Chautauqua Literary and Science Circle
Series produced by Chautauqua Institution
Hall of Philosophy
Reading together since 1878, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle has remained a leader in adult education through quality programming. Each summer, the CLSC chooses nine books of literary quality and invites the authors to Chautauqua present their work to an audience of approximately 1,000 readers.
Reading together since 1878, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle has remained a leader in adult education through quality programming. Each summer, the CLSC chooses nine books of literary quality and invites the authors to Chautauqua present their work to an audience of approximately 1,000 readers.
16 Pieces
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Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife was first named a Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection in 2008. Ackerman was unable to present...
- Added: Aug 19, 2016
- Length: 53:25
Lily King’s Euphoria is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in 1933 caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, t...
- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 57:37
A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation, Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel tells the pa...
- Added: Jul 18, 2016
- Length: 59:20
What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 01:01:49
Geraldine Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the m...
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 57:35
Special presentation of Thomas Murphy by Roger Rosenblatt.
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 49:58
When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped 33 miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-bre...
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 58:12
An ordinary life—its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion — lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subj...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 57:53
In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, in part to cheap Jim Crow labor. To maintain order and profits, citrus barons turned to Willis V. M...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 58:51
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Ce...
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- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 59:50
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The anthropologist’s wife, an artist, didn’t want to follow her husband to the remote desert of northeast Africa to live with camel-herding nomads....
- Added: Aug 20, 2014
- Length: 51:15
Nearly 60 years since his first World Cup appearance, the legendary Pelé provides new insights on the beautiful game. Co-written with Brian Winter...
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 53:33
A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker’s When Winter Come: The Ascension of York is a dramatic reimagining of Lewis and Clark’...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 52:04
“This is a story about a terrible thing which happens to me. I have to warn you that nobody is bad or good here, or rather everyone is a bit bad an...
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 48:26
In a long-declining future American, abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as secure, self-contained labor settlements. Here, communit...
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 57:04
Resisting the deadening silence of his family home in the elegant yet stiflingly safe neighborhood of Gramercy Park, 9-year-old Roger imagines hims...
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 53:51
