Fedarko and McBride Zoe KolenovskyStaff writer Using thrilling adventure stories as a means to draw attention to pressing conservation issues has long been a strategy
Conor Knighton opens Week Seven of the Chautauqua Lecture Series on Monday, Aug. 7 in the Amphitheater. HG Biggs/Staff Photographer Alton NorthupStaff writer Before 2016,
Knighton Arden Ryancontributing writer When Conor Knighton set out on a year-long journey to visit every national park in America, he worried it might be
Norcross James BuckserStaff writer Beth Norcross began to develop the Center for Spirituality in Nature almost 10 years ago. “I came out of the environmental
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Week Six selection for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, The Ministry for the Future, and lauded science fiction
Robinson Kaitlyn FinchlerStaff writer In a small Indian town, unsurvivable heat plagues the population. The government sends planes to spray sulfur dioxide to mimic the
Vauhini Vara, author of The Immortal King Rao and contributing writer for Wired, delivers her lecture “If Computers Can Write, Why Should We?” Thursday in
Vara Arden RyanContributing writer In 2018, researchers at MIT demonstrated a device enabling people to search Google with their brains. Two years prior, the Neuralink
Metres James BuckserStaff writer Philip Metres knows first hand that the stories we tell have power, having spent his career telling his own and translating
Poet, educator, publisher, Newbery Award-winning author and New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander continues the Chautauqua Lecture Series Week Six theme, “A Life of
Jillian Hanesworth, the first poet laureate of Buffalo, delivers her presentation as part of the Interfaith Lecture Series Tuesday in the Hall of Philosophy. Carrie
Alexander Alton NorthupStaff writer Kwame Alexander knows the power of words. “I want to create literature that is cool, that is empowering,” he said. “I
Vanessa Zoltan, CEO of Not Sorry Productions and author of Praying with Jane Eyre, opens the Interfaith Lecture Series Monday in the Hall of Philosophy.