Gibbs to discuss political contexts of classical selections
About 20 years ago, lifelong Chautauquan Christopher Gibbs wrote a review for The Chautauquan Daily on German composer Carl Orff’s…
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Pizarro to talk politics, morals, disgust
Disgust is more than just a character in Disney and Pixar’s new movie, “Inside Out.” In line with Week Four’s…
Former U.S. attorney general Gonzales to speak on immigration reform proposal
America is known as the land of opportunity, but the land of the free doesn’t usually come free to many….
Soltes focuses on Georgia, Ukraine to pose larger questions
Georgia and Ukraine are somewhat “off the beaten track” of American familiarity, but Ori Soltes will use the countries to illuminate larger questions of what kind of role religion plays in society, what role it can play and if religion is a force of unity or disunity.
Babbitt, List round up western approach to climate change, energy, immigration
Two former governors of Western states, Robert List, R-Nevada, and Bruce Babbitt, D-Arizona, who later served as secretary of the interior under President Bill Clinton, discussed politics in the American West with Washington Post White House reporter Juliet Eilperin at 10:45 a.m. on Thursday in the Amphitheater.
Eminent historian Wood offers advice to Egypt from America’s Founding Fathers
The world’s preeminent scholar on the American Revolution is visiting Chautauqua Institution to offer context for the current political climate in Egypt.
Harmony Parade brings golden age of barbershop to Amp for 65th year
Western New York has a rich history in barbershop music, starting with one of the most famous American shop groups, the Buffalo Bills. The quartet, formed in 1947, found professional success and was the Barbershop Harmony Society’s 1950 International Quartet champion. Though modern barbershop quartets and choruses have decreased in popularity, the art form is still very much alive. Today, the Barbershop Harmony Society has 17 different districts across the country, upholding the longstanding tradition of the live music and soaring spirit associated with the golden age of barbershop.
Potter to detail power of money in political processes
The issue of campaign financing lies at the intersection of money and politics, of morality and economics, and Trevor Potter thinks it’s time for a change.
At today’s morning lecture at 10:45 a.m. in the Amphitheater, Potter will show Chautauquans how the current system of campaign finance came to be. He is the founding president and general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan “watchdog” in campaign finance, elections, political communication and government ethics.
Robenalt, Dean speak on ethical lapses behind Watergate scandal
People hate losing more than they love winning.
It is knowledge that might seem common to competitive types, but it now has a name — prospect theory — and a Nobel Prize to back it. The theory, which describes behavioral economics and found that people dislike losing more than they like winning explains why people lie, cheat, cover up and act irrationally when they are in trouble. See the Monica Lewinsky or Penn State scandals, said Thompson Hine LLP partner James Robenalt, who has studied prospect theory in legal ethics and who now works closely with John Dean — former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon who was called “master manipulator of the cover-up” by the FBI and later became a key prosecution witness.
Robenalt and Dean will discuss the Watergate scandal and ethical obligations of lawyers at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Hall of Philosophy. Their conversation is titled “The Ethics of Clarity: Waking Up From Wrongdoing” and is based on their national tour of lectures on the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.
Smith explores ‘exclusive trade union’ between early presidents
If you asked Richard Norton Smith what his job is, he probably wouldn’t tell you that he is a presidential historian. Despite rightfully earning his title from years of work as a biographer, head of six presidential libraries and a scholar-in-residence of history, Smith’s passion has always been his love of history, not fulfilling titles.
Smith will take the lecture platform at 10:45 a.m. Thursday to fill in gaps on the Week Nine theme, “The Presidents Club.” His lecture, titled “Hail and Farewell: An Exclusive Trade Union,” will cover relationships between America’s early presidents, before Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy’s book begins with World War II-era presidents.
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