David Doubilet got his first look at the world beneath the water at 8 years old. He spent that summer at a camp in the
Lectures
As many as a 10th of the world’s 7 billion people suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of
In 2011, the Rev. Gerald L. Durley was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame to commemorate his contributions to the civil rights
You meet the elephant. You spend time in the story with the elephant. The elephant would be killed. You would be sad. For years, that
Pictures, David Doubilet said, have power. “They have the power to illuminate, they have the power to humiliate, they have the power to celebrate,
Cory Richards’ life changed in 2011 with the force of an avalanche. Richards nearly died on his way down Gasherbrum II, the 13th tallest
The West has lost God. Not “lost God” in the modern sense that young people are leaving religion, environmentalist Rabbi Ellen Bernstein posited, and
While working toward her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Michigan, Sue Darlington planned to do her dissertation on the impacts of economic
Imam Abdulaziz Eddebbarh is an environmentalist who has worked in both the scientific and social aspects of ecological activism. At 2 p.m. Wednesday in the
Cory Richards has never done this before. His 10:45 a.m. lecture Wednesday in the Amphitheater won’t be the first time Richards has spoken in front
Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni believes life is like a tapestry — all different values and beliefs can be woven together to create a bond
Three days before speaking at Chautauqua, Karenna Gore, former vice president Al Gore’s daughter, stood in a Boston courtroom, defending herself from charges of trespassing,
The Middle East is a desert. A few thousand years ago, two cradles of civilization — Mesopotamia and Egypt — grew from its sands.
A photo of 13 dead koalas projected on the screen above the stage in the Amphitheater during the 10:45 a.m. July 25 morning lecture. National Geographic
Sherri Mason is waging a war on body wash, or at least the kind with exfoliating microbeads. Microbeads are the small, plastic orbs routinely found
When Charles Dickens arrived in the United States for a tour in January 1842, he was the best-known contemporary writer in the English language. Only