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Spring 2022
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Spring 2022
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Class format is specified in the far left column.
Please take note whether instruction will be conducted via Zoom or In-Person. ZOOM CLASSES - LINKS will be sent 5:00 pm ET evening before class. Please check your spam folder if not received. IN-PERSON - Physical Address: Rehoboth Baptist Church, 2997 Lawrenceville Hwy., Tucker, GA 30087 NOTE : COVID-19 protocol for In-Person classes are available HERE, as applicable. Each Class Meets Once Per Week for one hour unless otherwise indicated. |
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Course/Instructor |
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Tuesday |
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9:30 AM
TUESDAYS ZOOM |
ADVANCING RESEARCH TO IMPROVE HEALTH WORLDWIDE
Yerkes National Primate Research Center Researchers. Lisa Newbern, Coordinator |
Yerkes NPRC Research:
Advancing Research to Improve Health Worldwide The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, is dedicated to helping you and your loved ones live longer, healthier lives. In this course, you’ll hear from researchers who are committed to advancing research to improve health worldwide. Speakers - For Speaker Bios, please visit the Calendar event for this course. March 15 Anne-Caroline Martel, PhD Understanding Parkinson’s Disease Using an Animal Model March 22 Mark Connolly, PhD Artificial Intelligence for Deep Brain Stimulation March 29: Special guest / What Is He Up To Now? Stuart Zola, PhD, former Director, Yerkes NPRC (2001-2013) Magic, Memory and the Brain April 5 Matt Gardner, PhD Gene Therapy Strategies for HIV Prevention and Cure April 19: Special Guest / Collaborations in Research are Important Gabriela Sanchez, PhD An Introduction to Deep Learning and Its Applications April 26 Christina Gavegnano, PhD Bench to Bedside Success with Baricitinib: from HIV-1 to COVID-19 May 3 Ana B. Enriquez Immunity to Tuberculosis May 10: Special Guest / Secret Lives of Research Employees! Jane Lawson, FSA, FRHistS This Remembrance of the New Year: Gifts Exchanged with Queen Elizabeth I |
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11:00 AM
TUESDAYS ZOOM |
PSYCHOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA
Sal Depasquale, MC, MBA and Dr. Terry Bordan, Professor and Chair of Department of Counseling and Development (retired), Long Island University |
We live in a psychological incubator. The work of Freud inspired his nephew Edward Bernays in creating the public relations industrial complex. Today advertising, marketing, public relations and sophisticated algorithms direct our lives. This class examines the origins and the implications of this “PR industrial complex” for our political landscape.
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Wednesday |
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9:30 AM
WEDNESDAYS In-Person |
GREAT DECISIONS
George Brown. Ph.D. (International Relations), retired President/CEO of Friendship Force, Travel Coordinator, Member, SUGA |
Great Decisions is an annual program developed by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA), a non-partisan organization whose mission is to promote interest and understanding of policy issues that impact our world. Fascinating topics for 2022 include: Changing Demographics (Bonus Article); Outer Space; Climate Change; Russia and the U.S.; Myanmar and ASEAN; Quad Alliance; Drug Policy in Latin America; Industrial Policy; Biden’s Agenda. Copies of the Briefing Book will be available for sale at the SUGA Registration table during Winter Quarter 2022 for $35.00. It is also available for purchase through the FPA Bookstore at FPA.org.
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9:30 AM
WEDNESDAYS In-Person |
TWO NOVELS
Shelley Scher, retired teacher, Member, SUGA |
This course will cover two novels in detail: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. These novels will be studied, and reading will be done on a weekly basis for each class. Some of the topics researched will include romanticism and naturalism. These philosophies will add to and enhance the purpose of the authors. Discussion and lectures will be used to connect the authors’ stylistic strategies to their purposes. Allusions in the books, along with symbolism, will provide understanding into the characters’ humanistic flaws and heroics. A syllabus with required reading pages per class will be accompanied by questions that point out the significant strategies of the authors.
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11:00 AM
WEDNESDAYS In-Person |
A VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA FROM FRENCH GUIANA THROUGH TIERRA DEL FUEGO
John Allensworth, PhD, Geography, Kent State & Georgia State Univ. (retired), Member, SUGA |
This spring semester we will take a virtual travel adventure around South America starting from French Guiana in the north and travel in a counter-clockwise direction through the Guianas to the offshore ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao) to Venezuela and Colombia and then southward to Ecuador, including Ecuador's Galapagos Archipelago and Peru. From Peru, we will cross the Andes to Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. From Brazil, we'll travel southward to Uruguay and Argentina, including the Falkland Islands (which the Argentines call the Islas Malvinas). From there we will tour Chile, including Chile's Pacific Easter Island, before continuing our way to Tierra del Fuego which is shared by both Chile and Argentina. We'll make a stop in Ushuaia, Argentina, the world's southernmost city before traveling to the southernmost tip of the Americas, Cape Horn. We will explore vast regions of savanna grasslands, rainforests, majestic mountains, deserts and islands as well as villages, noted historic sites, national parks and world class cities. We'll meet and share in the cultural traditions of native Americans and the descendants of European, African and Asian immigrants. We'll also examine the complexities of culture, religion, politics and conflict as well as the beauty and fragility of the natural landscape and their flora and fauna. Hold on to your seats; this will be a fantastic, whirlwind tour through this magnificent part of our world.
