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August 4 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Jesse Palidofsky, Recording Artist, Songwriter, and Folk DJLocations: Online ClassWe will celebrate and compare two highly successful soul music labels. Berry Gordy’s Motown, the premier 1960's independent label, originated in Detroit - think Stevie Wonder, Supremes, Temptations, Gladys Knight and Marvin Gaye. Motown presented a slicker product, designed to “crossover” to white audiences. Memphis-based Stax was rawer, reflecting... read more -
August 4 Wednesday4:00 PM → 5:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Joseph Uscinski, Professor of Political Science, University of MiamiLocations: Online ClassProfessor Uscinski will discuss current and historical conspiracy theories in the United States. Using extensive public opinion polls and other data, Uscinski will show how many Americans believe which conspiracy theories and for what... read more
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August 5 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Ingrid Alpern, AuthorLocations: Online ClassAlpern is the daughter of a Dutch Holocaust survivor mother and an Evangelical father from Indiana, who divorced early in her childhood. She discusses her memoir about an estranged father and daughter learning to communicate across the cultural divide in America. A related essay in the book recounts a Dutch mother’s escape from the Nazis to Surinam... read more
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August 5 Thursday4:00 PM → 5:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeLocations: Online ClassAlan Turing, in developing one of the first electronic computers, pondered the possibility that such a machine might be able someday to be conscious. His "imitation game", better known as the Turing test, was the first attempt at understanding what it might mean for a machine to have a mind and how we could determine if it does. We will examine the life and... read more
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August 6 Friday6:00 PM → 7:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Chris Burns, Many-StringsLocations: Online ClassSaint-Saens has given the world gorgeous piano concertos, the dramatic Organ Symphony, and delightful and humorous musical paintings of swans, fossils, and the aquatic world. He was a brilliant arranger, organist, and pianist. An hour dedicated to his sense of melody and beauty will be a musical treat! (For more Friday night music programs, see class... read more
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August 9 Monday1:00 PM → 2:15 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Lola Sparrowhawk, Author/HistorianLocations: Online ClassWell over one million people in the former British colony of Hong Kong marched in demonstrations in 2019 to protest an impending extradition bill. The proposed legislation would place the Hong Kong people and visitors under mainland Chinese jurisdiction, undermining the autonomy of the region and citizens' rights and freedoms. This lecture traces the... read more
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August 10 – August 12 Tuesday, Thursday4:00 PM → 5:30 PMSessions: 2Instructor: Henry George, Engineer, Archaeologist and GeologistLocations: Online ClassThe journey to the rise of civilization began 10,000 years ago in the Near East with the Neolithic Revolution, when humans embarked on the transformation from mobile-dispersed hunter-gatherers to settled village farmers. Humans domesticated plants and animals and they, in turn, became a domesticated species. The lecture will cover the research, the... read more
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August 10 Tuesday10:30 AM → 11:45 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Robert McCartney, Sr Regional Correspondent, The Washington PostLocations: Online ClassRobert McCartney returns to give us an update on politics and other topics in the D.C, area, including the hot Virginia governor’s race, a look ahead to Maryland and D.C. races next year, the status of Larry Hogan’s plan to widen the Beltway and I-270, and how the area is recovering from the economic and other impacts of the covid-19... read more
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August 10 Tuesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Southwestern CollegeLocations: Online ClassIs it o.k. to enjoy Woody Allen movies? Do a President’s moral indiscretions erase their political accomplishments? Should anyone’s decades-old racist Tweet tarnish them for life? Or do those behaviors get them “canceled?” Join Congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar and philosophy professor Peter Bolland for an on-stage exploration of the... read more
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August 11 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Victor Rezmovic, Computer InstructorLocations: Online ClassThe new age of computing means we barely ever store things on our devices anymore. Instead, we keep our beloved photos, documents, and videos in the ubiquitous cloud. However, cloud computing takes many forms and it can become confusing to figure out how to get the most of each service. This class covers the biggest and best of cloud computing and will... read more
