2022 Spring Lectures

LOCATION

Spring lectures will be held online via Zoom Webinar for the time being. Later in the semester this will be reassessed. Spring lectures are on Fridays from 1:30-2:30 PM.

RESERVATIONS NOT REQUIRED for online lectures

Reservations are not required to attend lectures while they are held online. We will include the Zoom link in the 10:00 AM newsletter the day of each lecture. Each Friday newsletter will also have information about the following Friday's lecture.

ZOOM WEBINAR

We will be using Zoom Webinar for all lectures that are online. Webinars provide for a more seamless experience for both speakers and participants when there is a large number of people in attendance. Zoom Webinars have the following format:

• Attendees will see a notice that the Webinar has not yet started when clicking the link if it is before the start time. Once the Webinar is started, you will see the speaker.
  
  
• You will only see the lecturer and person introducing him/her on the screen. You will not see yourself or other attendees.
  
  
• Attendees microphones will be kept muted.
  
  
• Questions will be taken at the end of the lecture for the speaker and managed through the Chat function.

Chat Function
You can find the chat function at the bottom of your Zoom screen in the middle. Above the word "Chat" is an icon of a quote bubble. If you’d like to ask a question during the lecture, click on "Chat." A white dialogue box will appear to the right. Select the option to send your question to both "Panelists and Attendees," type a question, then hit "Enter."

LECTURES

Larry Korb, National Security Policy in the Biden Administration
Friday, March 11
1:30 PM

Lawrence J. Korb is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Earlier, he was a senior fellow and Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Director of the Center for Public Policy Education and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh; Vice President of Corporate Operations at the Raytheon Company; and Director of Defense Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (manpower, reserve affairs, installations, and logistics) from 1981–1985. Dr. Korb served on active duty for four years as Naval Flight Officer and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of captain. He received his PhD in political science from the State University of New York at Albany and was a professor at the University of Dayton, the Coast Guard Academy, and the Naval War College.

Korb has written numerous books including The Joint Chiefs of Staff: The First Twenty-five Years; The Fall and Rise of the Pentagon, American National Security: Policy and Process, and Future Visions for U.S. Defense Policy.

 

Leslie T. Fenwick, Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership
Friday, March 18
1:30 PM 

Leslie Fenwick is a noted expert in leadership and ethics; public policy; and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workforce. She is Dean Emerita and a tenured professor of education policy at Howard University and Dean in Residence at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). She was one of two fully vetted finalists for the US Secretary of Education in 2020.

Fenwick held consecutive appointments as a Harvard University Visiting Fellow and Visiting Scholar and Salzburg Fellow (convened in Austria to examine leadership and globalization). She is a member of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) Scholarly Advisory Committee.

Fenwick’s book, Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership (Harvard Education Press, 2022) examines the history of workforce diversity and its relationship to the nation’s contemporary pursuit of equality and educational equity.

She earned her PhD in education policy and leadership from The Ohio State University, where she was a Flescher Fellow, and a BS degree in education from the University of Virginia.

 

Mark Eden Horowitz, Oscar Hammerstein: Behind the Raindrops and Roses
Friday, March 25
1:30 PM

 

Mark Eden Horowitz is a senior music specialist in the Music Division of the Library of Congress, where among the collections for which he’s been archivist or co-archivist are the papers of Leonard Bernstein, Vernon Duke, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Hal Prince, Richard Rodgers, and Vincent Youmans. Among the collections he’s acquired for the Library are the papers of Howard Ashman, Adam Guettel, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Larson, Arthur Laurents, Andrew Lippa, and Jeanine Tesori. He’s the author of the award-winning book Sondheim on Music—described as “essential” in The New York Times—and for 10 years was the contributing editor for The Sondheim Review. Horowitz taught the history of musical theater at Catholic and Georgetown universities, and has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, and Skidmore. His book, The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II is due to be released by Oxford University Press in May, 2022.

 

Jack Rasmussen, The Art of Political Engagement (and Why Washington Art Rarely Does)
Friday, April 1
1:30 PM

Jack Rasmussen has been Director and Curator of the American University Museum since it opened in 2005, where he curated a retrospective of Willem de Looper in 2008. He currently serves on the board of the Maryland State Arts Council. He earned his BA in Art from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, before completing an MFA in Painting, MA in Arts Management, and MA and PhD in Anthropology at American University. He worked in the Education Department of the National Gallery of Art and became Assistant Director of the Washington Project for the Arts when it opened in 1975. He left that position to open the Jack Rasmussen Gallery, helped launch Rockville Arts Place (VisArts), served ten years as Executive Director of Maryland Art Place, and three years as Executive Director of di Rosa in Napa, California.

