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10:45 a.m.
Lectures & Theme Weeks
Each weekday
during the Chautauqua season (June 25-August 27, 2005) at 10:45
a.m., the Amphitheater stage becomes a platform
for distinguished scientists, authors, educators and other experts
in such fields as national and international affairs, arts and
humanities, business and the environment.
Ideas and opinions
are exchanged in an open, challenging atmosphere, and Chautauqua's
knowledgeable audiences have the opportunity to participate in
question-and-answer sessions at the conclusion of the lectures.
Click
here to review LAST season's (2004) lecture lineup.
Click here to check out NEXT season's (2006) theme weeks.
1 | Week One > June 27-July
1
Europe Today and Tomorrow
The relationship
of the United States to a Europe that is redefining its own internal
dynamics may well be central to our role in the world. Today
we are laying the groundwork for future economic, cultural, political,
military and diplomatic relations with an increasingly pluralistic
Europe. While Europe attempts the unification of diverse cultural,
economic and financial systems, it also asserts expanding global
influence. This week will probe the ties that bind the U.S. and
Europe and consider the pressures that drive us apart.
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Mon
27
Philip Gordon, director, Center on the United States
and Europe; Brookings Institution |
Tues
28
Zeyno Baran, director, International Security and
Energy Programs, Nixon Center |
Wed
29
Robert Kagan, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace |
Thurs
30
Jean-David Levitte, French Ambassador to
the U.S. |
Fri
1
John J. Sheehan, senior VP, Bechtel Corp; U.S. Marine Corps general;
former NATO Supreme Allied Commander |
2 | Week Two > July 4-8
The World of Work
Few
megatrends affect the daily lives of Americans as directly and
substantially as the change in the workforce that produces the
goods and services of the world. This week will investigate the
development of the workforce in a knowledge economy; job loss
and job creation in the global village; the future of manufacturing;
the status of the labor movement at home and abroad; gender and
family issues in the workplace; and how work can establish the
identity or the dignity of a human being.
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Mon
4
J. Russell Muirhead, assoc. prof. of government, Harvard;
author, Just Work |
Tues
5
Juliet B. Schor, sociology professor, Boston College;
author, The Overworked American |
Wed
6
Glenn C. Loury, professor of economics, Boston University;
founding director, Institute on Race & Social Division, BU |
Thurs
7
Bruce Raynor, general president of UNITE HERE, union
representing workers in hospitality, textile, retail, and other
industries |
Fri
8
Daniel Pink, author, A Whole New Mind: Moving
From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age and Free
Agent Nation |
3 | Week Three > July
11-15
The Law in Religion and Society
The
teachings of the monotheistic religions sometimes complement,
sometimes oppose and sometimes define the law of the land. Whatever
the relationship between religious and secular law, however,
the rights of human beings are directly affected by that relationship.
Speakers in this week will explore the roles of religious and
secular law in the Abrahamic community (Judaism, Christianity
and Islam) and discuss how their interactions have affected the
lives of individuals.
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Mon
11
Ori Soltes, professorial lecturer, fine arts and
theology, Georgetown Univ. |
Tues
12
Saul J. Berman, rabbi, scholar, educator; director,
Edah, center for modern Orthodox study |
Wed
13
John Brademas, president emeritus, New York University |
Thurs
14
Zaki Badawi, Egyptian-
born Islamic scholar; principal, Muslim College in London; formerly
director, Islamic Cultural Centre and chief imam, London Central
Mosque |
Fri
15
Oliver Thomas, Baptist minister, author, educator,
attorney, community leader |
4 | Week Four > July 18-22
Why Geography Matters
Despite efforts
to revive geography as a key subject, geographic illiteracy afflicts
Americans of all ages. Why should this be so? The physical world
continues to intrigue us. Geography's critical arena is the interface
between human and physical or natural worlds, where each affects
the other. Consider the diverse topics of climate change, the
political and economic transformation of China, the global distribution
of energy resources or the technological advances that are changing
the understanding of our world. This week will explore such topics
through the lens of modern geography -- the indispensable science.
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Mon
18
Harm de Blij, Distinguished Professor of Geography,
Michigan State Univ. |
Tues
19
Eileen Claussen, president, Pew Center on Global Climate
Change and Strategies for the Global Environment |
Wed
20
Hussein Amery, Colorado School of Mines; associate
editor, The Arab World Geographer |
Thurs
21
Jennifer L. Turner, coordinator, China Environment Forum; senior project
associate, Environmental Change & Security Project, Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC |
Fri
22
Alexander Murphy, geography professor,
University of Oregon at Eugene |
5 | Week Five > July 25-29
The Arts
"Art
belongs to everyone and dancing is the birthright for all."
Should we value the making of art in our personal lives differently
than we do the collected expressions of a culture? "I don't
know much about art, but I know what I like." What are the
lines between entertainment and art? To what extent does art
define or reflect a society, teach us lessons of morality, unify
or separate individuals or challenge the comfort of the known?
