LIR Course Schedule

Learning in Retirement Course Schedule

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We look forward to seeing you at an LIR soon!

Winter 2023 Lectures

Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence

Lecture III: Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence

Tuesday, February 6th, 2:00-3:30pm

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Professor Stuart Russell will briefly survey recent and expected developments in AI and their implications. Some are enormously positive, while others, such as the development of autonomous weapons and the replacement of humans in economic roles, may be negative. Beyond these, one must expect that AI capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world-decision making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern, as Alan Turing, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have suggested?  And, if so, what can we do about it?


Perspectives on the War in Ukraine

Lecture I: War Economy in Ukraine

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2:00-3:30pm

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Presented by Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley.

Description forthcoming - stay tuned!

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Lecture II: Russia's War on Ukraine and the Crisis of Democracy in Eastern Europe

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2:00-3:30pm

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Presented by M. Steven Fish, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Description forthcoming - stay tuned!

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Lecture III: Europe's Two Land Empires

Wednesday, February 14th, 2:00-3:30pm

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Presented by John Connelly, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History, UC Berkeley

Description: This lecture compares the German and Russian imperial propensities to gather many lands that are not German or Russian.


The Carol D’Onofrio LIR Lecture in Public Health

Carol D’Onofrio was Chair of the UCB Retirement Center Board from 2009-2011 and served as a member at large from 2006-08. She served on the Learning in Retirement Committee for many years, chairing the committee in 2017-2019. Carol passed away on April 14, 2020. Updates on this lecture series will be posted soon.

AI, Medicine, and the Limits of the Human Mind, Nov 2023

Learning in Retirement AI, Medicine, and the Limits of the Human Mind

The Big Picture of Large Carnivore Decline and Recovery: From West Africa to the Western U.S, Oct 2023

The Big Picture of Large Carnivore Decline and Recovery: From West Africa to the Western U.S

The Broad-Reaching Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: Bacterial Evolution, Microbiomes, Human Health, Oct 2023

The Broad-Reaching Impacts of Bacteriophage Viruses: Bacterial Evolution, Microbiomes, Human Health

The Viruses Infecting Managed Honeybees and Native Wild Bees, Oct 2023

The Viruses Infecting Managed Honeybees and Native Wild Bees

Firearm Violence: What We Can Do Sept 2023

Learning in Retirement - Firearm Violence: What We Can Do

What Did the Founders Think Guns Were For? SEPT 2023

What Did the Founders Think Guns Were For?

Carbon Negative Technology to Solve the Climate Crisis, Sept 2023

Learning in Retirement - Carbon Negative Technology to Solve the Climate Crisis

Firearm Violence: What We Can Do, Sept 2023

Learning in Retirement - Firearm Violence: What We Can Do

The Better Care Plan for Continuously Improving the US Healthcare System, May 2023

The Better Care Plan for Continuously Improving the US Healthcare System

Learning in Retirement - Brain Science with the Dalai Lama, April 2023

Learning in Retirement - Brain Science with the Dalai Lama

Learning in Retirement - Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism, April 2023

Learning in Retirement - Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism