Eight Courses Full; Others Available for Late Registration

Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill Posted on August 24, 2020 by

Both sections of History of Impressionism are now over-capacity.  Also full are Field Guide to the Planets, Controversies: US-China Relations, An Anthropology of Food, The Philosophy of Humor, Conversational Spanish, and Reading and Discussing Short Stories.

In addition Views on the News is getting close to being full.

We have more than a dozen other wonderful courses for you, too.

People have asked how courses could be full when we aren’t limited by space in physical rooms.  There are a couple reasons: One is that some courses are designed to be discussion courses and therefore too many people would make it difficult for all to participate.  More significant numerically, though, is that for many moderators this is their first time leading an on-line course over Zoom and many of our members are also new to using video conferencing software.  The moderators want to do a good job, and a large number of people make it more challenging.  This is particularly true for courses involving Screen Sharing of materials, especially videos, where class participants may have more difficulty getting their audio and video to work well.  All in all, we feel we’re doing the right thing to let each moderator judge what they’re comfortable doing this fall, so course size limits will vary quite a bit.

A note on the Coronavirus

Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill Posted on March 12, 2020 by

Click HERE for the latest note sent to Shared Learning members on March 12th about Shared Learning’s current response to the Coronavirus.  For visitors (as opposed to members) the main implication at this point is that we have cancelled the March Lindgren Lecture.  We hope to re-schedule the speaker for the Fall.  A final decision about the Spring mini-Term (April 20-June 9) will be made later.

 

Public Lecture Feb 27: Behind the Scenes at the Ackland Art Museum

Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill Posted on February 13, 2020 by
Shared Learning is pleased to announce a public lecture by by Katie Ziglar, Director of the Ackland Museum of Art at UNC.  She’ll share with us hidden “behind the scenes” stories about the Ackland and its collections.  After 28 years working in major American art museums, including the Freer/Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, she became Director of the Ackland in 2016.  She leads the acquisition, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of works of art that support the University’s teaching, research, and public service missions and directs Ackland’s 27 full-time staff members as well as student volunteers and interns.  Ms. Ziglar has a Bachelor’s degree in History from UNC at Chapel Hill and a Master’s degree in Islamic Art and Architecture from the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Her talk will be on Thursday February 27th at 11:15 a.m. in the Youth Room, 1st floor of 103 Market St. in Southern Village.  The talk is open to the public and provides an opportunity for people to learn about Shared Learning and its options for lifelong learning.

Public Lectures for 2019-2020

Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill Posted on October 12, 2019 by
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 at 11:15 in Bldg 103 (103 Market St., Chapel Hill), Youth Room.  It is by Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke, speaking on Democracy in Chains.  For a list of this year’s Lindgren Lectures, click HERE.

Public Lecture: Holy Land Archaeology

Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill Posted on March 7, 2019 by
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

Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill Posted on January 8, 2019 by
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.