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10:45 a.m.
Lectures & Theme Weeks
Each weekday
during the Chautauqua season (June 21-August 24, 2008) 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 23-27
Sport in America
Roger Goodell,
long-time Chautauquan and commissioner of the National Football
League, will be among the featured lecturers in Week One. Sport
looms large in the American culture, whether from an economic
perspective or through the lens of its impact on our lifestyles
and customs. Fun, competitive, entertaining? Yes. But big business
too. Some estimates tag the sports business industry in the U.S.
at over $300 billion annually. From youth and amateur athletics
to college sports to the pros, we will examine the economics
and the impact of sports on our cities, our youth, education,
and culture. We will look at Title 9, the influence of television
and escalating salaries, and the future of Olympic sports. And
we will explore whether the interest of the general fan has been
eclipsed by big money.
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Mon
23
Frank
Deford,
senior contributing writer, Sports Illustrated; commentator,
National Public Radio
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Tues
24
Clark
Kellogg,
CBS Sports College Basketball Commentator
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Wed
25
Donna
Lopiano,
immediate past CEO, Women's Sports Foundation
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Thurs
26
Sean McManus,
president, CBS News, CBS Sports
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Fri
27
Roger
Goodell,
commissioner, National Football League
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2 | Week Two > June 30-July
4
Restoring Legitimacy to Our Election System
Most
Americans are both proud and grateful to live in a free and democratic
country. But many are growing disenchanted with our system of
electing a president. Are these concerns valid? If so, how do
we go about restoring integrity into our election system? This
week we'll look at some of the basic mechanisms that impact our
political system and how they might be improved, including campaign
finance, timing and duration of primaries, voter registration,
the popular vote vs. the Electoral College and how we encourage
or discourage citizen participation. Norman Ornstein, a resident
scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-director
of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project, will be with us
during this week as both a presenter and facilitator.
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Mon
30
Norman
Ornstein,
resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research
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Tues
1
Thomas
E. Mann,
senior fellow, governance studies program, Brookings Institution
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Wed
2
Andrew
Young,
former mayor of Atlanta, U.S. Congressman and U.N. ambassador
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Thurs
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Fri
4 |
3 | Week Three > July
7-11
Roger Rosenblatt and Friends:
On Writing
Essayist,
author, playwright and television commentator Roger Rosenblatt
has lectured nine times from Chautauqua Institution's Amphitheater
platform. For this week on writing, Roger will be joined by his
friends and fellow authors E.L. Doctorow, Joyce Carol Oates,
and Amy Tan, and poet Billy Collins and cartoonist Garry Trudeau.
4 | Week Four > July 14-18
The Ethical Frontiers of Science
There
are no shortages of ethical dilemmas arising from rapid advances
in biomedical sciences and new discoveries about how the mind
works. What are the prospects that new drugs and genetic discoveries
will enable us to improve our memories, moods, and cognitive
abilities? Should science aim only at treating disease or also
at enhancing our mental and physical capacities, and those of
our children? Is there a risk that new genetic technologies will
lead to the quest for "designer children?" Are we on
the verge of discovering a biological basis for morality, and
if so, does this pose a threat to familiar notions of free will
and moral responsibility? This week, Harvard professor Michael
Sandel will help us explore the growing public debate at the
intersection of ethics, biotechnology, and public policy. We'll
hear from bioethics experts and scientists to help us think through
the social and ethical implications of biological and biomedical
advances.
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Mon
14
Arthur
Caplan,
director, Center for Bioethics, Univ. of Penn
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Tues
15
David
Ewing Duncan,
chief correspondent, NPR's "Biotech Nation"
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Wed
16
Judy
Norsigian,
executive director, Our Bodies Ourselves
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Thurs
17
Michael
Sandel,
professor of political philosophy, Harvard University
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Fri
18
Marc
Hauser,
professor, co-director of Mind, Brain and Behavior Program, Harvard
University
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5 | Week Five > July 21-25
American Foreign Policy: Leadership and Dialogue
Since
1945, the United States has constructed its foreign policy around
the fault lines of the demise of British colonialism, the contest
with Communism and most recently the confrontation with terrorism.
We will consider those historic roots and their influence on
the current play of American interests on such issues as access
to energy, markets, human rights and issues of military security.
We will hear voices from other countries expressing their perspectives
on U.S. foreign policy, and we will engage in dialogue about
the prospects for the future.
