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.


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President and CEO, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy George W. “Mac” McCarthy has been the fifth president and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:16:21
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Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program The director and senior associate of the Middle East Program at the Carn...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:18:23
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Governor, Antioquia, Colombia Currently governor of Antioquia in Colombia, Sergio Fajardo served as mayor of Medellin from 2004 to 2007, where he ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:20:22
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An author, journalist, and television writer/producer, David Simon is best known for creating the shows “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “The Wire” ...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:16:11
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Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni has been called “the Queen of forest canopy research,” a field that relates to the maintenance of biodiversity, th...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 01:16:09
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Jill Tarter is an astronomer and former director of the Center for SETI Research; currently, she is the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI (Search fo...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 01:16:07
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Chief technologist, NASA As chief technologist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, David W. Miller serves as the agency’s princ...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:14:51
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As a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts of the USA, Anna Maria Chávez began her career journey in the very same movement she now leads. Before bec...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 01:13:54
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The first female president of the Republic of Malawi, Joyce Banda was voted as Africa's most powerful woman by Forbes Magazine for two years in a r...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:09:38
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As president of the American Enterprise Institute, Arthur C. Brooks leads a community of scholars committed to expanding liberty, increasing indivi...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:09:35
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Our program this morning keeps the focus on race relations, moral leadership and the Black Lives Matter movement. In conversation will be Ambassado...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 01:09:51
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Timothy Roemer, a former six-term U.S. representative for Indiana’s 3rd congressional district, served as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2009 to...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:13:35
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Mehrsa Baradaran is the J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor at the University School of Law, where she teaches contracts and banking law. She is th...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:13:03
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Trevor Potter is a former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission. One of the country’s best-known and most experienced campaign and election l...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:13:02
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Actor, director and writer Alan Alda has been nominated for an Oscar, 33 Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards, but is perhaps best known for his role ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:14:21
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Ann Patchett is the author of six novels and three books of nonfiction, including Bel Canto, State of Wonder, and most recently This is the Story o...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:13:15
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From 2004 to 2013, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr. served as special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR), where his mission included auditing an...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:17:30
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A joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Robin Wright has reported from more than 14...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:14:35
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Husain Haqqani was Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011. A trusted adviser to three Pakistani prime ministers, he is a prof...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:15:00
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Ulrike Guérot is a European policy specialist and a senior fellow at the Open Society Initiative for Europe. A journalist, essayist, analyst and pu...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 01:12:58