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Harris-Perry: Remnants of Civil War era still inform U.S. politics today

August 26, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Author, professor and columnist Melissa Harris-Perry said there is much Americans can learn from history.

“History is, in many ways, the collective project of making meaning out of the events of the past,” Harris-Perry said. “But history is also much more than an academic exercise.”

Her lecture focused on what current generations can glean from history and how historical events, specifically attitudes in the decades surrounding the Civil War, still have relevance in today’s socio-political world.

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Daniel Walker Howe speaks in the Ampihtheater on Thursday, August 25, 2011.

Howe: Revolutions in communication, transportation deepen North-South division

August 25, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

There are many ways to look at and study the Civil War and the events leading up to it, but Daniel Walker Howe offered a new way of looking at the crisis of secession at his 10:45 a.m. lecture Thursday.

In his lecture, “The Secession Crisis,” Howe put the Civil War into the context of the dramatic revolution occurring a generation prior to the war in the way of communication and transportation.

In the years between the War of 1812 and secession, the world was reshaped, Howe said.

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Ed Ayers speaks to the Chautauquan audience.

Ayers: Southern logic allowed for no choice but to secede from Union

August 24, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

“There might seem to be a non sequitur in the title of my lecture, ‘The Logic of Secession,’” Edward Ayers said to open his lecture at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday in the Amphitheater. “How could there actually be a logic of taking the United States apart?”

Ayers’ lecture focused on discerning the logic that led the Southern states to secede. As a historian, Ayers has focused on the history of the South.

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Clement Price speaking at the Chautauqua Amphitheater Tuesday morning lecture.

Price: Blacks active participants, not passive receivers, in Civil War

August 23, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

The country is recovering from a long bout of historical amnesia when it comes to the Civil War, Clement Price said in his lecture at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday in the Amphitheater.

Price, professor of history and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., and a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, said the purpose of his lecture, “Break Every Yoke, Let the Oppressed Go Free!” was to impress upon his audience the importance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, which takes place this year.

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Wood: Go back to the Revolution to understand the Civil War

August 22, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Answering the question of why the South seceded is not a major historical conundrum, historian Gordon S. Wood said in his lecture at 10:45 a.m. Monday in the Amphitheater. The more difficult question, he said, is why the North cared.

“Why was the North willing to go to war to preserve the Union?” Wood asked to begin his lecture.

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Kembel discusses focus on the innovator, not innovation

August 19, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

George Kembel, executive director and co-founder of Stanford University’s d.school, presented a small gift to audience members during his 10:45 a.m. lecture Friday in the Amphitheater.

Taped to the backs of some seats in the Amp, small plastic bags hung. Inside each one were black dots smaller than grains of sand.

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Abrahamson: Creativity results through embrace of all identities

August 18, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Joan Abrahamson’s eyes began to water as she ended her 10:45 a.m. lecture Thursday in the Amphitheater. She was about to share something very personal with the Chautauquans there.

“I’ve got to tell you,” Abrahamson said, “I don’t usually talk like this. I usually give an analytical presentation about a problem and how we’re going about solving it, but I feel here that what’s special about Chautauqua is that all these levels operate simultaneously.”

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Haskins: Thinking for today can inspire creativity

August 17, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Col. Casey Haskins thinks Americans today are bloody monkeys in a cage.

He presented a scenario to explain: Five monkeys are put in a cage with bananas hanging from the ceiling. There is one stool in the cage, and when one monkey tries to take one of the bananas using the stool, bystanders spray all five monkeys with ice-cold water. This happens about three times.

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Dev Patnaik speaks at the Ampihtheater on Tuesday, August 16, 2011.

Patnaik: Empathy immensely important to innovation

August 16, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

It was the late ’90s, and Dev Patnaik was still single. Some people invited him to a little get-together to celebrate the one-year anniversary of their company, an obscure search engine using technology he just didn’t understand. The real reason he went, though, was the free beer.

That company was Google.

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Shapiro: Innovation can shape the future

August 15, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Gary Shapiro sat with a Chinese politician in Tsingtao, China. Their translators worked to convey their thoughts — after all, neither spoke the others’ language very well.

Shapiro soon learned that gestures don’t need to be translated.

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