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

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.

CO-DIRECTORS Leslie Desmangles, Professor of Religion and International Studies Patricia J. Bunker, Head Reference Librarian, Retired

COURSE FEES Courses meeting for:

• four class sessions .......................................................................................... $ 85• five class sessions ...........................................................................................$105• six class sessions ............................................................................................$125• eight-session Memoir Writing ................................................................. $300• Saturday Academy and lunch ....................................................................$125

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

ENROLLMENT INFORMATIONAcademy of Lifelong LearningTrinity College300 Summit StreetHartford, CT 06106(860) 297-2125

Gift certificates for the Academy of Lifelong Learning are available and make a special gift for friends and family.

Limited scholarships for enrollment in the Academy of Lifelong Learning are available for Hartford residents.The deadline to submit a scholarship application for spring 2017 is Friday, January 6, 2017. An application form is available online at http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/adult/ALL.

Please send completed applications by e-mail to: lifelonglearning@trincoll.edu or by mail to: Academy of Lifelong Learning (address above).

The Spanish Mediterranean: Catalonian Adventures on the Great Sea Tom Harrington 9:00–10:15 a.m.

The Archaeology of Luxury: Elite Dining in Ancient Rome Martha Risser 10:30–11:45 a.m.

Italian Foodways at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean Dario Del Puppo 1:15–2:30 p.m.

Dante’s Inferno John Alcorn 2:45–4:00 p.m.

Special pricing for the Saturday Academy and lunch.........$125

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD: THE SEA, LITERATURE, GASTRONOMY

Saturday, March 4, 2017

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OFF-CAMPUS COURSES

Memory across the Life-Span: From Infancy to Mature AdulthoodWhat is your first childhood memory, and how old were you at the time? If you have difficulty coming up with a recollection, you are not alone. This is a challenging question for many others as well. Indeed, prominent theorists such as Sigmund Freud describe this recall failure as “childhood amnesia.” Fortunately,

as we grow older, things improve. By the time we are teenagers, young adults, and middle-aged, we remember lots of things, perhaps even too many things. Our course will track the development of memory across life’s decades. We will give special consideration to the older end of the age spectrum and explore why recall becomes more challenging. We’ll consider the biological and psychological foundations for this, and, separating fact from fiction, we’ll learn what we can do about memory decline in our mature years. The course will conclude with a review of memory impairments, including those in dementia.

Karl Haberlandt Five Thursdays: March 23, 30; April 6, 20, 27 10:15–11:45 a.m. Lucy Robbins Welles Library, 95 Cedar Street, Newington, CT 06111

Mussolini’s RomeBenito Mussolini went about remaking Rome in his own image as the new Augustus and leader of the Fascist Revolution. He demolished neighborhoods to “liberate” ancient monuments as part of his cult of romanità that identified his Fascist empire with ancient Rome. The Rome we see today is very much the result of the Duce’s transformation of the Eternal City. With dozens of photographs,

we will tour all the principal sites and areas of Mussolini’s Rome.

Borden Painter Three Thursdays: March 30; April 6, 20 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. The McAuley, 275 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06117

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TRINITY EVENING COURSES

Adventures in Rare Books: A Curator’s PerspectiveThis guided tour of the world of rare books, “special” collections, and archives will include discussions on the anatomy and makeup of books, especially

during the handpress period (1450–1800), and on the history of private and institutional collecting, bibliophilic clubs and societies, and the antiquarian book trade (dealers, auctions, and fairs), as well as a series of hands-on sessions working with rare books, bibliographies, and auction and dealer’s catalogs in the Watkinson Library.

Richard J. Ring Six Mondays; January 30; February 6, 13, 20, 27; March 6 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Andiamo in Italia! Italian for BeginnersAre you purchasing tickets to go to Italy? Would you like to talk to your Italian relatives or decipher a great menu? “Andiamo in Italia! Italian for Beginners” will help you to develop conversational skills and to facilitate your travel experience. Basic Italian, grammar, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and pronunciation, while highlighting Italian culture, will be the main focus of this course. The most important challenge you will encounter will

be that of enjoying yourself and having fun as you learn this beautiful language. All course materials will be provided by the instructor.

