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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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