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April 2024
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1 10:00 am – 11:30 am: Pinched Paintings (Virtual Class) April 1, 2024 10:00 am – 11:30 am Zoom Class Map Art historian Jeff Mishur will discuss a selection of notorious art heists, some that have been solved and others that still remain open. Mishur’s program features art crimes involving private collections and churches as well as museums such as The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and The Louvre. Coordinators: Ruth Sellers and Alvin Helfgot Guest Speaker: Jeff Mishur Read more... 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: CANCELED - Fly Tying (A Virtual ICL Reads Feather Fever Event) April 1, 2024 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Zoom Class Map Sorry, this event has been canceled. Read more...	2 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Experiencing Art (On Campus) April 2, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 704 Map This workshop offers an opportunity to explore different techniques and forms of art, such as brush painting, pen and ink, watercolor, and drawing. All levels of experience and expertise are welcome. Participants will bring their own supplies and materials and will work independently. While class facilitators and participants can offer encouragement, ideas and suggestions to each other, this will NOT be an instructional class. Coordinators: Basilio King, Christopher Melby and Alfredo Rodriguez Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Fun and Games (On Campus) April 2, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map Compete with your ICLRU friends in class. I will present some familiar games like Left, Right and Center, Ticket to Ride and Rummikub. There will be something for you. Join us for our Fun and Games’ class. Please bring any games that might be fun in class. Coordinator: Nancy Mieszala Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Variety - The Spice of Life - Coco Before Chanel (Virtual Class) April 2, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom Class Map Young Coco Chanel works as a seamstress by day, a cabaret entertainer by night. Then she meets a wealthy heir and becomes his lover and fashion consultant. Tired of the flowery hats, tight corsets, and yards of lace the defines women’s fashion, Coco uses her lover’s clothing as a starting point to distill an elegant and sophisticated line of women’s clothing that propels her to the top of Parisian haute couture. Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Survey of World Religions (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 2, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map Every group of humans ever discovered has had some kind of religious belief. Yet these beliefs and practices vary widely from one culture to another and even within the same religion. To understand people of other cultures and ethnicities, we need to understand their religions. In this study group, we will explore the earliest evidence of religious practices. As we then strive to gain a basic understanding of the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Dharmic (Hindu and Buddhist), and Taoic (Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto) religions, we will also examine the similarities and differences among them. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Read more...	3 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: The American Civil War and Reconstruction (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 3, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map This is a continuation of a study group that is planned to continue through successive Spring and Fall sessions. We will be looking in depth at the Civil War and Reconstruction from a military, political, societal, and economic perspective. These continuing sessions will include many stand-alone topics covering people; political and moral viewpoints; foreign affairs; life on the home front; military life; tactics and many more aspects of this period in American history. The military events of the conflict will be covered in considerable detail. We will be using lecture, discussion and audio/visual throughout this study group. Participants are encouraged to suggest topics for discussion and make short presentations if so inclined. Coordinator: Tom Gavigan Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: The First Americans (On Campus) April 3, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 627 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map Just who were the first migrants to the lands we now call the Americas? When did they come? Where did they originate? How did they get here? Current scholarship, sometimes controversial, sometimes conflicting, sometimes competitive, is pointing in directions other than what we may have believed or what we may have been taught. Did you know a current claim for the oldest human settlement in the Americas lies in South Carolina, dating back 15,000 years? This study group will explore some of the new findings and paradigm shifts coming from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and genetics. We will also explore some of their descendants. The data is not “settled science” but it is thought provoking and provides interesting and disparate hypotheses about the ancient immigrants to the land. Coordinator: Joan Reisen Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: You be the Judge and Jury- Donald Trump Edition (On Campus) April 3, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 613 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map Persecution or prosecution? This study group will discuss the many charges and trials facing the former president of the United States, Donald Trump. We will do a deep dive into the facts and law, surrounding the allegations of misconduct against Mr. Trump. The participants in the study group will discuss the merits or lack thereof surrounding the many legal challenges facing Mr. Trump and decide whether to find him guilty or not guilty of each charge. Coordinator: Jeffrey Gray Read more...	4 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Come Play Bridge (On Campus) April 4, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map This study group is for people who already know how to play bridge. Join us if you would like to meet other ICL members who play and want to have more opportunities to play the game. We welcome those who have recently learned the game as well as intermediate and advanced players. We will be playing for FUN, not cutthroat! Hopefully we can all learn from one another. NOTE: This is an ongoing study group, but new participants are always welcome. