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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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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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 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
  • Purchases: 1
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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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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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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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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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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
  • Purchases: 1
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth An international religious leader, philosopher, award-winning author and...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 55:15
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Founder and president, Interfaith Youth Core Named by US News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009, Eboo Patel is the founder a...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:13:21
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Kathleen Hicks is senior vice president, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and director of the International Security Program at CSIS and is a frequent wri...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:11:49
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Scott Kennedy is deputy director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies and director of Chinese Business and Political Economy at the Center for Str...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:13:59
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Jon B. Alterman is a senior vice president, holds the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and is director of the Middle E...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:15:21
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As director of the Energy and National Security Program, Sarah Ladislaw leads CSIS’s work in energy policy, market, and technology analysis. An e...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 01:18:44