8/23/20 - 8/29/20
Collective Action for Tomorrow’s Challenges – A Week in Partnership with the U.N. Foundation
This series of six sermons by Ben Cachiaras originally aired during week nine of the 2020 summer assembly.
SUNDAY: The Separation of Church and Hate: Remember Your IDENTITY
1 Peter 2:9-12
MONDAY: The Separation of Church and Hate: Behave with CIVILITY
Colossians 3:8-15
TUESDAY: The Sepa...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, August 24, 2020.
Elizabeth Cousens on the 75 years of highs and lows of international cooperation.
Cousens is the UN Foundation’s third president and chief executive officer, who is leading the Foundation’s next generation of work to support the...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, August 24, 2020.
Minerva G. Carcaño begins the final week of the Interfaith Lecture Series.
"I believe we must agree to treat one another with respect and human dignity,"
Carcaño is bishop of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodis...
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, August 24, 2020.
Program:
Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, op. 95, "Serioso"
Antonin Dvořák: Quartet in E-flat major, op. 51, "Slavonic”
Coming to you live from Lenna Hall at Chautauqua Institution, the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a positi...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
Fabrizio Hochschild on global inequalities, pandemic, mental health, polarization and 75 years of the United Nations.
"I think empathy will be a key skill and a growing skill in a world of greater polarization.”
The Under-Secr...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
The Rev. Mitri Raheb will share his vision for his fellow Palestinians to not only survive but thrive.
"The future will not come unless we work tirelessly to this build this future,"
Raheb is co-founder of Bright Stars of Bethleh...
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
The Chautauqua Women’s Club Contemporary Issues Forum features Terry Madonna in its final lecture for the 2020 Assembly.
Madonna is a professor of public affairs and director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Frankl...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
Rachel Bowen Pittman on bringing people together around a common vision to improve the future.
"We need to add more pressure to the officials, those who we elected, to make these changes."
Pittman is Executive Director of t...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
Jeremy Ben-Ami provides an update on Israeli-Palestinian relations and details how peace is possible.
"I believe that if we will it and we work at it, such a future is no dream."
Ben-Ami is the president of J Street and has deep...
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
James Johnson concludes the season’s African American Heritage House Lecture Series.
Johnson provides a presentation titled “Leading and Managing in an Era of Disruptive Demographics and Certain-Uncertainty.”
Johnson is the ...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 27, 2020.
Henrietta Fore details the championing of younger generations and positive leadership in our current world.
"If we can just amplify their voices, they will change our world and they will change their own world."
Fore, UNICEF...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 27, 2020.
Robert J. Wicks speaks calm into chaos on the Interfaith Lecture Series platform.
Professor emeritus at Loyola University Maryland, Wicks has spoken calm into chaos for more than 35 years teaching and speaking on resilience, self-...
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 27, 2020.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen presents The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.
Nguyen’s book is a collection of original essays by writers from around the world, and a compelling look at what it means ...
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, August 28, 2020.
Samantha Power on being a leading voice internationally for principled American engagement in the world.
Power is the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author twice selected as one of TIME’s “1...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, August 28, 2020.
Chautauqua completes its 2020 Interfaith Fridays series, this week featuring a Sikh perspective from Satpal Singh.
Singh is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sci...
Originally broadcast at 11 a.m. EDT Sunday, August 30, 2020.
Genesis 32: 22-31
The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire on June 7, 2003, becoming the first openly gay and partnered priest to be elected Bishop in historic Cristendom. He served as IX Bishop of N...
Originally broadcast at 8 p.m. EDT Sunday, August 30, 2020.
President Michael E. Hill concludes the 2020 Chautauqua summer assembly with the traditional president's address.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New ...