Participating in Osher programs and activities is an excellent way to get involved and make new friends. Members can choose from a variety of offerings.

Short Courses are two- to five-week sessions and Osher Talks are one-time offerings. Both focus on various topics such as the arts, literature, ethics, law, politics, religion, history and health care. Programs are taught by UWM faculty, Osher members and other noted experts and professionals in the community.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) meet regularly for study and discussion. They are offered in such fields as languages (French, German, Italian and Spanish), history, ecology and reading.

Osher Distinguished Speaker Series are lively, informative lectures which provide insights to make sense of what is happening in the world.

Several Special Events connect you with other members, including the spring luncheon and December holiday party.

Courses

OLLI 0010 - 1619 Project and Its Critics
OLLI 0053 - A Fair Spectacle: Women and Gender at U.S. World's Fairs, 1876-1915
OLLI 0085 - Advanced Beginner/Intermediate Spanish Conversation SIG
OLLI 0074 - Advanced Spanish Literature and Grammar
OLLI 0060 - Aging Together: Anti-Ageism Study
OLLI 0016 - Aida: Verdi's Grand Opera Masterpiece
OLLI 0052 - Before Mexican President Claudi Sheinbaum: The Nun, the Courtesan and Breaking Gender Molds in Latin America
OLLI 0048 - Body Mechanics
OLLI 0091 - Book Group SIG
OLLI 0019 - Carol King's 1960s Songbook
OLLI 0004 - Climate Change: Origins, Impacts and Solutions
OLLI 0034 - Colorism within Races, Cultures and Communities
OLLI 0050 - Commissioner of Health: City of Milwaukee
OLLI 0079 - Current Events in Sports SIG
OLLI 0081 - Current Issues Salon SIG
OLLI 0002 - Dancing with a Partner: Leading, Following, and Grooving
OLLI 0084 - Death and Dying Conversation SIG
OLLI 0032 - Derek and the Dominoes
OLLI 0042 - Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
OLLI 0051 - Fanny Mendelssohn: A Trailblazing Composer in the Shadow of Society
OLLI 0078 - French SIG
OLLI 0036 - From the Holocaust to Civil Rights
OLLI 0057 - Geisha Women of Japan
OLLI 0065 - Getting Fiddler on the Roof
OLLI 0038 - Good Morning, Vietnam: Waking up to How Travel Informs Our understanding of the Past
OLLI 0031 - Grief Writes
OLLI 0055 - Guardian Ad Litem Work: Compassionate Advocacy
OLLI 0070 - Gut Bacteria & Your Health
OLLI 0029 - Hands On CPR
OLLI 0027 - Harvey Girls: Pioneering Women of the Southwest
OLLI 0061 - Here's Johnny: Carson the Magnificent
OLLI 0080 - History SIG
OLLI 0044 - History and Art of the Pfister Hotel
OLLI 0023 - Honeybees and Their Hives
OLLI 0025 - Indiana Jones and Leading a Fulfilled Life
OLLI 0009 - Innovation in Chamber Music: Classical Era Breakthroughs
OLLI 0083 - Introductory Spanish Conversation SIG
OLLI 0075 - Italian Grammar and Composition
OLLI 0076 - Italian Intermediate Level SIG
OLLI 0071 - Italian Reading and Conversation SIG – Reading Level A2 – B1
OLLI 0072 - Knitting SIG
OLLI 0067 - Know Your Body 101
OLLI 0056 - Listening & Life: Lessons from a Symphony Conductor
OLLI 0062 - Lunch & Learn: Forensic Science - Wisconsin Crime Laboratory
OLLI 0047 - Lunch & Learn: Growing Up When Music Mattered
OLLI 0073 - Mah Jongg SIG
OLLI 0068 - Meals, Memories, and the Meaning of Caregiving
OLLI 0089 - Memoir Book Club SIG
OLLI 0017 - Mindfulness in Everyday Life
OLLI 0001 - Monday Morning Mixer I
OLLI 0008 - Monday Morning Mixer II
OLLI 0013 - Monday Morning Mixer III
OLLI 0020 - Mysterious Mah Jongg: Ancient Game of Tiles
OLLI 0033 - News in the Digital Age: Shift in Habits
OLLI 0090 - Nonfiction Book Group SIG
OLLI 0092 - OLLI New Member Orientation
OLLI 0094 - OLLI Planned Giving Seminar
OLLI 0096 - OLLI Travel Preview: Best of Broadway 2026
OLLI 0095 - OLLI Travel Preview: Copenhagen: Nordic Adventure
OLLI 0097 - OLLI Travel Preview: Morocco: Stories in Stone
OLLI 0093 - OLLI Volunteer Information Meeting
OLLI 0082 - Osher Golf SIG
OLLI 0012 - Parking Functions: How Mathematicians Do Research
OLLI 0028 - Parkinson's Disease: Causes and Treatments
OLLI 0018 - Path to Purpose
OLLI 0014 - Planets, Rocks, & Their Magnetic Fields
OLLI 0030 - Pope Leo XIV: Making of an American Pope
OLLI 0066 - Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh and Gauguin
OLLI 0064 - Producing Four Animal Conservation Documentaries in India
OLLI 0035 - Pulitzer Prize Photos: 1000 Words Behind the Photo
OLLI 0015 - Reflecting on Current Events
OLLI 0022 - Scott, Amundsen & Shackleton: Desperate Ventures in Cold Climates
OLLI 0045 - Seeking Storytellers
OLLI 0063 - Sensory Science of Beer
OLLI 0021 - Shakespeare is For You
OLLI 0006 - Singing America: Surprising Communities in American Literature
OLLI 0087 - Spanish Language Book Club SIG
OLLI 0039 - Splitting: The Inside Story of Headaches
OLLI 0054 - Stas Venglevski Plays the Accordion
OLLI 0058 - Strings Attached: The Art and History of the Autoharp
OLLI 0040 - Tango: From Scandal to Sensation
OLLI 0003 - Television, Gender, and Comedy-Variety's Funny Ladies
OLLI 0049 - The Breathtaking World of Anxiety
OLLI 0059 - The Deportation War
OLLI 0011 - The New Deal in Milwaukee
OLLI 0024 - The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Conversations about Gender and Superpowers
OLLI 0037 - The UW MIA Recovery and Identification Project: Bringing Our Missing Service Members Home
OLLI 0086 - Theatre Writing SIG
OLLI 0069 - Thomas Jefferson's Midwest
OLLI 0043 - Unitarian Universalism: Where Humanists & Theists Meet
OLLI 0026 - Virtual Reality Meets Healthcare
OLLI 0046 - Vision Loss is Challenging; Suffering is Optional
OLLI 0088 - Waukesha History SIG
OLLI 0041 - Wisconsin Beer Histories: Women and Hops
OLLI 0007 - Women in Myth, Legend and Folktale
OLLI 0077 - Writing SIG
OLLI 0005 - Writing on Buddhism's Nine Contemplations of Death
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