OLLI: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College
OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, is a vibrant community of over 1,400 active, engaged members over fifty years old in the greater Berkshires of western Massachusetts and nearby states. OLLI offers five semesters of courses each year on a wide variety of subjects, with no grades or tests: just learning for the joy of it! OLLI also features an annual Distinguished Speakers Series, University Days, shared interest groups, and a variety of special events and trips.
For more information, give us a call at 413-236-2190 or email: [email protected]
The Un-Separation of Church and State: Reverend Dr. Brian Kaylor with Doug Mishkin
Маленькая птичка: беседа автора с Барбарой Виниар
Tom Gerety and Aziz Huq: How Does an Authoritarian State Work?
Steve Vladeck and Tom Gerety: How Far Have We Fallen? and What Will It Take to Climb Back?
Berkshire Theater Critics Panel 2025
Ukraine-Russia War in the Era of Trump 2.0 with James Brooke
2025 Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture with Chris Whipple
A Brief Introduction to OLLI at Berkshire Community College
Learn more about Summer 2025 programming!
An Unchecked Presidency? A Dialogue Between Constitutional Lawyers Tom Gerety and Peter Shane
Spring 2025 Introduction to OLLI at BCC!
The Historical, Magical, and Mysterious Island of “Sicels” A Photographer’s View
Ukraine-Russia War in the Era of Trump 2.0 with James Brooke
The Trump Executive Orders and the Constitution with Dr. Tom Gerety
OLLI Winter 2025 Classes Overview
Berkshire Theatre Critics Panel October 2024
September 2024 Update on Ukraine with James Brooke
OLLI Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture Ari Melber
Summer 2024 Open House
The 2024 Solar Eclipse: How to Watch and What We Can Learn
April 2024 Update on Ukraine with James Brooke
An Introduction to Precision Medicine and the All of Us Research Program with Dr. Jordan Smoller
Finding Your “Rootsilience”
21st Century Medicine - Innovative Trends in Aging and Longevity Science with Dr. Mark Pettus
Spring 2024 Open House
Stephen I. Vladeck on his book The Shadow Docket
Jefferson Cowie on Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
OLLI's First Nancy Vale Memorial Talk Tina Packer: Onstage