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Spring 2023

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNING”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – INTERMEDIATE”

Gordon Peerman, Episcopal Priest, Psychotherapist, and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher,  Meditating with the Living Buddha and the Living Christ”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Samuel Kupper, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Professor of Chinese History, Emeritus, CSUF International Trade Consultant, and Attorney at Law, " China’s Modernization – Part B"

Mary Combs, Choral Director and Educator, “ Choral Singing”

Keith Simmons, Retired attorney and managing partner at Bass, Berry & Sims, “Great Decisions 2023"

Stacy Elliott, M.S.W. Consider the Birds of the Air"

Robert Barsky, Guggenheim Fellow and a Professor of Humanities and of Law Passion, Fashion, and Murder in 19th Century Paris"

Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School Finding God in all Creation: the Sacramental Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J."

William M. Petrie, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Vanderbilt Geriatric Psychiatry The Aging Brain in Health and Disease"

Edward Friedman, Retired Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in the Humanities Short Fiction: Analysis and Enjoyment"

Winter 2023

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNING”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – INTERMEDIATE”

Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History Emeritus, Vanderbilt University,  The Underground Railroad and the Struggle over Slavery”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Carole Bucy, Professor of History Emeritus, Volunteer State Community College, " The United States in the 1930s: From the Great Depression to the Arsenal of Democracy"

David Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, “ The Sky is for Everyone: A History of Women Astronomers”

Samuel Kupper, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Professor of Chinese History, Emeritus, CSUF International Trade Consultant, and Attorney at Law, " Modern China"

Molly Miller, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Emerita, Vanderbilt University Stories Told by Nashville’s Rocks and Earliest Fossil Inhabitants: Control of Present-Day Environmental Challenges"

Brandon Hulette, Associate Professor of Military Science, Vanderbilt University “The Forts of Nashville, Then and Now"

Sarah Childress, Education and Engagement Manager for the Nashville Film Festival and Adjunct Professor of Cinema Studies Formative Filmmakers"

Larry Churchill, Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics Emeritus, Vanderbilt University Medical Center A Roadmap for Living the Era of Global Warming"

Art Witulski, Research Professor of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Introduction to Watercolor and Gouache for Painting the Natural World"

Fall 2022

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNING”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “ OLLI Steel Drum Band – INTERMEDIATE”

Gordon Peerman, Episcopal Priest, Psychotherapist and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher,  Meditation and Devotion: Inhabiting the Divine”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Brittany Chase, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Vanderbilt University, " American Popular Music"

Randy Pendergrass, Licensed Sports Nutritionist, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and Licensed Massage Therapist, “ Defensive Living: A Guide to Healthy Living in the 21st Century”

Frank Wcislo, Professor of History and Russian Studies, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, " Histories in Conflict: The Russia-Ukraine War in Historical Perspective"

Donna Ortner, Yoga and Meditation Teacher “Yoga for Healthy Aging"

Tom McCollough, Professor of Religion, Emeritus, Centre College “From Galilee to Jerusalem: Archaeology at Work Uncovering the World of Jesus of Nazareth"

Tony Saunders, Esq., Professor of Business Law and Business Ethics, Belmont University The U.S. Citizenship Exam as a Window into the Study of Advanced Civics"

Summer 2022

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNER”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Beginning/Intermediate Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Beginning/Intermediate Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – INTERMEDIATE”

Jeanette Norden, Professor Emerita, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, “Learning, Memory, and the Brain”

Carl Smith, Retired Professor at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, “The Mind of the Maker: Why ART Is Not a Noun”

Marcia Lavine, Retired Teacher at University School of Nashville, "Art in Context: Looking Beyond the Brushstrokes"

Edward Friedman, Retired Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in the Humanities, “Theater as Literature: The One-Act Play”

Jim McKairnes, Writer, Teacher, and TV Historian, " The Television Canon of Producer Norman Lear at 100"

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker “How to Write a Memoir"

Samuel Y. Kupper, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Professor of Chinese History, Emeritus, CSUF International Trade Consultant, and Attorney at Law “China’s Modernization"

Spring 2022

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Beginning/Intermediate Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE”

Gordon Peerman, Episcopal Priest, Psychotherapist and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, “Meditation and Grace”

Sarah Childress, Adjunct Professor of Cinema Studies, “Film Noir”

Lori Mechem, Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Educator and Roger Spencer, Adjunct Artist Teacher of Jazz Ensemble, Blair School of Music, " History of the Big Bands and The Classic Jazz Trios"

Robert Holladay, Professor of History at Tallahassee Community College, “The Fugitives, the Agrarians, and Vanderbilt”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, "How to Write a Memoir"

Carole Bucy, Professor of History at Volunteer State Community College, “Moving Forward, Looking Backward: The United States in the Gilded Age, 1869 to 1898"

William Teets, Director of Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory and Resident Astronomer “Exploring the Solar System and Beyond"

Robert Fry, Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, “Music of the 1970s"

Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School, “Words into Fiction: Readings from the Canon of Eudora Welty"

Jamie Pope, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, “The Role of Diet and Nutrition in Healthy Aging"

Winter 2022

Cynthia Cyrus, Professor of Musicology, Vanderbilt University, “Music, Pandemics, and History”

Denice Hicks, Artistic Director, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival and Marcia McDonald, Professor of English at Belmont University, “Witches, Fairies, and Nature in Shakespeare’s Plays”

Art Witulski, Research Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, “Drawing Your Life: Learning How to Keep a Sketch Notebook”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Andrew Maraniss, Director of Special Projects at Vanderbilt University Athletics, "Title IX at 50: Women in Sports"

Divya Chaudhry, Senior Lecturer in Hindi-Urdu at Department of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University and Asami Nakano, Lecturer in Japanese at Department of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University, “Cultures of India and Japan”

Dennis C. Dickerson, James Lawson Chair in History and Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, "Barack Obama: Man and President"

Laurie Woods, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Vanderbilt University “Policing in America: Evolution and Controversy"

Edward Friedman, Retired Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt University Professor in the Humanities “A Don Quixote Sampler"

Cliff Goldmacher, Songwriter, Music Producer, Audio Engineer, and Author “Songwriting for Non-Musicians"

Fall 2021

Frank Robinson, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, “Uneasy Neighbors: Latin America and the United States”

Nora Burkey, Founder and Executive Director of The Chain Collaborative, “Coffee, Globalization, and Sustainable Development”

John Vile, Dean and Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University, “The U.S. Constitution: Foundations and Interpretations”

Michael Shane Neal, Artist, “Painting Portraits: My Life as an Artist”

Vanderbilt Brain Institute, “Our Brains – An Operator’s Manual”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Robert Fry, Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, "Music in the ’60s"

Sarah Childress, Adjunct Professor of Cinema Studies, “Film Art: An Introduction to the Formal Elements of Film”

Rory Dicker, Director, Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University, " The U.S. Women’s Movement"

Gordon Peerman, Episcopal Priest, Psychotherapist and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher “Gladdening the Mind: Meditating in the Divine Abodes"

Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School “Writing Seminar: The Writing Life"

Summer 2021

Marcia Lavine, Retired Teacher at University School of Nashville, “The Kingdom of Italy: Unity or Disparity, 1860-1945”

David Misch, Author, Screenwriter, Teacher, and Lecturer, “All About Comedy”

Robert Barsky, Author and Lecturer, “The Napoleons and their Cultural Impact”

Peter Hodes, MBA, MIM, MBCP, Tai Chi Instructor, Tai Chi River, “Tai Chi – Introduction for Health, Balance, and Relaxation”

Edward Friedman, Retired Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in the Humanities, “Short Stories: Analysis and Enjoyment”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Donna Ortner, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, "Yoga for Health and Vitality: Fostering Healthy Aging and Lifelong Wellbeing"

Carolyn Benedict Fraser, Artist and Educator, “History of Photography”

Nicolette Kostiw, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Latin American History at Trevecca Nazarene University and Assistant Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University, "Introduction to Latin America"

Amy E. Steele, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Community Life at Vanderbilt Divinity School “Black Womanist Consciousness and American Public Life"

Spring 2021

Patout Burns, Guest Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Edward A. Malloy Professor of Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School 1999-2021, “Forgive Us Our Sins, As We Too Forgive”

Randy Pendergrass, Licensed Sports Nutritionist, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and Licensed Massage Therapist, “Nutrition and Immunity”

Renã A.S. Robinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow, “Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention”

Gordon Peerman, Episcopal Priest, Psychotherapist and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, “Effortless Mindfulness: Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart”

Edward Friedman, Retired Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in the Humanities, “Short Stories: Analysis and Enjoyment”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Robert Fry, Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt Blair School of Music, "Swing to Bop: Jazz in the 1930s and 40s"

Carole Bucy, Professor of History at Volunteer State Community College, “Tennessee History: From Reconstruction to the Digital Age”

Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, "The House of Possibility: The Literary-Theological Imagination of Emily Dickinson"

Dan Morgan, Ph.D., Associate Dean, College of Arts & Science; Principal Senior Lecturer, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University “Antarctica: At the Heart of it All"

Frank Wcislo, Associate Professor of History and European Studies, Vanderbilt University “The Era of the Russian Revolution: History and Literature 1890s-1930s"

Dr. William Schaffner, professor of health policy and professor of preventive medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and musical entertainment by the National Museum of African American Music. “OLLI Annual Meeting"

Winter 2021

Jim McKairnes, Writer, Teacher, and TV Historian, “All in The Decade: 70 Things About 70s TV That Turned Ten Years into a Revolution”

Brandon Hulette, Associate Professor of Military Science, Vanderbilt University, “Strategic Challenges in American Military History”

Denice Hicks, Artistic Director, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival, and Marcia McDonald, Ph.D., Professor of English at Belmont University, “Addressing Gender Issues in 21st Century Shakespeare”

Vanderbilt University Political Science Faculty, “Issues in American Politics: Unpacking Election 2020”

Angela Sutton, Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University, Director, Fort Negley Descendants Project, “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Legacy in the U.S.”

Carole Bucy, Professor of History at Volunteer State Community College, “18 Things Every Tennessean Needs to Know About the State’s Early History”

Peter Hodes, MBA, MIM, MBCP, Tai Chi Instructor, Tai Chi River, "Tai Chi – Introduction for Health, Balance, and Relaxation"

Bob Smietana, National Writer, “Religion in the News”

Fall 2020

Randy Pendergrass, Licensed Sports Nutritionist, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and Licensed Massage Therapist, “Nutrition and Immunity”

Billy Teets, Ph.D., Outreach Astronomer and Acting Director, Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory, “An Exploration of Astronomy’s History, Science, and Discoveries”

Marcia Lavine, Retired Teacher at University School of Nashville, “The Italian Renaissance: What Was It? Why Then? Why There?”

