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FALL 2019Distinguished Lecture Series Session 1

The First 2019-20 Thursday Morning Lecture Series

OLLI Reads! & More

DISTINGUISHEDLECTURE SERIES session 1

September 10, 2019, 10:00-11:30amTHE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Speaker: Saeed Khan

Religion in politics is the most crucial issue facing Middle East countries. The region faces challenges for the application of modernity in terms of secularism, especially in a locale where democracy and individualism have had generally little latitude as a whole. This is due partly from its history, and where many use religion to justify their authoritarian political systems. Could technological advances have an impact and at what pace? This presentation will explore the always-changing landscape of the Middle East, as religion, politics, and technology compete, clash, and coexist.

Saeed A. Khan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near East and Asian Studies at Wayne State University. He teaches Islamic and Middle East history, politics, and culture, and is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Citizenship. He is also Adjunct Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy and at Rochester College, co-teaching a course on Muslim-Christian Diversity. In addition, he is a founding member and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a D.C. and Michigan based Think Tank. The Institute promotes the study and

analysis of U.S. social and domestic policy with focus on U.S. policy, globalization,, Middle East and Islamic Studies, as well as genomics and bioethics. Professor Khan is a regular contributor to several media agencies, such as C-Span, NPR, Voice of America, and the National Press Club. He is also a regular panelist appearing on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as well as in several newspapers. Recently he was appointed as a consultant to the Vatican’s Cor Unum Dicastery.

October 22, 2019, 10:00-11:30amESCAPE FROM NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST TO SHANGHAI

Speaker: Berl Falbaum

Hitler came to power in 1933. At that time there were approximately 500 thousand Jews in Germany and approximately 180 thousand Jews in Austria. They were loyal to their country, were part of the government, and fought for Germany in World War 1. Hitler had a plan to annihilate the world’s Jews. Jews were stripped of their citizenship, their property taken over, and their means of a livelihood destroyed. Jews were given a limited amount of time to fi nd another country that would take them, otherwise they would be thrown into concentration camps. Aside from the Dominican Republic, Shanghai was the only place

Location:Washtenaw Community College, Morris Lawrence Bldg.Towsley Auditorium4800 E. Huron River Dr., Ann Arbor, MI

that remained open to these refugees without requiring a visa. Approximately 20 thousand German, Austrian, and Polish Jews were able to make the trip. Mr. Falbaum’s family was among those that made the journey. In his presentation, Mr. Falbaum will describe his family’s experiences and those of other Jews.

Mr. Falbaum was a political reporter for the Detroit News, and a longtime journalist and author. He has compiled and edited a book Shanghai Remembered: Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Germany.

November 12, 2019, 10:00-11:30amACTUAL INNOCENCE IN MICHIGAN: AN UPDATE FROM THE MICHIGAN INNOCENCE CLINIC

Speaker: Professor David Moran

Professor Moran will speak about the problem of wrongful convictions in Michigan and how the Michigan Innocence Clinic investigates and litigates cases where persons have been wrongfully convicted but there is no DNA evidence to test. Professor Moran will discuss several recent cases in which the Michigan Innocence Clinic has achieved exonerations for its clients.

David Moran co-founded the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School with Bridget McCormack in 2009. Professor Moran holds a bachelor’s degree in physics

from Michigan, master’s degrees in mathematics and physics from Cambridge University and Cornell, and a JD from Michigan Law School. After eight years as an appellate public defender in Detroit, he taught at Wayne State Law School before coming to the University of Michigan. He has published many articles on various aspects of criminal law and criminal procedure, and he has argued before the United States Supreme Court six times.

December 10, 2019, 10:00-11:30amHOW POLIO HELPED FDR TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY

Speaker: Dr. James Tobin, Professor of Journalism, Miami University

According to the conventional wisdom that has grown up around the public image of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the post-Watergate era, he became president only by fooling the public about the paralysis he suffered as a result of poliomyelitis. In fact, the author’s research shows that FDR made masterful use of his disability as he recovered from the disease and rose to the White House. After earning a Ph.D. in history at the University of Michigan,

James Tobin spent 20 years as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer. His books include Ernie Pyle’s War (1997), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography; To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight (2003); and The Man He Became: How FDR Defi ed Polio to Win the Presidency (2013).

