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.

DIRECTOR Leslie Desmangles, Professor of Religious Studies and International Studies

Courses meeting for:• four class sessions .......................................................................................... $ 85• five class sessions ...........................................................................................$105• six class sessions ............................................................................................$125• eight-session Personal Essay .................................................................... $300• Saturday Academy .........................................................................................$125Please note that the 10% discount formerly offered to Trinity alumni and employees is no longer available.

ENROLLMENT INFORMATION Academy of Lifelong Learning Trinity College300 Summit StreetHartford, CT 06106(860) 297-2151lifelonglearning@trincoll.edu mytrinnet.trincoll.edu/ALL2017

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 Fall 2017 is Tuesday, September 5, 2017. An application form is available online: http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/adult/ALL

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

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Refugees on College Campuses in Shifting Times Timothy Dunn 9:00–10:15 a.m.

Refugee Lives: Stories from My Years as an Asylum Lawyer Chris George and Ann Rapkin 10:30–11:45 a.m.

Globalization and U.S. Immigration Policy: Unstoppable Force Meets Unmovable Object? Deke Matthieu 1:15–2:30 p.m.

Civil Society and Civil Rights: Lessons from Tocqueville and Martin Luther King Michael Fotos 2:45–4:00 p.m.

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

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CURRENT SHIFTING LANDSCAPE

Saturday, October 28, 2017

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OFF-CAMPUS COURSES

The Civil War in 10 PoemsAmericans in the 19th century were awash in poems. Snatches of verse peppered their letters, filled columns in their newspapers, and rang in their ears. When a civil war seized the nation, men and women from Boston to Charleston used poetry to respond to the crisis and make sense of it. This course will offer a historical and literary overview of the U.S. Civil War through a close consideration of 10 poems — by Northerners and Southerners, well-to-do artists and former slaves, and writers of great fame and ones now forgotten, all spanning the century and a half between 1861 and our own time. In the dense, crystalline language of poetry, we will encounter the fervor, conflict, anguish, and jubilation that made the Civil War one of the most important and enduring phases of American history.

Christopher HagerFive Mondays: September 11, 18, 25; October 2, 1611:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.The McAuley, 275 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06117

The Challenge to Secular States Today: An International PerspectiveWe shall examine how four “secular” republics with differing political traditions — the United States, France, Turkey, and India — have approached religion-state relations. How have the dominant religious majority cultures of Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam, and Hinduism influenced their constitutional and legal arrangements? And how well are they coping with today’s social and political challenges to tolerance and “neutrality”? Lecture 1, United States; Lecture 2, France; Lecture 3, Turkey; Lecture 4, India

Barry Kosmin Four Wednesdays: September 6, 13, 20, 2711:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. The McAuley, 275 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06117

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TRINITY EVENING COURSES

The Choral Music of Johannes Brahms: A SamplerThis course will feature several of the choral works of Brahms, including some of his earliest published works, the “Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52” and, of course, the great oratorio “Ein deutsches Requiem.” We will seek to answer questions such as: Who was Brahms really? What music influenced Brahms’s composing style? What is a hemiola? There will be lots of listening, and word-for-word English translations will help us explore Brahms’s mastery of setting text to music.

Howard SproutFive Tuesdays: September 26; October 3, 10, 17, 24 6:00–7:30 p.m.

The Civil War: Questions and Controversies (Canceled)

One hundred and fifty-two years after the Confederacy surrendered, platoons of historians and armies of Civil War buffs continue to debate a host of questions about the conflict. For example, was the cause of the war slavery, state’s rights, or sectional differences over economic issues? Did the Union’s superiority in manpower and matériel doom the Confederacy to defeat? How much blame does Jefferson Davis bear for the Confederate defeat? How much credit does Lincoln deserve for the Union victory? Which side had the better generals? Contrary to Lincoln’s popular image as the “Great Emancipator,” was he actually a reluctant emancipator? Did the slaves do more to emancipate themselves than he did to emancipate them? Was the Civil War a “total war” like the two World Wars? These are some of the controversial issues the course will explore.

