In August 1936, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed Chautauquans and the nation about the horrors of war and the need for international cooperation. “We believe
Before Khalid Qazi said anything else in his Interfaith Lecture, he offered a simple blessing: “Peace be with you all.” Qazi, founding president and senior
In 1821, a Cherokee silversmith called Sequoyah accomplished a feat unparalleled in linguistic history when he completed a yearslong effort to create a system that
For a man whose occupation requires him to study bones from thousands, even millions, of years ago, paleoanthropologist Lee R. Berger is remarkably future-oriented —
Alec Ryrie Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther jump-started the Protestant Reformation, Alec Ryrie will talk to Chautauquans about how the monk’s actions changed the
Pagan Kennedy Pagan Kennedy lives at the cutting edge of discovery. She has written about the first gender-confirmation surgery for a transgender manJuly 5, 2017:
George Kembel started coming to Chautauqua eight years ago, but it was another two years before his kids came along, too. And despite co-founding Stanford’s
Make sure not to cling to anything or anyone too tightly. Laurie Patton, president of Middlebury College, discussed releasing the stronghold on life in her