This lecture series was planned by: Laurie Barnett, Craig Fisher, Ron Frisch, Jerry Gardner, Cathy Marcus, Ed Marcus, Claire Murray, Leo Shedden, Katherine Woo, and *Al Gourdji (chair)

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Upcoming OLLI OUT OF TOWN TRIPSA Current Look at Flint

Day/Date: Tuesday, October 15 Time: 7:45am–6:15pm Location: Meet at Meijer, 3825 Carpenter Rd., Ypsilanti, MI Cost: $75.00 (includes lunch, snacks and tips)

Join OLLI for a current, fi rst-hand look at Flint to see the remarkable journey of progress occurring in the city.

*A coordinating event to OLLI Reads

We Are Going Back to School...At Cranbrook

Day/Date: Friday, October 25 Time: 8:30am-5:30pm Location: Meet at Meijer, 3825 Carpenter Rd., Ypsilanti, MI Cost: $142.00 (includes lunch, snacks and tips)

OLLI will tour Cranbrook, enjoy a special lecture about their history and have the option of either a guided museums or historic houses tour.

Upcoming EVENINGS WITH OLLI EVENTSLocation: Kellogg Eye Center, Auditorium, 1000 Wall St., Ann Arbor, MI

Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope with Irene Butter Wednesday, September 18 7:00-8:30pm, $5 Ms. Butter will share her life experiences. She grew up as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied Europe and survived two concentration camps.

Ypsilanti—1800 to the Present—A Rich & Unique HistoryWednesday, October 27-8:30 pm, $5Starting Location: Ypsilanti Historical Society Museum & Archives, 220 N. Huron St., Ypsilanti. Explore the past and look to the future in a tour of the Museum and Ypsilanti Ladies Literary Club with Ypsilanti historian Bill Nickels and Ypsilanti Mayor Beth Bashert

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OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTEwhere learning never retires

FALL 2019Distinguished Lecture Series Session 1

The First 2019-20 Thursday Morning Lecture Series

OLLI Reads! & More

DISTINGUISHEDLECTURE SERIES session 1

September 10, 2019, 10:00-11:30amTHE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Speaker: Saeed Khan

Religion in politics is the most crucial issue facing Middle East countries. The region faces challenges for the application of modernity in terms of secularism, especially in a locale where democracy and individualism have had generally little latitude as a whole. This is due partly from its history, and where many use religion to justify their authoritarian political systems. Could technological advances have an impact and at what pace? This presentation will explore the always-changing landscape of the Middle East, as religion, politics, and technology compete, clash, and coexist.

Saeed A. Khan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near East and Asian Studies at Wayne State University. He teaches Islamic and Middle East history, politics, and culture, and is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Citizenship. He is also Adjunct Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy and at Rochester College, co-teaching a course on Muslim-Christian Diversity. In addition, he is a founding member and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a D.C. and Michigan based Think Tank. The Institute promotes the study and

analysis of U.S. social and domestic policy with focus on U.S. policy, globalization,, Middle East and Islamic Studies, as well as genomics and bioethics. Professor Khan is a regular contributor to several media agencies, such as C-Span, NPR, Voice of America, and the National Press Club. He is also a regular panelist appearing on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as well as in several newspapers. Recently he was appointed as a consultant to the Vatican’s Cor Unum Dicastery.

October 22, 2019, 10:00-11:30amESCAPE FROM NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST TO SHANGHAI

Speaker: Berl Falbaum

Hitler came to power in 1933. At that time there were approximately 500 thousand Jews in Germany and approximately 180 thousand Jews in Austria. They were loyal to their country, were part of the government, and fought for Germany in World War 1. Hitler had a plan to annihilate the world’s Jews. Jews were stripped of their citizenship, their property taken over, and their means of a livelihood destroyed. Jews were given a limited amount of time to fi nd another country that would take them, otherwise they would be thrown into concentration camps. Aside from the Dominican Republic, Shanghai was the only place

Location:Washtenaw Community College, Morris Lawrence Bldg.Towsley Auditorium4800 E. Huron River Dr., Ann Arbor, MI

that remained open to these refugees without requiring a visa. Approximately 20 thousand German, Austrian, and Polish Jews were able to make the trip. Mr. Falbaum’s family was among those that made the journey. In his presentation, Mr. Falbaum will describe his family’s experiences and those of other Jews.