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August 11 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Bonita Billman, Art History LecturerLocations: Online ClassA generation after the trailblazing work of the Impressionists in France, American painters, here and abroad, had made Impressionism their own. American painters began to paint in broken brushwork and sun-drenched palettes. Members of a group called The Ten exhibited together for 20 years. By the end of that time, Impressionism, French or American, was not... read more
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August 11 Wednesday4:00 PM → 5:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Joseph Snyder, International LecturerLocations: Online ClassBoth in its history and its current makeup, Morocco is significantly different from the rest of the Arab World. The country stands out with its unique ethnic mixture of Arabs and Berbers, distance from the Arab heartland and moderate monarchy. Morocco has weathered the ongoing changes better than most of its Arab brothers and is likely to continue on... read more
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August 12 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Dorothy Canter, PhD, National Park Conservation AssociationLocations: Online ClassThe son of Jewish immigrants and a dropout from high school, Julius Rosenwald helped establish Sears, Roebuck as the retailing juggernaut of the earlier twentieth century. He used his vast wealth to help others in need, especially African Americans, helping to establish nearly 5000 schools in 15 Southern states. The Rosenwald Park Campaign has made great... read more
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August 12 Thursday7:00 PM → 8:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Jorge Bogantes, Naturalist, Anacostia Watershed SocietyLocations: Online ClassCosta Rica Native Jorge Bogantes Montero helps us experience the magic of his home country. Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea in the Ring of Fire, Costa Rica has been shaped by plate tectonics and volcanic activity, resulting in complex biogeography and extravagant biodiversity that makes a naturalist feel like a kid in a candy... read more
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August 16 Monday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Andy Friedenberg, Cinema Society of San Diego, AuthorLocations: Online ClassA former regional marketing director for United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Columbia Pictures, Andy Friedenberg worked to drum up excitement and awareness for upcoming films through celebrity tours, research test screenings, and world premieres. In this riveting presentation, Andy will discuss his experiences working with Brooke Shields during the... read more
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August 16 Monday4:00 PM → 5:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Kim Keeline, Ph.D., Freelance Consultant and WriterLocations: Online ClassMacbeth is Shakespeare's shortest play but also one of his strongest. The power couple at the center of this play allows ambition to lead them down the path to murder and, eventually, insanity. Join Professor Kim Keeline as she examines the role of witchcraft in the play (and how King James influenced the play) and whether the Macbeths ever had... read more
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August 17 Tuesday4:00 PM → 5:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Blaine Davies, M.A., Professor of U.S. HistoryLocations: Online ClassIt can be argued that the civil rights leader that brought about the most significant, lasting change in the 20th century is Thurgood Marshall. Beginning his legal work with the NAACP in 1934, Thurgood Marshall often at great personal risk won case after case bringing justice to black Americans. Culminating with his victory in the historic Brown v.... read more
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August 18 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Thu Huynh, RD, LDNLocations: Online Class 4We eat healthy for our heart, to lose weight or even prevent diabetes, so what about for our brain? Learn about the nutrients (and foods) we should be including to keep our brains in top form as we... read more
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August 18 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Richard Bell, Professor of History, University of MarylandLocations: Online ClassThe French and Indian War was a war for the future of America; an epic struggle between Britain and France for control of the American continent. Unfolding over the two decades before the Revolution, the French and Indian War sowed the seeds of the imperial crisis that would soon culminate in American... read more
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August 18 Wednesday4:00 PM → 5:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Nick Glakas, Attorney (retired) and Smithsonian lecturerLocations: Online ClassThe tale of the siege of Troy as told by Homer in the Iliad is the oldest work of literature in the western world. But there is another story almost as exciting - the modern quest behind the reality of Homer's epic. This lecture will explore archeological efforts to prove that Troy did exist and that the Trojan War was... read more