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Written in Stone/Painted in Fire: The Influence of Geology on New England Writers and Artists in the 19th CenturyIn 1802, dinosaur tracks were dis-covered in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Several years later, Edward Hitchcock, a geologist and

president of Amherst College, proposed that an extinct animal made the tracks. He also proposed that there had been volcanoes in New England. At Yale, Benjamin Silliman and his student James Percival also were rethinking the Earth’s origins, questioning its creation in six days and its age of 6,000 years. These ideas influenced writers and artists. When Emily Dickinson wrote of a “lava step” and “Vesuvius at Home,” she was being literal, not metaphoric. When Hartford-native Frederic Church painted volcanoes and icebergs, he was not painting the sublime but the scientific. Meanwhile, Thoreau recorded geologic observations in his journals. This course will range across science, art, and literature, making connections that are often missed.

Kathleen L. HousleyFive Thursdays: October 26; November 2, 9, 16, 30 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Tokyo: The “Eastern Capital” from Feudal Times to the Present

(Canceled) This five-lecture series charts the turbulent history of one of the world’s great metropolises, from its 17th century origins as a remote castle town to its current position as a global center of commerce and culture that is home to more than 13 million people. The course will explore how tradition and

modernity have shaped and continue to shape the city through cycles of development, expansion, and destruction that have marked the city’s history, as well as the often unique ways in which its residents have experienced and overcome times of adversity, creating a truly vibrant urban culture in the process.Schedule of lectures:

1. Edo, the Samurai Metropolis: High City, Low City2. The Birth of Tokyo: A City between East and West3. Tokyo in War and Destruction4. The City from Rebirth to High Growth5. Tokyo Now: Problems and Possibilities

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Howard Hawks, American AuteurThis course will celebrate the work of Howard Hawks, one of the classic American film directors whose artistry was “discovered” by the French and American proponents of the auteur theory in the 1950s. After a brief historical introduction to the auteur theory, we will use the work of Hawks to explore the critical legacy and creative potential of this approach. In addition to participating in class discussions, students will be required to watch one feature film a week online prior to each class meeting to fully engage with a specially designed course reader and to contribute to a weekly collaborative writing assignment.

Prakash YoungerFour Wednesdays: October 25; November 1, 8, 15 5:30–7:00 p.m.

Writing What You Feel: The Personal EssayWhen something thought provoking/infuriating/outrageous/ hysterically funny happens to you, do you automatically think, “Now that would be great material for an essay?” Does the reflective nature — and short length — of the personal essay format appeal to you? In this course, you’ll learn how to turn your inclination into action and turn those inspirations into finished pieces. You’ll be shown how to brain-storm for material, how to overcome your fear of the blank screen, how to edit yourself … in other words, how to get from a rough idea to a polished piece. Whether your goal is publication or simply personal satisfaction, this course will help you achieve it.

Hank HermanEight Wednesdays: September 27; October 4, 11, 18, 25; November 1, 8, 29 (no class November 15 and 22) 5:30–7:30 p.m.

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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? This course 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 GulaSix Mondays: September 11; 18; 25; October 2; 16; 23 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Human Wildlife Conflict in Historical PerspectiveThis course will be about modern wildlife conservation practices and institutions. We will focus our attention on understanding the historical and contemporary factors that drive human-wildlife conflict. We will examine an enduring theme in western thought, cultural geography, and anthropology: the construction and maintenance of the division between nature and culture in the discourse of wildlife conservation institutions. We will examine how the notion of the “wild” is socially produced in snow leopard conservation science, practice, and institutional discourse, especially in the context of human-wildlife conflict. We will question the notion of wild by asking how wild snow leopards really are if one judges wildness by something’s degree of separation from human society.

Shafqat Hussain Six Tuesdays: October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; November 75:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

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An Audience with the “King”This course will provide an opportunity to discover the basics of how a pipe organ works and to experience the rich tone and sound colors of the instrument that Mozart called “the king of instruments.” The course also will offer a sampling of the traditions and styles of organ compositions throughout the centuries. Students will have the unique opportunity to be a part of the Schweitzer Organ Festival competition, to hear some of the finest young American organists, and to vote for their favorite competitor. The course also will include a tour of Hartford’s Austin Pipe Organ* factory and an opportunity to learn how pipe organs are fabricated. The dates of the competitions are September 29 (for high school students) and September 30 (for other young professionals), both days from 9:00 a.m. to noon.*Austin Organs Inc. has been located on Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut, since 1893. Celebrating more than 100 years in operation, the company continues to design and manufacture pipe organs and components in the Austin tradition, employing skilled artisans with more than two centuries of combined experience.

