Lectures

Buffalo’s first-ever Poet Laureate Jillian Hanesworth was set to give the closing lecture of the Week Seven Interfaith Lecture Series theme on “Home: A Place

A note from the photo editor: Bearing witness to tragedy is hard, but it is also deeply important. As the horrible events of Aug. 12

Last Friday morning, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie was flown to UPMC Hamot, in Erie, Pennsylvania, after being attacked on the Amphitheater stage, where he

While courageous heroes are often seen as fearless, Abigail Marsh argues these protagonists tend to feel fear more than the average person.  Marsh “One of

The world descended onto Chautauqua Institution Friday as an act of violence sent shockwaves through the community within the gates, and across the globe, as

Often, those in positions of power and select historians are the few people chosen to record history for all of humanity. But David Isay, former

Filmmaker Giorgio Angelini addressed three seemingly disparate phenomena in his documentary “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas.”  He broached the housing explosion in the desert

When Giorgio Angelini was working on a master’s in architecture in the midst of the 2008 housing market crash, he read an article about an

Not many people know what they want to do as a career when they’re young. Every child has similar ambitions — doctor, veterinarian, princess, and

While the comforting feeling of being at home can come from visiting a quaint house, a familiar town or experiencing a nostalgic, tingling feeling, home

Buffalo was once one of America’s prized cities. It had the sixth-largest economy among U.S. cities and a world-leading port. Today, it’s behind only Cleveland

In seventh grade, Rahwa Ghirmatzion led her middle school in a lunch-hour hunger strike to protest the termination of the school dishwasher and the addition

People lose or forget so many memories of laughter and joy with friends and loved ones; StoryCorps is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing this.

The struggling single mother who committed armed robbery to make rent. The war veteran with amputated legs working laboriously to pay off his rent to

In the United States, one in five deaths are caused by heart disease, and one person dies every 34 seconds from cardiovascular disease, according to

As a writer, Megan McArdle spends a lot of time thinking about words. She encouraged the audience at her 10:45 a.m. lecture Monday, Aug. 8