by Patty Kane Horrigan
Introduction
The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI.
Absorbing Fairy Tales
The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI.
The Fairy Tale Experience
The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI.
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by Felice Gelman
Introduction
The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI.
Winning Over Bard
The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI.
Creating the First Classes
The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI.
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by Felice Gelman and Josette Lee
Up and Running in No Time
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations.
— Alfred North Whitehead
When we look at the rich offerings in the Bard LLI catalog,
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by Susan Phillips
Introduction
This year Bard LLI celebrates its 25th anniversary offering courses to seniors with a desire to keep learning. Courses are taught by instructors from a wide variety of backgrounds. This includes many Bard professors who work with students all day and then show up to share their knowledge with older learners—for FREE!!
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by Deborah Lanser
Introduction
Mark your calendar for December 20, the day when the WinterFest catalog will arrive so you can start planning your January schedule. As usual, there will be two talks given on four consecutive Wednesdays—January 8, 15, 22, and 29—at 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
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by Peter Scheckner and Martha Honey
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In fall 2024, we organized two thematically linked courses: We Were All Foreigners: Global Immigration through Cinema and Poetry, an in-person course that examined through art the global migration crisis, and Immigration Policy: Too Hot to Handle?
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by Margaret Shuhala
In the Beginning …
Twenty-five years ago, Dean Stuart Stritzler-Levine, sitting in his office in Ludlow, was having the usual busy day, with a steady stream of visitors lined up outside his office door. As he glanced at his appointments for that afternoon, he noticed a notation next to one set of names that indicated the visitors wanted to speak with him about “bringing to our campus an educational venture for senior citizens residing in our surrounding area.”
He was the right man for our Bard LLI founders to meet.
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by Gretchen Lytle
Introduction
During the beautiful fall season, as leaf hues vary and colors shift tones almost day by day, the Bard campus becomes a pictorial landscape. The northern part of campus is especially compelling. Across from the main entrance to the Fisher Center, you will find a contemplative locale for an art installation,
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by Alan Katz
Introduction
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Yes, Gregor, you had one bad morning, and I feel your pain,
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by Gretchen Lytle
Introduction
LLI presenters come from a wide variety of work backgrounds. They might be performing or visual artists, scientists, lawyers, tech people, doctors, journalists, business people, or teachers. Some of the LLI teachers are former teachers of undergraduates, and they have chosen to teach their own age cohort at LLI now.
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