@ Chautauqua July 28, 2010 / Amphitheater / 10:45 a.m.

Digital photography pioneer Steve Sasson is a retired Eastman Kodak Company engineer and winner of multiple honors from consumer electronics groups and photographic societies. After graduating in 1973 with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., Steve joined Eastman Kodak as an electrical engineer working in an applied research laboratory. He engaged in a number of early digital imaging projects, among which was the design and construction of the digital still camera and playback system in 1975.

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@ Chautauqua July 27, 2010 / Amphitheater / 10:45 a.m.

Award-winning photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin has spent much of the past two decades documenting conflicts in Darfur, Sudan, Bosnia and Afghanistan in photographs. “I think there’s a sense of wanting to document and create a visual record of our history, or at least parts of it,” Pellegrin said in his 2008 profile for Canon Europe’s Ambassadors Programme. “I’m mainly interested in the social, humanistic side of photography and for me it’s also a general approach to life.”

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@ Chautauqua July 14, 2010 / Hall of Philosophy / 2 p.m.

Haleh Esfandiari, the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has had a rich and varied career. In her native Iran, she was a journalist, served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran, and was the deputy director of a cultural foundation for which she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers. She taught Persian language at Oxford University and, prior to coming to the Wilson Center, from 1980 to 1994, she taught Persian language and contemporary Persian literature and courses on the women's movement in Iran at Princeton University.

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