fall 2019Latest Updates on Fall Courses
FOUR COURSES ARE NOW FILLED:
- Strategies for Healthy Aging
- Controversies-Immigration
- Learning Life Through Documentary Films
- Beginning Spanish Conversation (the Wednesday class)
Additional requests for filled courses will be added to a waiting list and will be contacted if space becomes available.
Moderators have been offered the opportunity to provide additional information about their courses. So far, information is available for the following course(s). [Click on the course title to see it.]
- How to Look At and Understand Great Art
- Play Reading and Discussion
- Political Order and Political Decay
The Fall Catalog, Schedule, and Registration Page are all described, with links to the actual files, in the next posting, right below this one.
Fall Catalog and Registration
Shared Learning Members and Visitors:
The Fall 2019 Shared Learning catalog is now 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 25 courses during this Fall as well as all courses offered during Winter-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. If you prefer a paper copy, you can request one from Mary Ann Freedman at maryafreedman@gmail.com. The Fall Calendar and Inclement Weather policy is available HERE.
Public Lecture: Holy Land Archaeology
On Thursday, March 28th, Shared Learning presents our final public lecture of the academic year. Emeritus Professor in Judaic Studies at Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Eric M Meyers will speak on “Holy Land Archaeology: Where the Past Meets the Present.”
UPDATE: THE SUNDAY AFTER PROFESSOR MEYERS’ TALK, A VERY RELEVANT ARTICLE ABOUT THE TOPIC WAS PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. HERE IS A LINK TO THAT ARTICLE: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/30/opinion/sunday/jerusalem-city-of-david-israel-dig.html
Professor Meyers has directed digs in Israel and Italy for forty years and is perhaps best known for his 1981 discovery of the oldest Ark from ancient Israel which coincided with the film The Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is the author of 15 books and 370+ scholarly papers and is the recipient of two major research grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He served on the Duke University faculty for more than 45 years and had two stints as the Director of the Graduate Program in Religion.
Professor Meyers’ talk will be held in Shared Learning’s meeting location at Christ United Methodist Church in Southern Village, Chapel Hill: 105 Market St., Rooms 3 & 5. His talk begins at 11:15 a.m. sharp, with a question period following the lecture (and ending at 12:45 p.m.). The talk is free and open to the public.
Germany’s Democracy -> Hitler’s Dictatorship
Five times a year, the Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill is pleased to present guest lectures, free and open to the public–now at our new location at 105 Market St., in Southern Village, in the meeting room facilities of the Christ United Methodist Church.
This month, on Thursday, January 24th, at 11:15 a.m. our presenter is Dr. Gerhard Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Emeritus Professor of History at UNC who will speak on “Ending Germany’s Democracy; Establishing Hitler’s Dictatorship.” We are fortunate to have as our lecturer on this topic a person who not only spent his first ten years living in Germany during the Nazi takeover but has spent a long lifetime as a distinguished scholar studying, teaching and lecturing on the subject of Nazi Germany and World War II. At a time when many believe that American democracy is in danger, it will be instructive to hear Dr. Weinberg discuss an instance where democracy did disappear into totalitarian dictatorship.
Dr. Weinberg’s lecture will begin at 11:15 a.m. in Rooms 3 & 5 in the 105 Market St. building just across Sumac Rd. from the Christ United Methodist Church. For those who are accustomed to our public Lindgren Lectures being held on Fridays, please note that at our new location, we will be holding these lectures on the 4th THURSDAYS of the month–this month, on Thursday, January 24th. Parking is available in numerous places: the lot directly behind the 101-105 Market St. buildings, the Church’s lot on the other side of the Church proper, street parking nearby, and the $2/day Park-and-Ride lot just down Sumac Rd. Directions and a map are HERE.
Public Lecture: N.C. Politics–Today & Tomorrow: Rob Christensen
The Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill is honored to present a talk by Rob Christensen about current and future North Carolina politics. With the mid-term election almost upon us, his talk could not be more timely. It is scheduled for Friday, October 26th at 11 a.m. at our current meeting location: Expand Church, 114 Weaver Dairy Rd. (corner of Erwin).
Mr. Christensen has covered North Carolina politics for 45 years at the News and Observer in Raleigh and is perhaps the most qualified non-partisan commentator on this topic in the entire State. His book, The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics, was published by UNC Press in 2008, and won an award as the best of work of non fiction in the State that year. His new book, Branchhead Boys, is scheduled to be published by UNC Press in the spring.
This talk, like all others in the Gray Lindgren public lecture series, is free and open to the public. Please join us!
For further information, download the flyer <-HERE.
Public Lecture: U.S.’s Russia Policy
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!
Fall Catalog Updates
A few updates to the Fall Catalog.
Four courses are now closed to new enrollment–Discover Unfamiliar Languages, Plays: Reading and Discussing, Controversies: How Democracies Die, and Beginning Spanish. Waiting lists are established for all courses that are full and we will alert you if a space has become available for you.
Also, if you are looking for History & Nature of the Universe, II in the menus referring to this course’s webpage it is going by a new title: Fun in the Physical World
Fall 2019 Course Catalog & Registration
Shared Learning Members and Visitors:
The Fall 2019 Shared Learning catalog is now 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 25 courses during this Fall as well as all courses offered during Winter-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. The Fall Calendar and Inclement Weather policy is available here.