Fall Brings Free Campus Lectures Open to Community
Topics Range From the Environment and Politics to the Dutch Experience
What:
Corporate responsibility, politics, history and the environment are among the subjects to be covered in free, public lectures offered this fall by Cal State Fullerton’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
When/Where:
Five new lecture series begin in September, and all programs are held in the Mackey Auditorium of the university’s Ruby Gerontology Center.
LIFE ON A CHANGING EARTH:
1:15 – 3:15 p.m. alternate Tuesdays
Sept. 16 — “Seismic Hazards in Southern California” by David Bowman, chair and associate professor of geological sciences at Cal State Fullerton
Sept. 30 — “When the Mountains Come to You! Coping With Debris Flows and Landslides in the Urban Environment” by John Foster, CSUF professor of geological sciences
Oct. 14 — “Reconstructing Rivers and Lakes in California Over the Last Three Million Years: How (or Could) the Amazing Pupfish Swim From the Colorado River to Owens Valley?” by Jeffrey R. Knott, CSUF assistant professor of geological sciences
Oct. 28 — “The Day the Earth Almost Died: The Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction and Its Relevance to Today” by Adam D. Woods, CSUF assistant professor of geological sciences
Dec. 2 — “Fossil Succession in the Geological Record: Evidence of Darwinian Evolution” by Nicole Bonuso, CSUF assistant professor of geological sciences
David Bowman
Jeffrey R.Knott
Nicole Bonuso
THE POLITICAL SCENE
10 a.m. – noon alternate Thursdays
Sept. 18 — “Discussion Between Representatives of Both Major Political Parties” by Frank Barbaro, chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County, and Ray Greengoff, director of public affairs for the Apartment Association of Orange County, representing the Republican Party of Orange County
Oct. 16 — “Rules, Outcomes and Outliers: Election 2008” by Matthew G. Jarvis, CSUF assistant professor of political science
Oct. 30 — “The 2008 Presidential Election in Historical Perspective” by Scott Spitzer, CSUF assistant professor of political science
Nov. 13 — “The Pasco Report” by Jean Pasco, director of the Orange County Archives and former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register
Matthew Jarvis
Scott Spitzer
THE BEST OF THE ECLECTICS
1:15 – 3:15 p.m., alternate Thursdays
Sept. 25 – “The Iraq War and the U.S. Presidential Elections: An Assessment of the War and How It Impacts the Upcoming Election” by William Haddad, chair and professor of history at CSUF and author of “Iraq: The Human Cost of History”
Oct. 9 — “African-American Music: Rhythm as the Basis for Stylistic Differences” by musicologist Stan L. Breckenridge, CSUF lecturer in Afro-Ethnic studies
Oct. 23 — “The Trial of the Templars (1307-1314)” by Jochen Burgtorf, CSUF professor of history
Nov. 6 — “The Art of Succulent Bonsai” by Clifford Meng, treasurer of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America
Nov. 20 — “Marrying Up, Part Two” by Lois Nettleship, professor of history at Fullerton College
William Haddad
Stan Breckenridge
Jochen Burgtorf
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES
1:15 – 3:15 p.m., alternate Tuesdays Sept. 23 through Dec. 9
Moderator: Steve Spanier, co-executive director of Reclaimdemocracy.org
THE DUTCH EXPERIENCE
Discussions on business, culture, tourism and history of the Netherlands
10 a.m.-noon, alternate Tuesdays Sept. 23 through Dec. 9
OLLI
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is a self-governing university support group of more than 875 retired and semiretired individuals dedicated to the pursuit of lifelong learning.
Media Contacts:
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, 657-278-2446
Pamela McLaren, Public Affairs, 657-278-4852 or pmclaren@fullerton.edu
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