Mr. Falbaum was a political reporter for the Detroit News, and a longtime journalist and author. He has compiled and edited a book Shanghai Remembered: Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Germany.

November 12, 2019, 10:00-11:30amACTUAL INNOCENCE IN MICHIGAN: AN UPDATE FROM THE MICHIGAN INNOCENCE CLINIC

Speaker: Professor David Moran

Professor Moran will speak about the problem of wrongful convictions in Michigan and how the Michigan Innocence Clinic investigates and litigates cases where persons have been wrongfully convicted but there is no DNA evidence to test. Professor Moran will discuss several recent cases in which the Michigan Innocence Clinic has achieved exonerations for its clients.

David Moran co-founded the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School with Bridget McCormack in 2009. Professor Moran holds a bachelor’s degree in physics

from Michigan, master’s degrees in mathematics and physics from Cambridge University and Cornell, and a JD from Michigan Law School. After eight years as an appellate public defender in Detroit, he taught at Wayne State Law School before coming to the University of Michigan. He has published many articles on various aspects of criminal law and criminal procedure, and he has argued before the United States Supreme Court six times.

December 10, 2019, 10:00-11:30amHOW POLIO HELPED FDR TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY

Speaker: Dr. James Tobin, Professor of Journalism, Miami University

According to the conventional wisdom that has grown up around the public image of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the post-Watergate era, he became president only by fooling the public about the paralysis he suffered as a result of poliomyelitis. In fact, the author’s research shows that FDR made masterful use of his disability as he recovered from the disease and rose to the White House. After earning a Ph.D. in history at the University of Michigan,

James Tobin spent 20 years as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer. His books include Ernie Pyle’s War (1997), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography; To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight (2003); and The Man He Became: How FDR Defi ed Polio to Win the Presidency (2013).

This lecture series was planned by: Laurie Barnett, Craig Fisher, Ron Frisch, Jerry Gardner, Cathy Marcus, Ed Marcus, Claire Murray, Leo Shedden, Katherine Woo, and *Al Gourdji (chair)

Continued on next page

Upcoming OLLI OUT OF TOWN TRIPSA Current Look at Flint

Day/Date: Tuesday, October 15 Time: 7:45am–6:15pm Location: Meet at Meijer, 3825 Carpenter Rd., Ypsilanti, MI Cost: $75.00 (includes lunch, snacks and tips)

Join OLLI for a current, fi rst-hand look at Flint to see the remarkable journey of progress occurring in the city.

*A coordinating event to OLLI Reads

We Are Going Back to School...At Cranbrook

Day/Date: Friday, October 25 Time: 8:30am-5:30pm Location: Meet at Meijer, 3825 Carpenter Rd., Ypsilanti, MI Cost: $142.00 (includes lunch, snacks and tips)

OLLI will tour Cranbrook, enjoy a special lecture about their history and have the option of either a guided museums or historic houses tour.

Upcoming EVENINGS WITH OLLI EVENTSLocation: Kellogg Eye Center, Auditorium, 1000 Wall St., Ann Arbor, MI

Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope with Irene Butter Wednesday, September 18 7:00-8:30pm, $5 Ms. Butter will share her life experiences. She grew up as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied Europe and survived two concentration camps.

Ypsilanti—1800 to the Present—A Rich & Unique HistoryWednesday, October 27-8:30 pm, $5Starting Location: Ypsilanti Historical Society Museum & Archives, 220 N. Huron St., Ypsilanti. Explore the past and look to the future in a tour of the Museum and Ypsilanti Ladies Literary Club with Ypsilanti historian Bill Nickels and Ypsilanti Mayor Beth Bashert

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SOUTH AFRICA: PAST, PRESENT AND A LOOK FORWARDThis Series will provide an overview of the history of South Africa, the transition out of apartheid, the country’s educational and political systems, the South African expression of arts/culture and the role of South African youth in creating the path forward.

To provide added background for this series, you may want to consider one or both of the following books for your summer reading: 1) Leonard Thompson’s A History of South Africa. The 4th edition is recommended, which was recently revised and updated (2014) by Lynn Berat. 2)Trevor Noah’s 2016 book Born a Crime.