This week will combine lectures on the arts with participation
in artistic expression. Bring your dancing shoes!
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Mon
25
Leon Botstein, president, Bard College; music director,
American Symphony Orchestra |
Tues
26
Jerome Liebling, photographer, filmmaker, teacher, lecturer;
professor emeritus, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA |
Wed
27
Liz Lerman, founding artistic director, Liz Lerman
Dance Exchange |
Thurs
28
Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer, composer, cultural
historian, curator, activist |
Fri
29
Michael Walsh, author, screenwriter, music critic,
professor, pianist; TIME magazine music critic for 16 years |
6 | Week Six > August
1-5
The Land and Justice
The
American experience of the land was one of taming it and fulfilling
a manifest destiny from sea to shining sea. Critical issues immediately
included: Who owns the land? How is the value of land created?
Who bears environmental responsibility? Politically, land has
often been defined by artificial borders or as space on a map
that can be measured. Considered in a larger view, land is not
merely territory to claim and defend; it is also a cause of the
complicated relationships between people and a context for justice.
The lectures of this week will probe whether we can re-imagine
and restructure the notion of "land" itself.
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Mon
1
William Cronon, professor, history, geography, enviromental
studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison |
Tues
2
Karl E. Case, professor of economics, Wellesley College,
authority on real estate, housing, public finance; visiting scholar,
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
Wed
3
Lynn Scarlett, assistant secretary of policy, management
& budget, U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
Thurs
4
Angela Glover Blackwell, community building
activist; founder, CEO, PolicyLink |
Fri
5
Paul Goldberger, dean, Parsons School of Design, The
New School Univ., NYC; architecture critic, The New Yorker |
7 | Week Seven > August
8-12
Living an
Ethical Life
From
our earliest major thinkers to the present, humans have tried
to describe how to live a good life. Starting with some of the
classical definitions of ethics, we will examine this defining
human question. We will consider the ethical influence of parents
and teachers on youngsters. We will assess the role of institutions
such as religion, the courts and schools as instructors and guides.
To what extent do the workplace, popular culture, the news media
or the fine arts advance or hinder ethical development? What
challenges face an ethical individual as a member of a community?
This week will examine both the theory and practice of a good
life.
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Mon
8
Michael Sandel, professor of government, Harvard Univ. |
Tues
9
Bryan Hehir, professor of the Practice of Religion
and Public Life, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard |
Wed
10
Michael Gazzaniga, director, Center for
Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College; author, The Ethical
Brain
NY Times article
link |
Thurs
11
The Rev. Dr. Martin Marty, professor emeritus,
Univ. of Chicago Divinity School |
Fri
12
Nancy Cantor, chancellor, president, Syracuse Univ. |
8 | Week Eight > August
15-19
Iraq and
its Neighborhood
Continuing
our multi-year exploration of the Middle East, speakers will
expand our knowledge of the history and culture of Iraq, a pivotal
country in a turbulent region. We will seek a better understanding
of current conditions in Iraq, assess the role of the United
States to date and consider our likely future involvement. How
has recent experience in Iraq affected the larger neighborhood?
Speakers will provide geopolitical, cultural and historical insights
into this important region.
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Mon
15
Geoffrey Kemp, director of Regional Strategic Programs,
Nixon Center, DC |
Tues
16
Kanan Makiya, professor, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies,
Brandeis Univ.; adviser, Iraq's Interim Governing Council |
Wed
17
Husain Haqqani, associate professor, international relations,
Boston Univ.; Pakistani journalist, government adviser |
Thurs
18
Shibley
Telhami, Anwar Sadat
professor for peace and development, University of Maryland |
Fri
19
Shai Feldman, director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies,
Brandeis Univ. |
9 | Week Nine > August
22-26
The Brain
Since
the dawn of history, humans have discovered much about the workings
of our universe from the Big Bang to DNA. In recent years we
have even started to unfold the secrets of the organ that drives
those discoveries: the brain. Neuroscience begins to explain
our everyday behavior, including the complexities of memory and
how emotion influences reason. Is consciousness just a surge
of chemical connections or the product of an evolutionary past?
Speakers from varied disciplines will explore the existence of
free will, the origins of learning and creativity, the influence
of psychiatry, and the effects of pharmacological and surgical
interventions into the workings of the brain.
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Mon
22
Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery, Yale
School of Medicine |
Tues
23
John J. Ratey, associate clinical professor of psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School; authority on ADD |
Wed
24
Gerald M. Edelman, founding director,
The Neurosciences Institute; chair, Dept. of Neurobiology, The
Scripts Research Institute, La Jolla, CA |
Thurs
25
Michela Gallagher, chair, Department of Psychological
and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ.; co-director, Center
for Neurogenetics and Behavior, Johns Hopkins Univ. |
Fri
26
John M. Templeton Jr., president, Templeton
Foundation, pursuing boundaries between theology & science |
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