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EMERITUS SOCIETY
FALL
15
THE GOAL OF THE EMERITUS SOCIETY IS TO PROVIDE
STIMULATING NONCREDIT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADULT
LEARNERS OF ALL AGES. THE SOCIETY PROVIDES A LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT THAT AFFIRMS THE UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES
THAT THE ADULT LEARNER BRINGS TO THE CLASSROOM—
RADICALS AND REFORMERS IN AMERICAN
HISTORY
DELIGHT IN THE JOY OF LEARNING, INTELLECTUAL SAVVY,
AND SUBSTANTIAL LIFE EXPERIENCE. STUDENTS ARE
ENCOURAGED AND SUPPORTED IN PURSUING THEIR
INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS WITH LIKE-MINDED PEERS.
OUR COLLEGE-LEVEL COURSES ARE DESIGNED TO SATISFY
A HUNGER FOR INTELLECTUAL NOURISHMENT WITHOUT
THE PRESSURE OF TESTS AND GRADES.
THIS FALL, THE SOCIETY IS OFFERING EIGHT COURSES
TAUGHT BY OUTSTANDING FACULTY NOTED FOR THEIR
SCHOLARSHIP AND ENGAGING CLASSROOM STYLE.
CLASSES GENERALLY MEET IN THE DAYTIME FOR ONE AND
A HALF HOURS. STUDENTS OF THE EMERITUS SOCIETY
From the early 17th century Puritans through the Revolutionary
generation of the later 18th century and into the 19th and 20th centuries American history has been shaped by radicals and reformers
pursuing visions of a different, better society. Not all such visions
have been realized but their stories, whether stories of success or
failure, offer fascinating, instructive perspectives on American history.
In this class, we will look at six different radical or reform groups
linked to 19th/early 20th century transformations of American
society—from slavery to emancipation, from female dependency
to women’s rights, and from agrarian self-sufficiency to industrial
capitalism, linked, in other words, to the emergence of modern
American society.
1. Abolitionists (William Lloyd Garrison and others)
2. Utopians (Margaret Fuller and others)
WE INVITE YOU TO BE AMONG THEM.
3. Anarchists (Henry David Thoreau and others)
5. Militant Liberals (Lincoln Steffens and others)
Emeritus Society Kick-Off
6. Socialists (Eugene V. Debs and others)
The Soviet-Afghan War: Revelations from the KGB Archives
as told by Dr. Jeff Jones
Mondays, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
September 28 – November 9 (no class October 12)
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Join us for a report on Jeff Jones’ summer research trip to Kiev,
Ukraine. He will share some of the insights he gained reading reports
in the KGB archives and also reflect on his cultural observations of
this great and historic city. Spy intrigue meets street theatre in this
entertaining and informative account.
Sunday, September 20, 2:30 p.m.
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church – Haywood Duke Room
Reception to follow
No charge – Reservations requested
n Stephen Ruzicka (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor
of History. He is the recipient of the 2000 Alumni Teaching
Excellence Award. As an ancient historian he writes about the fourth century B.C., but he likes to (and can!) talk about
everything.
FALL 2015
4. Radical Economists (Henry George and others)
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ARE EXCEPTIONAL.
EMERITUS SOCIETY
n Jeff Jones (Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill) is Associate Professor of
History. His specific area of research is Russia-Soviet history,
however he also teaches courses in 20th century global history.
During the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered a series of
famines that nearly halved the island’s population—in less than one
decade, from 1846 to 1855, between 1.1 and 1.5 million people
died at the hands of starvation or disease and another 2.1 million
emigrated. The difficulties of these years were captured at the time
and later recalled through art, literature, music, and more. Indeed,
few (if any) events have had a larger impact on Irish history, politics,
or national memory than “The Great Hunger.” This course will
provide an introduction to the history of the Irish Famine and its
global repercussions. Together, we will examine the broad political,
social, and cultural impacts of the Famine.
1. Introduction: Studying the Great Irish Famine
2. The Hungry Years
3. Famine Relief Measures
4. Famine, Migration, and the Irish Diaspora
5. Global Repercussions
6. Remembering the Famine
Jill C. Bender (PhD, Boston College) is an Assistant Professor
of History. An historian of modern Britain and the British
Empire, she holds an MA in Culture and Colonialism from the
National University of Ireland, Galway and a Doctorate in
History from Boston College. Bender has published a number
of articles and book chapters on Ireland, India, and the British
Empire, and has a book forthcoming entitled The 1857 Indian
Uprising and the British Empire.