September 12, 2019, 9:30-11:00amEarly History of South Africa, c. 900-1930

Speaker: Raevin Jimenez, Ph.D., LSA Collegiate Fellow

Dr. Jimenez is an LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2017. Her research uses comparative historical linguistics to recover the undocumented past. She is interested in the ways southern African speech communities crafted political beliefs and practices over several centuries, how these beliefs shaped gendered and generational social relations, and the ways enduring ideas shaped the rise of centralized kingdoms.

Speaker’s Synopsis: This presentation evaluates the state of democracy in South Africa over the last 25 years. How respected and stable are democratic institutions following the historic elections of 1994? Has the African National Congress, the ruling party, successfully addressed the harmful legacy of apartheid? Has the government realized the ideals of the country’s fi rst, democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, to eradicate poverty and promote dignity? We focus on the 2019 National Elections to answer these questions.

September 26, 2019, 10:00-11:30amDe Facto and De Jure Apartheid: On the Moral, Political and Policy Failures of the Post-Apartheid State: A Call for an Offi cial State Apology for Apartheid in South Africa

Speaker: Yazier Henry, Lecturer in Public Policy at The Ford School

Yazier Henry teaches at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is a public intellectual, strategist, confl ict management expert, teacher, facilitator, scholar, professional human rights advocate, and poet. He has written and published on the political economy of social voice, historical memory work, political trauma and social integration, identity and race, peace processes, Truth Commissions, human rights, and international transitional justice. His research and writing priorities focus on the interrelationship and intersections of structural, systemic, institutional, and administrative violence. He is particularly interested in the politics and economics of human rights and the social violence of the law. His current work is on how state violence becomes systemically structured and institutionalized during political transitions in the global south.

Speaker’s Synopsis: When apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa had one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Inequality in education was both a cause and a consequence of high income inequality. After 25 years there has been little change in income inequality, in spite of improvements in levels of education and education inequality. This presentation analyzes trends in education inequality and income inequality and examines how they interact in South Africa’s highly unequal society.

October 10, 2019, 10:00-11:30amSouth African Performing Arts in the New Democracy

Speaker: Dr. Anita Gonzalez, Professor of Theatre and Drama

Anita Gonzalez (Ph.D.) is Professor of Theatre and Drama at University of Michigan. Her research and publication interests are in global theatre and ethnic studies. She also directs and writes for the theatre. Gonzalez has authored two books: Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality (2010) and Jarocho’s Soul (2005) that reveal the infl uence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexico. She also co-edited the volume Black Performance Theory (Duke University Press 2013).

Speaker’s Synopsis: Learn about South African music, theatre, and dance in the new millennium. A generation of young artists bring distinctive voices to a newly-integrated society. Organizations like the Market Theatre, Cape Town Opera, and the National Arts Festival present works which express the hopes, visions, and challenges of a new democracy. Professor Anita Gonzalez from the School of Music, Theatre and Dance presents images and shares stories from her recent research in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Mahkanda.

Speaker’s Synopsis: Legal Apartheid was politically, legally and procedurally dismantled after a protracted antiapartheid struggle in South Africa in 1994. South Africa’s fi rst racially inclusive election on April 26, 1994 literally and symbolically marked this legal ending, after four years of tense and at times violent negotiations between the leaders of Apartheid South Africa and those of the antiapartheid movements. However, 25 years after this hopeful and euphoric historical moment the dead are still being counted, the transmutation of formal apartheid into social and economic apartheid is all but complete and the legacy of Apartheid’s crimes endure – threatening the very dream of Nelson Mandela’s vision for a nonracial, non-sexist, equal and just political system in South Africa. This talk will critically engage the political, legal and moral failures of state responsibilities to international humanitarian and human rights law and the state’s political, legal and moral management of the freedom moment.

October 3, 2019, 10:00-11:30amEducation Inequality and Income Inequality in South Africa since the End of Apartheid

Speaker: Professor David Lam, Director, Institute for Social Research, and Professor of Economics, University of Michigan

David Lam is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he has done collaborative research since 1996. His research in South Africa analyzes links between education, labor markets, and income inequality.

