Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC)
4 Seasons
Reading together since 1878, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle has remained a leader in adult education through quality programming.
Each summer, the CLSC chooses at least nine books of literary quality and invites the authors to Chautauqua present their work to an audience of approximately 1,000 readers.
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.
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CLSC: "The Final Revival of Opal & Nev" with Dawnie Walton
Episode 1
Originally broadcast Wednesday, March 15, 2023.
Dawnie Walton lectures in the Hall of Philosophy on the 2022 CLSC selection, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev.
Named best book of the 2021 by Barack Obama, The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, Goodreads, The Millions, Reader’s D...
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CLSC: "Great Circle" with Maggie Shipstead
Episode 2
Originally broadcast Wednesday, January 18, 2023.
This program is made possible by The Bess Sheppard Morrison CLSC Fund
Great Circle is a “masterclass in historical fiction” according to The Telegraph. In effortless and dazzling prose, Maggie Shipstead weaves together an expansive story that co...
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CLSC: "Braiding Sweetgrass" with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Episode 3
Originally broadcast Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
Book available online at the Chautauqua Bookstore: https://www.chautauquabookstore.com/book/9781571313560
Botanist and Professor Robin Wall Kimmerer will join us in the Hall of Philosophy to give the author’s presentation for the 2022 CLSC selec...
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42:58Episode 4CLSC: "Ledger" with Jane Hirshfield
Episode 4
Premiering Wednesday, September 21, 2022.
Book available online at the Chautauqua Bookstore: https://www.chautauquabookstore.com/book/9781524711719
This program is made possible by the Caroline Roberts Barnum and Julianne Barnum Follansbee Fund
Naomi Shihab Nye calls Ledger, “some of the most ...
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CLSC: "Civil Resistance" with Erica Chenoweth
Episode 5
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday, July 14, 2022.
For a long time, it was believed that violence was the only way to contest power. Some notable violent revolutions, the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the Haitian Independence War, the Vietnam War, etc., were often used t...
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59:17Episode 6CLSC: "Outlawed" with Anna North
Episode 6
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday, July 28, 2022.
This program is made possible by the Stephen and Edith Benson CLSC Endowment
An instant New York Times bestseller, Indie Next selection, and a Washington Post Best of the Year, Outlawed is terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling, acc...
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CLSC: "Great Circle" with Maggie Shipstead
Episode 7
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday, August 4, 2022.
This program is made possible by The Bess Sheppard Morrison CLSC Fund
Great Circle is a “masterclass in historical fiction” according to The Telegraph. In effortless and dazzling prose, Maggie Shipstead weaves together an expansive ...
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CLSC: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros
Episode 8
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday, August 11, 2022.
Book available online at the Chautauqua Bookstore: https://www.chautauquabookstore.com/book/9780679734772
The 2017 CLSC author of The House on Mango Street returns to Chautauqua Institution this summer for a week that sees her work...
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54:53Episode 9CLSC: "Gunfight" with Ryan Busse
Episode 9
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday, August 18, 2022.
Book available online at the Chautauqua Bookstore: https://www.chautauquabookstore.com/book/9781541768734
For 30 years, Ryan Busse chased his childhood dream and built a successful career selling millions of firearms for one of Ame...
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CLSC: "The Final Revival of Opal & Nev" with Dawnie Walton
Episode 10
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday, August 25, 2022.
Book available online at the Chautauqua Bookstore: https://www.chautauquabookstore.com/book/9781982140175
This program is made possible by the Caroline Roberts Barnum and Julianne Barnum Follansbee Fund
Dawnie Walton will join us ...
