What is the Enlightenment philosophy of political equality that informed the writing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence? This presentation focuses on two issues concerning Jewish people challenging the U.S. government to guarantee equality including President...
Teaching the Holocaust has been required in Florida’s public schools for over 30 years, yet the implementation of that requirement has faced many challenges. What does the state of Florida require that students be taught about the Holocaust, and what are the barriers...
Discover how everyday people — especially those 50 and older — can use AI tools to save time, organize their lives, and get more done with less stress. Ron introduces easy-to-use applications that turn technology into a trusted daily assistant.
Practical tips and uplifting insights for confident communication through every chapter of life. In this captivating talk, voice and communication expert Melissa Grassia Chisholm, MS, CCC-SLP, reveals the secrets to maintaining a refined, effortless voice as you age....
This lecture looks at The Beatles’ early original songs and how they updated pop/rock, all in a noisy and exuberant wall of sound with a new spirit of commitment and FUN! Featuring “Beatles For Sale” (“Beatles 65” in America) through “A Hard Day’s Night,” and the...
For musical expression of the snowy season, Vivaldi’s Winter is hard to beat, but it is not alone. Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Leroy Anderson also brought their skills to the topic. Music historian Betsy Schwarm brings sounds of a classical winter, and the stories behind...
Take the swirl of a Strauss waltz. Add a festive spirit and a case of champagne. The result is Viennese operetta! No tragic endings. No fiendish bad guys. Just couples successfully working out their differences against a largely light-hearted background and a fair...
Part I focuses on songs composed and recorded prior to 1930, including such great numbers as Irving Berlin’s “Always”, Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust”, James Monaco’s “You Made Me Love You” and George Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me”.
How Hollywood Portrays Women. Encounter four ways Hollywood has traditionally represented women onscreen. Among the categories you’ll consider: mothers, damsels, femme fatales, and domestic or romantic agents. You’ll also get a primer on how movies have chosen to...
Mise-en-Scene: How Are Movie Worlds Created? To tell you a story, a movie relies on settings, props, actors, blocking, costumes, makeup, and lighting—all of which exist independently of cinematography, editing, and sound design. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how...
Just as the United States developed from European influences, American art was seeded through European influence. Learn what shaped American art’s beginnings from the 18th-century through the Hudson River School and Luminism movements.
Psychoanalysis has had a powerful influence on Western culture, so powerful that people sometimes refer to modernity as a post-Freudian era. We know that Sigmund Freud was Jewish, read Hebrew fluently, had a deep knowledge of Jewish theology, and that he was the...
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and others addressed the issue on how to age well. What role do physical health, family, and success play in happiness as we approach our later years? What gives life meaning? Socrates, on trial at age seventy, had three...
The first part of the 1960s mixed music about cars, the beach, dances and teen angst over young love. This one-hour lecture looks at the early days of a decade that began in “Camelot” and ended in Vietnam. Several big-name stars of that era, including The Beach Boys,...
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