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10:45 a.m.
Lectures & Theme Weeks
Each weekday
during the Chautauqua season (June 24-August 27, 2006) 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.
1 | Week One > June 26-30
Russia: A Post-Soviet Identity
Against the background
of the first G-8 summit to gather in Russia, this week will explore
Russia's view of its place in world affairs. Through a partnership
between the Brookings Institution and Chautauqua, leading experts
will consider a full range of issues on the G-8 agenda and how
Russia's evolving self-identity will shape its approach to those
issues. Lectures will explore Russia's progress on democracy
and a civil society, energy policy and the economy, healthcare
and the scourge of AIDS, the global threat of terrorism, relationships
to China and India, religious pluralism and the Muslim world.
This week, which marks the 20th anniversary of the Chautauqua
conference in Jurmala, Latvia, aims to illuminate the Russia
of today.
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Mon
26
Lilia Shevtsova, senior associate, Carnegie Moscow Center |
Tues
27
Clifford G. Gaddy, senior fellow, Brookings Institution;
Russian economy expert |
Wed
28
Dmitri Trenin, senior associate, Carnegie Moscow Center |
Thurs
29
Bruce Blair, president, World Security Institute |
Fri
30
David Kramer, Deputy Asst. Sec. for European &
Eurasian Affairs, State Dept. |
2 | Week Two > July 3-7
Education: Our Children and the World
Today
America's educational system must balance the needs of the individual
student (remediation, nutrition, varying abilities, homeschooling)
with the need for an educated, productive and flexible workforce
(literacy, training for existing and future jobs, high tech skills,
computer literacy, midcareer change, lifelong learning) in an
expanding global economy. What changes in schools can help balance
national priorities, our national standards and our obligations
to the individual?
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Mon
3
Leslie Koch, former CEO, Fund for Public Schools,
non-profit affiliated with NYC Dept. of Education |
Tues
4
George Walker, director general emeritus, International
Baccalaureate Organization, a leader in international education |
Wed
5
Brigadier General (Ret.) Billy Cooper, executive director, Earle C. Clements
Job Corps Academy, Kentucky |
Thurs
6
Graham B. Spanier, president, Penn State
Univ. |
Fri
7
Dr. Mel Levine, professor of pediatrics, U. of N.C.
Medical School, author, A Mind at a Time |
3 | Week Three > July
10-14
Applied Ethics: The Obligations
of Citizenship
Most
of us understand the civic obligations to vote and to serve on
a jury. But what about other ways of being a responsible citizen?
One hundred years after the publication of The Jungle, by Upton
Sinclair, we will discuss the ethical obligations of the whistleblower,
the muckraker, the media commentator, the blogger and the consumer
advocate as social critics. What are the incentives to a career
in elected public service, to serve in a volunteer army, to participate
in national voluntary service, to volunteer in one's own community
or to participate in public dialogue? In short, what are the
ethical obligations of educated citizens in a participatory democracy?
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Mon
10
Colin Campbell, president, CEO, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation |
Tues
11
Brian Gallagher, president & CEO, United Way of
America |
Wed
12
Rebecca Rimel, president and CEO, The Pew Charitable
Trusts |
Thurs
13
Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher, The New
York Times |
Fri
14
Sen. Arlen Specter, (PA) chair, Senate
Judiciary Committee
Lee Hamilton, director, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars |
4 | Week Four > July 17-21
Landscape Architecture and Community Design
Chautauqua is
a community noted for its landscape architecture, gardens and
community design -- the beautiful confluence of the built and
natural environments. This week we will see examples of diverse
and innovative architecture, explore new concepts of materials,
and consider urban and rural locations, landscape and the natural
environment. How does a built environment reflect its cultural
context? How can a community manage progress, preservation and
designed growth?
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Mon
17
Dennis Carmichael, VP, principal, EDAW, design, planning
& environments worldwide; president, American Society of
Landscape Architects |
Tues
18
Sheila A. Brady, principal / vice president of Oehme,
van Sweden & Associates |
Wed
19
Charles Birnbaum, preservationist; coordinator,
National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative |
Thurs
20
Sarah Susanka, architect, author, proponent of 'Not
So Big' |
Fri
21
L. Azeo Torre, president, Torre/ Design Consortium,
New Orleans |
5 | Week Five > July 24-28
Global Climate Change: Securing the Future
This
week will examine the science, politics, economics and effects
of global climate change. Where do scientists agree about global
warming and where is there disagreement? Speakers will explore
the current politics, both national and international, of climate
change, discuss the economic motivations that either prevent
or promote action toward a sustainable future, and note examples
of observed effects on the biosphere.
