University Club Forum - Fall 2010

1. UNIVERSITY CLUB
FALL FORUM 2010
Volume 1, Issue 6 August 2010
Coordinated by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, UC Irvine
As co-sponsor with the University Club, OLLI at UC Irvine is pleased to announce the program for the Fall Forum.
The University Club Forum meets on Wednesdays during the school year for a buffet lunch and a presentation. Lunch begins at 11:15
AM, $11.50 for UClub members and $13.50 for non-members, including tax and gratuity. For reservations, please call 949-824-7960.
Everyone is welcome!
September October 27: Bill Cooper, Ph.D., Prof. & Director, Civil &
Environmental Engineering-Urban Water Research
September 22: Joseph Lewis, Dean, Claire Trevor Center: “ Adventures in „The Plastic Ocean,‟ Comparing
School of the Arts, UCI: “A Conversation with UCI‟s New the North Atlantic and North Pacific.” With pictures and
Arts‟ Dean.” Dean Lewis will talk about the 2010-11 words about his on-site visitations to these sites in our
performance season and exciting new projects at the Claire oceans, Dr. Cooper will show and tell how plastic wastes
Trevor School of the Arts. from “civilization” have wound up in the seas.
September 29: Mark Petracca, Ph.D., Chair, Dept. November
Political Science, UCI: “Looking at the Coming
Election.” Professor Petracca, a Forum favorite, will November 3: Laura Mosqueda, M.D., Director,
provide his insights and outlooks related to the issues and Geriatrics, Assoc. Prof., Clinical Family Medicine, UCI
individuals striving for our attention in the upcoming School of Medicine: “Things I Have Learned From My
elections. Patients.” Dr. Mosqueda’s goal is to create medical
October programs at UCI Medical that “help patients function at their
highest possible level.” A gifted speaker with important
October 6: Russ Turner, Coach, UCI Men‟s Basketball: information to share.
Coach Turner, newly appointed to coach B-Ball for the
Anteaters, shares his goals, a look at the team and schedule November 10: Professor Emeritus, UCI, Edgar Schell &
for this first year. Don’t miss the chance to hear from him Deborah Schell,“Ellen‟s Play:” a dialogue dramatizing the
personally and to let him meet his home-court advantage. literary and theatrical love affair of George Bernard Shaw
and Ellen Terry.
October 13: Matt Beckmann, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., Dept. of
Pol. Sci. & Center for Study of Democracy: “Election November 17: James Famiglietti, Ph.D., Prof. Earth
2010—And Beyond.” Dr. Beckmann will sort through the System Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
potential impacts and influences of the coming election-- UCI: “GRACE Satellite and Determining Water Levels
short and longer range. Q & A will follow. Around the Globe.” Professor Famiglietti will reveal how
this branch of science and this satellite has an impact on
October 20: Julia Reinhard Lupton, Ph.D., Prof., English lives and entire regions of the earth.
and Comparative Literature, UCI: “Henry VIII and the
Story of Abraham: Of Tudors and Textiles. This illustrated December
lecture tells about Henry VIII’s life-long interest in the
patriarchs of the Hebrew Bible. This is part of a series in December 1: Henry Pontell, Ph.D., Professor, Dept.
UCI’s Program: Jewish Studies on Hospitality in Judaism Criminology, Law & Society, School of Social Ecology:
and Western Thought. “Global Meltdown: Fraud in the Financial Crisis.” Dr.
Pontell will present a description of possible criminal roots in
the economic crisis that has touched most of the world in
some way.
University Club Fall Forum 2010
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