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An opportunity for adults to pursue new interests, expand intellectual horizons, and enrich their lives

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The Academy of Lifelong Learning at Trinity College

The Academy of Lifelong Learning at Trinity College

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COURSE FEES AND ENROLLMENT INFORMATION

Courses meeting for four to six class sessions .................................$125

Eight-session course: “Memoir Writing” ..............................................$300

Special course: “Meet the Mellow Cello” All three class sessions, including a visit to Madison .................$135 Session 1 only ...............................................................................$50

Please Note: A minimum enrollment of five students is necessary for any class to run.

Please make check payable to “Trustees of Trinity College” and mail to: Academy of Lifelong Learning Trinity College 300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106

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A confirmation letter will be sent upon receipt of your payment. It will include any specific course information you will need. If you have provided an email address, your confirmation will be sent to that.

Academy of Lifelong LearningTrinity College300 Summit StreetHartford, CT 06106860-297-2151lifelonglearning@trincoll.edu mytrinnet.trincoll.edu/ALL2018

The Academy of Lifelong Learning at Trinity College

Open to adults in the community at large, the Academy of Lifelong Learning presents a series of minicourses on diverse and intellectually stimulating topics. Enrolled students have access to many Trinity College resources, including the Raether Library and Information Technology Center, for research. They also receive discounts at Cinestudio, Austin Arts Center, and Trinity College sporting events.

Courses cover a wide range of interesting subjects taught by distinguished former and current Trinity faculty members. The hallmark of a Trinity education has long been the close interaction between professors and students, and the Academy of Lifelong Learning continues that tradition. Courses are taught in an engaging, collaborative manner, and there are opportunities to meet with fellow students and professors.

Classes are conveniently scheduled for the late afternoon and early evening in classrooms easily reached from the center of the campus. Well-illuminated, secure parking is available on campus within walking distance of classrooms. In addition, some classes meet during daytime hours at various attractive locations in the Greater Hartford vicinity.

DIRECTOR

Leslie Desmangles, Professor of Religion and International Studies, The Religious Studies Department

COURSE FEES

Courses meeting for four to six class sessions ...................................$125

Eight-session course: “Memoir Writing” ..............................................$300

Special course: “Meet the Mellow Cello” All three class sessions, including a visit to Madison .................$135 Session 1 only ...............................................................................$50

Please note that the 10% discount formerly offered to Trinity alumni and employees is no longer available.

Please Note: A minimum enrollment of five students is necessary for any class to run.

Limited scholarships for enrollment in the Academy of Lifelong Learning are available for Hartford residents. The deadline to submit a scholarship application for spring 2018 is Tuesday, January 9, 2018.

An application form is available online at www.trincoll.edu/Academics/Adult/ALL.

Please send completed applications by email to lifelonglearning@trincoll.edu or by mail to the Academy of Lifelong Learning at the address below.

Academy of Lifelong Learning Trinity College 300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106 860-297-2151 lifelonglearning@trincoll.edu mytrinnet.trincoll.edu/ALL2018

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OFF-CAMPUS COURSE

The Holistic Heart: Yoga and Well-Being When we experience something, we’re aware of using one or two senses—we taste our food, we see a painting, we hear a song. If we shift from the “mind” to the “heart,” we’re aware of the totality of senses already at play in a single moment. The heart is both a central physical organ and a central vehicle for opening the spirit. Developing the energy of an open heart, we are free to see how holistic we already are. What were ancient texts teaching about the heart? And how does modern life allow for living wholeheartedly? Our focus will not only be on the history and theory but also real-time wellness practices that can heal, balance, and nourish lives. With the help of several teachers, we’ll explore practices including yoga, Tai Chi, reflexology, nutrition, meditation, and contemplation. Different from a day at the spa, whose effect may fade in time, this five-week series is designed to develop a sensibility for what wellness is, to skillfully troubleshoot areas that may be difficult, and to offer tools to maintain balance. Throughout, we’ll explore what works in each case and how practice can provide a seamless space for living well.

Aaron Weston, teacher Elli Findly, assisting Five Sunday afternoons: January 28; February 4, 11, 25; March 4 1:00–4:00 p.m. 56 Arbor Street, Suite 100, Hartford, CT 06106 (Real Art Ways complex) Vegan meal included at each meeting

Aaron Weston is a teacher, healer, and activist who finds benefit in the fusion of Asian and American lifestyles. He has stud-ied and practices martial arts, yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, calisthenics, holistic nutrition, massage therapy, Reiki, and mystical alchemy. He is well versed in the five element theory of Chinese medicine and has studied Tai Chi and tea in central China. His spiritual practice draws from many sources, mainly Chinese, Indian, native North American, and Hawaiian forms of shamanism. His practical application of the esoteric is active compassion through conscious economics, environmental awareness, human rights, and food justice.

Carole Olefsky, cellist, joined the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) in 1971 following an exemplary audition for then-Music Director Arthur Winograd, who remarked that her performance of the Saint-Saëns cello concerto was “one of the best he’d ever heard.” A graduate of the prestigious Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, Olefsky was a double major in music education and performance, attending on a full-tuition Ford Foundation Scholarship. As a member of the HSO, she is a musician representative on the HSO Board of Directors, was a longtime co-chair of the Talcott Mountain Music Festival, the summer music series of the Hartford Symphony, and serves on the Orchestra Committee of the HSO. She was principal cellist with the Hartford Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Parker. Olefsky has adjudicated at the String Division of the Musical Club of Hartford annual competition and at The Hartt School String Competition. Her prize-winning cello, which she acquired in 2010, was specially built for her by the internationally acclaimed maker Kelvin Scott of Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2010, her cello, entered in an International Cello Competition, won a Silver Medal for tone and was the runner-up for Gold.

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Tokyo: The “Eastern Capital” from Feudal Times to the PresentThis five-lecture series charts the turbulent history of one of the world’s great metropolises, from its 17th century origins as a remote castle town to its current position as a global center of commerce and culture that is home to more than 13 million people. The course will explore how tradition and modernity have shaped and continue to shape the city through cycles of development, expansion, and destruction that have marked the city’s history, as well as the often unique ways in which its residents have experienced and overcome times of adversity, creating a truly vibrant urban culture in the process.

Session 1: Edo, the Samurai Metropolis: High City, Low City

Session 2: The Birth of Tokyo: A City between East and West

Session 3: Tokyo in War and Destruction

Session 4: The City from Rebirth to High Growth

Session 5: Tokyo Now: Problems and Possibilities

Jeffrey Bayliss Five Wednesdays: February 21, 28; March 7, 14, 21 1:30–3:00 p.m. The McAuley, 275 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06117

OFF-CAMPUS COURSE

Jeffrey Bayliss is associate professor of history at Trinity College. He received an M.A. in education from Miyagi Kyoiku Daigaku in Japan and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. Bayliss lived and worked in Japan for 10 years prior to joining the faculty at Trinity in the fall of 2004. He is working on a book exploring the nature of minorities and minority rights movements in pre-1945 Japan.

Elli Findly is the Scott M. Johnson ’97 Distinguished Professor of Religion, Emerita. She taught courses in Asian religions as a member of the Religious Studies Department for many years. The courses included “Religions of Asia,” “Buddhist Thought, Buddhist Art,” and “The Asian Mystic.” She has published a number of articles and books, primarily in Buddhism—on women, economics, Gandharan art, and the lives of plants—and in Lao shamanism. She is currently training in the practice of reflexology on the foot, hand, face, and ears.

Karl F. Haberlandt is Trinity College professor of psychology, emeritus. His interest in psychology began with his undergraduate education in Germany, where he was introduced to epistemology and general psychology. In his graduate studies at Yale University in the 1960s, he had the great fortune to study with some of the leaders in the field of classical learning theory. Research sabbaticals at Stanford University and Carnegie-Mellon University and his own research at Trinity have allowed his investigations to grow along with the field. He continues to be a student of psychology, with a focus on the areas of learning and memory.

Hank Herman is an award-winning columnist for the Westport News and blogger for Hearst Media. He also is the author of a series of sports novels for children. His latest book, Accept My Kid, Please! A Dad’s Descent into College Application Hell (Da Capo Press), is a humorous memoir about the college admissions process. He also teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House, Norwalk Community College, and The Mark Twain House & Museum. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Jean-Marc Kehrès, Trinity College associate professor language and culture studies, specializes in 18th-century literature. He has taught at the University of Oklahoma and Princeton University. His publications include articles on Marivaux, the Encyclopédie, the press during the French Revolution, and Sade. He is the author of Sade et la rhétorique de l’exemplarité (Editions Champion, 2001). He currently is working on a book project on the represen-tation of epistolarity in the press of the Ancien Régime. At Trinity, Kehrès has taught courses on the Enlightenment and the representation of the 18th century in films.