DREAMING IN CUBAN: A READER’S TOUR OF
CONTEMPORARY CUBA
With diplomatic relations restored between our countries, interest
in Cuba’s literary and cultural wealth is surging. This timely course
looks at Cuba from the perspective of internationally known authors
and editors, allowing students to experience poets, prose writers,
2. Christina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban (1993)
3. Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana (2004)
4. Aviva Chomsky, The Cuba Reader (2004)
5. Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana (1991)
6.Wrap-up
Tuesdays, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
September 29 – November 10 (no class October 13)
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
n Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly (Ph.D., University of Louisville)
teaches courses in rhetoric and composition and American
literature and culture. She holds the Carlisle Professorship
in Women’s and Gender Studies and serves on the North
Carolina Humanities Council. Her special interests include
pedagogy, literacy, theories of composition and gender
studies. She is the recipient of the 1998 Alumni Teaching
Excellence Award and most recently the 2012 UNC Board
of Governor’s Teaching Excellence Award.
MUSIC AND SOCIETY
Music has become an omnipresent characteristic of our world:
at home, in our cars, in the street, in clubs, on television, or as
a soundtrack for movies and commercials, music is a companion
of our everyday life. This course looks at the social dimensions
of music: all at once a leisure resource, identity marker, political
weapon, resistance soundtrack, or poetic message, music can be
considered as a cultural element that touches to most spheres of our
social life. We will end the course with a discussion of the music
market, and of the consequences of the commercialization of music.
Students will listen to a variety of musical styles.
FALL 2015
n 1.Introduction
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Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
September 29 – November 10 (no class October 13)
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
playwrights and essayists working in the vibrant world of
contemporary Cuban literature. Discussion will explore themes,
treatments, politics and life philosophies that are intrinsically
Cuban. Students can expect a delightful literary tour of a unique
island country that has been significantly influenced by the United
States. Students should purchase the books on their own.
EMERITUS SOCIETY
IRELAND AND THE GREAT FAMINE
2. Music, Emotion, and Language — What Does Music Do?
3. Music and Identity — Whose Music?
4. Music and Authenticity — What Music?
5. Music as Social Critique — What Does Music Say?
6. Music and the Music Market — Is Music Still Art?
Wednesdays, 11:00-12:30 p.m.
September 30 – November 4
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
n Sarah Daynes (Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales Paris) is Associate Professor of Sociology. She
specializes in the analysis of culture and cultural processes.
She is the author of Time and Memory in Reggae Music
(Manchester University Press, 2010) and Desire for Race
(Cambridge University Press, 2008).
n David Olson (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Co-Director of
the Parliamentary Center for Central Europe at UNCG. He
is a past recipient of the Alumni Teaching Excellence Award
and the Research Excellence Award.
CHAMBER MUSIC
Chamber music is music composed for one performer per
instrumental part, easily performable in a small room, or “chamber.”
Chamber works are usually identified by the number of players—
such as trios and quartets, and were expressly written for professional
and amateur musicians alike. This series of lectures will explore
chamber works from the past three centuries, with the focus on
guided listening. No previous musical experience is required.
1. The Late Baroque
2. The Classicism of Haydn and Mozart
3. Beethoven
4. The Early Romantic Period
5. The Late Romantic Period
6. 20th Century Perspectives
Fridays, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
September 18 – October 30 (no class October 9)
UNCG School of Music
Over six weeks, we will consider several different topics:
1. The Eight-Year Election Cycle: From Ike to Obama’s Successor
2. The Changing Two-Party System: From FDR to Obama
3. Presidents and Congresses: What’s New?
4. Policy Dilemmas in Both Decisions and in Decision-making
5. Nomination Roulette: From Primaries to Conventions
6. Cascade of Deadlines: Budgets, Elections, and Crises
n Greg Carroll (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Associate
Professor of Music. He is a northern transplant to Greensboro
from the upper Midwest. He was the first winner of the
Outstanding Teacher and Excellence in Online Education
Award at UNCG, and loves to share musical insights with
others off campus at EMF and GSO concerts. His compositions
have been performed all over the world, and he prefers to
spend the first weeks of August fishing in northern Minnesota.
