2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Doerr to discuss ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ for CLSC
Regular Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Roundtable attendees who were expecting to see Anthony Doerr in the Hall of Philosophy…
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Brought to light: Tobar to present ‘Deep Down Dark’
The 33 miners trapped 2,300 feet underground in the Copiapó, Chile, mining accident of 2010 faced an unbearable burden. In…
Novelist Choi to discuss power of political novel
Susan Choi wants to know what makes a novel political. Is it the subject matter? Its arguments? Or its themes?…
Deadly divide: King to talk junction of race and justice with CLSC
Some things are just meant to be. Sherra Babcock, vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education, knew…
CTC’s season all set to dazzle Chautauqua audience
NAME | Staff Photographer Actress Audrey Corsa gestures to other actors. The show opens 2:15 p.m. Saturday in Bratton Theater….
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.
Strout, Rosenblatt to reflect on narrative
Elizabeth Strout will be taking the Amphitheater stage for the first time today, but she’s been hearing about Chautauqua Institution for years.
Şener: In Turkey, politicians use force instead of dialogue
Nedim Şener is looking forward to seeing his wife and 10-year-old daughter when he returns to Turkey. However, his time with his family will be brief; Şener goes to trial in one month and faces seven to 15 years in prison. Held without bail, he will be allowed to see his family for 45 minutes per week.
His crime? Publicly criticizing the Turkish government.
Gordon-Reed to delve into lost opportunities during Reconstruction era
“It is unwise and dangerous to pursue a course of measures which will unite a very large section of the country against another section of the country, however much the latter may preponderate,” President Andrew Johnson said in a veto message to the U.S. Senate on Feb. 19, 1866.
Believing the provisions in the bill to be unwarranted by the Constitution, Johnson dismissed a bill aiming to establish an agency for the relief of freedmen and refugees after the Civil War. Historians today are exploring the consequences of decisions such as this one made in the Reconstruction era.
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