Lectures

For artist and scholar Fahamu Pecou, language can be slippery. It can be oppressive. It can reinforce harmful stereotypes of Black masculinity and trauma. But,

There’s the rosewood scroll, the strings, the bridge, the tailpiece and the bow. It all comes together to form a cello, a vehicle through which

Art may seem useless when society itself is going through great change, especially in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that has killed 138,000 Americans,

From Pharaoh's Egypt to Trump’s USA, Georgetown University’s Ori Soltes said that artists have used religious symbols to uphold — and dissent against — political

Born in 1960s’ Harlem and raised in the Bronx, Tricia Rose said her acute awareness of the inequality she saw in reality played out every

David Moss keeps a stack of pizza boxes as storage containers in his studio in Jerusalem, “and each pizza box (has) a project or idea

Wittenberg-Cox Challenges. Problems. Crises. From Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s viewing point, all represent opportunities. She is the founder and CEO of 20-first, a rapidly growing U.K.-based, global

Swan-Kilpatrick, Crockatt, Lin-Hill, Murphy, Zyglis Eleven years ago, Dennis Galucki was struck by the idea of a city where the aesthetic values of Chautauqua Institution

For the Rev. Willie James Jennings, sin — racism, sexism and weapons of mass destruction, to name a few — is defined as a misalignment

Smith Anna Deavere Smith grew up in Baltimore in de facto segregation — legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but school segregation continued.

With $600 million, one person can buy 198,675,496 meals. Or, they could attend a public, in-state college for 13,636 years. They could purchase 17,647 brand-new

ILLUSTRATION BY MADELINE DEABLER/DIGITAL EDITOR Ori Soltes has been a pass holder to his “grown-up Disneyland” of Chautauqua Institution for the past 23 seasons, and

Smith Anna Deavere Smith believes in not casting people aside, especially when it comes to students in the nation’s public schools.  “A lot of things

The song of American urbanization is played on an accordion, “in and out, in and out,” said Derek Thompson, senior writer at The Atlantic.  “Americans

Despite the name of Gretta Vosper’s lecture, “Falling in Love with Being Together, Because We Can’t Afford to Fall Apart,” she and the audience were

The Audience Raises Handkerchiefs For The Drooping Of The Lillies During The Old First Night Chautauqua Birthday Celebration, Tuesday, August 7, 2018, In The Amphitheater.