Martina di Florio Gula Six Tuesdays: January 31; February 7, 14, 21, 28; March 7 6:00–7:30 p.m.

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From Libertinism to the Revolution: Screening the French XVIIIth Century The French 18th century has never been so popular with filmmakers. In this course, we will study a selection of films whose subject is the history and cultural life of

18th-century France and will examine the relevance of 18th-century issues for the contemporary world. The films studied include Let Joy Reign Supreme by Bertrand Tavernier, The Lovers by Louis Malle, The Nun by Jacques Rivette, Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears, and The Lady and the Duke by Éric Rohmer.

**Please note that students will be given online access to the films through Trinflix.

Jean-Marc Kehrès Five Mondays: February 13, 20, 27; March 6, 20 6:00–7:30 p.m.

Borders and BorderlandsWe tend to think of national borders as fairly stable lines separating two countries or geographical areas. Yet borders have long been contested and are frequently at the center of political conflict. In this course, we will study borders within

the context of 19th- and 20th-century history, the development of the nation-state, migration, and the tension between globalization and protectionism. Aside from having a sociopolitical discussion, we will explore portrayals of borders in art, literature, and film. Borders that we’ll examine carefully are the division between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; the boundary between Israel and the Palestinian Territories; the Iron Curtain with, as its epicenter, the Berlin Wall; and the 38th parallel north between South and North Korea. We will also pay attention to the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East and explore its implications for national borders and the notion of “open borders.”

Johannes Evelein Four Mondays: February 13, 20, 27; March 6 5:30–7:00 p.m.

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The Making of the President: The 2016 ElectionThis course will provide an overview of some of the most important, and in some cases controversial, aspects of the 2016 presidential election. Topics to be discussed include: the religious vote in 2016, the role of the media, voting rights controversies, and the significance of the first female candidate for president. We will provide short readings for each of our four sessions.

Adrienne Fulco and Mark Silk Four Wednesdays: February 15, 22; March 1, 8 5:30–7:00 p.m.

Memoir WritingIt’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 Mick Jagger to Billy Crystal to Barack Obama — has at some

point tried his or her hand at 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 grandchildren or a keepsake to enjoy for yourself — or to knock Amy Schumer, Sully Sullenberger, and Bruce Springsteen 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.

Hank Herman Eight Wednesdays: March 1, 8, 22, 29; April 5, 19, 26; May 3 (No class March 15 due to Spring Vacation; no class April 12 due to Passover) 5:30–7:30 p.m.

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Protestant Views of the Qur’an After an introductory survey of how Protestants have approached the Qur’an over the last half millennium, participants will study a few brief readings of Qur’anic passages and analyze them for echoes of Hebrew scriptures, echoes of Christian scriptures, echoes of tales from Jewish and Christian legend, and portions that treat topics and personages unknown in either the Jewish or Christian milieu. We will highlight congruence where it occurs and will understand the lack of congruence where it does not. The Qur’an includes versions of Jewish and Christian legends (the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus come to mind) as well as stories that are unknown to either Jewish or Christian tradition, including a number of pre-Islamic prophets who are not known outside of Qur’anic narrative.

Steven Blackburn Five Thursdays: March 2, 9, 23, 30; April 6 (No class March 16 due to Spring Vacation) 5:30–7:00 p.m.

Common Sense and the Common Good: The Ethics, Politics, and Economics of Creating a Just and Environmentally Sustainable SocietyIn this four-part course, two professors, one an engineer and scientist and the other an ethicist and religionist, will lead the class in discussions of how

citizens can learn how to apply common sense and moral principles to creating a good and just society. We will examine the processes of economic decision-making in the market; environmental sustainability; the use of politics in shaping public policy, especially taxation for public goods; and effective citizen action. We will discuss the implicit and explicit moral values that inform our political and economic choices, how we reconcile conflicting moral values and social goals, what we need to know about economics, how we pay for what we want, and what we can do now at the local level to begin to create an economically just and environmentally sustainable society.

