Final Decisions
This study group will be online
We will cover a number of topics relating to end of life decisions. They include: Michigan’s laws relating to burial; honest talks with...
The Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts of Health Care Access for Low Income Americans
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
Over the past 50 years, the United States has implemented policies to improve access to health care for low-income adults and children,...
Understanding Oppression, Intolerance, and Injustice Through Music
This study group will be online
Music is present in our mental lives and can be a powerful antidote for emotional turmoil. This is particularly true in our current social,...
The Underfunding of Mental Health Services in Washtenaw County: Systemic Origins and Possible ReformsThe Underfunding of Mental Health Services in Washtenaw County: Systemic Origins and Possible Reforms
This Study Group will be online.
Washtenaw County Community Mental Health (WCCMH) had a deficit of $10.3 million in 2019. This study group will start with a discussion of...
Women’s Issues: In Our Prime - Ageism and Women
This study group will be online.”
We will be reading and discussing, In Our Prime by Susan Douglas, professor of Communications at UM. Dr. Douglas calls on women of all ages...
Computerized Investing: Asset Allocation and Mutual Funds
This Study Group will be online.
We expect to improve your overall investment knowledge as well as your investing strategies, as we present methods of using various...
Israel and Palestine - Ethical Issues
This Study Group will be online.
Israel and Palestine represent two dramatically competing narratives and the conflict between them is one of the most difficult and...
Mass Incarceration and How Criminal Justice Authorities Can Help End It
This Study Group will be online.
During these three weeks we will examine the role of criminal justice authorities, such as prosecutors, judges, police, parole board and...
Safe, Secure and Accessible Elections for All
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required....
Free Writing
This study group will be online
The perfect way to begin writing is to write. Writing to memoir prompts, we will practice turning off our text editors. Free writing is...
A Review of the Modern History of Iran
This Study Group will be online.
This class is intended to foster a better understanding of Iran and its history. The topics include: a review of Iranian history from the...
Building and Preserving Affordable Housing in the United States: Federal Resources and Local Efforts
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
In the United States only one out of every four eligible low-income households is able to live in a subsidized housing unit. This limited...
Unsung Heroes: Everyday Women and Politics
This Study Group will be online.
Before women had the right to vote in America, how did they engage with politics in their everyday lives? From cookbooks and sheet music to...
Democratic to Authoritarian Rule
This Study Group will be online.
Democracy is undergoing an "alarming" decline across the world as a growing number of countries move towards authoritarian rule,...
Online Self-Defense: How to protect your privacy, identity and security when using technology
This study group will be online
Online services, smartphones, and other new technologies offer many benefits but also pose many privacy and security risks, such as...
Detective Mystery Films – Shelter-in-Place Edition
This study group will be online
Together we’ll enjoy detective mystery films available to stream at home. We’ll have a virtual meeting online, followed by individual...
Michigan and Other Battleground States
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
Michigan is one of a group of swing states that have had close, competitive races in recent presidential campaigns and down ballot contests....
Efforts by the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
Dr. Daniel Clauw will speak on the work done by the Chronic Pain Research Center. He will highlight accomplishments of the past, as well as...
Religion and Violence
This study group will be online
Violence is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, as it has always been. How can we resolve conflict and manage serious...
Today’s Racial Divides: How Has Education Failed Us?
This study group will be online
Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, says,...
The Power of Naming during Life Changing Events
This study group will be online
In this memoir workshop we will write about 4 periods of change: Preparing for Attack-from the Cold War to 9/11, the Space Race, the Vietnam...
From the Edge of the Ghetto: The Quest of Small City African-Americans to Survive Post-Industrialism
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
This presentation uncovers perspectives about work and work opportunity held by socio-economically disadvantaged African Americans residing...
Living with Purpose and Meaning
This study group will be online
We all want to be of value. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to feel this way at times in our society. Through guided discussion, we will...
Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required....