 

OLLI ANNUAL MEETING
Friday, April 8
1:30 PM

 

Charlene Barshefsky, US–China Relations
Friday, April 15
1:30 PM

Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky is Chair of Parkside Global Advisors in Washington DC, having previously served as Senior International Partner at WilmerHale where she chaired the firm’s International Trade, Investment and Market Access Group. She advises multinational companies on their global market access, investment, and negotiation strategies.

Prior to joining WilmerHale she served as the US Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001 and Acting and Deputy USTR from 1993 to 1996. As the USTR and a member of the President’s Cabinet, Ambassador Barshefsky was responsible for the formulation of US trade policy and the negotiation of hundreds of complex trade and investment agreements that significantly opened markets, removed regulatory barriers, and cemented protections for US investment from Europe to Asia, Africa to Latin America, and the Middle East.

Ambassador Barshefsky is best known globally as the architect and negotiator of China’s WTO agreement, which opened China’s economy as a worldwide market. This historic agreement has helped to reshape the global economic landscape.

 

Alexa Chopivsky, Ukraine: A Multigenerational Story of State-Building Through the Eyes of One Family
Friday, April 22
1:30 PM

Alexa Chopivsky is Director, Program on the World Economy, The Aspen Institute. She serves as Executive Director of Ukraine House Davos and deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, Ukraine Invest. She previously served as Adviser to the Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine.

For over seven years, she was a journalist with NBC News where she covered world events from the New York, Washington, and London bureaus. After a period as Associate Director at an international communication consultancy in London, she moved to Kyiv. There she worked as a consultant and as a freelance journalist. She is Founder, Transnational Education Group, and served as Executive Director, American Center for a European Ukraine.

She is a Member of the Board of Teach for Ukraine, the Ukrainian-Swiss Business Association, and Women Forward International. In 2021, the President of Ukraine awarded her the Order of Princess Olga.

Chopivsky received a BA from Yale University in Political Science and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and an MIPP from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 

 

Judy Waxman, Women Have Always Tried to Control Their Fertility
Friday, April 29
1:30 PM

Judy Waxman is one of the nation's leading healthcare law and policy analysts. She has more than 40 years of experience consulting with hundreds of state and national organizations working to improve the health of women and other vulnerable groups. She also has worked as a senior staff leader in health and reproductive rights policy at the National Women's Law Center, Families USA, and the National Health Law Program.

From 1989-1991, Waxman was a senior policy analyst at the US Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care (Pepper Commission), which created a universal health care plan that evolved into the Affordable Care Act. She specializes in implementation of the ACA, particularly as it relates to women and other vulnerable consumers. In addition, she is a national expert on Medicaid law and its implementation, as well as strategies for enhancing access to family planning and abortion services for all women and, in particular, low-income women. She is currently teaching Women’s Health Policy and Law at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health and is a board member of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC.

 

Kristin Henning, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
Friday, May 6
1:30 PM

Professor Henning is a nationally recognized advocate, author, trainer, and consultant on the intersection of race, adolescence, and policing. She is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law. Previously, she was the Lead Attorney of the Juvenile Unit at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she had been representing children accused of crime for more than twenty-five years. Henning is the co-founder of a number of initiatives to combat racial injustice in the juvenile legal system, including the Ambassadors for Racial Justice program at Georgetown Law, and Racial Justice for Youth: A Toolkit for Defenders. She is also the recipient of many awards, including the Juvenile Law Center’s 2021 Leadership Prize. Henning has written numerous articles and publications advocating for reform in the juvenile legal system. Her book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, was released in September 2021. Henning has a BA from Duke, a JD from Yale, and an LLM from Georgetown Law.

 

*This lecture has been CANCELLED*

Burton Gerber, Real Spy Operations—Tolkachev and Kuklinski
Friday, May 13
1:30 PM

Burton Gerber served in the Central Intelligence Agency for 39 years, primarily in operations involving the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries.  He was Chief of Station on three occasions, including an assignment as the Station Chief in Moscow.  His exploits were chronicled in the book The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal. He was chief of the CIA’s Soviet East European Division and the Europe Division. He received the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal, Intelligence Commendation Medal, and William J. Donovan award.  

Since his retirement from the Agency, Gerber has remained active in intelligence and foreign affairs.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired, and the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs. He also is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University as well as contributor to and co-editor of two volumes on intelligence published by Georgetown University Press.

Gerber graduated from Michigan State University and then served in the US Army.  In 2006, he received Michigan State University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. 

 

OLLI does not endorse any of the viewpoints expressed by the speakers in its series.

We thank the Lecture Committee and all those who suggested and contacted speakers: Helen Blank, Ed Cohen, Martha Cutts, Lesley Diaz (Staff Liaison), Chuck Edson, Judy Havemann, Jeanne Kent, Lynn Lewis, Mark Nadel (Chair), Stan Newman, Diane Renfroe, Joan Simmons, and Delbert Spurlock.