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Andrew Maraniss, Visiting Author, Vanderbilt University Athletics, “Race, Gender, and Sports”

Robert Fry, Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt Blair School of Music, “The Blues: History and Influence”

Edgar Porter, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, "China's Revolutions: 1912–1976"

LaTanya Rogers, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Literature and Drama, Fisk University, “Around the World in Six Weeks: Cultural Awareness through Literature”

Kendall Hinote, Master's Level Social Worker and Founder of Mindfulness in Nashville Education (MiNEd.), "Self-Care: What It Is, Why It Is Important, And How to Do It"

Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University" Writing Seminar: The Writing Life"

Summer 2020

Kendall Hinote, Master's Level Social Worker and Founder of Mindfulness in Nashville Education (MiNEd.), “A More Mindful Life”

Holly Tucker, Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities and Professor in French, Vanderbilt University, “Rethinking Pandemics: A Cultural History from Antiquity to Now”

Spring 2020

Kendall Hinote, Master's Level Social Worker and Founder of Mindfulness in Nashville Education (MiNEd.), “Mindfulness and Meditation”

Winter 2020

Alli Puglisi, Director, OLLI Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNER”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Steel Drum Band, andAlli Puglisi, Director, OLLI Steel Drum Band “OLLI Steel Drum Band – INTERMEDIATE”

Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emerita, Vanderbilt University, “Understanding Brain Disorders”

Vereen Bell, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Vanderbilt University, “Six Modern American Novels”

Brandon Hulette, Associate Professor of Military Science, Vanderbilt University, “John Bell Hood's Tennessee Campaign”

Paul Kwami, Associate Professor of Music, Musical Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers® at Fisk University, “OLLI Chorus”

Bronson Herrmuth, Teaching Artist, “Music for Seniors Intermediate Harmonica Learning Lab”

Carole Bucy, Professor of History at Volunteer State Community College, “U. S. History from the Women’s Perspective: A March Toward Equal Rights”

Larry R. Churchill, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, " Working Virtues: Essential Moral Skills for a Good Life "

Carole Webb Moore-Slater, Educator and Community Speaker, “How to Write a Memoir”

Angela Sutton, Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University, Director, Fort Negley Descendants Project, " Fort Negley: Past, Present & Future "

OLLI at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, “Macbeth”

OLLI at OZ Arts Nashville, “Notes of a Native Son”

Fall 2019

Alli Puglisi, Director, OLLI Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNER”

Anna Thomas, Assistant Director of Training and Communication, Office of the Dean of Students, Vanderbilt University, “A Lifetime of Strengths: Understanding Strengths in Retirement”

Vanderbilt Brain Institute Faculty, Fellows, and Students, “Our Brains: An Operator’s Manual”

Kenneth Lichstein, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, The University of Alabama, “Sleep Science: Sleep, Sleepiness, and Sleeplessness”

Ed Gaw, CFP, AAMS, ARCP, Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Investments and J. Mack Hargis, Ph.D., Metro Principal, Adjunct Professor, Consultant, Retired, “Creating a Financial Legacy for Future Generations”

Brittany Chase, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Vanderbilt University, “American Popular Music: Part 2”

Bronson Herrmuth, Teaching Artist, “Music for Seniors Beginners Harmonica Learning Lab”

Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ph.D., Co-Director, One River Foundation, "Six of the Bible's Most Misunderstood Texts"

OLLI at Nashville Jazz Workshop, “Nancy Wilson”

Daniel Sharfstein, Professor of Law and Professor of History Director, George Barrett Social Justice Program Vanderbilt University Law School and Learotha Williams, Associate Professor of African American and Public History and coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project at Tennessee State University, "The History of African Americans in Nashville"

W. Frank Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, “Contours of the Haitian Past; Glimpses of the Future”

Randy Pendergrass, Licensed Sports Nutritionist, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and Licensed Massage Therapist,   “Defensive Eating: A Guide to Healthy Eating in the 21st Century”

OLLI at the Nashville Film Festival

Summer 2019

Marcia Lavine, Retired Teacher at University School of Nashville, “Art and Power: The Visual Arts as Expression and Instrument of Power”

Cindy Hui-Lio, Instructional-Systems Designer and Usability Researcher, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, “The Principles of Tai Chi and Daily Movements”

Jamie Pope, Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, “Nutrition and Health: Issues and Insights”

Mickey Casad, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt University, “Exploring Digital Storytelling through Scalar”

Alli Puglisi, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Beginner Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNER”

Bronson Herrmuth, Teaching Artist and Charlie McCoy, Teaching Artist, “Music for Seniors Beginners Harmonica Learning Lab”

Cynthia Wasick, Senior Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Vanderbilt University, “Tickling Your Taste Buds with Nashville’s Latino Cuisines”

Paul Kwami, Associate Professor of Music, Fisk University, “The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers®, Their Tour and Their Music”

Reavis Mitchell, Professor of History, Dean of the School of Humanities Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fisk University, “A History of Fisk University”

Cameron Gordon, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University and Kendall Hinote, Founder, Mindfulness in Nashville Education, “A Day of Mindfulness Practice”

Robbie Fry, Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt Blair School of Music, “Music Cities: A Study of Musical Sounds and Spaces”

Spring 2019

Alli Puglisi, Director, OLLI Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNER”

Howard Miller, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History; Politics and Philosophy, Lipscomb University, “The Medieval Spains: Fifth Century to 1492”

Dr. Ronald G. Turner, J.D., PH.D, Retired Director of Religious and Volunteer Services at the Tennessee Department of Correction and David W. Phipps, Jr., D.Min., Re-Entry Supervisor, Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry, “ Religion in Prison”

Cynthia Wasick, Senior Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Vanderbilt University, “A Voracious Appetite for Words - Memorable Food Moments in Spanish Language Literature”

Keith Simmons, Attorney and OLLI Member, “Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Discussion”

Marshall Eakin, Distinguished Professor of History, and Interim Chair of the History Department at Vanderbilt University, “Visions of Amazonia”

Jim Hudnut-Beumler, Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Vanderbilt University, “Contemporary Christianities in the American South”

Amy Steele, Assistant Dean for Student Life, Vanderbilt University, Deep River: Mysticism and Ethics in the Preaching of Howard Thurman

OLLI at Nashville Opera, “Tales of Hoffmann”

Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University,  “Religious Questions in William Faulkner's Novel Light in August”

Angela Sutton, Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences at Vanderbilt University, “Pirates of the Atlantic World”

OLLI at Nashville Jazz Workshop, “Cole Porter”

OLLI at Nashville Rep, “Ingram New Works Festival”

Winter 2019

Alli Puglisi, Director, Osher Steel Drum Advanced Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Advanced"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Beginner"

Cameron Gordon, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University, "Mindfulness and Meditation

Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emerita, Vanderbilt University " Drugs and the Brain"

Edgar Porter, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, "Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation"

Vanderbilt Faculty and Staff, "Innovative Thinking in a Digital Age"

Brittany Chase, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Vanderbilt University, "American Popular Music"

Cynthia Cyrus, Vice Provost for Learning and Residential Affairs, Vanderbilt University, "Four Weddings and a Funeral or Two: Ceremonials of Celebration in the Early Modern Era"

 Larry Churchill, Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, "The End of Life and the Quest for Human Meaning"

Linda Wynn, Professor of History and Political Science, Fisk University, "Women in the Civil Rights Movement"

Gayle Shay, Associate Professor of Voice, and Director of Vanderbilt Opera Theatre, Vanderbilt Blair School, "Not Just Carrying a Spear: Acting for Opera Singers"

Patricia A. Ward, Emerita Professor, Vanderbilt University, "A Practicum in Innovation"

OLLI at the Lane Motor Museum

OLLI at The Nashville Shakespeare Festival - "Julius Caesar"

Fall 2018

Alli Puglisi, Director, Osher Steel Drum Advanced Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Advanced"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Beginner"

Erin Charles, Lecturer of Musical Arts/Teacher Education, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, " Music That Shapes You: An Exploration of Music and Identity”

J. Thomas Laney, Jr., Director of the Turner Center for Church Leadership; "Our Righteous Minds: An Exploration of Moral Foundations Theory and Its Revelations to Political Polarization in the Trump Era" 

Robert Barsky, Professor of French, English and Jewish Studies, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University; 
"What if Alice was a Refugee in Wonderland?"

Victor Judge - Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer, Vanderbilt University,    "Writing Seminar: The Writing Life"

Vanderbilt University Political Science Faculty, "Election 2018 – The Midterms"

David Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy, Vanderbilt University; " Life on Mars: What We Know and Why That Matters"

Polina Dimova, Visiting Scholar of German, Russian and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University; "Fantasies of Modern Russian Culture"

Thomas Schwartz, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University; "Henry Kissinger and American Power"  

Laurie Woods, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Vanderbilt University; "American Gun Culture"

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Staff, "Medical Sampler" 

OLLI at OZ Arts, "Falling Out" 

OLLI at the Jazz Workshop, "Great American Songbook composer, Jimmy Van Heusen" 

Summer 2018

Ali Puglisi, Director, Osher Steel Drum Advanced Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Advanced"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Beginner"

Cynthia Wasick, Senior Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, "Buen provecho! Spain's Gastronomic Landscape"

OLLI at the National Museum of African American Music 

Robert Fry, Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University; "Exploring the Nashville Soundscape"

Jamaal Sheats, Director and Curator, Fisk University Galleries "Art and Context: Learning to Look, Part II"

Reavis Mitchell, Professor of History, Dean of School of Humanities and Behavioral Social Sciences, Fisk University; "A History of FIsk"

Kathleen Wolff and Taylor Koval; "Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt" 

Angela Sutton, Postdoctoral Fellow Vanderbilt University Digital Humanities Center  "Writing Your Family History"

Clint Hendrix, Senior Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University ;"Documenting the Undocumented"

Spring 2018

Ali Puglisi, Director, Osher Steel Drum Advanced Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Advanced"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Beginner"

Angela Sutton, Postdoctoral Fellow Vanderbilt University Digital Humanities Center "Comparative Slavery"

Keith Simmons, Attorney and OLLI Member"Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Discussion Group"

Bill Purcell, Former Mayor of Nashville, Vanderbilt Law School Distinguished Alumnus and Adjunct Professor; "21st Century American Cities"

Carole Bucy, Davidson Country Historian and Professor of History, Volunteer State Community College, "The Turbulent 1920's: A Decade of Change in the United States" 

Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Vanderbilt University Divinity School; "Religious and Political Questions in Albert Camus' Novel The Plague"

Rebecca Ihrie, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University; "Our Brains: An Operators Manual" 

OLLI at the Opera 

Cameron Gordon, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University  ;"Mindfulness and Meditation"

Andrew Maraniss, Author, Innovator-in-Residence at Vanderbilt's Wond'ry at the Innovation Pavilion; "Sports Sampler"

OLLI Spring Trip: Lynchburg, Tennessee 

Mitchell Korn, Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music; OLLI at Blair School of Music: Schindler's List

Winter 2018

Ali Puglisi, Director, Osher Steel Drum Advanced Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Advanced"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Beginner"

Robert W. Fry, Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University   "Music, Place, and Southern Culture"

Scott Stroud, News Editor, The Associated Press "Media in the Age of Fake News"

Haerin Shin, Assistant Professor of English, with Affiliations in Asian Students and Cinema and Media Arts, Vanderbilt University; "Strangers in a Strange Homeland: Asian American Literature and the Technologies of Alienation"

W. Frank Robinson, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University,  "African-American Trailblazers in the Shadows" 

Larry Churchill, Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; "Dying Well or Badly: Ethical Explorations"

Joel Harrington, Chair, Department of History and the Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University; "Meister Eckhart: A Mystic's Mystic" 

"Climate Change and Human Health: Impacts and Adaptations Strategies"

"Intellectual Sampler"

Virginia Shepherd, Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, and Director, Center for Science Outreach, Vanderbilt University; "Tracing Your Roots"

OLLI at the Shakespeare Festival 

Ernie Nolan, Executive Artist, Director for the Nashville Children's Theatre ; OLLI at the Nashville Children's Theatre 

Fall 2017

Ali Puglisi, Director, Osher Steel Drum Advanced Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Advanced"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Beginner"

Mitchell Korn, Senior Lecturer, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University; "Broadway on Film!"