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Our Brain—Powerful, Yet FragileThe American Museum of Natural History introduced its recent exhibit on the brain as follows: “You don’t have to peer into the far reaches of the cosmos to encounter the deepest mystery in the universe. Look no further than right between your ears.” Our course will explore that “deep mystery—the brain.” Exciting research has opened new vistas on the brain, revealing not only its amazing power and resilience but also its fragility. We will review state-of-the-art research in a variety of disciplines, including neuroscience and neurology, to learn about brain functions and structures. We will discover how studies of brain injuries and diseases illuminate the organ’s fragility. And our discussion will encompass the implications of current research for ameliorating brain deficits, augmenting mental power, and promoting brain health. Along the way, we will draw on an array of sources including Scientific American and case studies of intriguing patients such as those chronicled by neurologist Oliver Sacks.

Karl F. Haberlandt Five Thursdays: March 22, 29; April 5, 12, 19 10:15–11:30 a.m. Lucy Robbins Wells Library, 95 Cedar Street, Newington, CT 06111

Meet the Mellow CelloCo-sponsored by the Harford Symphony Orchestra and in collaboration with The Hartt School

It has often been said that the cello is the musical instrument clos-est to the human voice. This course will provide an opportunity to discover the sound colors and rich tones of one of the world’s most cherished instruments. We will explore the history of the cello, its musical history as a solo and ensemble instrument, some of its unique eccentricities and its physical characteristics, and the development of its bow, as well the instrument’s cost and upkeep from the musician’s viewpoint. There also will be a demonstra-tion of the unique challenges that cellists encounter in playing the instrument. This course will be composed of three sessions:

Session 1, Monday, March 12: Hear an introductory lecture by Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s eminent cellist Carole Olefsky.

Session 2, Saturday, March 17: Take a tour of the cello-making studio of internationally acclaimed cello maker Larry Wilke in Madison, Connecticut. Wilke will demonstrate the intricate steps involved in making the instrument. This tour includes a three-course lunch at the Wharf Restaurant at Beach Hotel in Madison, Connecticut.

Session 3, April 15: Enjoy a piano and cello recital featuring cello students from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. This recital will be held in the Trinity Chapel and will be open to the public.

Only 10 spaces are available. You may register for all three sessions or for Session 1 only. Please note that the studio in Madison is not handicapped accessible. See the Course Fees and Enrollment Information section for fee information.

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TRINITY EVENING COURSE

A Shopper’s Paradise? Parisian Passages, Department Stores, and Flea MarketsDescribed as “the City of Light,” Paris also is hailed as the capital of luxury boutiques and prestigious fashionable shopping streets. In this course, we will visit Paris and explore the urban, architectural, and social development of commercial practices in the French capital: 19th-century passages, department stores, the flea market of Saint Ouen, and Les Halles. We will analyze films such as The Ladies’ Paradise, articles, and excerpts of literary texts (Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin and The Ladies’ Paradise and Baudelaire’s poems).

Session 1: The Palais Royal and Parisian Passages; reading: Thérèse Raquin, Zola, pp. 7–21

Session 2: Parisian grands magasins: Le Bon Marché, Le Printemps, and Les Galeries Lafayette; reading: The Ladies’ Paradise, Zola, pp. 233–269

Session 3: Reading: “Haussmannization,” pp. 100–142 in Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment; film: The Ladies’ Paradise

Session 4: Saint Ouen Flea Market; reading: Paris, Capital of the World, pp. 219-224; “The Rag-Picker’s Wine,” in Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire

Session 5: Les Halles; reading: The Belly of Paris, Zola, pp. 90–96, pp. 206–217

Jean-Marc Kehrès Five Mondays: February 26; March 5, 19, 26; April 2 5:30–7:00 p.m.

TRINITY EVENING COURSE

Memoir Writing It’s the human condition: the desire to get down on paper the most memorable events of your life. That’s why almost every celebrity you can think of—from Bruce Springsteen to Amy Schumer to Barack Obama—has at some point tried his or her hand at a memoir. That’s also why so many of our most beloved novels— To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye—are very largely memoirs in disguise. We might want to tell our whole life story or just cherished moments (treasured memories of when our grown kids were little; a short, sweet interlude with a special pet; the most magical summer ever), but we all have recollections we want to pass on. Give in to that urge! Sit down at your computer, and start writing about yourself! Whether your motivation is to have a neatly packaged memoir to pass down to your children or grand-children or a keepsake to enjoy for yourself—or to knock Joe Biden, Jeannette Walls, and J.D. Vance off the best-seller list—this course will help you do it. You’ll learn how to write easily and naturally in your own voice, about your favorite subject: you.

Due to the personalized, tutorial nature of this course, which is limited to eight students, and the extended length (eight weeks; two hours per session), the fee will be $300.

Hank Herman Eight Wednesdays: March 7, 21, 28; April 4, 11, 18, 25; May 2 5:30–7:30 p.m.