Smith Arden Ryancontributing writer As a performer and a dramatist, Anna Deavere Smith has spent a career looking for expressive behavior in everyday people. Smith
Mchangama Kaitlyn FinchlerStaff writer From Socrates to social media, free speech has been a topic of democratic thinking since its origin — and has simultaneously
National Parks Conservation Association President and CEO Theresa Pierno delivers her morning lecture in conversation with Mark Wenzler, the Peter Nosler Director of the Chautauqua
Pierno Mariia NovoseliaStaff writer History doesn’t stop. That’s why National Parks Conservation Association President and CEO Theresa Pierno said it is important to keep creating
Joel Dunn, president and CEO of Chesapeake Conservancy, delivers his presentation as part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series Week Seven theme on “The National Parks:
Dunn Mariia NovoseliaStaff writer President and CEO of Chesapeake Conservancy Joel Dunn is working to make Chesapeake Bay a national recreation area, adding it to
Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro and author of Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors, speaks Wednesday in the Amphitheater.
Mapp Sophia Neilsencopy editor Rue Mapp wants people to find healing and connection in nature in the same way she does, especially across perceived differences,
Photographer Pete McBride, at left, and writer Kevin Fedarko shared their experience of hiking approximately 750 miles end to end of the Grand Canyon Tuesday
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
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