Public Lectures by OLLI at UNT Faculty
Many of the faculty who teach for OLLI at UNT are widely recognized in their fields, lecturing at conferences and events around the country. On this page, we are curating a list of publicly available recorded lectures given by past and present OLLI at UNT faculty. The list is organized in alphabetical order by the lecturer's last name. We will update this page as we become aware of additional lectures in the public domain.
Last updated 6/26/20
Texas Fashion Collection Director Annette Becker
- Old Masters, Fresh Faces: Fashions in the '90s (McNay Art Museum)
UNT Senior Lecturer Chef Jodi Duryea
- Let's Get Cooking! This is a series of how-to cooking videos created for the UNT Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management. Improve your knife skills, learn how to stir fry, and more.
UNT History Professor Dr. Richard McCaslin
- The Great Hanging at Gainesville (Allen Public Library)
- Texans in the Civil War (5th Annual Save Texas History Symposium)
- The Tale of John "Rip" Ford (Allen Public Library)
- Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic (Allen Public Library)
UNT Art History Professor Dr. Nada Shabout
- Beirut and the Arab World: Modernism, Art and Culture (Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston)
- Contemporary Trajectories: Iraqi Art in Context (2017 Islamic Art Symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University)
UNT History Professor Dr. Nancy Stockdale
- No Escape From Reality: The Postcolonial Glam of Freddie Mercury (UNT History Body/Place/Identity Faculty Lecture)
UNT History Professor Dr. Andrew Torget
- The World's Longest History Lesson (Dr. Torget's Guinness World Record-breaking 26.5 hour lecture on Texas history)
- African Americans in Texas History from Spanish-Colonial Times to Annexation (2016 San Jacinto Symposium)
- King Cotton and the Problem of Slavery in Mexican-Era Texas (7th Annual Save Texas History Symposium)
- Stephen F. Austin: Mapping and Remaking the Landscape of East Texas (10th Annual Save Texas History Symposium)
Venky Venkatraman
- Movie Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (Mr. Venkatraman is the great-grandson of one of Srinivasa Ramanujan's mentors)
- Family Mediation