Anna Guengerich, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University; "Heaven on Earth: Religious Sites of the Ancient World" 

Scott Stroud, News Editor, The Associated Press; "Media in the Age of Fake News"

Mitchell Korn, Senior Lecturer, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University; Paul Vasterling, Artistic Director adn CEO, Nashville Ballet,  "OLLI at the Nashville Ballet"

Victor Judge - Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer, Vanderbilt University,   "Writing Seminar: The Writing Life"

Julie Fesmire, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Principal Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Vanderbilt University; "Women Who Kill"

Kem Hinton, Founding Principal, Tuck-Hinton Architects; "Architectural Treasures"

Amy E. Steele, Assistant Dean for Student Life, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University; "Howard Thurman: Twentieth-Century Mystic-Activist"  

Clive Mentzel, Senior Lecturer, Political Science/Public Policy, Vanderbilt University,  "The Extant Legacy of Apartheid: A Dystopian Portrait of Contemporary South Africa in Six Parts"

W. Frank Robinson, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University,  "Crossroads of the World: The Panama Canal"

W. Frank Robinson, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University ,  "Cuba and the United States"

Rosevelt Noble, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University , "Understanding America's Mass Incarceration Binge" 

Staff of the Nashville Jazz Workshop ,  "OLLI at the Nashville Jazz Workshop: Because of You-- A Tribute to Tony Bennett"

Summer 2017

Jamaal Sheats, Director and Curator, Fisk University Galleries, "Art and Context: Learning How to Look"

Virgina Hyde, Food Consultant, Vanderbilt University, "Exploring America's Foodways"

Krista Castillo, Museum Coordinator/Site Manager, Fort Negley Park, "Fort Negley Beyond the Civil War"

Larry Brown, Professor of Film Stories, Lipscomb University, "How Films Tell Stories"

Marlene Hutchinson, Creator and Owner, Marlene's Music, "Learn to Play Guitar in a Day"

Staff, Osher Center for Integrative Health, "Mindfulness for Brain Health"

Staff, OZ Arts Nashville, "OLLI at OZ Arts with Post-Performance Q & A"

Staff, National Museum of African American Music, "OLLI at the National Museum of African American Music"

Ali Puglisi, Director, Osher Steel Drum Advanced Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Advanced"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band - Beginner"

Lee Jones, Online Poker Executive and Author, "Poker: An Introduction to America's Card Game"

Kent Wallace, Assistant Professor of Physics & Director of Laboratories and Coordinator of Rocketry, Fisk University, "Physics and Astronomy"

Pete Holland, Wine Columnist, Nashvile Scene, "Regional Wines of France"

Spring 2017

Katharine Baker, Associate Director, Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership, Vanderbilt University, "Developing Moral Intelligence"

Bob O'Dell, Distinguished Research Profssor, Physics and Astronomy Department, Vanderbilt University; Duane Lee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Research, Physics and Astronomy Department, Vanderbilt University; Billy Teets, Astronomer, Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University, "From the Moon to the Edge of the Visible Universe: An Astronomy Sampler II"

Bob Covington, Professor of Law, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University; Chris Sanders, Executive Director of the Tennessee Equality Project; Susan Wiltshire, Professor of Classics, Emerita, Department of English, Vanderbilt University; Rebecca Chapman, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Vanderbilt University, "Gay Then, Gay Now"

Ben Adams and Stu Miller, OLLI Members, "Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Discussion Group (Brentwood)"

Keith Simmons, OLLI Member, "Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Discussion Group (Nashville)"

Various Instructors, "Intellectual Sampler"

Mitchell Korn, Senior Lecturer, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University; Paul Vasterling, Artistic Director adn CEO, Nashville Ballet, "OLLI at the Ballet"

Staff of the Nashville Jazz Workshop, "OLLI at the Nashville Jazz Workshop"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Band Program; Alli Puglisi, Assistant Director, Osher Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Danny and Beth Gottlieb, OLLI members and member of the Lt. Dan Band with Gary Sinise, " A Rhythmic Journey through the Ages"

Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emerita, Vanderbilt University, "Understanding Disorders of the Brain and Spinal Cord"

Various Instructors, "Vanderbilt Libraries: Beyond the Card Catalogue"

Winter 2017

Kate Myers Hanson, Former Professor and Editor, Passages North, Northern Michigan University, "Creative Writing Workshop"

W. Frank Robinson, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, "Cuba and the United States"

Dino Nowak, Founder, Renu Health and Fitness, Certified Personal Trainer, "Exercise: The Fight Against Aging"

Ursula King, Owner and Principal Consultant, Regenerative Community, "Food for a New Century: Developing an Ecological Understanding of the U.S. Food System Through a Local Lens"

Various Instructors, "Intellectual Sampler"

David Dark, Author and Instructor, Belmont University and Tennessee Prison for Women, "Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious"

Mitchell Korn, Adjunct Professor of Music and Community, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, "Nashville: The New Tin Pan Alley"

Denice Hicks, Artistic Director, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival; Marcia McDonald, Shakespeare Scholar and Professor of English, Belmont University; Santiago Sosa, Director, Romeo and Juliet, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival, "OLLI at the Shakespeare Festival"

Mat Britain, Director, Vanderbilt Steel Band Program; Alli Puglisi, Assistant Director, Osher Steel Drum Band, "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Elizabeth Covington, Senior Lecturer in English, Vanderbilt University, "The Pen and the Sword: Literary Representations of War"

Andrew Maraniss, Author, STRONG INSIDE, "STRONG INSIDE: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South"

Leonard Folgarait, Professor of History and Art, Vanderbilt University, "Twentieth Century Art and Politics"

Pete Holland, Wine Columnist, Nashville Scene, "World of Wine"

Pete Holland, Wine Columnist, Nashville Scene,"World of Wine: Beyond the Basics"

Fall 2016

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Band Program, “Osher Steel Drum Band"

Larry Bartels, Josh Clinton, Marc Hetherington, John Greer, Bruce Oppenheimer, Carrie Russell - Professors of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, “Election 2016"

Billy Teets - Dyer Observatory Outreach Astronomer, Vanderbilt University, David Weintraub - Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Program in Communication of Science & Technology, Vanderbilt University, Andreas Berlind - Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Astrophysics, Vanderbilt University, " From the Moon to the Edge of the Visible Universe - An Astronomy Sampler"

Various Instructors, "Intellectual Sampler"

Ryan Middagh, Director of Jazz Studies, Vanderbilt University, "Jazz History and Appreciation"

Various Instructors, "Moving from Indifference to Action: Why Remembering is Important"

Various Instructors, "OLLI at the Nashville Jazz Workshop"

John Hoomes – CEO & Artistic Director, Nashville Opera, "OLLI at the Opera"

Jessica Greenfield – Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University, "Otherness and the Italian Immigrant Experience"

Joseph B. Ingle – Author, criminal justice historian and ordained minister, "Racism and Incarceration in the United States"

Carole Bucy – Professor of History, Volunteer State Community College & Davidson County Historian, "The Sound and the Fury: Controversial Presidential Elections"

Rory Dicker – Director, Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, Vanderbilt University, "The U.S. Women's Movement"

Victor Judge - Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer, Vanderbilt University,  "Writing Seminar: The Writing Life"

Summer 2016

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Band Program, “Osher Steel Drum Band"

Marlene Hutchinson, Creator of Learn to Play Guitar in a Day! and President of Marlene’s Music, “How to Play Guitar in a Day”

James Myers, Food Columnist for The Tennessean, “Juxtaposition of Flavors”

David Williams, Vice Chancellor for Athletics and University Affairs, Athletics Director, and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University, “The Music of Motown Era”

OLLI at OZ, Israeli-American street artist Adam Yekutieli’s ”Vicariously Speaking”

The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, “Nutrition and Wellness Seminar”

Mitchell Korn, Adjunct Professor of Music and Community, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, “The Best of Symphony 101: The Music that Created the Sound of the 20th Century”

Pete Holland, Wine Columnist for Nashville Scene, “The World of Wine”

Spring 2016

Marc Stengel, Publisher and Editor, Historix Editions, "David Jones, 'The Last Magus'

Vanderbilt Professors, "Intellectual Sampler"

Laurie Woods, Lecturer, Department of Sociology,  Vanderbilt University, "Guns: An American Obsession"

Pat Cummins, Cherokee Historian, "Culture in Transition: The Cherokee in Middle Tennessee"

Elizabeth Covington, Senior Lecturer, English Department, Vanderbilt University, "More than Mr. Darcy: The Novels of Jane Austen"

Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Director, One River Foundation, "Judaism in Six Words"

Robert Barsky, Professor, Department of English, Department of French & Italian, Vanderbilt University, "William Butler Yeats and the Meaning of Poetry in the Modern World"

Clive Mentzel, Senior Lecturer, Political Science/Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, "The Truth & Reconciliation Process in South Africa - Where Is the Truth and Where Is the Reconciliation?"

Ann Jennalie Cook, Professor of English, Emeria, Vanderbilt University & Vice President, International Shakespeare Association, "Shakespeare Across the Centuries"

Ben Adams, Stuart Miller & Ken Penagar, OLLI Members, "Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Discussion Group"

Mitchell Korn, Professor of Music and Educational Research, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University; Paul Vasterling, Artistic Director and CEO, Nashville Ballet, "OLLI at the Ballet"

Winter 2016

Steve Buckingham, Adjunct Instructor in Music History, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University; Mitchell Korn, Adjunct Instructor in Music and Community, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University   "Rhythm & Blues Tore Down the Walls of Segregation"

Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emerita, Vanderbilt University, "Understanding Disorders of the Brain and Spinal Cord"

Carole Bucy, Professor of History, Volunteer State Community College & Davidson County Historian, "A Survey of the Political History of the United States: Tennessee Influences in American Government"

Rolanda Johnson, Ph.D., RN, Associate Professor of Nursing, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Betsy B. Kennedy, PhD, RN, CNE, Associate Professor of Nursing, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, "What Makes You Sick?"