John RoseFour Classes: September 13, September 29 and 30, 9:00 a.m.–noon: Schweitzer Organ Festival competition, October 4, 10:30 a.m. - noon: Tour of Austin Organ Factory (climbing stairs required)

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Jeffrey Bayliss is associate professor of history at Trinity College. He received an M.A. in education from Miyagi Kyoiku Daigaku in Japan and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He lived and worked in Japan for 10 years prior to joining the faculty at Trinity in the fall of 2004. He is working on a book exploring the nature of minorities and minority rights movements in pre-1945 Japan.

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.

Timothy Dunn, Title IX coordinator at Trinity College, is responsible for providing leadership and centralized support for compliance with all requirements under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, the Clery Act, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and other federal and state laws and matters pertaining to discrimination, harassment, and sexual violence. Dunn has extensive experience working on a number of college campuses and has attended in-depth and ongoing training programs sponsored by the Association of Title IX Administrators as well as the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Dunn earned a J.D. at the University of Oklahoma and remains active with the bar.

Michael Fotos III has been a lecturer at Yale since 2007. Since 2000, he has been a visiting assistant professor in the public policy graduate program at Trinity College. His recent publications develop the relationship between political theory and policy analysis with reference to the research program of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University. His earlier publications focus on coal mining regulation, voter turnout, and ecosystem services. Fotos was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, and lives in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is a 1978 graduate of Yale College and holds an M.P.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University. Fotos serves as a volunteer director of two charitable organizations, the Warrior-Scholar Project and the Connecticut Farmland Trust.

FACULTY

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Chris George is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in anthropology and history. He joined the Peace Corps in 1977 and served in the Arabian Desert in Oman. George also worked with Quakers in housing reconstruction in Lebanese villages and refugee camps and later as manager of the Gaza office of Save the Children Foundation. In 1988, he began a nine-year stint as Save the Children’s director of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He then served as director of the Middle East division of Human Rights Watch and later as the director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) legislative branch, working on a project to strengthen the Palestinian Parliament. On a three-year USAID contract, he ran a foundation that awarded grants to Palestinian nonprofits. He also did volunteer work, consulting, and writing in Connecticut on legislative issues before being named executive director of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS) in New Haven in 2005.

Christopher Hager is an associate professor of English at Trinity College. He won the Dean Arthur H. Hughes Award for Achievement in Teaching in 2010 and for three years co-directed the Center for Teaching and Learning. He is the author of Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing, which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize in 2014, and of a new book, I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters (forthcoming from Harvard University Press), for which he was awarded a Public Scholar grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Hank Herman is an award-winning columnist for the Westport News and blogger for Hearst Media. He also is the author of a series of sports novels for children. His latest book, Accept My Kid, Please! A Dad’s Descent into College Application Hell (Da Capo Press), is a humorous memoir about the college admissions process. He also teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House, Norwalk Community College, and The Mark Twain House & Museum. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Kathleen Housley is the author of 10 books. Her poems and essays on science, religion, and art have appeared in many national publications, including Image, The Christian Century, and Women’s Art Journal. Her novel The Sage of Time and Chance (Wipf and Stock) explores the proto-scientific worldview of Ecclesiastes. She has also written a biography of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer, a world-renowned physical chemist and brother of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Shafqat Hussain is an associate professor of anthropology at Trinity College. He earned a Ph.D. from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Department of Anthropology at Yale University in 2009. For his doctoral research, he worked in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, looking at conflict between a local yak-herding community and the government forest department over the establishment and management of a national park. In 1999, he started a community-based livestock insurance scheme against snow leopard predation in Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. Hussain has worked for Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Skardu and IUCN – Washington, D.C., as a Ford Foundation Policy Fellow.