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: The Complete Thin Man Collection (On Campus) April 4, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 627 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map The Thin Man was a series of six movies which were produced between 1934 and 1947. The movies starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. The plot for these films centered around Nick and Nora's relationship as high society detectives. The films are full of laughs and mystery as Nick and Nora toast each other with champagne cocktails as they solve the latest "who done it"! The seventh class we will show two documentaries, one each on the lives of William Powell and Myrna Loy. Coordinator: Bob Hartnett Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Variety: The Spice of Life - Coco Before Chanel (On Campus) April 4, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 624 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map Young Coco Chanel works as a seamstress by day, a cabaret entertainer by night. Then she meets a wealthy heir and becomes his lover and fashion consultant. Tired of the flowery hats, tight corsets, and yards of lace the defines women’s fashion, Coco uses her lover’s clothing as a starting point to distill an elegant and sophisticated line of women’s clothing that propels her to the top of Parisian haute couture. Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Book Discussion: 'News of the World' and 'The Captured' (On Campus) April 4, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 704 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map Discussion: Why did kidnapped children on the American Frontier choose to stay with their Native American kidnappers? They apparently became Indian in every way and rarely adjusted when returned to their birth families even if their stay with their capturers was less than a year. Is this an indictment of Western culture? We will read “News of the World” by Paulette Jiles and 'The Captured” by Scott Zesch on our own before meeting for discussion on Thursday, April 4th at 1 pm. Coordinator: Grace Limoncelli Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Your Family Tree Is Like Peeling an Onion (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 4, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map What happens when we peel an onion? Most cry, and then enjoy it in many different ways. The same is true of your family tree. Every person and branch we add is like peeling another layer of an onion revealing more about our ancestries. The purpose of this study group is to introduce people to some basic tools and concepts to build a family tree. The first two sessions will cover Ancestry and Family Tree Maker. They will center upon the traditional resources with only a brief discussion of DNA. In the third session, attendees can ask questions, talk about their brick walls, and present their own family trees. Coordinator: Merle Silverstein Guest Speaker: Bob Silverstein Read more...	5	6	7
8 10:00 am – 11:30 am: From Follicles to Feathers: Amazing Avian Adaptations (Virtual Class) April 8, 2024 10:00 am – 11:30 am Zoom Class Map Feathers are needed for birds to fly, but they also enable them to show off, blend in, stay warm, keep dry, and more. Join Lilli Holden of The Chicago Bird Alliance to learn about the complex structure, types and functions of feathers as she traces their evolution. Coordinators: Andi Basalay and Ruth Sellers Guest Speaker: Lilli Holden Read more...	9 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Experiencing Art (On Campus) April 9, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 704 Map This workshop offers an opportunity to explore different techniques and forms of art, such as brush painting, pen and ink, watercolor, and drawing. All levels of experience and expertise are welcome. Participants will bring their own supplies and materials and will work independently. While class facilitators and participants can offer encouragement, ideas and suggestions to each other, this will NOT be an instructional class. Coordinators: Basilio King, Christopher Melby and Alfredo Rodriguez Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Fun and Games (On Campus) April 9, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map Compete with your ICLRU friends in class. I will present some familiar games like Left, Right and Center, Ticket to Ride and Rummikub. There will be something for you. Join us for our Fun and Games’ class. Please bring any games that might be fun in class. Coordinator: Nancy Mieszala Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Variety - The Spice of Life (Virtual Class) April 9, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom Class Map This eight-week study group presented on Zoom Tuesday and in the classroom on Thursday, begins March 12, ending May 2. Our films include documentaries on a skilled photographer, a legendary musician, a clever fraudster, Broadway entertainment, women’s fashion, and a comedian celebrated for starring in both black and white and technicolor movies. Plus, a couple of surprises. Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Flower in You: Advanced (On Campus) April 9, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 620 Schaumburg, IL Map One Stroke Acrylic painting technique, $5 supply fee for 5 classes. NOTE: This study group is only available to those who have previously participated in 5 or more classes. Coordinator: Judy Krakowiak Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Survey of World Religions (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 9, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map Every group of humans ever discovered has had some kind of religious belief. Yet these beliefs and practices vary widely from one culture to another and even within the same religion. To understand people of other cultures and ethnicities, we need to understand their religions. In this study group, we will explore the earliest evidence of religious practices. As we then strive to gain a basic understanding of the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Dharmic (Hindu and Buddhist), and Taoic (Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto) religions, we will also examine the similarities and differences among them. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Read more... 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Multicultural Themes Book Club (On Zoom) April 9, 2024 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Zoom Meeting Map The book selection this month is Lady Tan's Circle of Women, by Lisa See (led by Charlene Kornoski-Duvall). Read more...	10 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: The American Civil War and Reconstruction (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 10, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map This is a continuation of a study group that is planned to continue through successive Spring and Fall sessions. We will be looking in depth at the Civil War and Reconstruction from a military, political, societal, and economic perspective. These continuing sessions will include many stand-alone topics covering people; political and moral viewpoints; foreign affairs; life on the home front; military life; tactics and many more aspects of this period in American history. The military events of the conflict will be covered in considerable detail. We will be using lecture, discussion and audio/visual throughout this study group. Participants are encouraged to suggest topics for discussion and make short presentations if so inclined. Coordinator: Tom Gavigan Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Math Refresher (On Campus) April 10, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 613 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map Basic Math Refresher Course. Review addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems using our brains, (along with pencil and paper), vs a calculator to keep our math skills sharp. Coordinator: Alice Kurtyka Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: The First Americans (On Campus) April 10, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 627 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map Just who were the first migrants to the lands we now call the Americas? When did they come? Where did they originate? How did they get here? Current scholarship, sometimes controversial, sometimes conflicting, sometimes competitive, is pointing in directions other than what we may have believed or what we may have been taught. Did you know a current claim for the oldest human settlement in the Americas lies in South Carolina, dating back 15,000 years? This study group will explore some of the new findings and paradigm shifts coming from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and genetics. We will also explore some of their descendants. The data is not “settled science” but it is thought provoking and provides interesting and disparate hypotheses about the ancient immigrants to the land. Coordinator: Joan Reisen Read more...	11 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Come Play Bridge (On Campus) April 11, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map This study group is for people who already know how to play bridge. Join us if you would like to meet other ICL members who play and want to have more opportunities to play the game. We welcome those who have recently learned the game as well as intermediate and advanced players. We will be playing for FUN, not cutthroat! Hopefully we can all learn from one another. NOTE: This is an ongoing study group, but new participants are always welcome. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: The Complete Thin Man Collection (On Campus) April 11, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 627 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map The Thin Man was a series of six movies which were produced between 1934 and 1947. The movies starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. The plot for these films centered around Nick and Nora's relationship as high society detectives. The films are full of laughs and mystery as Nick and Nora toast each other with champagne cocktails as they solve the latest "who done it"! The seventh class we will show two documentaries, one each on the lives of William Powell and Myrna Loy. Coordinator: Bob Hartnett Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Variety: The Spice of Life (On Campus) April 11, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 624 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map This eight-week study group presented on Zoom Tuesday and in the classroom on Thursday, begins March 12, ending May 2. Our films include documentaries on a skilled photographer, a legendary musician, a clever fraudster, Broadway entertainment, women’s fashion, and a comedian celebrated for starring in both black and white and technicolor movies. Plus, a couple of surprises. Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass Read more...	12	13	14
15 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: ICL Board Meeting April 15, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 704 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map Members are welcome and are encouraged to attend the meeting. Contact Gene Flynn for additional information and if you have any questions. Read more... 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders (A Virtual ICL Reads Feather Fever Event) April 15, 2024 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Zoom Class Map Erica Duijzer, Senior Director of the Autism Program at Hope, will share her knowledge of autism spectrum disorders. Coordinator: Ruth Sellers Guest Speaker: Erica Duijzer Read more...	16 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Experiencing Art (On Campus) April 16, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 704 Map This workshop offers an opportunity to explore different techniques and forms of art, such as brush painting, pen and ink, watercolor, and drawing. All levels of experience and expertise are welcome. Participants will bring their own supplies and materials and will work independently. While class facilitators and participants can offer encouragement, ideas and suggestions to each other, this will NOT be an instructional class. Coordinators: Basilio King, Christopher Melby and Alfredo Rodriguez Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Fun and Games (On Campus) April 16, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map Compete with your ICLRU friends in class. I will present some familiar games like Left, Right and Center, Ticket to Ride and Rummikub. There will be something for you. Join us for our Fun and Games’ class. Please bring any games that