Francille Berquist, Professor of Spanish, Emerita, Vanderbilt University, "Language and Culture"

Frank Dobson, Director of Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, Vanderbilt University, "The 'Double V' on the Silver Screen: Race Issues in WWII Films"

Ed Rubin, Professor of Law and Political Science, Vanderbilt University,"Climate Change Literature: A New Fictional Genre about a Real Problem"

Ann Jennalie Cook, Professor of Literature, Emerita, Vanderbilt University & Vice-President, International Shakespeare Association, "Celebrating Shakespeare"

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Band Program   "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Kate Myers Hanson, MFA, former professor and editor of the literary magazine, 'Passages North' at Northern Michigan University, "Creative Writing Workshop"

Denice Hicks, Artistic Director, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival & Marcia McDonald, PhD, Professor of English, Belmont University, "OLLI at the Shakespeare Festival"

Fall 2015

Steve Buckingham, Adjunct Instructor in Music History, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University "Rhythm & Blues Tore Down the Walls of Segregation"

James L. Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament, Emeritus, Duke University "Hidden Books from the Biblical World"

Molly Miller, Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, Emerita, Vanderbilt University "How the Earth Works and Why It Matters"

Michael Newton, Professor of the Practice of Law, Vanderbilt University, "Legal and Policy Issues in Modern Warfare"

Clive Mentzel, Director, Office of Active Citizenship and Service, and Senior Lecturer, Politicial Science/Public Policy, Vanderbilt University "Who Was Nelson Mandela?"

Malcolm Getz, Associate Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University, "Our Urban Agenda"

Alexandra Sargent Capps (Coordinator), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Vanderbilt University, "The Artistic and Collaborative Process of Creating the Theatre Experience"

Carl H. Johnson, Stevenson Chair in Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University; Beth Malow, Professor of Neurology, Vanderbilt University & Director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Clinic; Douglas McMahon, Stevenson Chair in Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University; Terry Page, Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University "Circadian Rhythms and Sleep"

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Band Program "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Susan Kevra, Senior Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University "English Country Dancing"

Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer, Vanderbilt University Divinity School "Writing Seminar: The Writing Life"

Summer 2015

Robert Fry, Senior Lecturer, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University "Exploring the Nashville Soundscape"

Lealan N. Swanson, Professor of Art History (retired), Jackson State University "African-American Art History"

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Band Program "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Dave Dowell, Genetic Genealogist and Retired Academic Librarian "Genealogy: Adding DNA Testing"  

Alice Randall, Writer in Residence in African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University, Co-author, Soul Food Love Caroline Randall Williams, Co-author, Soul Food Love "Cooking with Soul Food Love!"  

John Bridges, Historian and Product Designer "Design through the Ages"

Carlene Robinson, Trainer and Facilitator "Enriching Life: A Guide to Extraordinary Living "

Mitchell Korn, Professor, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University "Introduction to Symphony 101"

Spring 2015

Michael Shane Neal, Portrait Artist "Palettes, Portraits and Personalities: The Life and Adventures of  Portrait Painter"

Dave MacKenzie, Instructor, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University "Pre-World War II Blues Recordings: An Aural and Visual Survey"

Susan Kevra, Senior Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University "Food for Thought: Understanding America through Food"

Robert Barksy, Prof3essor, Department of French and Italian, Department of English, Vanderbilt University "From Romantic Poetry to the Writings of the Beat Generation: Youthful Passion for the Sublime and the Intoxicating"

David Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy, Vanderbilt University "Religions, Exoplanets, and Extraterrestrial Life"

Thomas Schwartz, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University "Henry Kissenger: America’s First Celebrity Diplomat"

Leonard Folgarait, Professor of History of Art, Vanderbilt University "The Meaning of Modern Art"

Vanderbilt Professors of Literature, Music, History & Science "Intellectual Sampler"

Thomas Laney, Associate Director, The Turner Center for Church Leadership, Vanderbilt Divinity School "Enhancing Your Conflict Compliance"

Ben Adams and Stuart Miller, OLLI Members " Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Group" (Davidson County)

Ken Penegar, OLLI Member " Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Group" (Williamson County)

Carolyn Conover, Financial Advisor, UBS Financial Services "Financial Strategies for Successful Retirement"

Winter 2015

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band Program "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Kass Kovalcheck, Professor of Communication Studies, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University  "Irish Comedy: Light and Dark"

John Vile, Professor of Political Science, Middle Tennessee State University  "The U.S. Constitution: Foundation and Interpretation"

Brian Owens, Artistic Director of the Nashville Film Festival "Contemporary World Cinema"

Cynthia Cyrus, Vice Provost for Learning and Residential Affairs, Professor of Musicology and Affiliated Faculty in Women's Gender Studies, Vanderbilt University  "Nuns and Prostitutes of the Middle Ages"

Robert Scherrer, Professor of Physics, Vanderbilt University "Science and Science Fiction"

Anna Guengerich, Ph.D., Anthropology  "Ancient Civilizations of the Americas"

Steve Buckingham, Instructor Vanderbilt Blair School of Music "Rhythm & Blues Tore Down the Walls of Segregation"

Patout Burns Jr., Edward A. Malloy Professor of Catholic Studies, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University and Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor's Professor of Christian Art and Worship at Vanderbilt University  "The Development of Christian Practice and Belief in Roman Africa"

Mary Pat Williams Silveira, retired senior official of the United Nations  "Ukraine: From Kievan Rus to the Euro Revolution"

Fall 2014

Jeffry John Stein, Author, former VP of Production for features in Hollywood, founding Faculty member of the Watkins College of Art and Design Film School and Lecturer at Vanderbilt University
"The Transformations of Consciousness on Film"

Howard Miller, Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Dept. of History, Politics and Philosophy, Lipscomb University "An Introduction to Islam"

Ed Young, OLLI Member  "The Joy of Opera"

Mark Jarman, Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University "The Poetry of George Herbert"

Clint Hendrix, Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University  "Film, Fantasy, and Food: Spanish Cuisine and Culture"

"Neurons to Perception: Insights into Brain Function and Dysfunction" Vanderbilt Brain Institute Neuroscientists;   Mark T. Wallace (VBI Director), Randolph Blake, Alex Maier, Ken Catania, Randy Blakely, Ronald Emeson

Dan Morgan,Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University "Exploring Antarctica"

Mark Zimmerman and Greg Thomas, Director of Publications ROCIC, Professor Emerita, Roosevelt University "Looking for Camels on the Silk Road: A Tale of Funny Money, A Dark Web, and Chinese Laundry"

Cody Case, Interfaith Health Care Chaplain "To Make a World: Exploring Self, Love, and Loss through Spiritual Storytelling"

Summer 2014

Patricia A. Wand, University Librarian Emerita, Adjunct Professor, American University, Washington D.C.  "Living in the Midst of Islam: Perspectives of an American Librarian in the Arabian Gulf"

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band Program "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Robert Bond, Producer, Performer and Composer   "Deconstruction in American Popular Music from 1900 to the Present"

Dave Dowell, Genetic Genealogist and Retired Academic Librarian "Genealogical Research"

Kate Myers Hanson, Former Professor and Editor of the Literary Magazine, Passages North at Northern Michigan University  " Creative Writing Workshop"

Susan Ruach, Retired United Methodist Minister " Spirituality and Photography Workshop"

Spring 2014

Michael Shane Neal, Portrait Artist “Masterpieces - The Greatest Portraits Ever Painted"

Patout Burns, Edward A. Malloy Professor of Catholic Studies, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University "Christian Theories to Explain the Death of Jesus"

Robert F. Barsky, Professor of French, Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University "Literature and Law, from Crime andPunishment to Law and Order"

Earl Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish and Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University "BRAZIL!"

Gary Jensen, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University "Salem and Other Witch-Hunts"

Cody Case, Interfaith Health Care Chaplain "Theories of “The Good Life”

Joseph B. Ingle, United Church of Christ Minister "Why Does America Imprison More People Than Any Other Country in the World?"

Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emerita, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
"The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory"

Staff from the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health "Integrative Medicine" 

Susan Kevra, Senior Lecturer in French, Vanderbilt University "English Country Dancing"

Ben Adams and Ken Penegar, OLLI Members "Great Decisions" (Foreign Policy Discussion Group)

Winter 2014

Beth Gottlieb, Member of Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band and Former Professor of Music, Rollins College and University of Alabama "Music Hath Charms"

Amy Bertram, French and Film Teacher, Watkins College, Film Teacher, Belmont University  "Inspiring Hollywood: French Films Behind American Remakes"

Jeremy Atack, Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University "Financial Crisis - Lessons Learned from History"

Vanessa Beasley, Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University "The Top Ten Best U.S. Political Speeches You’ve Never Heard"

Carole Bucy, Professor of History, Volunteer State Community College and Davidson County Historian  "The Decade When the World at Home & Abroad Began to Change: 1910- 1920"

Ann Jennalie Cook, Professor of English, Emerita, Vanderbilt University "Shakespeare Across the Centuries"

Joe Hamilton, Land C. Garland Distinguished Professor of Physics, Vanderbilt University  "Primer of Physics and its Application to Society"

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band Program "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Fall 2013

Vanderbilt Medical Center Doctors "Science Behind the Medicine and Medical Advances"

Billy Teets, Astronomer, Bob O'dell, Distinguished Research Professor Vanderbilt University and David Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy, Vanderbilt University "Hot Topics in Astronomy"

Diane Sasson, Lecturer in Theology and Women's Studies, Vanderbilt University  "The Shakers in America"

Alexandra Sargent, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Theatre, Vanderbilt Univesity "The History of Fashion"

Michael Hodges, Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University "Concepts of  God"

Susan Kevra, Senior Lecturer in French, Vanderbilt University "American Social History through Dance"

Frank Dobson, Director of Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, Vanderbilt University
"Diversity, Dignity, and Devotion on Film: War Movies of the 40's - 60's"

J. Thomas Laney, Associate Director of the Turner Center for Church Leadership, Vanderbilt Divinity School
"Our Righteous Minds: Exploring a New Frame for Understanding the Moral and Political Divide in America"

Mitchell Korn, Adjunct Professor of Music and Educational Outreach, Vanderbilt Blair School of Music
"The Amazing World of Illustrated Children's Books: How to be the Best at Reading to Young Children as a Literacy Volunteer, Parent, and Grandparent"

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band Program "Osher Steel Drum Band"

Summer 2013

Mat Britain, Director of the Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band Program   "Osher Steel Drum Band"
 
Douglas Fisher, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University  "Lifelong Learning on the Web"
 
Ginger Manley, ANP, Associate in Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Certified Diplomate in Sex Therapy  "Dialogues in Sexuality and Aging"
 
Deborah Wilbrink, English Teacher and Freelance Magazine Writer "Writing from Your Life... How to Write Your Memiors"
 
Staff at the Dayani Center "Wellness Seminar"
 

Spring 2013

Starley Carr, Special Agent of the FBI, Dick Garner, Special Agent of the ATF  “Just the Facts, Ma’am, and Only the Facts!”
 
John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy  “Contemporary Moral Problems”
 
Mitchell Korn, Adjunct Professor of Music and Educational Outreach, Blair School of Music  “Meet the Ballet!”
 