October 17, 2019, 10:00-11:30amInnovative Disruption – A Youth Dialogue on Reforming Exclusionary Systems in South Africa

Speakers: Gigi Ngcobo, MSU Senior, Finance and UX Design & Nomzamo Ntombela, MSU Ph.D. Candidate, African History

Gigi Ngcobo is a South African senior studying Finance and UX Design at MSU. She is enthralled by emerging technology and growing African businesses, as such she is the Marketing Director of Spartan Blockchain, spent her summer as an Analyst at Invest Detroit Ventures and planned the MSU’s inaugural African Business Lecture. Nomzamo Ntombela is a South African Ph.D. student at MSU. She completed her undergraduate studies and BA (Hons) at the University of Stellenbosch in Cultural Anthropology where she served in various leadership positions, historically becoming the fi rst black woman to occupy the Stellenbosch Student Council Chairperson position in the 100-year tenure of Stellenbosch.

Speaker’s Synopsis: South Africa’s history of Apartheid has resulted in its youth inheriting the task of innovatively transforming exclusionary systems and dismantling generational cycles of struggle to move all South African’s towards a better future. This talk will explore how supporting the adoption of technology, entrepreneurship, and using venture capital can accelerate equality, thus, increasing fi nancial capital while fostering a business ecosystem that includes informal entrepreneurs, scales local businesses, and develops much needed technical skills.

Speaker’s Synopsis: During the millennium preceding European colonialism, South Africans forged societies characterized by dispersed political networks, long-distance commerce, extensive regional interactions, and overlapping fl ows of people, ideas, and materials. By the 18th century, their political economies and political beliefs yielded powerful kingdoms. Colonial political mythology rests on the notion that early Europeans ‘set up a country bare’ and devoid of civilization. The early history of South Africa reveals a far more complex past.

September 19, 2019, 10:00-11:30amIs Democracy Alive and Well in South Africa? Evaluating the results of the 2019 National Elections

Speaker: Professor Anne Pitcher

Anne Pitcher is a Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan. Her current research examines party politics, urban political economy, and state-business relations in Africa. She has conducted fi eldwork, survey and archival research in Angola, Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. She has published several books and dozens of articles in scholarly journals. She formerly served as President of the African Studies Association.

THURSDAY MORNINGLECTURE SERIES

January 14, 2020, 10:00-11:30amLIVING TRANSGENDER – THE STRUGGLES AND REWARDS

Speakers: Max, Will, and Stephanie

Celebrate and explore the spirit of tolerance in this panel discussion with three transgender people. Our panel will share stories about their personal struggles and rewards. Meet a married transman who is the father of three young children, a transgender man who leads the University of Michigan Spectrum Center, and a woman who identifi es as gender non-conforming. OLLI member Bill Roberts will act as panel moderator.

Join us for this timely and meaningful discussion on gender perspectives. Max is 55 years old, white, middle-class transman and identifi es as male. He also identifi es as a father, partner, Jewish, queer, pansexual, a veteran, and sober. He transitioned in his home town in California 19 years ago, after years of questioning/identifying his gender. He has been partnered with a cis-gendered woman for 17 years and they have three donor-conceived children. Max and his partner moved from California to Michigan 10 years ago and he currently works in the public sector as an attorney.

Will is a 36-year-old transgender man who serves as the Director of the University of Michigan Spectrum Center. Will is as a father, partner, social worker, and lover of long rides on country roads. Will is married to a cis-gender woman and lives with his family in Dexter where they enjoy the beautiful lakes and rivers throughout the area. Will is a 2007 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work and a 2005 graduate of the College of Wooster. Will has worked at the Spectrum Center for the past 10 years and focuses his current work on the University’s diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plan.

Stephanie is a retired 68-year old former small business owner in the automobile service industry. She transitioned just fi ve years ago after extensively studying research in sexuality, psychology, the brain, and gender. Her studies were spurred by a lifetime of misinformation about gender and sexuality. She is divorced, with two grown sons and four granddaughters. Stephanie currently enjoys her small business repairing vintage electric guitars and amplifi ers.