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Mon
24
Al Gore, former U.S. vice president; environmental
advocate and author |
Tues
25
Jonathan Foley, director, Center for Sustainability
and the Global Environment, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison |
Wed
26
Whit Ayres,
president, Ayres & McHenry Assoc., public opinion pollster
on climate change issues |
Thurs
27
Steven Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP, global energy
co. |
Fri
28
Denise Sheehan, Commissioner of the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation |
6 | Week Six > July 31-August
4
Belief in America
What
are the faith traditions that comprise the American landscape?
To what extent have the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths evolved
over time in America? What effect may an American version of
any faith system have on the world tradition from which it arose,
and vice-versa? How do world events and developments influence
national religious perspectives? In this week we will look at
religion writ large in America, and at the tensions that have
arisen between and within faith traditions.
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Mon
31
Gustav Niebuhr,
assoc. professor in religion & the media, Syracuse University;
journalist |
Tues
1
David Gordis, president, Hebrew College, Boston;
founding director, National Center for Jewish Policy Studies |
Wed
2
Ray Suarez, senior correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer |
Thurs
3
G. Mahmoud Eboo, president of His Highness Aga Khan Council for
USA |
Fri
4
The Rev. John Jenkins, president, Univ. of Notre Dame |
7 | Week Seven > August
7-11
The Flickering
Image: Film and Society
As
one of the few mass media that we experience as a community -
and in community with others - how does filmmaking define or
reflect a society? How does filmmaking around the world, particularly
in emerging democracies or countries in strife, speak to conflict
and our common humanity? How does the business of filmmaking
affect the final artistic product? What is the future of independent
filmmaking? Critics, independent filmmakers, business people,
actors, and documentary filmmakers, among others, will explore
this historical American art form.
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Mon
7
Richard Schickel, film critic, Time Magazine;
author; TV producer- writer- director |
Tues
8
Barbara Kopple, Academy Award- winning documentary
filmmaker |
Wed
9
Patrick Loughney, curator, Motion Picture
Dept., George Eastman House, International Museum of Photog.
and Film |
Thurs
10
Michael York, screen and stage actor; author, lecturer |
Fri
11
Richard Brown, professor, New York University |
8 | Week Eight > August
14-18
Business
and Finance: America and the Fiscal Future
Will
our economy boom or bust? "America leads the world with
innovation and a resilient and productive economy." Or,
"America is 'running on empty' and is the world's leading
debtor nation." Is either of these scenarios more accurate
than the other? What are the effects, if any, of the aging of
the baby boomers, the development of alternative energy sources
and the birthrate? What are the likely effects of tax policy,
state and federal spending and the strength of the dollar? The
week will also explore the financial health of major markets
and developing economies around the world and their relationships
to the United States economy.
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Mon
14
Paul Solman, business and economics correspondent, The
News Hour with Jim Lehrer |
Tues
15
Peter Peterson, senior chairman, co-founder, The Blackstone
Group; former U.S. Secretary of Commerce |
Wed
16
Philip Marineau, president & CEO, Levi Strauss &
Co. |
Thurs
17
Richard Bernstein, chief U.S. strategist
and chief global securities quantitative strategist, Merrill
Lynch |
Fri
18
U.S. Rep. Michael Oxley, chair, House Comm.
on Financial Services |
9 | Week Nine > August
21-25
Five Giants
This week
will celebrate the accomplishments of five people who made a
difference in the past 50 years. Speakers who either did the
seminal work of the past two generations, or have chronicled
the lives and accomplishments of those who did, will recall those
achievements and their impact on our lives. Our focus will be
on some of the core issues Chautauqua investigates, such as foreign
affairs, religion, business, education, science, medicine, social
policy, literature and the fine and performing arts.
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Mon
21
Ruth Simmons, president, Brown University |
Tues
22
E.O. Wilson, two-time Pulitzer Prize- winning scientist,
author; father of modern environmental movement |
Wed
23
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize- winning historian,
author of trilogy on civil rights movement and Martin Luther
King Jr. |
Thurs
24
David Broder, national political correspondent, The
Washington Post; syndicated columnist; author |
Fri
25
Rita Moreno, actress and winner of an Oscar, two
Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy |
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