Watch and engage with Chautauqua programs live or on demand using our five CHQ Assembly online platforms. Many of our programs premiere live, so you'll want to register ahead of time so you're ready to watch lectures and programs when they begin.
How do I find events?
Register for events on a specific platform ahead of time and/or save them to your own event list. To view all of our events in one place you can use our website calendar or use the links below. Nearly all events will be available on demand upon completion. (In some cases it may take a day or two for the recordings to be available.)
Upcoming Programs
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Monday, March 08, 2021 | 07:00pm EDT
Elif M. Gökçiğdem
View DetailsIn the first of a series of CHQ Assembly programs previewing issues to be explored through the 2021 Chautauqua Lecture Series, Elif M. Gökçiğdem, founding president of ONE: Organization of Networks for Empathy, sits down with Matt Ewalt, Vice President...
Location: CHQ Assembly Video Platform
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Tuesday, March 09, 2021 | 06:30pm EDT
Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture Series: Abby Chen
View DetailsAbby Chen is the Senior Associate Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Prior to taking on this position, she served for over a decade as the Curator and Artistic Director at the Chinese Culture Center and Foundation of San Francisco.
Location: Virtual Porch
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Designing for Empathy through Arts: What Can an Art Object Tell Us about the Way We See Our World?
View DetailsThis interactive session will include a quick overview of the Designing for Empathy framework, and will offer a perspective taking exercise around an art object. The artwork will be positioned as the “other”, or the “object of our empathy”, and participants will be invited to explore...
Location: Online Classroom
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 | 07:00pm EDT
James Shapiro, CLSC Author, Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
View DetailsIn a narrative arching across the centuries, James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare's 400-year-old tragedies and comedies in making sense of so many of these issues, on which the American identity has turned.
Location: CHQ Assembly Video Platform
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | 10:00am EDT
Designing for Empathy through Embodiment: Where Self and Other Meet
View DetailsPolarization is a deeply troublesome problem in our current time. Group identification escalates polarization. If we are to avoid its destructive effects on relationships and communities, we need to focus on what unites and divides us as individuals, holding space for personal expression.
Location: Online Classroom
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Designing for Empathy from an Indigenous Perspective
View DetailsAmelia Winger-Bearskin, Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, will lead this interactive session including a talk about empathy, storytelling and articulating ethics into projects from an indigenous co-creation perspective.
Location: Online Classroom
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
What Can Fostering Empathy for Animals Teach Us about Strengthening Our Empathy for Each Other?
View DetailsWe’ve been taught that humans and animals are different, that humans are special. But humans are animals and this human exceptionalism creates a rift that we are constantly trying to repair.
Location: Online Classroom
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Wednesday, April 07, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Designing for Empathy through Storytelling: "Queens: The Weight of Our Crown"
View DetailsVictoria Edwards will lead an interactive session inspired by an exhibition she curated and designed: Queens: The Weight of Our Crown, which builds empathetic connections among women of African Diaspora around the subject of hair.
Location: Online Classroom
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Thursday, April 08, 2021 | 07:00pm EDT
Steph Cha, CLSC Author, Your House Will Pay
View DetailsA powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in LA, Your House Will Pay follows two families—one Korean-American, one African-American—grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime.
Location: CHQ Assembly Video Platform
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Creative Tensions: Breaching Comfort and Bridging Difference
View DetailsWe find ourselves in social and political discourse that has never been as fractured or polarized and we experience this discord more acutely because we are more vulnerable in these unknowable times. How do discomforting tensions become 'creative' opportunities?
Location: Online Classroom
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Project Us: Enhancing Empathy through Emotion Augmented Communication
View Details“You just need to show more empathy!” Few would disagree with the advice. Yet, it is easier said than done. Project Us uses AI to analyze interlocutors’ biosignals during interactions and creates a continuous feedback loop with their emotional content.
Location: Online Classroom
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Thursday, April 22, 2021 | 07:00pm EDT
Eliese Colette Goldbach, CLSC Author, Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
View DetailsEliese remembered driving with her father past the rust-covered buildings in the Cleveland’s industrial valley. Growing up, she was told that the world was your oyster, that the possibilities are endless, and you can do whatever you want in this world.
Location: CHQ Assembly Video Platform
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Designing Rituals for Connection and Wellbeing
View DetailsEmpathy begins with compassion, compassion begins with caring for your own soul and body. In this session, participants will create small interventions for their everyday life to elevate their emotional and mental health.
Location: Online Classroom
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Wednesday, May 05, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Say It with XOXO: Playful Strategies to Talk about Love and Forgiveness
View DetailsChildren’s Museum of Pittsburgh created the traveling exhibition "XOXO: An Exhibit About Love & Forgiveness" with the goal to create a space where families can explore their emotions through playful, interactive experiences.
Location: Online Classroom
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | 06:30pm EDT
Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture Series: John Sabraw
View DetailsAn activist and environmentalist, John Sabraw’s paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco-conscious manner, and he continually works toward a fully sustainable practice.
Location: Virtual Porch
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Easy Empathy, Difficult Empathy
View DetailsWho do we easily feel empathy for, who is hard for us, and who is neutral? This activity will guide participants through experiences of differential empathy, encouraging reflection about what facilitates, and what poses barriers to, engaging empathically with different people.
Location: Online Classroom
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | 03:00pm EDT
Emotions as Perspectives
View DetailsThis experiential workshop is based on the science of creativity and emotional intelligence. We will examine how to successfully solve problems by using emotions as aides. We introduce the concept of emotions as information and demonstrate how emotions...
Location: Online Classroom
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Tuesday, June 08, 2021 | 06:30pm EDT
Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture Series: Asia Freeman
View DetailsAsia Freeman co-founded the non-profit multidisciplinary art space, Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska where she serves as Artistic Director today. Asia writes, curates, teaches and speaks about art. Asia’s paintings are represented in Alaskan museums and private collections worldwide.
Location: Virtual Porch