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11:00 AM
WEDNESDAYS In-Person |
RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY
Marilyn Morton, BS and MS, Art Education, PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, Emory U. |
As anticipated in our last class in Spring of 2021, we are finally prepared to refocus our Renaissance studies away from northern Europe and onto Italy, considered then as now, the region most technically innovative in art forms, and the most socially supportive of a treasured art community that enjoyed a status more elevated than any other in Europe.
We begin with the period's earliest roots in the Byzantine style of the trecento (1300s), in which Giotto revolutionized the strict conventions of his time, triggering a series of generational achievements that would result in the flowering of the cinquecento (1500s) -- the period of the great names: Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. The methods of the art produced in Italy during this period were interesting and instructive to individual artists internationally through many styles and periods, and considered classical training for all studio artists. |
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2:00 PM
WEDNESDAYS ZOOM |
A REVISED HISTORY OF AMERICA: PART II
Sal Depasquale, MC, MBA 
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Armed with the Doctrine of Discovery, Columbus sailed under the Spanish flag in search of new opportunities for conquering peoples and lands. He attained his goal is Hispaniola. Columbus opened a door and European invaders flooded through it in search of wealth and power. Exploitation by the European invaders of the indigenous peoples followed, in service of wealth producing enterprises. Enclosure Acts in England ultimately resulted in the Transportation Acts creating white slaves for populating colonies and for working lands producing wealth. Enslavement of Africans, first in Barbados and soon exported to the American colonies follows. Settler colonialism continues with killing Indians, stealing lands, creating wealth. Over 400 years ago, Nathaniel Bacon orchestrated a rebellion against the British. It has been presented as early evidence of the fierce independence of the colonists ultimately leading to the revolution. But there is more to the story. Bacon was angered by British reticence in killing Indians and taking their land. He organized black and white slaves to join his insurrection. Bacon died and the rebellion fizzled, but the idea of white and black slaves coalescing frightened colonial leaders. Virginia passed laws establishing different rules for handling white slaves and black slaves, thereby driving a wedge between them and giving white slaves a sense of superiority over the blacks. Wedge political issues are a key for contemporary politics.
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Thursday |
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9:30 AM
THURSDAYS ZOOM |
THE END OF DEMOCRACY?
Glenn Abney, PhD, Moderator, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Georgia State University, Member, SUGA |
In every region of the world, democracy is under attack by populist leaders and groups that reject pluralism and demand unchecked power to advance the particular interest of their supporters, usually at the expense of minorities and other perceived foes. How endangered is democracy? By calling on the observations of leading scholars, we shall study the future of democracy in the U.S. and internationally.
A tentative schedule includes:
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11:00 AM
THURSDAYS ZOOM |
PARIS AND THE LOST GENERATION
Ellery McLanahan, Member, SUGA |
We will examine the fascinating years in Paris between 1920 and 1939. These are the years of Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and many others. The topics to be addressed include -- The Migration to Paris; The Enablers; The Poets; The Novelists; The Artists; The Dispersal in the 1930s; and The Memories.
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Friday |
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9:30 AM
FRIDAYS In-Person |
IS THERE A CASTE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES?
Denise Raynor, MD, MPH, Emerita, Emory Univ. School of Medicine, Member, SUGA |
This course will discuss Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabelle Wilkerson. The author is trying to spark a new conversation about racism in the US. With this injection of new terminology, she suggests that undergirding its brand of racism, the US has a caste system based on color. She compares the US with the world’s best-known caste system in India and the Nazi regime which based its anti-Semitic codes on Jim Crow laws. We will explore whether Wilkerson has made a cogent argument for an American caste system, using 8 basic tenets. Please read the first half before the first session. A thoughtful discussion requires that we all play our part.
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9:30 AM
FRIDAYS In-Person |
MOVIE MUSICALS: TRIBUTES AND CONNECTIONS
Anne MacDougal, Member, SUGA |
The class includes tributes to two special people who died in 2021: Stephen Sondheim and Jane Powell, as well as a series with underlying connections to Oscar Hammerstein II. It turns out Oscar II is connected in one way or another with - -
* Many people aren’t too wild about Sondheim. Anne says she is one of them, but she has found a lot to like in his work, so urges skeptics to give that first session a try. |
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11:00 AM
FRIDAYS In-Person |
THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE IN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE
Allen Hing, Professor of Interior Design |
The past couple years due to the pandemic have been difficult for all including designers and architects. There have been both creative actions and initiatives to address the questions of our time especially in the built environment. The answers may be based on the past, responses to the present and outlooks for the future. In addition, there will be a return to World Expos and a look at the current Expo in Dubai.
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11:00 AM
FRIDAYS In-Person |
THE FIRST FOREVER WAR: KOREA, 1950- 20??
Sandra W. Thornton, retired, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, and Thornton & Rose, Attorneys at Law, Member, SUGA |
Also called the Coldest War, the Forgotten War, and the nastiest little war of the 20th century, the Korean War began in 1950 as a civil war to forcibly unify Korea under North Korean auspices. The U.S and the U.N. joined South Korea in fighting North Korea, who was joined by China and the Soviet Union. Military hostilities ended in 1953 with a surly armistice that restored the status quo ante with two devastated Koreas divided at the 38th parallel -- but without a peace treaty. The Korean conflict was the first proxy war of the Cold War, spurred the nuclear arms race, raised issues of presidential war powers, provoked civilian-military disputes, encouraged a Red Scare and helped convict the Rosenbergs. In this course we will relive the (melo)drama of President Truman firing General MacArthur, McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee while exploring a vicious war and its initiation of an era of global American power and military dominance.
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Wed., May TBA:
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell |
