Most of our events are in a hybrid format (in-person and on Zoom). If you would like the Zoom link to join an event virtually, please contact Victoria Musheff at vmushef@clemson.edu or 864-656-3990. Click HERE for easy instructions for joining a Zoom presentation.
Upcoming Presentations/Outings
May 12, 2026, (Wednesday), 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Hybrid, Personal Stories that led me toward Neuroaesthetics and Resonance with Principal Lecturer in Theater Carol Collins. Carol writes, “My story begins with a dream I had in elementary school, showing me that there was much more to being human than we thought. Later, working in theatre and creative movement, I began to do research in how the brain and body worked, and how the arts play an important role in so many significant connections. I began doing workshops to add to the research, looking at music and tonality, improvisation, creative writing and visual arts. I had no name for what I was doing until, years into my explorations, I discovered that the term, “neuroeasthetics” was coined. Yay! The stories I would like to share are snippets of events that I’ve encountered, simply being curious and wanting to explore how the arts are indeed the “stuff” of life. I hope you will enjoy them.
May 14, 2026, (Thursday), 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Hybrid, “Strategies for Helping People Navigate a Complex Health Care System” with Dr. Karen Kemper and Dr. Debbie Jackson. Strategies for helping people navigate a complex health care system, From symptom to diagnosis to treatment-can be confusing and frustrating. Of all populations, emeritus faculty are unique. Faculty do not arrive at the doctor’s office unprepared. Faculty are researchers at heart and have done research and developed questions that the average health care consumer has not considered. Did you start with a general internet search, did you engage AI, did you see all the commercials about new disorders and medications online or TV ads? Where is the best information, most trustworthy data found? What is in the fine print? How do you make sense of conflicting treatment options? Join us to discuss Tips that will help you advocate for your health. We can take this opportunity to share and learn from each other as well as examine strategies used in research and practice.
May 15, 2026, (Friday), In Person, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Coffee House Music Sessions featuring the Coffee House Players, a band of renown. The Coffee House takes place on the 3rd Friday of each month in the Seminar Room beginning at 10:00 AM. If you are interested in learning to play harmonica, I can provide instructions from 9:30—10:00 AM before the Coffee House begins. Contact me via vincejackson529@att.net for details. Please join us for a variety of music from folk, soft rock, blues, jazz, gospel and Americana each month. If you play a portable instrument, we welcome you. If you would just like to listen and perhaps sing along (we have a lot of fun) that is great! Hope to see you soon, if not this time.
May 19, 2026, (Tuesday), 2:00 – 3:00, In person, MMII Support Session with Clementina Adams. The committee for the Moments and Memories II book project is hosting a monthly writing support session. Moments and Memories, Volume II writing sessions are designed to inspire your thinking about your time at Clemson, engender topics and episodes to write about, provide time to write, and solicit feedback from other Emeritus College participants. Our sessions will be held the third Tuesday of each month from 2 PM – 3PM, alternating between face-to-face sessions at the EC and virtual sessions on Zoom
May 20, 2026, (Wednesday), 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Hybrid, Industry, Ordnance, and Irony: The West Point Foundry and South Carolina with Dr. Cecil Huey. South Carolinians have long found themselves, by turns, amused, perplexed, and sometimes horrified by bright threads of irony woven into the State’s historical fabric. Here, the focus is on minor complements to larger themes, perhaps, subjects of appeal to those of good humor having both affection for the State and scholarly interests in its history, a population likely dominated by those who, like the author, are fond of grits, prefer their tea sweet and their peanuts boiled. The matters at hand are rooted in the West Point Foundry of Cold Spring, NY, an important 19th-century American foundry and machine works. It came to the author’s attention over the course of a decade-long collaboration with the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, an organization dedicated to conserving the island’s natural and cultural resources. Join me to hear some interesting historical ironies in the historical relationship between the state and the foundry.
May 26, 2026, (Tuesday), 10:00 am -11:30 am, Zoom Only, Marty’s Memoirs with Marty Duckenfield. The Memoir group begins its sixth year of sharing the stories of our lives, stories for ourselves, our friends, and especially family members. We invite you to join us the 4th Tuesday of each month via Zoom. Members share written stories of their childhood years and college days, various adventures and everyday happenings, experiences in historic times, and while doing so, prompt others to their own recollections—some which end up being written stories, too. The group gives thoughtful feedback when asked.
May 28, 2026, (Thursday), 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Hybrid, Bert Fox, retired photo editor for the National Geographic (1996-2007), will present
“Celebrating the First Ascent of Mt. Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay.” Bert Fox will discuss producing the visual content for National Geographic Magazine’s 50th Anniversary edition celebrating the first ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Bert was responsible for the entire visual production of the May 2003 issue of the magazine. His fieldwork included travel to New Zealand to meet Sir Edmund Hillary, and to Nepal to retrace the British trek to the summit and contact several Sherpa families. Upon his return to National Geographic’s offices in Washington DC, he directed the selecting, editing, and arranging of the visual content for the issue.
PAST PRESENTATIONS: A FULL LIST OF HYBRID PROGRAMS AND ACTIVE LINKS MAY BE FOUND ON OUR PAST PROGRAMS PAGE
