Speaker & Conventions

Priya Parker opens Week Nine of the 2026 Chautauqua Lecture Series and the theme of “The Importance of Gathering” by helping us take a deeper look at how […]

Jose Arellano is an organizational leader and entrepreneur with a proven record of driving transformation, building high-performing teams and delivering sustainable growth. He began his career at Homeboy […]

A conversation with Lara Downes, award-winning classical pianist and host of NPR’s Amplify with Lara Downes, and John McWhorter, associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University. The conversation […]

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. The Emmy and […]

As the great-granddaughter of Eastman Kaney (an original Dawes Commission enrollee), Bluemel is a proud member of the Chickasaw Nation. She is an award-winning storyteller and educator, artist, […]

George Tanabe was born and raised in Waialua, Hawaii and is a specialist on the religions of Japan, especially Buddhism, and his books have been published by university […]

“CBS News Sunday Morning” correspondent and best-selling author Conor Knighton returns to Chautauqua to close out the 2026 Chautauqua Lecture Series and our week on “The Importance of […]

Join us Saturday, September 12th, for an in-person gallery talk and plein air demonstration (weather permitting) by 2025 Artist-in-Residence Kellyann Monaghan! Monaghan will speak on her residency and […]