THE FIRST: SOUTH AFRICA

Location: Washtenaw Community College, Morris Lawrence Bldg. Towsley Auditorium 4800 E. Huron River Dr., Ann Arbor, MI

OLLI READS in collaboration with Michigan Humanities’ Great Michigan Read Presents Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD Discussing her book: What the Eyes Don’t See – A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

Day/Date: Monday, October 21Time: 9:30am-12:00pm Location: WCC, Morris Lawrence Building

9:30am Coffee 10:00-11:00am Discussion with Mona Hanna-Attisha, followed by Q&A 11:00am-Noon Light Lunch and Book Signing

OLLI DIALOG on Freedom & Diversity with Dr. Dilip DasDay/Date: Tuesday, September 24Time: 10:00am-12:00pmLocation: WCC, Morris Lawrence Building, Towsley AuditoriumCost: $10

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Online registration is available or send registration form & payment to: 2401 Plymouth Rd., Suite C, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

LECTURE PRICINGAll Lecture Package $180All TLS Package $140All DLS $55Session 1 DLS $30TLS #1 $35Day pass $10

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*This event is free and open to the public; advanced registration is required and seating is limited. **The 2019-20 Great Michigan Read is presented by Michigan Humanities and supported by national, statewide, and local partners, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Meijer Foundation.

Dr. Dilip Das, the Vice Provost of Equity & Inclusion at UM, will talk, with the OLLI group, about freedom and how an understanding of diversity and inclusion is deeply embedded into the meaning of freedom.

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2019-20 Annual Membership Fee (effective 9/1-8/31/2020, $25 per person)

This lecture series was planned by: Barbara Bach, Ron Bogdasarian, Arnetta Burroughs, Dick Chase, Twila Deigert, Bruce Friedman, Charles Garvin, Craig Ramsay, Rebecca Van Dyke, Katherine Woo, and Leo Shedden (chair).

Join us for a Taste of South Africa - light fare after the

lecture on Sept. 19.

Any oversubscribed study groups, special events, and OLLI Out of Town events will be subject to a lottery. See OLLI website and OLLI fall catalog for details.

LECTURE PRICINGAll Lecture Package $180All TLS Package $140All DLS $55Session 1 DLS $30TLS #1 $35Day pass $10

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SOUTH AFRICA: PAST, PRESENT AND A LOOK FORWARDThis Series will provide an overview of the history of South Africa, the transition out of apartheid, the country’s educational and political systems, the South African expression of arts/culture and the role of South African youth in creating the path forward.

To provide added background for this series, you may want to consider one or both of the following books for your summer reading: 1) Leonard Thompson’s A History of South Africa. The 4th edition is recommended, which was recently revised and updated (2014) by Lynn Berat. 2)Trevor Noah’s 2016 book Born a Crime.

September 12, 2019, 9:30-11:00amEarly History of South Africa, c. 900-1930

Speaker: Raevin Jimenez, Ph.D., LSA Collegiate Fellow

Dr. Jimenez is an LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2017. Her research uses comparative historical linguistics to recover the undocumented past. She is interested in the ways southern African speech communities crafted political beliefs and practices over several centuries, how these beliefs shaped gendered and generational social relations, and the ways enduring ideas shaped the rise of centralized kingdoms.

Speaker’s Synopsis: This presentation evaluates the state of democracy in South Africa over the last 25 years. How respected and stable are democratic institutions following the historic elections of 1994? Has the African National Congress, the ruling party, successfully addressed the harmful legacy of apartheid? Has the government realized the ideals of the country’s fi rst, democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, to eradicate poverty and promote dignity? We focus on the 2019 National Elections to answer these questions.

September 26, 2019, 10:00-11:30amDe Facto and De Jure Apartheid: On the Moral, Political and Policy Failures of the Post-Apartheid State: A Call for an Offi cial State Apology for Apartheid in South Africa

Speaker: Yazier Henry, Lecturer in Public Policy at The Ford School

Yazier Henry teaches at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is a public intellectual, strategist, confl ict management expert, teacher, facilitator, scholar, professional human rights advocate, and poet. He has written and published on the political economy of social voice, historical memory work, political trauma and social integration, identity and race, peace processes, Truth Commissions, human rights, and international transitional justice. His research and writing priorities focus on the interrelationship and intersections of structural, systemic, institutional, and administrative violence. He is particularly interested in the politics and economics of human rights and the social violence of the law. His current work is on how state violence becomes systemically structured and institutionalized during political transitions in the global south.

