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 open data, Lih is currently Wikimedian at large at the Smithsonian Institution and Wikimedia Strategist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City — work that will inform his Chautauqua Lecture Series presentation on the way in which technology, through open access, allows us to draw connections across our cultural heritage in ways never before possible. For his work, Lih has been a recipient of the U.S. National Archives Citizen Archivist of the Year award, and a Knight Foundation grant for his work with Wikipedia and cultural institutions. He was the inaugural Wiki Education Foundation research fellow in 2015. Lih has served an associate professor journalism at the University of Southern California, American University, and Hong Kong University, and started the new media program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1995; in 2000 he formed Columbia's Interactive Design Lab, a collaboration with the university's School of the Arts to explore interactive design for both fiction and non-fiction, including advertising, news, documentaries and films. Lih is a Wikipedia contributor and administrator on the English Wikipedia. He worked as a software engineer for AT&T Bell Labs from 1990 to 1993, and founded the new-media startup Mediabridge Infosystems in 1994 — online publisher of ny.com. Lih earned his Master's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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...