Robert Covington (Coordinator), Professor of Law, Emeritus  “The Living Constitution: Supreme Court Decisions that Affect Our Lives”
 
Robert Barsky, Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor, French and Italian  “D. H. Lawrence”
 
Leonard Folgarait, Professor of History of Art “Modern Architecture”
 
Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History; Marshall Eakin, Professor of History  “African Diaspora through the Americas”
 
Joshua D. Clinton, Associate Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of CSDI; John Grissom, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education; David E. Lewis, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of CSDI
Alan E. Wiseman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of CSDI  “Governing in an Era of Polarization in Washington and Beyond”
  
James Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament, Emeritus  “Ancient Prophecy: Bridging Two Worlds”

Winter 2013

Amy Bertram Read, Lecturer, Film and French Film, Watkins College of Art, Design, and Film  “Sixty-Five Years of French Film: 1895-1960”
 
Michael C. Thomsett, Author  “Skills for Investing in Today’s Evolving Markets”
 
Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law  “The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race and American Families”
 
Gregory Barz, Associate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Religion, and Anthropology  “Global Health and Global Music”
 
John Bridges, Former Classical Music Editor for the Nashville Tennessean and Award-winning Columnist and Editor for the Nashville Scene  “Sailing on the High C’s: The Outlandish, Overwhelming Art of Opera”
 
Thomas A. Schwartz, Professor of History and Political Science  “America and the Vietnam War"

John Siegfried, Professor of Economics, Emeritus “Better Living through Economics”

Various Instructors, Including Speakers in the Medical Field and Nashville Government, as well as, Author Alice Randall
“Obesity: A National Health Crisis”
 
Ann Jennalie Cook Calhoun, Professor of English, Emerita  “Moral Questions in Shakespeare”

Fall 2012

Beth Gottlieb, Percussionist in Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan Band, Former Professor of Music, University of Alabama and Rollins Collge    “The Rhythm of Music and Life”  
 
James Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament, Emeritus, Duke University   “The Agony and Ecstasy of Religious Belief: The Book of Psalms”  
 
Sam McSeveney, Professor of History, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University  “New York City and the Gilded Age of the Progressive Era”  
 
Chris Slobogin, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University   “Contemporary Debates in Criminal Justice”  
 
Keith G. Meador, MD, ThM, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry and Preventative Medicine, Professor in the Graduate Department of Religion, Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University 
“Religion and Health: Pitfalls and Possibilities”  
 
Patricia A. Ward (Coordinator), Professor of Comparative Literature, Emerita, Vanderbilt University 
“German Expressionism: In Conjunction with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts”  
 
Gene Polincinski, Senior Vice President/ Executive Director, First Amendment Center, Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.;   Stu Miller, Member and Retired Chief Information Officer   “Social Media and Digital Technology”  
 
Various Faculty of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center   “Medical Advances”  
 
Lucius Outlaw Jr., Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University   “Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America”

Spring 2012

Ben Adams, Member and Discussion Leader; Mary Pat Silveira, Member and Retired UN Official, Discussion Leader
"Great Decisions 2012: Foreign Policy Discussion Group"

Gottlieb C. Friesinger, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus; R. Lawrence Van Horn, Associate Professor of Economics and Management, Owen Graduate School of Management; Malcolm Getz, Associate Professor of Economics; 
Congressman Jim Cooper, U.S. Representative, 5th District of Tennessee
"Health Care Reform Crisis: Problems and Possibilities"

Mitchell Korn, Adjunct Professor of Music and Education Outreach, Blair School of Music; Robert Bond, Music Educator, Musician and Composer  "Music Appreciation"

Various Faculty of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center  "Medical Advances II"

David A. Owens, Professor of the Practice of Management and Innovation, Owen Graduate School of Management
"How We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)"

Robert Barsky, Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor (2011/2012), Department of French and Italian
"Living in Paris under Napoleon III"

John Seigenthaler, Founder, First Amendment Center; Gary Gerstle, James G. Stahlman Professor of American History; 
Carole Bucy, Professor of History, Volunteer State Community College; George Barrett, Attorney; Steve Cobb, Attorney and Former Legislator; Mike Murphy, Former Legislator; Steven Tepper, Associate Professor of Sociology  "Protests and Social Change"

Mareike Sattler, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology; Avery Dickens de Girón, Assistant Director, Center for Latin American Studies  "Apocalypse Now? Modern Maya and Ancient Prophecies"

Elaine Goleski, Teacher and Former Staff Member, Jean and Alexander Heard Library  "The Port William Stories of Wendell Berry"

Winter 2012

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “The Antihero from Bret Maverick to Jim Rockford”

Mary Pat Silveira, Member and Retired United Nations Official “The Other UN”

Ginger Manley, ANP, Associate in Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical School and Certified Diplomate of Sex Therapy  “The Journey through Aging and Sexuality”

Marc Hetherington, Professor of Political Science  “Politics in a Polarized Polity”

Various Faculty of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center  “Medical Advances”

Celia Walker, Director of Special Projects, Jean and Alexander Heard Library; Susan Knowles, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Public History, Middle Tennessee State University; “Shades of Gray and Blue: Reflections of Life in Civil War Tennessee”

Various Faculty of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center  “A Window into Human Development and Disabilities”

Gil Campbell, Past President of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt; Ginny Thigpen, Instructor in Film at Volunteer State Community College;  “Bogey and Bacall”

Fall 2011

Jeff Stein, Founding Faculty Member of the Watkins College Film School, Lecturer  “Family on Film: The Last Decade of the 20th Century”

James Crenshaw, Robert L Flowers Professor of Old Testament, Emeritus, Duke University  “Ecclesiastes: The Strangest Book in the Bible”

Ed Young, OLLI Member and Music Enthusiast  “Classics of Musical Genres”

Jessie Register, Director of Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools; Kevin Huffman, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education; Top Professors from Vanderbilt and Lipscomb University; Leaders in Nashville’s Public Schools  “Public Education: Searching for the Best”

William Longwell, Retired Senior Lecturer, Department of History; Thomas A. Schwartz, Professor of History, Political Science, and European Studies  “The Road to the ‘Arab Spring’: The Changing Arab World and American Relations”

Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History; Rory C. Dicker, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies; Vivien Fryd, Professor of History of Art; Teresa Goddu, Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies; Michael Kreyling, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English
“The American Civil War: Views from 2011”

Jean Roseman, Retired Teacher of German and Holocaust History, Current Author and Historian
“The History of the Nashville Jewish Community”

James Hoobler, Senior Curator of Art and Architecture at Tennessee State Museum  “World Architecture: From Megaliths to Post-Modern”

Don Bishop, Retired General Manager of U.S. Taxes, Texaco, Inc.  “The Challenges for U.S. Tax Policy: Rhetoric vs, Analysis”

Spring 2011

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader; Mary Pat Silveira, Member and Retired UN Official, Discussion Leader
“Great Decisions 2011: Foreign Policy Discussion Group”

Gottlieb C. Friesinger, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus  “Living Long and Dying in America”

David Lawrence, Professor of History, Lipscomb University  “Lost Civilizations”

Bob Covington, Professor of Law, Emeritus  “Wonderful World of Wine”

David A. Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy  “How Old is the Universe?”

Marshall Eakin, Professor of History  “The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1776-1836”

Leonard Folgarait, Professor of History of Art  “Twentieth-Century Art and Politics”

Joel Harrington, Professor of History “The Figure of Jesus in Western History”

Elaine Goleski, Teacher and former staff member, Jean and Alexander Heard Library  “Pointing to Itself: Exercises in Reading Poetry”

Winter 2011

Ann Jennalie Cook Calhoun, Professor of English, Emerita  “Shakespeare Goes to the Movies”

Kassian Kovalcheck, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies  “The Troubles: Ireland on Film”

James Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament, Emeritus, Duke University  “The Book of Job and the Problem of Evil”

Joe Rife, Associate Professor of Classics and Anthropology  “Life and Death in Ancient Greece: History, Culture, and Archaeology at the Port of Kenchreai”

Carole Bucy, Professor of History, Volunteer State Community College  “Religious History of the U.S. from Earliest European Settlements to the Present”

Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director and Conductor, Nashville Symphony; Mitchell Korn, Vice President for Education and Community, Nashville Symphony and Distinguished Lecturer for Music and Community, Blair School of Music
“How to Listen to Classical Music”

Mary Pat Silveira, Member and Retired United Nations Official  “Ethnic Conflict” 

Roy Gottfried, Professor of English  “James Joyce: The Short Stories, Dubliners

Fall 2010

Robert McNeilly, Member, OLLI at Vanderbilt  “Great Singers and Their Songs”

Patricia Ward, Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature  “Americans and Belle Epoque Paris: Life, Art, and Collecting”

John Miglietta, Professor of Political Science, Tennessee State University  “The Evolution of the American Presidency”

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “Religion: Its Origins, Practices, and Impacts”

Frank Wcislo, Dean of The Commons and Associate Professor of History  “Russia: Empire to Revolution”

John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy  “Great Ideas of the Nineteenth Century”

Peter Brush, History Librarian, Central Library (and Vietnam War Veteran)  “The United States and the Vietnam War”

Gene Policinski, Vice President and Executive Director of the First Amendment Center  “New Technology and Its Effect on Media”

Dale Alden, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lipscomb University, and Clinical Neuropsychologist
“The Brain’s Orchestra: Music to Sleep By”

Victor Judge, Lecturer, Vanderbilt University Divinity School  “The Writing Life”

Spring 2010

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader; Mary Pat Silveira, Member and Retired UN Official, Discussion Leader
“Great Decisions 2010: Foreign Policy Discussion Group”

Bobby L. Lovett, Professor of History, Tennessee State University
“Comparative History of African Americans in Nashville, 1780-1865”

Gil Campbell, Member  “Tune in Yesterday: Radio’s Golden Age”

Joe Sills, Retired from Career with the United Nations  “United States Foreign Policy: Old Issues, New Challenges”

Jim Lovensheimer, Assistant Professor  “Becoming American: Six Musical Case Studies”

Suhas L. Ketkar, Professor of Economics and Director, Graduate Program in Economic Development
“Economic Controversies”

Victor Judge, Lecturer, Divinity School  “Readings in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot”

Barbara Tsakirgis, Associate Professor, Classical Studies and History of Art; Mireille Lee, Assistant Professor, History of Art; Amanda Krauss, Assistant Professor, Classical Studies; Keith Kitchen, Lecturer, History of Art  “Mortals and Myths in Greece”

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader; Mary Pat Silveira, Member and Retired UN Official, Discussion Leader
“Great Decisions 2010: Foreign Policy Discussion Group” [Brentwood location]

Elaine Goleski, Teacher and former staff member, Jean and Alexander Heard Library  “Two Storytellers: Charles Dickens and John Irving”

Sam McSeveney, Professor of History, Emeritus  “New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era”

Winter 2010

Virginia Thigpen, Retired Associate Professor, Volunteer State Community College
“The Last Laugh: A Brief Look at American Comic Film” (Film Studies Class)

Amanda Krauss, Assistant Professor of Classics  “Humor: Ancient to Modern”

Ron Messier, Professor of History and Historical Archaeology, Emeritus, Middle Tennessee State University; Senior Lecturer in History and Religious Studies
“Islamic History”

Dan Church, Professor of French, Emeritus; Robert Covington, Professor of Law, Emeritus; “Crime and Punishment – On Two Sides of the Channel” (Film Studies Class)

Elizabeth Dachowski, Associate Professor of History, Tennessee State University  “Saints and Sinners in the Middle Ages”

Mel Joesten, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus  “The Chemistry of Global Environmental Issues”

Fredric Blumberg, Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts, S.U.N.Y.
“Oral Interpretation of Literature and Performance”

Fall 2009

Patricia Ward, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emerita  “Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson in France”

William Pratt, Professor of English, Emeritus, Miami University  “Faulkner’s Mythical Kingdom”

Katie Delmez, Frist Center Curator  “Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris” 

Susan Edwards, Director and CEO of the Frist Center  “Surrealism and Psychoanalysis” 

Kelli Shay Hix, Film Archivist at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum  “Surrealism and Surrealist Film in 1920s and 1930s Paris” 

Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History  “The Center Cannot Hold: Europe between Two World Wars, 1924-1039” 

Lisa Weiss, Assistant Director of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies and Lecturer in French  “The Surrealist Literary Movement in Paris”

Randall Yearwood, Retired Architect  “Eight Buildings in Washington, D.C.”