Frank Kirkpatrick and Thomas Swarr Four Wednesdays: March 1, 8, 29; April 5 (No classes March 15 or 22) 5:30–7:00 p.m.

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The Greatness of Beethoven: Nine Symphonies in Six WeeksBeethoven’s nine symphonies are justly famous for bringing an entirely new power, expressiveness, and sense of drama and intensity to the symphony. Radical in their own time, they form the heart of the orchestral repertory today and are beloved by each new generation of orchestras and audiences. What enables these works to continue to thrill

listeners across the centuries? We will explore the nine symphonies in detail, considering their relationship to the symphonies of Beethoven’s great predecessors, Haydn and Mozart, and tracing the extraordinary musical and dramatic advances Beethoven achieved — from his earliest symphonies, to the famous Fifth Symphony with its intense narrative of struggle and ultimate triumph, to the magnificent Ninth Symphony at the end of his life.

John Platoff Six Thursdays: March 9, 23, 30; April 6, 20, 27 (no class April 13 due to Passover) 5:30-7:00 p.m..

African Cinema“Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter” ~ African proverb

Africa is now telling its own story through its own images. The tale is quite different from the one told by Hollywood and National Geographic.

From north to south, the continent is five times the size of the United States, which means that African cinema is very diverse and tells many different and interesting stories. Hopefully, this course will open a window into this fascinating part of the world and entice you to keep watching.

**Please note that students will be given online access to the films through Trinflix.

Sonia Lee Five Tuesdays: March 28; April 4, 11, 18; May 2 5:30–7:00 p.m.

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An Introduction to the Lyric Poetry of HoraceThis course in four sessions will introduce participants to the Odes of the Roman poet Horace, a collection of lyric poems unique in Latin literature reflecting the author’s views on topics such as the well-lived life, politics and war, friendship, the

foibles of love, and the poetical vocation. The course will be taught mostly through discussion, with some lecture in the opening session. There will be examples of how the poems sound in the original and an exploration of what it means to read a poem in translation, with examples of various approaches. The translation to be used is that of the teacher, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz Four Thursdays: March 30; April 6, 20, 27 (No class April 13 due to Passover) 5:30–7:00 p.m.

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John Alcorn teaches Italian history and culture. He has a weakness for unique acoustic guitars and enjoys long walks with his beloved Catahoula leopard dog, Copper. When not working on things Italian, Alcorn organizes Trinity’s “Inside the Music” series of workshops/ concerts by contemporary artists. John Scofield, Soulive, Medeski Martin & Wood, Gov’t Mule, and the Derek Trucks Band have appeared in the series.

Steven Blackburn is faculty associate in Semitic scriptures at Hartford Seminary, where he has taught courses in Islamic mysticism, major themes of the Bible and the Qur’an, information literacy for Islamic studies, readings in the Qur’an, readings in the Hadith, and various levels of Arabic, both classical and standard. He holds a Ph.D., and his dissertation (St. Andrews, 1999) addresses the interplay of linguistics and theology as found in first millennium C.E. translations of the Book of Job by Arabic-speaking Jews, Christians, and Muslims of the Middle East and North Africa. At Trinity College, he is visiting assistant professor of religion.

Dario Del Puppo is professor of language and culture studies. Besides teaching all levels of Italian language, he teaches courses on Dante’s Divine Comedy; surveys of Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present; food in Italian history, society, and art; and Italian cinema. He also co-teaches first-year seminars called “Food, Fitness, and the Journey to Self-Discovery” and “Cycling, Sustainability, and the City of Hartford.” His research deals with the manuscripts and early printed books of medieval and renaissance Italian literature and, more broadly, with popular and material culture in Italy during the 14th–16th centuries. More recently, he has written about food history and culture. He has a long-standing research interest in the Romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi. He is also chairman of the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, which organizes lectures, exhibits, and performances dealing with all facets of Italian culture.

