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Chautauqua Podcasts / Interviews

Summary: Podcasts from Chautauqua cover a wide range of topics ranging from information about the season to interviews with lecturers, artists and staff. All of our podcasts are recorded at the Institution’s Cohen Sound Studio.

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 Sam Nunn | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:43
 Amb. Sergio Duarte | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:36

Ambassador Sergio Duarte

 Aaron David Miller | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:43

Aaron David Miller joined the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as a Public Policy Fellow in January 2006. For the prior two decades, he served at the Department of State as an adviser to six secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the Senior Adviser for Arab-Israeli Negotiations. In a conversation with Sherra Babcock, director of Education, Miller covers his view of real peace and the resolution between Palestine and Israel, his opinion of the conversation at Chautauqua, his probing style of questioning, the critical reason the U.S. needs to stay in Afghanistan and how he views ego and the position of Secretary of State. Central to the conversation is his detailed description of mediation. “A mediator is never loved...you’re going to have to push each of them further than they were prepared to go...you can’t trick them into agreeing...it would never be sustainable...the stakes are about life and death.”

 Kati Marton | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:21

Born in Hungary, Kati Marton has combined a career as a reporter and writer with human rights advocacy. She presents her latest book, the critically acclaimed memoir Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America, to the CLSC on July 15. Enemies of the People is the result of Marton’s quest to discover who her journalist parents really were — and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War. In a conversation with Sherra Babcock, director of Education, Kati explores why her Hungarian friends were uniformly opposed to this book saying “you are opening a Pandora’s box...you risk forever altering your image of your parents.” She relays that the past is not so mysterious to her anymore even though there were risks taken with her as a child that affected her differently than her two siblings. She answers the central question of whether or not she found closure in the research and writing process and explains how “in researching this book I really learned about the best in human beings, and the worst.”

 CTC with Michael Stuhlbarg on Amadeus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:01

CTC with Michael Stuhlbarg on Amadeus

 Chautauqua Theater Company | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:46

Chautauqua Theater Company

 Galia Golan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:50

Dr. Galia Golan, professor emerita, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presently leads the program in Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution in the School of Government, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. She is a leader of Peace Now (the Israeli Peace Movement), Bat Shalom (of the Jerusalem Link, a Palestinian and Israeli Women’s Joint Venture for Peace), and the International Women’s Commission for a Just Peace. She also serves on the Council of Pugwash and on the editorial board of The Palestine-Israel Journal and is a member of the executive committee of Meretz (Social Democratic Party). Dr. Golan joins Reverend Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Chautauqua Institution’s director of Religion, in a discussion of the peace process between Israel and Palestine. Key points of the conversation include Judaism as a religion versus a Jewish identity of belonging to a people, her decision to emigrate to Israel, enormous changes to Israel in recent years and reasons why she thinks real peace in the region is possible and growing closer. Golan states “I think it is possible today…the region has changed and things are actually in favor of an agreement…there are solutions.”

 Rev. Otis Moss III | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:14

Reverend Otis Moss III serves as Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. His passion for youth and intergenerational ministry has led him to create the Issachar Movement, a consulting group designed to bridge the generation gap within churches and to train a new generation of prophetic church leadership. The African American Pulpit Journal, along with BeliefNet, named Reverend Moss as one of the "20 to Watch" ministers who will shape the future of the African American. Rev. Moss joins Reverend Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Chautauqua Institution’s director of Religion, as he addresses the growing sentiment of cynicism in the U.S. and the loss of the ethic of love. Rev. Moss explains what the essence of youth leadership in a church requires and how to redefine the role of the church to meet this non-negotiable task. The discussion expands into the four aspects a faith community should focus on to bring compassion and justice to the forefront. Moss explains how transformation cannot come from a political arena and he elaborates on who he believes is currently the ONLY viable news media figure of his generation.

 Cheryl Dorsey | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:45

An accomplished social entrepreneur with expertise in health care, labor issues and public policy, Cheryl Dorsey was named president of Echoing Green in May 2002. She is the first Echoing Green Fellow to lead this global nonprofit, which has awarded more than $28 million in start-up capital to over 450 social entrepreneurs worldwide since 1987. In this conversation with Sherra Babcock, Chautauqua Institution’s director of Education, Dorsey discusses the foundations underlying the highly competitive Echoing Green Fellowship Award decisions stating “It takes a village to raise a social entrepreneur...there is something very soothing about being amongst a community of like-minded change agents who don’t think you’re crazy.” She elaborates on why Echoing Green is so important as an institution and explains why it is so important to power the boundless energy and innovative thinking of our “young” people expanding on how “it has nothing to do with age.”

 Daisy Khan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:04

Daisy Khan, is executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing an American Muslim identity and to building bridges between the Muslim community and general public through dialogues in faith, identity, culture, and the arts. She joins Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, director of Chautauqua’s Department of Religion to discuss the challenges of Muslim women’s advancement and how it connects to the distorted interpretations of all religions. Primary to this conversation is her comments regarding the Cordoba House, a proposed Muslim Center near the site of 9-11. Khan highlights the most powerful strategy to articulate the peaceful voices and make their messages louder than the ones of suspicion and distrust and how to prevail over the extremists we fear so much in this country.

 Roger Rosenblatt | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:10:20

Roger Rosenblatt, one of Chautauqua Institution’s most popular lecturers, returned for another appearance as host and moderator for the 2010 Week One morning lecture series “Roger Rosenblatt and More Friends.” The week-long conversation demonstrated the literary giant’s mastery of getting to the heart of the story as he explored the humor, pathos and ideals of contemporary literary arts with Jim Lehrer, Alice McDermott, Alan Alda, Anne Fadiman and Marsha Norman each morning on the Amphitheater stage. Rosenblatt also served as Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle (CLSC) author for the Roundtable/Lecture to present his newest book, Making Toast: A Family Story. The book is the memoir of a family finding ways to cope with the loss of a daughter, wife and mother. Rosenblatt chats with Sherra Babcock, director of Education, about his friends, how his family is coping with their loss, and the one thing missing from the week’s lectures- his own personal writing process.

 John Shelby Spong | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:48

Retired Bishop John Shelby Spong, former bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Newark, came to Chautauqua as the Interfaith lecturer each day to present the Week One theme, Eternal Life: a New Vision. Acclaimed as a teaching bishop who makes contemporary theology accessible to the ordinary layperson, he is considered the champion of an inclusive faith, both inside and outside the Christian church. “Jack” Spong discusses his views on being accused of heresy, science, history and religion, universal consciousness and a more internal view of the calling of faith in this alternative view of the afterlife with Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the Department of Religion.

 Jim Lehrer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:17

Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” the Emmy Award-winning PBS news show, is author of 19 novels, two memoirs and three plays. Mr. Lehrer opened the 2010 Week One morning lecture series: “Roger Rosenblatt and More Friends” to bring his humor and pathos to the forefront of the immensely popular literary theme. In this interview Lehrer sits with Tom Becker, president of Chautauqua Institution, in a conversation about his writing habits, experiences as a presidential debate moderator, journalism versus writing, the development of the 24/7 news cycle and how gatekeepers will function in the future.

 Chautauqua In Depth: Mark Roosevelt | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:42

In Depth’s Matt Ewalt and Sherra Babcock interview Pittsburgh Public Schools superintendent Mark Roosevelt as a primer for his Aug. 6 lecture from the Amphitheater stage.

 Preseason Podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:27:32

In the first podcast of the 2010 season, President Thomas Becker and Mike Sullivan share how the season is shaping up.

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