Mark Jarman, Centennial Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing  “Southern Poetry: The Fugitives to the Present”

Rick Chappell, Research Professor of Physics  “The Adventures of Exploration in America”

John Bridges, Writer, Musician, and Historian  “History of Country Music”

Frank Wcislo, Dean of the Commons and Associate Professor of History  “History of the Soviet Union”

Victor Judge, Lecturer, Vanderbilt University Divinity School  “The Writing Life”

Spring 2009

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader; Mary Pat Silveira, Member and Retired UN Official, Discussion Leader
“Great Decisions 2009: Foreign Policy Discussion Group”

Robert Covington, Professor of Law, Emeritus  “A Century of Crime: English Language Mystery Fiction to 1950”

John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy  “Fundamentals of Morality”

Gerry Calhoun, Petroleum Geologist  “Another Look at Energy Issues”

Jeff Stein, Lecturer, Department of Film Studies  “Family on Film Part II: Myth, Change, Parenting and What Works”

Victor Judge, Lecturer, Vanderbilt University Divinity School  “Scriptio Divina: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S. J.

Various Members of the Vanderbilt Faculty  “Perspectives on America: Past and Present” 

Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History  “Big Prince Whitten, An African in the Age of Atlantic Revolution” 

Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History  “Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad” 

Rachel Donelson, Ph.D. Student, Dept of History  “Of, By and For the People: The Culture of the 1930s” 

Gary Gerstle, James Stahlman Professor of History  “America’s Encounter with Immigrants” 

Thomas A. Schwartz, Professor of History  “President Obama’s World: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary  
American Foreign Policy” 

Erwin Hargrove, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus  “Realism and Idealism in Policymaking”

Winter 2009

Gil Campbell, OLLI at Vanderbilt Board Member  “Troubled Genius: The Career of Orson Welles”

Michael Kreyling, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English  “The Gone with the Wind Mythology”

Peter Lorge, Senior Lecturer in History  “Guns and Gunpowder in Asian History”

Carole Bucy, Associate Professor of History and Chair of History Department, Volunteer State Community College
“The Early Years of the Republic: The United States from 1780-1845”

Joe Sills, Retired from Career with the United Nations  “Foreign Policy in the New Administration”

Ann Jennalie Cook Calhoun, Professor of English, Emerita  “Shakespeare Films”

Fall 2008

Bob McNeilly, Member of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute “Richard Wagner, Sociopathic Genius”

Patricia A. Ward, Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature  “Americans in Paris, 1865-1955”

Mitiku Adisu, Editor and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Higher Education  “Rediscovering Africa”

Class Taught by Different Instructors from Vanderbilt  “Medicine, Health, and Society” 

Arleen Tuchman, History  “Diabetes, Race, and Ethnicity: Lessons from History” 

David Boyd, Medicine, Health and Society  “Death, Dying, and Shifts in Meaning” 

Larry Churchill, Biomedical Ethics  “Ethics at the End of Life: Who Should Decide What is Too Much?” 

Beth Conklin, Anthropology  “Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Death and Mourning” 

Holly Tucker, French and Italian  “Doctors’ Stories” 

Ruth Rogaski, History  “A History of Qi (Ch’i) in China and America”

Rick Chappell, Director of the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory; Bob O’Dell, the original NASA Chief Scientist for the Hubble and a Distinguished Research Professor of Astronomy  “Magnificent Time Machine: The Year of the Hubble Space Telescope”

Elaine Goleski, Teacher and former staff member, Jean and Alexander Heard Library “Who am I?: Studies in First-Person Narration”

Jim Charlet, Moderator  “Future Gazing in a Rear View Mirror” 

Clint Brewer, Executive Editor of Nashville City Paper, and Past President, National Society for Professional Journalists
“The Presidential Debates Have Ended: What Did We See?” 

William P. Alexander, Brentwood Attorney, Longtime Member of the Tennessee Export Council, and international Commercial Arbitrator  “To Trade, or Not to Trade: What’s our Competitive Interest?” 

Tom Griscom, Editor and Publisher, Chattanooga Times News Free Press, President, Tennessee Press Association, and Former White House Communications Director  “Presidential Transitions: The Election is Over, What Now America?” 

John Morgan, Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury  “Tennessee Education at its Crossroads: Compete or Surrender” 

Jeff Bridges, Partner, Carr, Riggs & Ingram  “Staying Alive to Cheat the Estate Tax” 

David Hudson, Legal Counsel, The First Amendment Center  “Life with The Supremes: A Review of the High Court’s Recent Term”

Randall Yearwood, Retired Architect  “The Vanderbilt Family and the Mansions They Built”

Spring 2008

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions 2008: Foreign Policy Discussion Group”

Victor Judge, Lecturer, Vanderbilt University Divinity School  “Religious Themes in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson”

Jeff Stein, Founding Faculty Member of the Watkins College Film School  “Myth and the American Family in the Movies”

Bob Duncan, County Historian and Director – Maury County Archives  “Deciphering Your Family History”

Arnold M. Heiser, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Emeritus  “The Milky Way, Galaxies, and the Large Scale Structure of the Observable Universe"

 
Marc K. Stengel, Writer and Translator from the Welsh  “The Dragon Has Two Tongues: An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature”

Willy Stern, Journalist  “Investigative Reporting: An Insider’s Guide”  

Tim Johnson, Professor of History, Lipscomb University  “Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War”

Winter 2008

Ann Jennalie Cook Calhoun, Professor of English, Emerita  “Shakespeare Films”

Bart Victor, Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership  “21st Century Business Ethics”

Gene Policinski, Vice President and Executive Director of the First Amendment Center  “The First Amendment in the 21st Century”

Sam McSeveney, Professor of History, Emeritus  “The Southern War of Independence, 1861-1865”

Robert K. Oermann, Author  “How Nashville Became ‘Music City’”

Fall 2007

Donald Menchise, Retired English Professor, Tennessee State University  “Revisiting Prominent Lyric Poetry”

William Pratt, Professor of English, Emeritus, Miami University  “Irish Literature”

John Geer, Professor of Political Science  “The Road to the White House”

Randall Yearwood, Retired Architect  “Architecture – People, Places and Things”

Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology  “Brain Development Throughout Life”

Robert Mode, Associate Professor, History of Art  “Great Artists – Myths and Missions”

Joseph Hamilton, Professor of Physics; Richard Haglund, Professor of Physics; “Primer of Physics and its Application to Society”

Marshall Eakin, Professor of History  “The Conquest of the Americas”

Summer 2007

Paul K. Conkin, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus  “American Agriculture in the 20th Century”

James E. Auer, Director of VIPPS Center for U.S.–Japan Studies and Cooperation  “U.S.-Japan Relations”

Paul Gherman, University Librarian  “Mining the Web: Enriching Your Life through Internet Resources”

Spring 2007

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions 2007: Foreign Policy Discussion Group”

Gottlieb C. Friesinger, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus  “Evolution of Medical Education”

Jane L. Landers, Associate Professor of History  “Comparative Slavery in the Americas”

Gerry Calhoun, Certified Petroleum Geologist  “All About Energy”

Arnold M. Heiser, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Emeritus  “Planets, Planets, and More Planets!”

Peg Duthie, Writer and Editor  “Placetne, J. K. Rowling? The Worlds of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harry Potter”

Barbara C. Bowen, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emerita  “Utopias and Dystopias, from Gilgamesh to Margaret Atwood”

Victor Judge, Divinity School Registrar, and Editor of The Spire   “The Moral Complexities of Henrik Ibsen’s Drama, The Wild Duck

Winter 2007

Dan Church, Professor of French  “The Films of Louis Malle (from France to Exile, and Back)”

John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy  “Great Philosophers of the Nineteenth Century”

Robert Drews, Professor of Classics, Emeritus  “History and Language: The Indo-Europeanizing of Europe”

Carole Bucy, Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department, Volunteer State Community College
“The Constitution: The History of a Living Document”

Christine Mather, Writer  “Women in Theatre: Exit the Actress” 

Fall 2006

Dennis Williams, Retired Engineer  “A Salmagundi of Tennessee Topics”

William Pratt, Professor of English, Emeritus, Miami University  “The Lesson of the Master: Six Lectures on the Modern Short Story”

Christina Peterson, Research Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology  “Current Issues in Health Sciences”

Joe Sills, Retired from Career with the United Nations  “America in the World”

Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology  “The Brain and Wellness”

Sam McSeveney, Professor of History, Emeritus  “Critical American Presidential Elections: Three Case Studies”

Jim Lovensheimer, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Blair School of Music  “The Joy of Bernstein: An Investigation of American Musical Genius”

Randall Yearwood, Retired Architect  “Architecture: People and Buildings”

John Seigenthaler, Chairman Emeritus of The Tennessean and founder of the First Amendment Center  “John Seigenthaler and the First Amendment”

Summer 2006

Tracy Barrett, Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian  “Medieval Women in Their Own Words”

Cecelia Tichi, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English  “The Mysteries of Mystery Fiction: The Anatomy of Sleuthing in Print in America”

Paul Gherman, University Librarian  “Mining the Web: Enriching Your Life through Internet Resources”

Spring 2006

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions 2006: Foreign Policy Discussion Group”

John Egerton, Writer  “Downtown Nashville History: Two Centuries on the Public Square”

Gene Policinski, Executive Director of the First Amendment Center  “The News Media and You”

Virginia L. Shepherd, Professor of Pathology and Associate Professor of Biochemistry; Charles A. Brau, Professor of Physics  “Nobel Prize Winners in Science”

Gottlieb C. Friesinger, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus  “Aging and Society”

Sophia Severino, Independent Scholar  “Of Mosques and Manuscripts: An Introduction to the Arts and Lands around the Mediterranean”

Bart Victor, Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership  “Leadership in Business: Perspectives from Science and Practice”

Victor Judge, Divinity School Registrar, and Editor of The Spire  “A Diapason of Terror: The Literary Craftsmanship of Edgar Allan Poe”

Winter 2006

Robert McNeilly, Member of Retirement Learning  “Russian Music: From the Czars to the Commissars”

Marc Stengel, writer  “Cultural Astronomy”

Steven Womack, Professor of Screenwriting and Film Studies, Watkins Film School  “Film Noir – Cinema’s Dark Days”

Fall 2005

Sam McSeveney, Professor of History, Emeritus  “America and Americans at War, 1917-1973”

William Pratt, Professor of English, Emeritus, Miami University  “Modern Novel”

Susan Wiltshire, Professor of Classics and Chair of Classical Studies Department   “Siblings in the Bible and Greek Drama”

Jim Lovensheimer, Lecturer, Blair School of Music  “With a Song in His Heart: The Art of Richard Rodgers”

Jeanette Norden, Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology  “The Amazing Brain”

Eugene TeSelle, Professor Emeritus, Divinity School  “The Progressive Era and the Social Gospel After a Hundred Years: Time for a Revival?”

