Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chautauqua's lectures and performances drew hundreds of people with their promise of self-transformation. L.E. Walker/New York ...

On Aug. 20, 2022, a large crowd gathered in front of the New York Public Library to hear prominent authors such as Kiran Desai, Gay Talese and Colum McCann read from novelist Salman Rushdie's works.

ONE day I reached my Chautauqua town on an earJy train, went direct to the hotel, and slept until noon. By then the thermometer had begun to soar, so after lunch I strolled out toward the Chautauqua ...

Chautauqua Institution’s 2026 season is underway with more than a new lineup of programming. Visitors are seeing major ...

Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked and was apparently stabbed in the neck by an armed man who charged him on stage before his lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. Rushdie was ...

During the past Summer 85 lectures in 33 universities were given under the auspices of the Jewish Chautaqua Society, according to the 21st annual report of the Society just issued. Lectures were ...

An educator who's spent time at a "Disneyland for nerds" will lead the next event in the fourth annual Chautauqua Lecture Series Thursday at Chattanooga State Community College. Theater associate ...

This summer, W. E. Smith Professor of History Steven Conn was invited as a Miami Faculty Fellow to the renowned Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York state. There he gave a lecture following ...

Author Salman Rushdie — the subject of a decades-old death threat from Iranian Muslim clerics — was knifed in the neck Friday in a stunning attack as he prepared to deliver a lecture in western New ...

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution announced Monday renowned actor, producer, director, and narrator Morgan Freeman will join the institution's summer Lecture Series in August. Freeman will ...