might be fun in class. Coordinator: Nancy Mieszala Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Flower in You: Advanced (On Campus) April 16, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 620 Schaumburg, IL Map One Stroke Acrylic painting technique, $5 supply fee for 5 classes. NOTE: This study group is only available to those who have previously participated in 5 or more classes. Coordinator: Judy Krakowiak Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Survey of World Religions (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 16, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map Every group of humans ever discovered has had some kind of religious belief. Yet these beliefs and practices vary widely from one culture to another and even within the same religion. To understand people of other cultures and ethnicities, we need to understand their religions. In this study group, we will explore the earliest evidence of religious practices. As we then strive to gain a basic understanding of the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Dharmic (Hindu and Buddhist), and Taoic (Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto) religions, we will also examine the similarities and differences among them. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Read more...	17 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: The American Civil War and Reconstruction (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 17, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map This is a continuation of a study group that is planned to continue through successive Spring and Fall sessions. We will be looking in depth at the Civil War and Reconstruction from a military, political, societal, and economic perspective. These continuing sessions will include many stand-alone topics covering people; political and moral viewpoints; foreign affairs; life on the home front; military life; tactics and many more aspects of this period in American history. The military events of the conflict will be covered in considerable detail. We will be using lecture, discussion and audio/visual throughout this study group. Participants are encouraged to suggest topics for discussion and make short presentations if so inclined. Coordinator: Tom Gavigan Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: The First Americans (On Campus) April 17, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 627 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map Just who were the first migrants to the lands we now call the Americas? When did they come? Where did they originate? How did they get here? Current scholarship, sometimes controversial, sometimes conflicting, sometimes competitive, is pointing in directions other than what we may have believed or what we may have been taught. Did you know a current claim for the oldest human settlement in the Americas lies in South Carolina, dating back 15,000 years? This study group will explore some of the new findings and paradigm shifts coming from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and genetics. We will also explore some of their descendants. The data is not “settled science” but it is thought provoking and provides interesting and disparate hypotheses about the ancient immigrants to the land. Coordinator: Joan Reisen Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: The Italian Renaissance: Politics and Power at the Dawn of the Modern Age (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 17, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map The Renaissance is commonly known for beautiful and impressive works of art. Less known, however, are the political and social foundations that made much of this Renaissance possible. This session will review the Italian city states during the Renaissance, the political giants of Florence, Milan, Venice, Naples and Rome, their politics, and the formation of the personal dynasties on the Italian peninsula. From the beginning of the Renaissance to the Peace of Lodi, we will review the thinkers and doers of the Renaissance who balanced the world and destiny for decades. Coordinator: Jean Ciura Read more...	18 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Come Play Bridge (On Campus) April 18, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map This study group is for people who already know how to play bridge. Join us if you would like to meet other ICL members who play and want to have more opportunities to play the game. We welcome those who have recently learned the game as well as intermediate and advanced players. We will be playing for FUN, not cutthroat! Hopefully we can all learn from one another. NOTE: This is an ongoing study group, but new participants are always welcome. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: The Complete Thin Man Collection (On Campus) April 18, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 627 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map The Thin Man was a series of six movies which were produced between 1934 and 1947. The movies starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. The plot for these films centered around Nick and Nora's relationship as high society detectives. The films are full of laughs and mystery as Nick and Nora toast each other with champagne cocktails as they solve the latest "who done it"! The seventh class we will show two documentaries, one each on the lives of William Powell and Myrna Loy. Coordinator: Bob Hartnett Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: The Problem with Tom: Jefferson and Slavery (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 18, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map The problem with Tom is that he said things like, “The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most ... unremitting despotism” while continuing to hold and profit from slaves. We cannot justify Jefferson by saying, "well, he was just a man of his times," for he spoke out against slavery more than any other Founder, and yet relied on slavery for his livelihood and comforts, all of his life. What gives? Historian Joyce Haworth will explore the ways in which Jefferson justified his slave-holding. His choices illustrate the conflicts embedded in early American society. Coordinator: Joyce Haworth Read more... 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: ICL Mystery Book Club (Virtual) April 18, 2024 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Zoom Meeting Map The selection this month is The English Girl by Daniel Silva. Contact Jane Brill if you are interested in joining the discussion. Read more...	19	20	21