Carole Bucy, Associate Professor of History and Chair of History Department, Volunteer State Community College
“Tennessee History IS American History”

Randall Yearwood, retired architect  “People and Architecture”

Summer 2005

Willy Stern  “Media Ethics: The Oxymoron and The Reality”

Larry A. Brown, Professor of Theatre, David Lipscomb University  “Mythology Around the World”

Paul Gherman, University Librarian  “Mining the Web: Enriching Your Life through Internet Resources”

Spring 2005

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions 2005: Foreign Policy Discussion Group”

Sam McSeveney, Professor of History, Emeritus  “From ‘Black Thursday’ to ‘a date which will live in infamy’: America and Americans 1929-1941”

Robert Barsky, Professor of Comparative Literature, and French and Italian  “Confession and Suffering in Literature and Law”

Calvin Dickinson, Professor of History, Tennessee Technological University  “Some Interesting Kings and Queens and England”

Dr. Jan Van Eys, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics  “Evidence-Based Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls”

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “Japanese Culture”

Leonard Folgarait, Professor of Art History  “The Meaning of Modern Art”

Victor Judge, Divinity School Registrar and editor of The Spire  “The Writing Life”

Winter 2005

Barbara Bowen, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emerita  “Rabelais and the Renaissance”

Marshall Eakin, Professor of History  “Amazonia: Five Centuries of Change”

Steven Womack, Professor of Screenwriting and Film Studies, Watkins Film School  “Hitchcock: A Life in Film”

Fall 2004

Frank Wcislo, Associate Professor of History  “Modern Russian History”

William Pratt, Professor of English, Emeritus, Miami University  “Modern Poetry”

Jim Lovensheimer, Lecturer, Blair School of Music  “American Musical Theater”

Arleen M. Tuchman, Associate Professor of History  “History of Health, Disease, and Healing”

Rick Chappell, Executive Director, Dyer Observatory, and Research Professor of Physics  “The Nature of Exploration from Columbus to Mars”

John G. Geer, Professor of Political Science  “Presidential Elections”

Bart Victor, Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership  “Business Ethics and Morality”

Virginia Abernethy, Professor of Psychiatry (Anthropology), Emerita  “Populations and Environment”

Ben Walter, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus  “Health Care and Medical Insurance”

Summer 2004

Paul Gherman, University Librarian  “Mining the Web: Enriching your Life through Internet Resources”

Joe Sills, Retired from Career with the United Nations  “The United States and Multilateral Institutions: What Lies Ahead?”

Andy Smith, Jazz Enthusiast  “Jazz in Europe”

Spring 2004

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions 2004: Foreign Policy Discussion Group”

Frances Hardie, Retired Associate Director for Collections Development, Jean and Alexander Heard Library
“Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Edwin S. Gleaves, State Librarian and Archivist  “The Future of Books, Reading, and Libraries in an Age of Hyperlinks”

John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy  “Great American Philosophers”

Bobby L. Lovett, Professor of History, Tennessee State University  “History of African Americans in Nashville”

W. Calvin Dickinson, Professor of History, Tennessee Technological University  “Interesting Kings and Queens of England”

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “Religion in Japanese History”

Victor Judge, Registrar and Editor of The Spire  “An Allegorical Reading of Albert Camus’ Novel, The Plague

Eric Youngquist, Retired Foreign Service Officer  “Norse Gods and Sagas”

Gene TeSelle, Professor of Church History and Theology, Emeritus  “Christianity Meets Classical Cultural: From Justin to Augustine”

Winter 2004

Luigi Monga, Professor of French and Italian  “Contemporary Italy through its Cinema”

Robert McNeilly, Instructor  “Great Choral Music”

Walter Durham, Gallatin Businessman and Writer  “Early Tennessee History”

Fall 2003

Ljubica Popovich, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Graduate Studies  “Art in Byzantium and its Commonwealth”

John Compton, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus “Socrates’ Search for Wisdom”

William O. Whetsell, Jr., Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Emeritus  “The Human Brain from Start to Finish”

William Longwell, Senior Lecturer in History  “Nationalism and Islam in the Modern Middle East since 1914”

Michael Rothacker, Instructor  “Jazz: The First Hundred Years”

Paul Conkin, Professor of History, Emeritus  “Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century”

Randall Yearwood, Architect  “The Architecture of Nashville”

John Perry, Author  “Releasing the Writer in You”

Ben Walter, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus  “Current Policy Issues”

Richard Sterns, Professor of Geology, Emeritus “Geology and Old Wars”

Summer 2003

Paul Gherman, University Librarian  “Mining the Web: Enriching Your Life through Internet Resources”

Douglas Fisher, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  “Hands on Exploration of the World Wide Web”

Donia Dickerson, Art Broker, Art Historian  “Great Museums of the World”

Spring 2003

Ben Adams, Member, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions, 2003: Foreign Policy Discussion Group"

Douglas A. Lee, Professor of Musicology, Emeritus  “Masterworks of 20th-Century Music"

Joe Sills, Retired from Career with the United Nations  “The United Nations: Past, Present, and Future”

Michael D. Bess, Associate Professor of History  “Moral Dimensions of World War II”

Victor Judge, Registrar and Editor of The Spire  “A Dostoyevsky Duet”

Leonard Alberstadt, Associate Professor of Geology and Chair of Geology Department  “Rocks, Fossils, and Geologic Time”

John Perry, Author, Former Award-winning Advertising Copywriter  “One Writer’s Adventures”

Dr. Carole S. Bucy, Associate Professor of History and Chair of History Department, Volunteer State Community College
“A Women’s View of American History”

Charles Sherrill, Director, Brentwood Library  “History in Real Life: Understanding Your Ancestors through Genealogical Research”

Marc Stengel, Writer  “Cultural Astronomy: The Relevance of Ancient Science to Modern Custom and Lore”

Winter 2003

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “Japanese Cinema: Films of the Fabulous Fifties”

Matthew Ramsay, Associate Professor of History  “The French Revolution”

Eric Youngquist, Retired Foreign Service Officer  “Anatomy of an Embassy”

Fall 2002

Robert McNeilly, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt; retired banker “Seven Favorite Symphonies”

Derrick Norman  “A History of Irony: Why Most Americans Don’t Get It!”

Ray Waddle, Religion Editor, The Tennessean; The Rev. Bill Barnes, Edgehill Methodist Church  “Protestant Christianity in the Life of Nashville”

Marion Fowlkes, Architect  “Architecture: The Grand Design”

Joseph Hamilton, Professor of Physics  “Primer of Physics and its Application to Society”

Samuel T. McSeveney, Professor of History, Emeritus  “Public Violence in American History”

Stewart Clifton, Coordinator  “Tennessee State Government: How It Works or Doesn’t”

Tom McCoy, Professor of Law; Tom Kanaday, Attorney  “Significant Issues in the U.S. Constitution”

Summer 2002

Paul Gherman, University Librarian  “A Library on Your Desktop”

Douglas Fisher, Associate Professor of Engineering and Computer Science  “What the Computer Can Do for You”

Michael Hime, Lecturer in Music Literature and Technical Liaison, Blair School of Music  “Sonic Symbolism: Does All This Noise Have Any Meaning”

Spring 2002

Ben Adams, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions 2002”

Gene Policinski, Deputy Director at First Amendment Center  “News and News Media- Today and Tomorrow”

Mark Schimmenti, Design Director of the Nashville Civic Design Center  “Fundamentals of Urban Design”

Victor Judge, Editor, The Spire; Assistant Editor, Alumni Publications  “The Literature of William Faulkner- The Sound and the Fury”

Jan Van Eys, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus  “From Soup to Nuts: Myths, Magical Thinking, and Science in Nutrition”

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus- “Islam”; Bill Longwell, Senior Lecturer in History- “History of the Middle East”; Pat Nation, Assistant Professor of Sociology, MTSU- “Terrorism”; Joe Sills, Retired from Career with UN- “Role of the UN in the Post Cold War World”  “America and the Middle East”

Madeena Nolan, Author; Alana White, Author, Martha Hickman, Author  “Inspiration and Perspiration: The Writer at Work”

Peter Poremski, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt  “Memoirs/Autobiography Writing Workshop”

Albert Reeves, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt  “A King? A Committee? No, a President!”

Winter 2002

Ben Walter, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus  “Public Policy Issues II”

Richard Stearns, Professor of Geology, Emeritus  “The Geology of History in the Central South”

Dan Church, Professor of French, Emeritus  “The Films of Jean Renoir”

Fall 2001

Eugene TeSelle, Oberlin Professor of Church History and Theology, Emeritus  “Contemporary Religious Movements and Trends”

Charles H. Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “World Religions”

Douglas Hall, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Director of Arthur J. Dyer Observatory  “The Real Dangers of Impacts from Outer Space”

James Patty, Professor of French, Emeritus; John Lachs, Professor of Philosophy; Amy Kirschke, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts; Mary Beth Raycraft, Lecturer in French; Enid Katahn, Professor of Piano   “Nineteenth Century French Expression in Music, Art and Literature”    (Organized by the Alliance Francaise of Nashville, through Eloise Barrett)

Peter Lorge, Lecturer in History  “America in Asia”

Marshall Eakin, Professor of Political Science  “Distant Neighbors: The U.S. and Latin American”

Shirley Wilson  “Genealogy 101”

Summer 2001

Paul Gherman, University Librarian  “A Library on Your Desktop”

Douglas Fisher, Associate Professor of Engineering and Computer Science  “What the Computer Can Do for You”

Ann Jenalie Cook, Professor of English, Emeritus  “Performing Shakespeare”

Spring 2001

Ben Adams, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions 2001”

Jan Rosemergy, Ph.D., Director of Communications and Community Relations, John F. Kennedy Center; The Rev. Dan Rosemergy, Pastor of Brookmeade Congregational Church  “Images of God”

Mark Wait, Dean of the Blair School of Music  “Piano Music since 1750”

Victor Judge, Editor, The Spire; Assistant Editor, Vanderbilt Magazine  “The Hours of Clarissa Dalloway”

Ronnie Steine. Vice Mayor of Metro; and Others  “Public Policy Issues in Metro”

Peter Poremski, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt  “From Memories to Memoirs III”

Sheri Sterban and Staff of the Dayani Center  “Wellness for Life”

Winter 2001

Richard Stearns, Professor of Geology, Emeritus
“Geology and the Civil War” (Campaigns of 1863, Stones River, South to Chattanooga)

E.D. Thompson, Writer, Journalist, Musician
“Nashville Nostalgia”

Ben Walter, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
“Contemporary Policy Issues”

 

Fall 2000

Tom Kanaday, Attorney  “Landmark Supreme Court Decisions”

Sarah Howell, Professor of History, Emeritus  “America Turns a Century: 1880-1917”

Geoffrey Layman, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “What is Religion?”