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Barry A. Kosmin is research professor in public policy and law and founding director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC) at Trinity. Educated at the University of London and McMaster University in Canada, he has been on the faculty and held visiting posts at the Graduate School of the City University of New York; Oxford University and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom; University of Cape Town; and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kosmin has been a principal investigator of the American Religious Identification Survey series since its inception in 1990 as well as na-tional social surveys in Europe, Africa, and Asia. His books on religion and secularism include One Nation under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society, 1993; Religion in a Free Market: Religious and Non-Religious Americans, 2006; and Secularism & Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, 2007.

Dickens “Deke” Mathieu is the general counsel and secretary of Trinity College. He has more than two decades of legal experience, including a wealth of experience in higher education, private law firm practice, and government. Mathieu previously served as general counsel for Syracuse University and senior legal counsel for Tufts University. He has criminal law experience as well, having worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, where he prosecuted narcotics trafficking and money laundering cases. He began his legal career as a labor and employment associate at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, in Washington, D.C. Mathieu earned a B.A. in political science from Amherst College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a member of the bars of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. He is active in the National Association of College and University Attorneys, having served on its Board of Directors in 2011–2012; is a founding director of Discovering Justice, The James D. St. Clair Court Education Project; and is a life member and former director of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association.

Anne Rapkin is a retired attorney who for many years practiced asylum and deportation law in Connecticut. Her clients included men, women, and children who had fled their home countries due to persecution because of their religion; their political beliefs, whether real or imputed to them by the government; their sexual orientation; their ethnicity; or other reasons that the federal courts have come over time to recognize as grounds for refuge in the United States. Currently, Anne is involved in resettling a Syrian refugee family in the Hartford area.

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John Rose, who will retire in December, has overseen the music for 40 consecutive years of major College events at the Trinity College Chapel. In addition to the many solo organ recitals he has performed, he curates the Trinity College Organ Series, bringing some of the world’s premier concert organists to play at Trinity, drawing audiences from campus and the Greater Hartford community. Rose has made 16 LP or CD recordings, several of which were recorded at the Cathedral of St. Joseph (Hartford) and at Trinity, including This Son So Young (Towerhill Recordings), featuring soprano Liesl Odenweller ’88 and the music of Robert Edward Smith, composer-in-residence at the Chapel since 1979. Among major projects Rose has overseen at the College are the installation of the Austin organ’s Trompette-de-Jubilé stop and the choir gallery (both in 1982), the organ case (1986) designed by Charles Nazarian ’73, and a new four-manual organ console (2013). The Crypt Chapel organ, designed and built by Nicholson & Co. of Malvern, England, was given in honor of Rose in 1992.

J. Ronald Spencer, associate academic dean and lecturer in history, emeritus, taught U.S. history courses at Trinity from 1968 to 2012, many of them dealing with the antebellum and Civil War periods. His publications include A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln’s Cabinet: Navy Secretary Gideon Welles Chronicles the Civil War (Acorn Club/Wesleyan University Press, 2014).

Howard Sprout is widely known throughout New England as a baritone soloist and a vocal pedagogue. He received a B.A. in voice from Allegheny College, an M.Mus. in voice from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, and an artist diploma in opera performance from that same institution. He has performed extensively from the works of Johannes Brahms, including art songs, choral works, and, of course, “Ein deutsches Requiem.” Sprout also has taught voice at several area colleges and uni-versities, including the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut, and Trinity.

Though Prakash Younger’s interests range widely across the humanities (including English and world literature, political philosophy, geopolitical history, and art history), his work as a teacher and scholar is grounded by a long-standing engagement with the cinephilic traditions that have shaped film studies as a discipline. By taking advantage of the access films provide to the experience of other times, places, cultures, and sensibilities, we enhance our ability to connect with the world we live in today; unlikely as it may seem, a French film from the 1930s or a Bollywood film from the 1970s may turn out to be the “message in a bottle” we have been waiting for, the magic lens that brings certain facts and possibilities of the present into sharp focus. Studying film is a detour that is justified by the fact that, in the end, it always gets us to the right place, faster.

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Academy of Lifelong Learning Trinity College 300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 297-2151lifelonglearning@trincoll.edumytrinnet.trincoll.edu/ALL2017