The Bee Lady Talks
This study group will be online
Explore the life of the honeybee in and out of the hive. Instructor Victoria Dluzen McIntyre is an amateur apiarist whose love of honeybees...
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 -- Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Underserved Communities: Lessons Learned from Flint and Implications for Reducing Health Disparities Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required....
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: How Life Works, Part 1
This study group will be online
This course is based on The Great Courses series of lectures by Professor Kevin Ahern of Oregon State University. Part 1 will cover the...
The 2020 General Election - Casting and Counting Ballots in Washtenaw County and Beyond
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
The 2020 election cycle has proven to be both dynamic and historic. This lecture will review Michigan’s expanded voting rights and...
Shakespeare’s Poetry
This study group will be online
Many of us have encountered the plays of William Shakespeare, but fewer of us are as familiar with his poetry as we are with his dramatic...
A Survivor’s Guide to Election 2020
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
Presidential election years are known for their dramatic twists and turns, but 2020 takes the cake. This year, the race for the White House...
The Use of Medieval Mythology in Current Political Culture and Propaganda
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
Our speaker, Professor Martin B. Shichtman studies the ways by which medieval symbols have been embraced by political movements to represent...
Great Riddles in Archeology
This Study Group will be online.
From the knights of King Arthur's roundtable to the deepest depths of Atlantis, some of the world's greatest archaeological...
Gallery Walks, Dutch Treats
This Study Group will be online.
This group will concentrate its first three sessions on the life and works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Eyck, focusing more closely on...
Natural Disasters: Vulnerability, Resilience, and a Changing World
This study group will be online
Naturally occurring hazards, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, occur every year and affect nearly every part of the Earth. Their...
Computerized Investing: Using Morningstar Data and Actively Managed Funds
This Study Group will be online.
Using your computer can help you actively select mutual funds and ETFs for investment. Index funds do not always win. There are managed...
Understanding and Enjoying Your Technology
This study group will be online
For so many people, there is a fear of using the devices that we’ve all come to depend on. We often feel helpless about our technology, or...
What Happened Last Tuesday?
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
The presidential election of 2020 will be the most critical and challenging in recent memory. Results will determine the composition of the...
Art History II: Archaic Greek through Early Christian Art
This Study Group will be online.
The second in a sequence of three art history courses, this study group begins with Archaic Greece and the influence of the Trojan War on...
Women in Greek Tragedy
This study group will be online
This course provides a look at women in the various roles they play in Greek tragedy: sacrificial virgin; devoted wife; faithless wife;...
Reason and Moral Values Made the West Great -- Now What?
This Study Group will be online.
We will read and discuss The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro. In his view, many of the great accomplishments of the Western world are...
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 -- Pandemic Update: Vaccines, Testing and Treatments
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required....
Love Starts Here: The Humane Society of Huron Valley and Its Role in the Community
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
For more than 120 years, the Humane Society of Huron Valley (HSHV) has been serving the community, saving animals and helping people. HSHV...
The Magnificent Library of Abby E. Pope
This Study Group will be online.
Beginning as a young single woman in Chicago in the 1880s, Abby Ellen Pope rose from obscurity to build a book collection of surpassing...
A Little Math History Two
This study group will be online
In this course we continue to investigate the 5,000 year history of mathematics, learning about the lives of some great mathematicians and...
Women in American Soccer and European Football: Different Roads to Shared Glory on the Field and in Society
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
The lecture will highlight the opposite paths that women have traversed in the game of Associated Football on both sides of the Atlantic....
How Do We Heal the Widening Divide?
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
This panel discussion will explore how the US has become so polarized, and discuss our present racial, class, and urban/rural divides and...
The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 -- Joy in the Time of COVID-19
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required....
Stress and Brain Health from Biology to Social Contex
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
Our speaker, Dr. Huda Akil, and her colleagues have provided the first psychological evidence of endorphins, and showed that endorphins are...
