Adventures in Lifelong Learning
JOHN L. HEINEMAN INTERSESSION 2023
Journey to the Center of the World
The British Empire in the age of Queen Victoria, France of the Impressionists and the rebuilding of Paris, the unifications of both Italy and Germany, and the flourishing of the arts and sciences when European civilization was at its height are stops we shall make along the route to understanding how Europeans shaped the world and were shaped by it.
9:00 am – 10:15 am
History
Instructor: Nicholas Racheotes, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Framingham State University
Lecture 1: England, 1837 – 1910: Royalty Restored
Lecture 2: Imperialism: Expansive Europe
Lecture 3: Unification of Italy and of Germany: Inclusive Nationalism
Lecture 4: La Belle Epoque at the Turn of the Century
10:30 am – 11:45 pm
Art History
Instructor: Erika Schneider, PhD, Professor, Framingham State University
Lecture 1: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Lecture 2: Impression as a Reaction to the Industrial Revolution
Lecture 3: Fin de Siècle Decadence: Art Nouveau and Symbolism
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Literature
Instructor: Helen Heineman, PhD, President Emerita, Framingham State University
Lecture 1: The Hungry 40s and the Reformers
Lecture 2: Poetry of the Period (Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Hardy)
Lecture 3: Doubt and Religious Poetry
Lecture 4: Thomas Hardy, the Last Victorian and the First Modern