Speaker’s Synopsis: When apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa had one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Inequality in education was both a cause and a consequence of high income inequality. After 25 years there has been little change in income inequality, in spite of improvements in levels of education and education inequality. This presentation analyzes trends in education inequality and income inequality and examines how they interact in South Africa’s highly unequal society.

October 10, 2019, 10:00-11:30amSouth African Performing Arts in the New Democracy

Speaker: Dr. Anita Gonzalez, Professor of Theatre and Drama

Anita Gonzalez (Ph.D.) is Professor of Theatre and Drama at University of Michigan. Her research and publication interests are in global theatre and ethnic studies. She also directs and writes for the theatre. Gonzalez has authored two books: Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality (2010) and Jarocho’s Soul (2005) that reveal the infl uence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexico. She also co-edited the volume Black Performance Theory (Duke University Press 2013).

Speaker’s Synopsis: Learn about South African music, theatre, and dance in the new millennium. A generation of young artists bring distinctive voices to a newly-integrated society. Organizations like the Market Theatre, Cape Town Opera, and the National Arts Festival present works which express the hopes, visions, and challenges of a new democracy. Professor Anita Gonzalez from the School of Music, Theatre and Dance presents images and shares stories from her recent research in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Mahkanda.

Speaker’s Synopsis: Legal Apartheid was politically, legally and procedurally dismantled after a protracted antiapartheid struggle in South Africa in 1994. South Africa’s fi rst racially inclusive election on April 26, 1994 literally and symbolically marked this legal ending, after four years of tense and at times violent negotiations between the leaders of Apartheid South Africa and those of the antiapartheid movements. However, 25 years after this hopeful and euphoric historical moment the dead are still being counted, the transmutation of formal apartheid into social and economic apartheid is all but complete and the legacy of Apartheid’s crimes endure – threatening the very dream of Nelson Mandela’s vision for a nonracial, non-sexist, equal and just political system in South Africa. This talk will critically engage the political, legal and moral failures of state responsibilities to international humanitarian and human rights law and the state’s political, legal and moral management of the freedom moment.

October 3, 2019, 10:00-11:30amEducation Inequality and Income Inequality in South Africa since the End of Apartheid

Speaker: Professor David Lam, Director, Institute for Social Research, and Professor of Economics, University of Michigan

David Lam is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he has done collaborative research since 1996. His research in South Africa analyzes links between education, labor markets, and income inequality.

October 17, 2019, 10:00-11:30amInnovative Disruption – A Youth Dialogue on Reforming Exclusionary Systems in South Africa

Speakers: Gigi Ngcobo, MSU Senior, Finance and UX Design & Nomzamo Ntombela, MSU Ph.D. Candidate, African History

Gigi Ngcobo is a South African senior studying Finance and UX Design at MSU. She is enthralled by emerging technology and growing African businesses, as such she is the Marketing Director of Spartan Blockchain, spent her summer as an Analyst at Invest Detroit Ventures and planned the MSU’s inaugural African Business Lecture. Nomzamo Ntombela is a South African Ph.D. student at MSU. She completed her undergraduate studies and BA (Hons) at the University of Stellenbosch in Cultural Anthropology where she served in various leadership positions, historically becoming the fi rst black woman to occupy the Stellenbosch Student Council Chairperson position in the 100-year tenure of Stellenbosch.

Speaker’s Synopsis: South Africa’s history of Apartheid has resulted in its youth inheriting the task of innovatively transforming exclusionary systems and dismantling generational cycles of struggle to move all South African’s towards a better future. This talk will explore how supporting the adoption of technology, entrepreneurship, and using venture capital can accelerate equality, thus, increasing fi nancial capital while fostering a business ecosystem that includes informal entrepreneurs, scales local businesses, and develops much needed technical skills.

Speaker’s Synopsis: During the millennium preceding European colonialism, South Africans forged societies characterized by dispersed political networks, long-distance commerce, extensive regional interactions, and overlapping fl ows of people, ideas, and materials. By the 18th century, their political economies and political beliefs yielded powerful kingdoms. Colonial political mythology rests on the notion that early Europeans ‘set up a country bare’ and devoid of civilization. The early history of South Africa reveals a far more complex past.