FALL 2015
The conclusion of one presidency leads directly to the beginnings
of the successor presidency. The typical post-War pattern has been
party alternation in the White House, with counter-party alternation
in Congress, while the states have their own political trends. We
will review our election and policy events over time, and try to
follow events in the intersection of a dynamic election with looming
budget and policy deadlines.
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PRESIDENT, CONGRESS AND ELECTIONS
2014-2017: PRELUDE AND PROLOGUE
Thursdays, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
October 1 – November 12 (no class November 5)
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
EMERITUS SOCIETY
1. Understanding the Social Dimensions of Music —
What is Music?
SPECIAL
EVENTS
EAT YOUR WORDS
Text: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
(New York-London: A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc., 1981)
ISBN 978-0-15-690739-2
n Deborah Seabrooke has taught undergraduate courses at
UNCG for more than 30 years. She’s been teaching in the
Graduate Liberal Studies Program since 2008. She has an
MFA in Creative Writing from UNCG, where she studied
with Fred Chappell. Her short stories have appeared in Long
Story Short, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review,
and Best American Short Stories. She co-founded the Jabberbox
Puppet Theater in 2009, writing and performing adult-themed
puppet comedies with her friend, Marianne Gingher.
Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
October 7 – November 11
Christ United Methodist Church
n Joachim (Joe) Baer (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Professor
Emeritus and former Department Head (German, Russian, and
Japanese) who taught Russian language and literature at
UNCG. His Ph.D. is in Slavic Languages and Literatures.
by George Hodgman
Luncheon and Book Discussion led by UNCG Professor Deborah Seabrooke
“Her fingernails, with their chipped pink polish, are itchy for the car
keys.” This is Betty Baker Hodgman, George Hodgman’s 92-year-old
mother. Her son is single, gay and he has come home to Paris,
Missouri to look after her. Not too long ago, he was an editor in
New York. When he lost his job, he travelled home for a short visit,
to the modest ranch house where he grew up. He ended up staying
and has written a stunning book, Bettyville, at a card table in the
living room. His memoir is a funny, loving portrait of his life with
his firebrand mother who is slowly drifting into dementia, a story
deepened with the honesty of his difficulties in caring for her and
leaving his New York life behind. Bettyville is also a portrait of rural
America: Paris, Missouri is hanging on by the skin of its teeth.
Dealing with his mother’s frustrations and his own alienation in this
conservative place, Hodgman comes to find an unexpected and true
kind of happiness.
Wednesday, noon-2:00 p.m.
November 18
Greensboro Country Club
$35 per person
FALL 2015
Bettyville
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) has been established as a major 20thcentury British writer for decades. Many critics consider To the
Lighthouse (1927) her greatest work. She is a “thinking” writer. Her
consuming interest was language and character. Her style is highly
literary. In one letter she wrote: “. . . much of my time is spent in
‘thinking, thinking and thinking’ about literature.” Her characters,
here the Ramsay family (Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, their children),
analyze themselves in their reflections on themselves, or they are
reflected in the minds of family members, or their surrounding
friends. These friends make up an important segment of the total
group of characters, assembled in a large summer house in the
Hebrides. The titles of the three sections of the novel (“The
Window,” “Time Passes,” and “The Lighthouse”) seem to suggest
allegories, or symbols, of the nature of life, where the characters
wander about, not exactly sure of where these wanderings may lead
them. Yet, they land inevitably at “their final destiny” (or “destination”).
They read and reflect and say relatively little to each other. The
stillness and emptiness in much of their lives, and the “canvas” on
which these are recorded, is “blurred.”
It is a novel with a “vision,” which is powerful in its suggestiveness,
but never short of incongruities and ambiguities. To the Lighthouse
reveals lives in their unknown and unknowable dimensions. The
reader is rewarded by depth of thought and a linguistic fabric of
great beauty.
EMERITUS SOCIETY
MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LITERATURE:
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
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educational backgrounds. The Society is a self-supporting arm of the
University. Class fees, not tax dollars, are used to meet costs of the
program. Classes are $100 per course. Additional courses are $75.
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q RADICALS AND REFORMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
q IRELAND AND THE GREAT FAMINE
q DREAMING IN CUBAN: A READER’S TOUR OF
CONTEMPORARY CUBA
q MUSIC AND SOCIETY
q PRESIDENT, CONGRESS AND ELECTIONS 2014-2017:
PRELUDE AND PROLOGUE
q CHAMBER MUSIC
q MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LITERATURE: TO THE
LIGHTHOUSE
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