Originally recorded at 10:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, August 20, 2019.

Sarah Lewis, an award-winning scholar, best-selling author, and professor at Harvard University, distills for the audience the “Vision & Justice” course she teaches at Harvard — a class that the school incorporated into its core curr...

Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 1, 2020.

Join Grammy Award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti as she shares insights into the internal and external experiences of life as a performer. From preparation to performance, Ms. Benedetti will take listeners behind the scenes, givin...

Originally recorded on August 14, 2019.

Stan Deaton, Senior historian and Dr. Elaine B. Andrews Distinguished Historian at the Georgia Historical Society, examines the lingering legacy of Confederate Statues in a lecture given at Chautauqua on August 14, 2019.

About Chautauqua Institution: Chau...

Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 27, 2020.

Join us for a special conversation with writer Sandra Cisneros and composer Derek Bermel as we show selected excerpts recorded during Chautauqua’s 2017 world premiere of Mango Suite, while discussing how this collaboration has continu...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, July 10, 2020.

Derek Thompson discusses what life might look like after this moment’s most disruptive unseen force, the novel coronavirus.

Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes on economics, technology and the media. He is al...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 20, 2020.

Emily Bazelon on mass incarceration and how to change the prosecution system.

Bazelon is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She is the bes...

Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, July 6, 2020.

Launched in 2012 by Cleveland Orchestra principal clarinet Franklin Cohen and daughter Diana Cohen, ChamberFest Cleveland focuses on creating thematic programming for unique chamber music experiences in a variety of venues.

Diana Cohen ...

Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, July 15, 2019.

Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center...

Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, July 10, 2019.

Rae Wynn-Grant is a conservation scientist, large-carnivore ecologist, nature storyteller, and advocate with expertise in using emerging technology to identify how humans are changing the way carnivores use landscapes.

She is curr...

Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Monday, July 6, 2020.

Author Ruth Marcus speaks on the Supreme Court and the conservative takeover.

Marcus continues the annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture.

Marcus oversees The Washington Post’s signed opinion content and is a highly acclaimed reporter wh...

Interim Organist Joshua Stafford’s rendition of “Largo” from the Handel opera Xerxes, recorded on the venerable Massey Memorial Organ on Sunday, June 28, 2020. The little-known piece, beloved to Chautauquans, has concluded every Sunday evening Sacred Song Service at Chautauqua since the Massey’s ...

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