Victor Judge, Associate Editor of Alumni Publications  “A Writer’s Forum”

Douglas Hall, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Director Vanderbilt Observatories   “The Whole Universe II”

Summer 2000

Paul Gherman, University Librarian  “The World of Digital Information - A Library on Your Desktop”

Douglas Fisher, Associate Professor of Engineering and Computer Science  “What the Computer Can Do for You”

Cecelia Tichi, Professor of English, Emeritus  “Mystery and Suspense”

Jeanice Moore, Pianist  “Music Appreciation for Those Who Wish They Had Studied It When They Were Ten Years Old!”

Spring 2000

Victor Judge, Associate Editor of Alumni Publications  “Realistic Portraits of Love”

Ben Adams, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt, Discussion Leader  “Great Decisions 2000”

Robert McNeilly Jr., Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt; Retired Banker  “Songs of Love and Death II”

Helen Sanders, Ph.D.  “Ancient Greek Sanctuaries and Religion”

John Greer, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus  “The Miracle of Water”

*Sedley Hassel, Workshop Leader; Peter Poremski, Writing Workshop Leader*  “Life Writing Workshop II” “Turning Memories into Memoirs: A Life Writing Workshop”

Fall 1999

Ben Adams, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt, Discussion Leader  “Choices for the 21st Century: Defining Our Role in a Changing World”

Marshall Haglund, Jr., Professor of Physics, Chair of Physics and Astronomy Department  “Light Fantastic: from the Green Flash to the Laser”

Marge Davis, Ph.D., Writer  “The Golden Age of Mystery”

Douglas Hall, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Director of Arthur Dyer Observatory  “The Whole Universe” [also Fall 2000]

Ann Jennalie Cook, Professor of English, Emeritus  “Shakespeare in Performance”

Peter Poremski, Writing Workshop Leader  “Turning Memories into Memoirs: A Life Writing Workshop”

Barbara Tsakirgis, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Fine Arts  “Classical Athens”

Jan Van Eys, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus  “Diseases and History”

Patricia Mynatt, Certified Financial Planner  “Retirement Planning and Investment”

Summer 1999

Charles Brau, Professor of Physics; Glenn Edwards, Professor of Physics  “The Free Electron Laser: On the Cutting Edge”

Douglas Fisher, Associate Professor of Engineering and Computer Science  “What the Computer Can Do for You”

Victor Judge, Associate Editor of Alumni Publications  “Readings in the Modern Short Story”

Vivien Fryd, Associate Professor of Art History  “Athens of the South: Art in Nashville”

Spring 1999

Ben Adams, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt, Group Leader “Great Decisions 1999”

Jan Rosemergy, Ph.D., Director of Communications and Community Relations, John F. Kennedy Center  “Life’s Cycles in Poetry”

John Lachs, Professor of Philosophy  “In Love with Life”

Albert Reeves, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt  “A King? A Committee? No, a President!”

Richard Stearns, Professor of Geology, Emeritus   “Geology and the Civil War, In and Near Tennessee” (Nashville and West Tennessee)

Ben Adams, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt, Discussion Leader  “Choices for the 21st Century: Defining Our Role in a Changing World”    [Spring 1999, Fall 1999, 2000]

Sarah Howell, Professor of History, Emeritus  “Director Delbert Mann and American Culture on Film since 1950”

Fall 1998

Vereen Bell, Professor of English  “Rereading the Films of Our Youth”

Victor Judge, Associate Editor of Alumni Publications  “Myths and Variations”

William O. Whetsell, Jr. M.D., Professor of Pathology  “The Human Brain from Start to Finish”

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “Islam”

Dewey Grantham, Professor of History, Emeritus  “From Roosevelt to Reagan: The Challenges of Recent Presidential Leadership”

Robert McNeilly, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt; Retired Banker  “Songs of Love and Death: Music of Opera to Thrill Your Soul and Stir Your Senses”

Spring 1998

Victor Judge, Associate Editor of Alumni Publications  “The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor”

Jan Van Eys, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus  “The Moral Meaning of Childhood: What Are We Doing to Our Children?” 

Discussion Group following Dr. Van Eys’ class

Rabbi Randall Falk  “The State of Israel: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”

Bill Purcell, Director of the Child and Family Policy Center, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Moderator
“Public Policy and Public Good: How Do We Get It Right?” 

Presentations by policy leaders concerned with issues including crime, health care, education, services for children, and the environment.

Discussion group, brown bag lunch following each presentation

Barbara Forbes, Coordinator of Senior Health and Health Promotion, The Dayani Center and Staff  “Wellness Journeys: Stress Management, Aerobic Activity, Flexibility and Balance, General Nutrition, Eating Out, and Eating Healthy”

Fall 1997

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus  “The Three Vehicles of Buddhism”

Harold Whiteman, Ph.D.  “Does the United Sates Have Foreign Policy: Eight Vital Specifics” – based on Great Decisions studies of the American Foreign Policy Association

Michael Hime, Lecturer in Music History and Technical Liaison, Blair School of Music  “How to Listen to Music”

Dewey Grantham, Professor of History, Emeritus  “From Truman to Reagan: Presidential Leadership in Recent American History” 

(Because of illness, he engaged colleagues to present different lectures, as follows:)

Paul Conkin, Professor of History,  “Big Daddy of the Pedernales: Lyndon Baines Johnson” 

Elizabeth Perry, Historian  “Could Eleanor Roosevelt Have Been President? Issues in Political Leadership for Women in the 20th Century” 

Sam McSeveney, Professor of History, Emeritus, “The Party is Over: Political Parties and Politics 1945-1997" 

Cecelia Tichi, Professor of English  “Mt. Rushmore (Can You Name the Four?)" 

Lewis Baldwin, Professor, Department of Religious Studies  “Civil Rights and Presidential Politics” 

Bill Phillips, Chief of Staff, University Relations at Vanderbilt  “Leadership of a California Actor and a Texas Yankee: The Reagan and Bush Years"

Robert McNeilly, Member of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt; Retired Banker; Tom Kanaday, Attorney
“How to Get It, Conserve It, and Keep It - For a While!”

Radio Shack  “What is Web TV? For Those Interested in the Internet, but Not the Whole Computer Scene”

Spring 1997

Rendigs Fels, Professor of Economics, Emeritus; John Seigfried, Professor (Economics and Sports); Stephen Buckles, Visiting Professor of Economics (Economics of Education); Mark A. Cohen, Assoc. Professor of Management (Economics of Saving High-Risk Youth)  “The Economics of Crime, Drugs, Education and Other Amusements”

The Rev. Beverly Asbury, University Chaplain, Emeritus  “Stories About God and Humanity’s Mythological Universe”

Jan Van Eys, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus  “The Ethics of Genetics”

Rabbi Randall Falk  “Jews and Christian: A Troubled Family”

Marge McCormick Davis, Ph.D.  “From Stereotype to Archetype: Images of Mothers in the English Novel”

Fall 1996

Harold Whiteman, Ph.D., Retired President of Sweet Briar College  “Current Problems in U.S. Foreign Policy,” based on Great Decisions, 1996, American Foreign Policy Association

Mack Prichard, State Naturalist; Ruth Neff, Ph.D.; Janice Nolen, Executive Director, American Ling Association of Tennessee; Ann Tidwell, former member, Tenn. Water Quality Board; Alan Jones, Director, Tenn. Environmental Council; Cliff Russell, Ph.D., Director, Center of Resource and Environmental Policy, Vanderbilt University  “Tennessee Treasures/Trash: Who’s Minding Mother Nature’s Store?”

Howard Boorman, Professor of History, Emeritus   “Traditional China: The First Twenty Centuries”

Tom Kanaday, Attorney  “Financial and Estate Planning”

Barbara Forbes and Staff, Dayani Center  “Thursday Wellness Journeys”

Spring 1996

Nelson Fuson, Professor Emeritus, Fisk University, and Mrs. Marian Fuson  “The Next 25 Years of Marriage can be the Best!”

Charles Delzell, Professor of History, Emeritus   “World War II in Europe 1939-45: The Ordeal and Impact of Total War”

Charles Hambrick, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, College of Arts and Science  “World Religions Today”

John Van Wazer, Professor Emeritus, Chemistry  “Sources and Uses of Energy”

Libby Zerfoss Fryer, Research Librarian “A Grassroots History of Middle Tennessee”

Fall 1995

Paul Conkin, Professor of History  “American Originals: New American Varieties of Christianity”

Howard Boorman, Professor of History, Emeritus  “World War II in the Pacific”

Jan Van Eys, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics  “Moral Medicine: A View of Today’s Health Care”

Martha Overholser Hammonds, Ph.D.  “Beyond Cats: The Poetry of T.S. Eliot”

 

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Marcia Lavine, Retired Teacher at University School of Nashville, “Art and Power: The Visual Arts as Expression and Instrument of Power”

Cindy Hui-Lio, Instructional-Systems Designer and Usability Researcher, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, “The Principles of Tai Chi and Daily Movements”

Jamie Pope, Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, “Nutrition and Health: Issues and Insights”

Mickey Casad, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt University, “Exploring Digital Storytelling through Scalar”

Alli Puglisi, Director, OLLI Advanced Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – ADVANCED”

Mat Britain, Director, OLLI Beginner Steel Drum Band, “OLLI Steel Drum Band – BEGINNER”

Bronson Herrmuth, Teaching Artist and Charlie McCoy, Teaching Artist, “Music for Seniors Beginners Harmonica Learning Lab”

Cynthia Wasick, Senior Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Vanderbilt University, “Tickling Your Taste Buds with Nashville’s Latino Cuisines”

Paul Kwami, Associate Professor of Music, Fisk University, “The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers®, Their Tour and Their Music”

Reavis Mitchell, Professor of History, Dean of the School of Humanities Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fisk University, “A History of Fisk University”

Cameron Gordon, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University and Kendall Hinote, Founder, Mindfulness in Nashville Education, “A Day of Mindfulness Practice”

Robbie Fry, Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt Blair School of Music, “Music Cities: A Study of Musical Sounds and Spaces”