Lectures at the Institute:
Winter Fridays at the Institute
Join us on Friday evenings this winter for a special series of lectures by resident and visiting professors (read their bios below). Each evening begins at 6:15 PM with a wine reception, followed by the lecture at 7:00 PM.
JAN 4: An Evening in Prague
Lecturer: Frances Rushing
SOLD OUT
JAN 11: An Evening in London
Lecturer: William H. Fredlund
SOLD OUT
JAN 18: An Evening in Barcelona
Lecturer: William H. Fredlund
SOLD OUT
JAN 25: Separate series ~ Musée d'Orsay (at the Sunnyvale Theater)
Lecturer: William H. Fredlund
SOLD OUT
FEB 1: James Joyce ~ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lecturer: William C. Chace
SOLD OUT
FEB 8: The Barber of Seville (il barbiere)
Lecturer: Robert Hartwell
SOLD OUT
FEB 15: Caravaggio
Lecturer: William H. Fredlund
SOLD OUT
FEB 22: Golda Meir
Lecturer: Bruce Thompson
SOLD OUT
Mar 1:The Flowering of the Elizabethan Theater
Lecturer: Arlene Okerlund
SOLD OUT
NEW Mar 8: The Girl with the Pearl Earing
Lecturer: William Fredlund
SOLD OUT
ALL EVENTS
(EXCEPT for the Jan 25 Musée d'Orsay lecture at the Sunnyvale Theater)
are at THE INSTITUTE at:
10060 BUBB ROAD, CUPERTINO
Fee: $30 per lecture
To sign up, call the Institute office at 408-864-4060, Monday-Friday, 10-6.
Frances Rushing, M.A. San Jose State University, is a dynamic speaker and talented photographer who travels extensively and teaches art history and humanities at the Institute and at De Anza College. She has also taught at San Jose State University, where she was named "Professor of the Year" by the Pan-Hellenic Council, and at Evergreen Valley College, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Tech Museum of Innovation.
William H. Fredlund, the Director of the Institute, obtained his B.A. and M.A. from UCLA, where he specialized in European history and art history. He studied in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship and completed a Ph.D. in history and humanities at Stanford, specializing in Renaissance Italy. Dr. Fredlund has taught for UCLA, the University of Florence, Stanford, and UCSC Extension.
William M. Chace is professor of English and President Emeritus, Emory University. He is the author of 100 Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way. Dr. Chace was president of Wesleyan University and, thereafter, of Emory University. He now teaches courses on James Joyce, Irish fiction, and poetry at Stanford.
Robert Hartwell holds a doctorate in music education from Columbia University, and as professor of music at Foothill College, specializes in welcoming the uninitiated into the world of classicaL music. He has co-authored a three-volume series on the history of Western music, and was a contributory author to the New Pedagogies in Higher Education series. Robert lectures frequently in the community, including having served as a pre-performance lecturer for the San Francisco Opera.
Bruce Thompson is a lecturer in the Departments of History and Literature and the Associate Director of Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and also teaches at the Institute. He received his Ph.D in History from Stanford University; his areas of scholarly research include European intellectual and cultural history, French history, and American Jewish intellectual and cultural history.
Arlene Oklerlund, a retired Professor of English from San José State University, specializes in Shakespeare and in medieval/Renaissance studies. She twice taught in SJSU's Semester-Abroad-in-England where she loved studying Shakespeare and English history on site. During retirement, she has published biographies of England's first Yorkist queen, Elizabeth: England's Slandered Queen, and the first Tudor queen (mother of Henry VIII), Elizabeth of York.
Institute for the Study of Western Civilization
10060 Bubb Road, Cupertino, CA 95014
Institute Phone: (408) 864-4060
