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    Support the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC San Diego. *Gifts of any size ensure the sustainability of our excellent program. With your donations, Osher can keep bringing high-quality speakers to the program, improve and upgrade our facilities, and keep membership dues…

  • About Us

    The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC San Diego is a membership program for adults over the age of 50 who want to be part of a learning community with peers. We are committed to providing our members with intellectually stimulating learning opportunities throughout the yea…

  • Delusion or Dark Persuasion

    In 1997, 39 men and women killed themselves in Rancho Santa Fe so that they could leave their earthly bodies and catch a hidden spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. They had led quiet lives as web designers and left behind meticulous records of their beliefs and the activitie…

  • Fantasia

    An esteemed friend of Handel, Bach, and many other composers of his generation, Georg Philipp Telemann was universally considered in his day to be more modern and innovative than any of his contemporaries. An autodidact, and yet one of the most prolific composers of all time, he…

  • Jazz Giants

    This appearance by Osher favorite Cecil Lytle will feature a discussion and performance of the composition techniques of celebrated jazz performer and composers Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.

  • Law and the South China Sea

    Maritime events in the South China Sea have become a recurring news topic. Regional terrain features are the subject of competing national claims. Massive land reclamation has turned minor reefs into islands complete with deep-water harbors, runways, and air defenses. A growing…

  • Research from SIO: Coral Reefs (Video)

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  • The Perplexing World of Contemporary Art Photography: Appropriation (Video)

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  • GerrymanderingAndPartisianPolarization.pdf (PDF - 4400KB)

  • Interdependence.pdf (PDF - 318KB)

    Needed: A Declaration of Interdependence, Not Narcissistic Nationalism

  • OceanConservation.pdf (PDF - 6600KB)

    Latin American Oceans by Susan Anderson

  • President's Column - Spring 2018

    In March and April of each year, democracy is in action at Osher, as elections for Council and Officers of the Executive Committee (every other year) take place. This year, 5 seats on our 15-member Council are open. As a program run by volunteers, nothing at Osher is more import…

  • Friday Live Music

    We started the winter quarter with country music performed by the Firewater Country Duo. The artists, Will Ramey and Julie Rogelstad, did a great job both performing and explaining country music, as well as their backgrounds. The group sang about twelve different country songs a…