Martina di Florio Gula is a Ph.D. candidate in Italian literature and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. She received a “laurea” degree in classical literature at the University of Bologna and an M.A. in Italian at the University of Connecticut. Teaching in various American universities and colleges has given her the opportunity to share her culture and language with students and colleagues as well as to receive an even greater understanding of differing cultural perspectives. She strives to design classes that are intellectually challenging and socially engaging while fulfilling her primary goal: to assist students in increasing their confidence and ability in learning Italian language and literature. She is writing her doctoral dissertation, “Revisiting Sites and Locations of ‘Italian-ness’: The Cultural Work of Migrant and Postcolonial Authors of Italy in Fiction and on Stage.” Her research interests include modern and contemporary Italian literature and cinema, migrant and postcolonial writing in Italy, travel literature, geography, and Mediterranean studies.

Johannes Evelein is professor of language and culture studies and head of German studies. He has studied in the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, and the United States and received a Ph.D. from the University

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at Albany, SUNY in 1993. He joined the Trinity faculty in 1997. He teaches German studies courses with an emphasis on 20th-century literature and culture. In addition, he regularly teaches first-year seminars and contributes to Trinity’s Humanities Gateway Program. His research focuses on exile literature written during the Nazi era. His most recent book is titled Literary Exiles from Nazi Germany: Exemplarity and the Search for Meaning (Camden House, 2014). His current research project deals with the importance of borders and boundaries in the European literary imagination. More broadly, he is exploring the new and richly interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities.

Adrienne Fulco is an associate professor and director of the Public Policy and Law Program who teaches courses that focus on the intersection of law, politics, and public policy. She offers a broad range of courses on topics that include constitutional rights and liberties, the policy process, the Supreme Court, and gender discrimination.

Karl Haberlandt has been fascinated by memory for his entire life, first at college in his native Germany and in graduate school at Yale, then during his more than 40 years at Trinity College, and now in his retirement. At Trinity, Haberlandt has taught courses on learning, memory, and cognition. He has written a book on the subject, Human Memory: Exploration and Application, and published numerous research articles on various aspects of learning and memory. We often think of memory as a storehouse of information, inviting questions such as: How do the memories form in the first place? How do they endure over time? How do we recollect them when needed? However, memory is more than a storehouse. It defines who we are as individuals, and beyond that, it defines communities and even nations. What subject could be more interesting than memory?

Tom Harrington is professor of language and culture studies at Trinity College, where he teaches courses on 20th- and 21st-century Spanish cultural history, literature, and film. His areas of research include modern Iberian nationalist movements, the history of Iberianism, polysystems theory, contemporary Catalonia, and the history of migration between the peninsular “periphery” (especially Catalonia, but also Galicia, Portugal, and the Basque Country) and the societies of the Caribbean and the Southern Cone. He is a two-time Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (Barcelona, Spain, and Montevideo, Uruguay) who also has lived and worked in Madrid, Lisbon, and Santiago de Compostela. In addition to his work in Hispanic studies, Harrington is a frequent commentator on political and cultural affairs in the United States and abroad.

Hank Herman is the author of Accept My Kid, Please! A Dad’s Descent into College Application Hell; an acclaimed memoir; and Super Hoops, a series of basketball novels for kids. His award-winning humor column, “The Home Team,” has been running for 23 years and is still going strong. He also co-writes the Hearst Newspapers blog Beagle Man, alternating posts with his dog, Kemba. The blog doubles as a hilarious travelogue when Hank and Kemba hit the road every fall for their great adventure, a monthlong cross-country road trip! Hank also leads writing workshops at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania; Norwalk Community College; and the Mark Twain House.

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Jeffrey Kaimowitz has a Ph.D. in classics with a specialty in Roman poetry and has taught courses in classics at the University of Cincinnati, Miami University (Ohio), and Trinity College. He has published a number of translations — in addition to his translation of the Odes of Horace — and articles relating to classics and publishing in the Renaissance.

Jean-Marc Kehrès (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is associate professor in the Department of Language and Culture Studies. He specializes in 18th-century literature and 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 is working on a book project on the representation 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.

Frank Kirkpatrick recently retired after 47 years of teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at Trinity College, where he specialized in courses on Christian social ethics, the history of religion in America, and the history of Christian religious thought in European culture. He has also taught courses on atheism and on fundamentalism. He served as interim dean of the faculty and ombudsman for the faculty at various times during his career at the College. He has actively participated in a number of programs exploring the role of philanthropy and advocating for peace and justice policies. He holds a B.A. in religion from Trinity, an M.A. in comparative religion from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Brown University.

Sonia Lee, professor of language and cultural studies, emerita, taught French literature and French cinema as well as African literature and African cinema at Trinity College for 35 years. She is the author of three books and numerous articles in the field of Francophone African studies.

Borden Painter is professor of history and president, emeritus, of Trinity College after serving 40 years on the faculty teaching courses on European history. He served as chairman of the History Department on two occasions, as dean of the faculty for three years, as director of Italian programs for 15 years, acting president of the College in 1994-95, and president in 2003-04. He is the author of Mussolini’s Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City (2005) and The New Atheist Denial of History (2014).

John Platoff is professor of music at Trinity College, where he was recently awarded the Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence. He earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a performing pianist before focusing on musicology. He is a specialist in the music of the classic period. He has published extensively on the music of Beethoven and Mozart and is particularly known for his studies of stylistic context and influence in operas by Mozart and his contemporaries. His teaching at Trinity includes courses on Mozart and Beethoven, the psychology of music, seminars on Mahler and the birth of Romanticism, and a recent course titled “The Beatles and ’60s Rock and Roll.”

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Richard J. Ring, originally from Columbus, Ohio, received a B.A. in English from The Ohio State University (while working in an array of bookshops) and an M.L.S. from Indiana University in 1998. He was the reference and acquisitions librarian at the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University) for nine years and then special collections librarian at the Providence Public Library from 2007 to 2010, when he was appointed head curator of the Watkinson. He teaches two or three courses per year on rare books and history at Trinity College.

Martha Risser, associate professor of classics, teaches courses on ancient art, archaeology, Greek, Latin, and classical civilization. Her scholarly interests focus on classical art and archaeology, especially Greek pottery. She has participated in archaeological projects in Greece, Israel, Turkey, Italy, and the United States. Author of Corinth VII, V. Corinthian Conventionalizing Pottery (American School of Classical Studies Publications, Princeton, 2001), she conducts research at the Corinthian-controlled sanctuary at the Isthmus in Greece and at Akko, Israel. The Akko Archaeology, Heritage, and History Project includes an archaeological field school (CLCV 300) every summer. Risser’s interest in ancient gastronomy is reflected in her teaching and research. “Drinking and Dining in Antiquity” is among the courses she regularly offers at Trinity College. In 2009, she taught a weeklong seminar, “Cosmopolitan Cuisines,” for the CANE Summer Institute at Dartmouth University. Next fall, she will teach “Ancient Roman Foodways” at Trinity’s campus in Rome. Her contribution on “The City, the Sanctuary, and the Feast: Evidence from a Pottery Assemblage at Isthmia,” may be found in The Bridge of the Untiring Sea: The Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, edited by Elizabeth R. Gebhard and Timothy E. Gregory, Princeton, 2015.

Before coming to Trinity, Mark Silk was on the staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he worked variously as a reporter, editorial writer, and columnist. In 1996, he became the first director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and in 1998 founding editor of Religion in the News, a magazine published by the center that examines how the news media handle religious subject matter.

Thomas Swarr is a retired engineer from United Technologies. He holds five patents related to fuel-cell technology. He developed and deployed UTC’s policy on design for environment and safety. He is a lecturer at Yale University, teaching a graduate practicum on life-cycle assessment. He has consulted for the U.N. Environmental Programme Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics. He serves on the Cli-mate Stewardship Council of the City of Hartford, Connecticut, chaired the board of the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters Education Fund from 2011 to 2014, and served on the board of the Connecticut Chemical Innovations Institute from 2010 to 2014. He holds a B.S and an M.S. in material science and metallurgical engineering from Lehigh University, an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in organization and management from Capella University.

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COURSE FEES: Courses meeting for:

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ENROLLMENT INFORMATION: Academy of Lifelong Learning Trinity College 300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 297-2125 e-mail: lifelonglearning@trincoll.edu www.trincoll.edu/Academics/AdultLearning/Life_long/

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