The LSCF is proud to sponsor the Levy Lecture Series, an educational program for older adults who are passionate about learning. The series is free, but registration is required.
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Tuesday, September 19th at 1:30pm
Calm, Cool and Catalytic: How Older Americans Can Lead During an Era of Existential Threats
Presented via Zoom.
Join us for a Levy Lecture Tuesday, September 19 at 1:30 p.m. Jill Riddell will discuss the role older adults play in facing the existential threat of climate change. She'll offer different models of response that can help each of us stay tranquil, buoyant and sane, while also being effective at doing something to slow climate change.
Jill teaches writing at the School of the Art Institute, hosts the Shape of the World podcast, and is the founder of the Office of Modern Composition, a writer’s studio.
Lecture Archive
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Note: Not all lectures are recorded.
Talking Senior Advocacy with AARP’s Philippe Largent
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Blues Legend Corky Siegel and Journalist Neil Tesser
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Quilting, Community, and the African American Aesthetic
Tracy Vaughn | Ph.D., Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University
A Circumnavigator's View: The Gorillas of Rwanda with Virginia Mullin
Virginia Mullin | Ph.D., at Mullin Vickrey Communications
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A Black American's Experience in Theater
Tim Rhoze | Artistic Director at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre
Chicago by Gaslight: A History of Chicago's Netherworld
Rich Lindberg | Author, Journalist, Research Historian
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Dark Money: The Money Behind Our Politics
Julie Strauss | Lecturer in American Politics
Understanding the Persistence of Unethical Behavior
Maryam Kouchaki | Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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When Women Invented Television
Jennifer Armstrong | Writer
Akbar Imhotep: Frederick Douglass, Orator and Abolitionist
Akbar Imhotep | Storyteller and Puppeteer
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