Partnering with Bay Area retirement communities Belmont Village Albany and St. Paul's Towers and San Francisco Towers, Front Porch Senior Living Communities, the series expands learning opportunities to retirees while providing an opportunity for retirees to learn about Bay Area retirement communities. Through the generous support provided by our host communities, there is no cost for participants.
Christine M Walsh, PhD, Associate Professor, Sleep in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease Program, Memory & Aging Center, UCSF Department of Neurology, Weill Institute for Neurosciences.
This presentation will focus on how sleep loss affects the brain, how it may contribute to neurodegenerative disease and the underlying mechanistic changes that are occurring.
Saru Jayaraman, Co-Founder, President at ROC United, Director, Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley
Hosted at Belmont Village Albany
With 13 million workers, the restaurant industry is one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the US economy - and it is also the lowest paying. Join
Saru Jayaraman in a vibrant discussion about what these low wages mean for tipped workers, how this relates to #MeToo, and what can be done.
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and President of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley.
Bonnie Wade, Professor Emerita, Department of Music
Hosted at Belmont Village Albany
When, in the second half of the nineteenth century, Japanese leaders put into motion processes of modernization, Western music was adopted into the curriculum of a new educational system as a technology for producing shared cultural space for all Japanese people. As the infrastructures of modernity developed, a new role of composer apart from performer was created to meet the needs that emerged in education, industry and commerce. In this talk I will introduce myself as an ethnomusicologist and explain what led me to study music in Japan--specifically Western music in that culture, the subject of my latest book, Composing Japanese Musical Modernity (University of Chicago, 2015). Dwelling on the second half of the twentieth century, I shall introduce a few composers and "moments" from an assortment of compositions.
Bonnie Wade is an ethnomusicologist who has specialized in musics of India and Japan.
Jon Else, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and documentary filmmaker of "Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1980)" in conversation with David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley History, about Christopher Nolan's movie "Oppenheimer."
Robert Alter, Professor of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Hosted at St. Paul’s Towers
The Hebrew Bible is cast in subtly wrought prose and often brilliant poetry, and the existing English versions have not done much justice to this literary vehicle. What I have attempted to achieve in my own English version is to find viable equivalents for a whole range of important stylistic features--rhythm, diction, precision of word choice, sound play, expressive use of syntax, and more. I will illustrate my talk by reading passages from my translation.
Robert Alter is Professor in the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.
Vincent Resh, Professor Emeriti, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Hosted at St. Paul's Towers
Shortages and excesses of water are now a global phenomenon. This talk will describe these issues both globally and as applied to California. Current political issues including reallocation of water resources from the north to the south of the state will be discussed along with pros and cons of various proposals under considerations.
Vincent H. Resh has been a professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at the University of California, Berkeley since 1975.
