Lecture Recordings
2021 SPRING lectures
March 5
Michael Abramowitz, Freedom in the World
March 12
Sanford J. Ungar, The Paradox of Free Speech in America
March 26
Robert Einhorn, Nuclear Negotiation with Iran and North Korea
April 2
Mark Leithauser, Moving Walls and Making Space: Designing Exhibits at the National Gallery
This is the prerecorded part of the lecture.
April 9
OLLI at AU Annual Meeting
April 16
Raymond Caldwell, Making Theater Meaningful in DC and Beyond
revisiting washington's black history
Presented in Partnership with the DC History Center.
January 5, 2021
The Quander Family, Nearly 300 Years in America
Lecture by Rohulamin Quander, retired Senior Administrative Judge for DC and Founder, Quander Historical Society
January 12, 2021
Washington’s Role in American Music
Conversation
with Maurice Jackson, Associate Professor, Georgetown University, and
Davey Yarborough, Chairman and Artistic Director, Washington Jazz Arts
Institute, plus introduction and kibitzing by Milton Coleman, retired
Senior Editor, The Washington Post, and DC music aficionado.
January 19, 2021
Howard University--Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris’ Alma Mater
Lecture by Michael Winston, PhD, former Provost and Chief Academic
Officer, Howard University, with introduction by Carole Watson, retired
Acting Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities
January 26, 2021
Covenants, Redlining and Segregation
Presentation by Mara Cherkasky, Co-director, Mapping Segregation in
Washington DC, followed by panel with Edward Hayes JD, President
Emeritus, Chevy Chase Citizens Association
and former Chair, So Others Might Eat; James Jones, JD, MD, former
Director, DC Youth Opportunity Services; and James Pittman, Dunbar
Alumni Federation and Founder, Historic Kappa House Restoration
Foundation; moderated by Colbert King, columnist, The Washington Post.
Here are links to information that was shared during the session:
- Mapping Segregation DC
- Mara Cherkasky's email
- "Racial Covenants and Segregation, Yesterday and Today." The Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice. Professor J.H.H.Weiler, Director, Straus Institute, Straus Working Paper 08/10 Richard R.W. Brooks and Carol M. Rose.
- "Restrictive Covenants Stubbornly Stay on the Books," New York TImes, April 21, 2005.
- The Public Service Commission, Washington, DC. PSC Centennial Book Publication, The First Hundred Years Protecting the Public Interest, 1913-2013
January 2021 lectures
January 8
Jack Bray, Face to Face He Told Hitler “No”
January 15
Norman J. Ornstein, Governing Ahead: Where Do We Go From Here?
January 22
Kevin Bushweller, How
COVID-19 Is Transforming K-12 Education: What the Public Needs to Know
January 29
Nathan Billig, On Growing Older and Wiser and Joining a Village
FALL 2020 lectures
September 25
W. Neil Eggleston, Reflections on Attorney General Barr’s 2019 speeches to Notre Dame and the Federalist Society
October 2
George Derek Musgrove, Race and Police Reform in the Nation's Capital
October 9
Joel Charny
October 16
Ambassador E. Michael Southwick, Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
Glenn Frankel, The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of High Noon
November 6
Jason Samenow, How Is Climate Changing Affecting Washington’s Weather?
November 13
Fanchon Silberstein, Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why it Matters
November 20
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, Thoughts on Journalism and Diversity: A Conversation with Judy Havemann
December 4
Judith Welles, Grit and Gusto: Farmerettes and Suffragettes on the Homefront in WWI
Serendipities!
Bernard Kempinski, Introduction to the Railroads of the Civil War