Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, July 26, 2022.

This program is made possible by the David and Wendy Barensfeld Lectureship Fund.

Linda Chavez is chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a widely published opinion columnist, and an advisory board member for Republicans for Vo...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Monday, June 27, 2022.

The primary sponsor of today’s lecture is The Susan Hirt Hagen Lectures Fund. Additional support is provided by The Helen C. Lincoln Fund for International Programming, the Malcolm Anderson Lecture Fund, and The Edith B. and Arthur E....

Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Monday, June 27, 2022.

A continuation of more than two decades of programming, the 2022 Middle East Update will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 27, 2022, in the Hall of Philosophy. The conversation between Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Geoffrey Kemp will focu...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

This program is made possible by the Cornelia Chason Miller Memorial Fund

Constanze Stelzenmüller is an expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy and strategy and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Ste...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, June 29, 2022.

This program is made possible by the Charles and Gail Gamble Lecture Endowment.

Stanford University political scientist Kathryn Stoner is a senior fellow and Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule ...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Thursday, June 30, 2022.

This lecture is made possible in part by the underwriting support of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co.

Kori Schake leads foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where her research areas include national securi...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Friday, July 1, 2022.

This program is made possible by the Arnold and Jill Bellowe Lectureship.

After a week looking at America’s dealings across the globe, George Packer returns to the Chautauqua Lecture Series to close the question of “What Should Be Amer...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Monday, July 4, 2022.

Bob Inglis is the founder and executive director of republicEn.org, a nationwide community of conservatives that promotes free-enterprise action on climate change. Based out of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, July 5, 2022.

During Sally Jewell’s tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 2013 to 2017, her work focused on championing the importance of science and data, encouraging investments for more sustainable use of public lands and waters, deepenin...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

Kelsey Leonard is a water scientist, legal scholar, policy expert, writer, and enrolled citizen of the Shinnecock Nation, who works as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, where her rese...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Thursday, July 7, 2022.

Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a naturalist and writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. She has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues ...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Friday, July 8, 2022.

This program is made possible by the Carnahan-Jackson Lectureship and the Kevin and Joan Keogh Family Fund.

Brandon Stanton, author, photographer and founder of the street portrait blog “Humans of New York” (HONY) has emerged as a worl...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Monday, July 11, 2022.

Alison Brysk is the Mellichamp Chair of Global Governance in the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has authored or edited 15 books on international human rights, including 2018’s The Futur...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

Nicole Austin-Hillery is the first-ever executive director of the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch, where her work focuses on addressing and combatting systemic racism, improving the U.S. immigration system, tackling rights problems...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, July 13, 2022.

Chelsea Follett is the managing editor of HumanProgress.org, a project of the Cato Institute that seeks to educate the public on global improvements in well‐being by providing commentary and free empirical data on long‐term developm...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Thursday, July 14, 2022.

Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Axios’ resident legal scholar and a Bloomberg opinion columnist who is regarded as one of the great legal minds of the time. He joins the Chautauqua Lectur...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Friday, July 15, 2022.

A human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Nadia Murad is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. The founder and president of the non-profit Nadia’s Initiative, Murad will be joined by translator...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Monday, July 18, 2022.

Eliot A. Cohen is the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Robert E. Osgood Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he has taught si...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, July 19, 2022.

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University, where her areas of interest include American legal history. She returns to the Chautauqua Lecture Series during a week on “The Future of History” with...

Premiering at 10:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, July 20, 2022.

Andrew Lih is a technology journalist, digital strategist and the author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia. An expert in online collaboration, digital news innovation and linked ope...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Thursday, July 21, 2022.

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham is one of America's most prominent public intellectuals, with a depth of knowledge about politics, religion and current affairs. Meacham returns to Chautauqua Insti...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Friday, July 22, 2022.

Alexandra Zapruder is an author, curator and founding staff member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum whose work exists at the intersection of history and the future. Most recently, Zapruder is creator of Dispatches from Quarantine,...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Monday, July 25, 2022.

Founder and president of the Campaign Legal Center and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, Trevor Potter is one of the country’s best-known and most experienced campaign and election lawyers. He returns to the Chautauqu...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker, writing on race, history, justice, politics and democracy, as well as Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism. During a historic election in the midst of a global ...