22 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Meet the Author, Kirk Wallace Johnson (A Virtual ICL Reads Feather Fever Event) April 22, 2024 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Zoom Class Map We’re excited to have Kirk Wallace Johnson join us live, via Zoom. He will discuss his book and answer questions from ICL Readers. Coordinator: Ruth Sellers Guest Speaker: Kirk Wallace Johnson Read more...	23 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Experiencing Art (On Campus) April 23, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 704 Map This workshop offers an opportunity to explore different techniques and forms of art, such as brush painting, pen and ink, watercolor, and drawing. All levels of experience and expertise are welcome. Participants will bring their own supplies and materials and will work independently. While class facilitators and participants can offer encouragement, ideas and suggestions to each other, this will NOT be an instructional class. Coordinators: Basilio King, Christopher Melby and Alfredo Rodriguez Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Fun and Games (On Campus) April 23, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map Compete with your ICLRU friends in class. I will present some familiar games like Left, Right and Center, Ticket to Ride and Rummikub. There will be something for you. Join us for our Fun and Games’ class. Please bring any games that might be fun in class. Coordinator: Nancy Mieszala Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Variety - The Spice of Life: "Everything is Copy - Nora Ephron" (Virtual Class) April 23, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom Class Map Description: This energy-packed documentary follows her career from mail girl at Newsweek to reporter for the New York Post to becoming a prestigious essayist at Esquire to successfully writing and directing Hollywood movies that revitalized the romantic comedy genre. The film captures Ephron’s razor-sharp wit while at the same time presenting her flaws through interviews with her closest friends like Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, and the late Mike Nichols. This movie is a hoot! Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Flower in You: Advanced (On Campus) April 23, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 620 Schaumburg, IL Map One Stroke Acrylic painting technique, $5 supply fee for 5 classes. NOTE: This study group is only available to those who have previously participated in 5 or more classes. Coordinator: Judy Krakowiak Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Survey of World Religions (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 23, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map Every group of humans ever discovered has had some kind of religious belief. Yet these beliefs and practices vary widely from one culture to another and even within the same religion. To understand people of other cultures and ethnicities, we need to understand their religions. In this study group, we will explore the earliest evidence of religious practices. As we then strive to gain a basic understanding of the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Dharmic (Hindu and Buddhist), and Taoic (Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto) religions, we will also examine the similarities and differences among them. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Read more...	24 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: The American Civil War and Reconstruction (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 24, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map This is a continuation of a study group that is planned to continue through successive Spring and Fall sessions. We will be looking in depth at the Civil War and Reconstruction from a military, political, societal, and economic perspective. These continuing sessions will include many stand-alone topics covering people; political and moral viewpoints; foreign affairs; life on the home front; military life; tactics and many more aspects of this period in American history. The military events of the conflict will be covered in considerable detail. We will be using lecture, discussion and audio/visual throughout this study group. Participants are encouraged to suggest topics for discussion and make short presentations if so inclined. Coordinator: Tom Gavigan Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: The First Americans (On Campus) April 24, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 627 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map Just who were the first migrants to the lands we now call the Americas? When did they come? Where did they originate? How did they get here? Current scholarship, sometimes controversial, sometimes conflicting, sometimes competitive, is pointing in directions other than what we may have believed or what we may have been taught. Did you know a current claim for the oldest human settlement in the Americas lies in South Carolina, dating back 15,000 years? This study group will explore some of the new findings and paradigm shifts coming from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and genetics. We will also explore some of their descendants. The data is not “settled science” but it is thought provoking and provides interesting and disparate hypotheses about the ancient immigrants to the land. Coordinator: Joan Reisen Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: The Italian Renaissance: Politics and Power at the Dawn of the Modern Age (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 24, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map The Renaissance is commonly known for beautiful and impressive works of art. Less known, however, are the political and social foundations that made much of this Renaissance possible. This session will review the Italian city states during the Renaissance, the political giants of Florence, Milan, Venice, Naples and Rome, their politics, and the formation of the personal dynasties on the Italian peninsula. From the beginning of the Renaissance to the Peace of Lodi, we will review the thinkers and doers of the Renaissance who balanced the world and destiny for decades. Coordinator: Jean Ciura Read more...	25 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Come Play Bridge (On Campus) April 25, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map This study group is for people who already know how to play bridge. Join us if you would like to meet other ICL members who play and want to have more opportunities to play the game. We welcome those who have recently learned the game as well as intermediate and advanced players. We will be playing for FUN, not cutthroat! Hopefully we can all learn from one another. NOTE: This is an ongoing study group, but new participants are always welcome. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: The Complete Thin Man Collection (On Campus) April 25, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 627 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map The Thin Man was a series of six movies which were produced between 1934 and 1947. The movies starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. The plot for these films centered around Nick and Nora's relationship as high society detectives. The films are full of laughs and mystery as Nick and Nora toast each other with champagne cocktails as they solve the latest "who done it"! The seventh class we will show two documentaries, one each on the lives of William Powell and Myrna Loy. Coordinator: Bob Hartnett Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Variety: The Spice of Life "Everything is Copy - Nora Ephron" (On Campus) April 25, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 624 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map This energy-packed documentary follows her career from mail girl at Newsweek to reporter for the New York Post to becoming a prestigious essayist at Esquire to successfully writing and directing Hollywood movies that revitalized the romantic comedy genre. The film captures Ephron’s razor-sharp wit while at the same time presenting her flaws through interviews with her closest friends like Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, and the late Mike Nichols. This movie is a hoot! Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Book Discussion: 'Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings' April 25, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 704 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 USA 1-224-523-6497 Map The third president and his enslaved mistress had a decades-long relationship. Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings is historical fiction that imagines what that relationship might have been like. But it goes beyond other historical fiction in its creative take, shifting between history and fantasy, imagining Jefferson and Hemings in other time periods and places. As good fiction does, it makes us ask questions we had not thought to ask and presents possibilities we had not considered. This is a book discussion about Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings which will be held over two sessions and will work most beautifully if those attending have read the book. Session #1 will consider the first half of the book, and Session #2 will focus on how its various themes resolve. Discussion will be led by American historian Joyce Haworth. Coordinator: Joyce Haworth Read more...	26	27	28
29	30 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Experiencing Art (On Campus) April 30, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 704 Map This workshop offers an opportunity to explore different techniques and forms of art, such as brush painting, pen and ink, watercolor, and drawing. All levels of experience and expertise are welcome. Participants will bring their own supplies and materials and will work independently. While class facilitators and participants can offer encouragement, ideas and suggestions to each other, this will NOT be an instructional class. Coordinators: Basilio King, Christopher Melby and Alfredo Rodriguez Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Fun and Games (On Campus) April 30, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ICL Room 705 Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd Schaumburg, IL 60173-4377 1-224-523-6497 Map Compete with your ICLRU friends in class. I will present some familiar games like Left, Right and Center, Ticket to Ride and Rummikub. There will be something for you. Join us for our Fun and Games’ class. Please bring any games that might be fun in class. Coordinator: Nancy Mieszala Read more... 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Variety - The Spice of Life: The Real Charlie Chaplin (Virtual Class) April 30, 2024 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Zoom Class Map Description: This contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure blends newly-unearthed audio recordings and dramatic reconstructions to trace Chaplain’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom, before his scandalous fall from grace. The film sheds new light on the many sides of a groundbreaking, controversial and visionary artist. For decades he was the most famous man in the world – but who was "The Real Charlie Chaplin?" Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass Handout Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Flower in You: Advanced (On Campus) April 30, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 620 Schaumburg, IL Map One Stroke Acrylic painting technique, $5 supply fee for 5 classes. NOTE: This study group is only available to those who have previously participated in 5 or more classes. Coordinator: Judy Krakowiak Read more... 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: A Survey of World Religions (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously) April 30, 2024 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ICL Room 624 and on Zoom Map Every group of humans ever discovered has had some kind of religious belief. Yet these beliefs and practices vary widely from one culture to another and even within the same religion. To understand people of other cultures and ethnicities, we need to understand their religions. In this study group, we will explore the earliest evidence of religious practices. As we then strive to gain a basic understanding of the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Dharmic (Hindu and Buddhist), and Taoic (Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto) religions, we will also examine the similarities and differences among them. Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow Comparison of Abrahamic Religions Comparison of Key Issues in Religious Belief Read more...

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