CHQ Assembly: Exploring the best in human values

In 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...

Abby 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.

This 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...

In 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.

Polarization 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. 

Amelia 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. 

We’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.

Victoria 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.

A 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.

We 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?

“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.

Eliese 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.

Empathy 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.

Children’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.

An 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.

Who 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.

This 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...

Asia 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.