Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 23, 2020.
A timely, uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.
Tim Maughan is an author and journalist using both fiction and non-fiction to explore issues around cities, class, culture, technology, and the future. His work regularly appears on the BBC, New Scientist, and Vice/Motherboard. His debut novel, Infinite Detail, was selected by The Guardian as their Science Fiction and Fantasy book of the year for 2019.
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. EDT Friday, July 24, 2020.
Michael Sandel caps off a weeklong topic of “The Ethics of Tech” with a Socratic talk on morals within the tech world.
Sandel is a Harvard political philosopher and bestselling author. He co-teaches a Harvard course titled, “Tech E...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, July 24, 2020.
Lisa Sharon Harper and Freedom Road are working toward a more just world.
Harper is the founder and president of Freedom Road, a groundbreaking consulting group that crafts experiences that bring common understanding and common commitme...
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Friday, July 24, 2020.
CHQ Heritage Lecture: Rick Swegan - Before Suffrage : The quiet revolution for women's rights (Seneca Falls).
Rick Swegan, a long-time Chautauquan with family ties to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, will present on the beginnings...