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Mon
21
Shashi
Tharoor,
former under- secretary- general for communications and public
information, United Nations
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Tues
22
Melvyn
Leffler,
prof. of American history, Univ. of Virginia
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Wed
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Thurs
24 |
Fri
25
Dennis
Ross,
fellow at Washington Inst. for Near east Policy
Frank
Wisner,
career ambassador, U.S. Foreign Service, vice chair, AIG
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6 | Week Six > July 28-August
1
Healing the Globe
In
this Global Village, the health of one affects the health of
all. In partnership with the Global Health Council, we will examine
such twenty-first century challenges as maternal and child health,
AIDS, TB, malaria, diseases related to global warming, the consequences
of natural disasters, and response mechanisms to famine and pandemics.
We will bring to the platform powerful voices who have invested
themselves and their resources in this struggle for a healthy
world.
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Mon
28
Stephen
Lewis,
former UN special envoy for HIV/ AIDS in Africa
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Tues
29
Abdallah
Daar,
co-director, program of life sciences and global health, Univ.
of Toronto
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Wed
30
Helene
Gayle,
MD, president and CEO, CARE USA
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Thurs
31
Thomas
R. Frieden,
NYC Dept. of Health commissioner
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Fri
1
Mechai
Viravaidya,
founder, Population and Community Development Association, Thailand
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7 | Week Seven > August
4-8
Faith in
Public Life
The
United States is one of the most religiously plural nations in
the world. The Abrahamic religions differ widely within and among
their respective traditions, especially with regard to whether
religion is solely a private matter or has a role to play in
public life. In this year of national elections, the compelling
questions become: How best are different religious perspectives
expressed in the give and take of democracy, and what is the
responsibility of people of faith in a democracy?
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Mon
4
Jon
Meacham,
editor, Newsweek; author, American Gospel
(Sponsored by the Glen and Ruth Mengle Foundation) |
Tues
5
Rabbi
David Saperstein, director, Religious Action Ctr. of Reform Judaism
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Wed
6
R.
Gustav Niebuhr, director, Religion and Society program, Syracuse
Univ.
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Thurs
7
Eboo
Patel,
founder and exec. dir., Interfaith Youth Core; author, Acts
of Faith
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Fri
8
Michael
Gerson,
senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; former speechwriter,
adviser to Pres. George W. Bush
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8 | Week Eight > August
11-15
What's For
Dinner: Food and Politics in the 21st Century
Food
- from the old family recipe to the culinary arts - consumes
a central role in our lives and is our most intimate and direct
connection to nature. It elicits both passion and guilt, it comforts
and satisfies, it sustains the body and is a source of beauty
and art. What we eat and how it arrives in our kitchens and restaurants
is also influenced by political and economic decisions. From
the 100-mile diet, five-star restaurants and peppy television
chefs to giant agri-business, this week will add context to our
understanding of how food is produced, biologically altered and
distributed, the rise of organic agriculture and the simple joys
of eating.
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Mon
11
Michael
Ruhlman,
journalist, author, The Soul of a Chef
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Tues
12
Greg
Page,
chairman of the board, CEO and president, Cargill, Inc.
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Wed
13
Tim
Zagat,
founder, Zagat Survey, and panel of restaurateurs
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Thurs
14
Marion
Nestle,
professor of nutrition, food studies and public health, NYU;
author, Food Politics
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Fri
15
Wes
Jackson,
founder and president, The Land Institute
(Sponsored by South Franklin Circle - A Judson
Partnership for Smart Living) |
9 | Week Nine > August
18-22
Darwin and Linnaeus: Their Impact on Our View of the Natural
World
2009 will
mark the celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday as well as the
150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.
The public debate surrounding his theory of evolution seems to
have diminished little in that span of time. This week we will
focus on all that has followed, including the scientific, social,
religious and legal ramifications of Darwin's work. In addition,
this year marks the 250th anniversary of the 1758 publication
of Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus' system for giving Latin names
to animals, indeed, cataloging the natural world. We will consider
the legacy of that important work as well.
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Mon
18
Kenneth
Miller,
prof. of biology, Brown University; author, Finding Darwin's
God
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Tues
19
Beth
Shapiro,
asst. prof. of biology, Penn State Univ.; researcher in field
of ancient DNA
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Wed
20
Edward
Larson,
prof. of law, Pepperdine Univ., Pulitzer Prize-winner for Summer
for the Gods
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Thurs
21
Spencer
Wells,
population geneticist; director of Genographic Project
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Fri
22
Mattias
Klum,
National Geographic Society photographer; documentary filmmaker,
"The Linnaeus Expedition"
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