Planning Survey for Fall Re-Opening

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Members and Friends of Shared Learning,

To help us plan our program for the fall which will combine in-person courses and remote courses by Zoom, we sent out an email today with a link to the survey.  If your email server intercepted it, you can be assured that it is a real link that will take you to a Google Forms page to complete the survey.  Or you can email me and if you’re on our mailing list, I will send you another copy directly to you.  Thanks for helping us plan for the exciting fall ahead.

Hank Becker

Spring 2021 Courses at Shared Learning

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It’s finally a flowering Spring and we are pleased to provide to you our Spring Mini-Term Catalog. Included are 15 “Morning Courses”–four-week to ten-week classes, most beginning the week of April 26th.  Also, for current and recent members we are offering 4 new Casual Series activities meeting at various times of the day.  This Spring all courses are FREE and meet remotely over Zoom.

APRIL 19th WAS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER.  If you are interested in participating in our 2021-2022 academic year classes, and you haven’t already given us your email address, send it to admin@sharedlearning.us and you’ll receive a copy of the Fall catalog when it is available, probably early August.

Read the catalog below or DOWNLOAD IT to your computer.

Public Shared Learning Spring 2021 Catalog

 

Public Lecture Feb 27, 2020: Behind the Scenes at the Ackland Art Museum

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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

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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

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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

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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.