September 19, 2019, 10:00-11:30amIs Democracy Alive and Well in South Africa? Evaluating the results of the 2019 National Elections

Speaker: Professor Anne Pitcher

Anne Pitcher is a Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan. Her current research examines party politics, urban political economy, and state-business relations in Africa. She has conducted fi eldwork, survey and archival research in Angola, Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. She has published several books and dozens of articles in scholarly journals. She formerly served as President of the African Studies Association.

THURSDAY MORNINGLECTURE SERIES

January 14, 2020, 10:00-11:30amLIVING TRANSGENDER – THE STRUGGLES AND REWARDS

Speakers: Max, Will, and Stephanie

Celebrate and explore the spirit of tolerance in this panel discussion with three transgender people. Our panel will share stories about their personal struggles and rewards. Meet a married transman who is the father of three young children, a transgender man who leads the University of Michigan Spectrum Center, and a woman who identifi es as gender non-conforming. OLLI member Bill Roberts will act as panel moderator.

Join us for this timely and meaningful discussion on gender perspectives. Max is 55 years old, white, middle-class transman and identifi es as male. He also identifi es as a father, partner, Jewish, queer, pansexual, a veteran, and sober. He transitioned in his home town in California 19 years ago, after years of questioning/identifying his gender. He has been partnered with a cis-gendered woman for 17 years and they have three donor-conceived children. Max and his partner moved from California to Michigan 10 years ago and he currently works in the public sector as an attorney.

Will is a 36-year-old transgender man who serves as the Director of the University of Michigan Spectrum Center. Will is as a father, partner, social worker, and lover of long rides on country roads. Will is married to a cis-gender woman and lives with his family in Dexter where they enjoy the beautiful lakes and rivers throughout the area. Will is a 2007 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work and a 2005 graduate of the College of Wooster. Will has worked at the Spectrum Center for the past 10 years and focuses his current work on the University’s diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plan.

Stephanie is a retired 68-year old former small business owner in the automobile service industry. She transitioned just fi ve years ago after extensively studying research in sexuality, psychology, the brain, and gender. Her studies were spurred by a lifetime of misinformation about gender and sexuality. She is divorced, with two grown sons and four granddaughters. Stephanie currently enjoys her small business repairing vintage electric guitars and amplifi ers.

THE FIRST: SOUTH AFRICA

Location: Washtenaw Community College, Morris Lawrence Bldg. Towsley Auditorium 4800 E. Huron River Dr., Ann Arbor, MI

OLLI READS in collaboration with Michigan Humanities’ Great Michigan Read Presents Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD Discussing her book: What the Eyes Don’t See – A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

Day/Date: Monday, October 21Time: 9:30am-12:00pm Location: WCC, Morris Lawrence Building

9:30am Coffee 10:00-11:00am Discussion with Mona Hanna-Attisha, followed by Q&A 11:00am-Noon Light Lunch and Book Signing

OLLI DIALOG on Freedom & Diversity with Dr. Dilip DasDay/Date: Tuesday, September 24Time: 10:00am-12:00pmLocation: WCC, Morris Lawrence Building, Towsley AuditoriumCost: $10

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LECTURE PRICINGAll Lecture Package $180All TLS Package $140All DLS $55Session 1 DLS $30TLS #1 $35Day pass $10

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*This event is free and open to the public; advanced registration is required and seating is limited. **The 2019-20 Great Michigan Read is presented by Michigan Humanities and supported by national, statewide, and local partners, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Meijer Foundation.

Dr. Dilip Das, the Vice Provost of Equity & Inclusion at UM, will talk, with the OLLI group, about freedom and how an understanding of diversity and inclusion is deeply embedded into the meaning of freedom.

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This lecture series was planned by: Barbara Bach, Ron Bogdasarian, Arnetta Burroughs, Dick Chase, Twila Deigert, Bruce Friedman, Charles Garvin, Craig Ramsay, Rebecca Van Dyke, Katherine Woo, and Leo Shedden (chair).

Join us for a Taste of South Africa - light fare after the

lecture on Sept. 19.

Any oversubscribed study groups, special events, and OLLI Out of Town events will be subject to a lottery. See OLLI website and OLLI fall catalog for details.

LECTURE PRICINGAll Lecture Package $180All TLS Package $140All DLS $55Session 1 DLS $30TLS #1 $35Day pass $10

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