Curiosity Never Retires
By celebrating the diverse experiences and interests of the Study Group Leaders and members who make up OLLI at American University, this podcast’s goal is to provide information about the wonderful courses and people at the heart of our OLLI at AU, while sparking curiosity and maybe a conversation or two.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2025
Curiosity Never Retires: Dan Moskowitz on "The Music That Made America"
Magazine writer Dan Moskowitz has, for more than a decade, tapped his avocational interest in American popular music to lead study groups in the subject at the OLLIs at American University and George…
Curiosity Never Retires: Christina Fleps on "Renaissance: Not Just Pretty Faces"
Christina Fleps is a retired lawyer who has served as a docent at the National Gallery of Art and art lecturer at the Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase. This course examines Renaissance art from Giotto and…
Curiosity Never Retires - Linda Freeman on "Thomas Hardy: The Sweet and the Strange"
Linda R. Freeman, PhD, retired after teaching for 15 years on the College Park campus as a University of Maryland lecturer in Victorian literature. She has also taught for Smithsonian Associates, Mon…
Curiosity Never Retires - Jack Dalby on "St. Paul and Early Christianity"
For the past 13 years, Jack Dalby has lectured on the topics of Christian Origins and the Historical Jesus with OLLI programs at George Mason University, the College of William and Mary, and American…
Curiosity Never Retires - Howard Spendelow on China and Japan
Howard Spendelow earned a PhD in history and East Asian languages from Harvard University, taught history at Georgetown University from 1979 to 2023, and from 1980 to 2014 he also served as Contract …
Curiosity Never Retires - David Flaxman on "Mozart"
David Flaxman is a musician and computer scientist who has been teaching classes at OLLI since 2017. He is president of the City Choir of Washington and the Georgetown Chorale and is a co-founder of…