Chautauqua Amphitheater Lectures

Series produced by Chautauqua Institution

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Lectures from the famed Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater

Each weekday during the Chautauqua season at 10:45 a.m., the Amphitheater stage becomes a platform for distinguished scientists, authors, educators and other experts in such fields as national and international affairs, arts and humanities, business and the environment. Ideas and opinions are exchanged in an open, challenging atmosphere, and Chautauqua's knowledgeable audiences have the opportunity to participate in question-and-answer sessions at the conclusion of the lectures.


94 Pieces

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Senior editor, Slate Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and, in that capacity, writes the “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” ...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:12:33
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Editor-at-large, Christianity Today Katelyn Beaty served as the youngest and first female managing editor for Christianity Today, evangelicalism’s...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:11:50
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Archaeology writer, National Geographic Former executive editor, Archaeology Kristin Romey covers archaeology and paleontology for National Geogr...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:05:46
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Asha de Vos Marine biologist, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Thandiwe Mweetwa Lion biologist, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Ash...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 01:12:22
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Columnist and author Pagan Kennedy’s most recent book is Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World. That book was a result of her w...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:12:30
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George Kembel, an entrepreneur and investor turned educator, co-founded the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, also known a...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:16:21
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Lisa Seacat DeLuca is the most prolific female inventor in IBM history; she holds 70 U.S. patents with more 300 pending applications, and more than...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:47
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Jesse Schell is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Cent...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:11:36
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Obi Felten is a startup mentor and angel investor who is head of getting moonshots ready for contact with the real world at X (formerly known as Go...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:12:42
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Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading a...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:08:11
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Actor and author Wendell Pierce has been in more 30 films, appeared in nearly 50 television shows and has performed in dozens of stage productions....

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:15:13
  • Purchases: 1
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A historian, screenwriter, and former editor of American Heritage, Geoffrey C. Ward is the author of 16 books, including A First-Class Temperament:...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:09:40
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Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. At 17, Marsal...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:12:39
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A self-described evangelist for classical literature and its relevance to life today, Bryan Doerries uses age-old approaches to help individuals an...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:17:42
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Kayla Williams is a former sergeant and Arabic linguist in a Military Intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and the au...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 01:13:38
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Author of the National Book Award-winning short story collection Redeployment, Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:17:39
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Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:12:35
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Nobel laureate Randy Schekman is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in the De...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 01:12:05
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Nina Jablonski is the Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University and the author of Skin: A Natural History...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:14:59
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Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chairs The Committee ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:11:25