Chautauqua Institution is proud to announce the program lineup for Week Eight of its 2017 season.The week, which concludes Saturday, features presentations by renowned guests such as media critic Jay Rosen, columnist Michael Gerson, Atlantic correspondent James Fallows, Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs, Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron and author and New York Times columnist Dan Barry.

Chautauqua Institution’s nine-week summer season features morning and afternoon lectures focusing on weekly cultural themes. The morning lecture series will take place at 10:45 a.m. Monday through Friday in the Amphitheater. Titled “Media and the News: Ethics in the Digital Age,” the Week Eight theme explores the disruption of traditional media and the changing role of journalism as we enter an age of information overload.

The Interfaith Lecture Series, at 2 p.m. weekdays in the Hall of Philosophy, is similarly titled “Media, News, and Ethics in the Digital Age,” with Fallows engaging each day’s guest in conversation. Also focusing in on an age of information overload, lecturers this week will ask what the ethical responsibilities are for information consumers, communities at large, reporters and social justice advocates.

The Rev. M. Craig Barnes will serve as the ecumenical guest chaplain for the week. He has served as a pastor to three congregations, including the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. In 2012 he was elected president of Princeton Theological Seminary. Barnes has eight published books, including “Searching for Home,” “The Pastor as Minor Poet,” and “Body and Soul.” He also serves as an editor-at-large and a frequent contributor to The Christian Century.

Monday

Morning: Jay Rosen has served on the faculty of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute since 1986; currently an associate professor, he served as chair of the department from 1999 to 2005. Rosen is the author of PressThink, a blog about journalism and its ordeals. The website launched in 2003; two years later, it won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of free expression. A member of the Wikipedia Advisory Board, Rosen is the author of “What Are Journalists For?” which describes the rise of the civic journalism movement. He has served director of the Project on Public Life and the Press, funded by the Knight Foundation; as a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University; and as a fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University.

Afternoon: Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Washington Post. He is the author of “Heroic Conservatism” and co-author of “City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era.” He also serves as senior adviser at One, a bipartisan organization dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable diseases. Until 2006 Gerson was a top aide to former President George W. Bush as assistant to the president for policy and strategic planning. Prior to that appointment, he served in the White House as deputy assistant to the president and director of presidential speechwriting, and assistant to the president for speechwriting and policy adviser.

A national correspondent for The Atlantic, James Fallows is co-creator, with his wife Deborah, of the publication’s American Futures project. Through that project in partnership with APM’s “Marketplace,” the two travel the country, reporting on the people, organizations, and ideas reshaping the country. In addition to working for The Atlantic, Fallows spent two years as chief White House speechwriter for former president Jimmy Carter and two years as the editor of U.S. News & World Report. He has won the National Magazine Award and the American Book Award among other recognitions. Founding chairman of the New America Foundation and a frequent public-radio commentator, Fallows has written 11 other books, including “National Defense,” “Breaking the News,” “Blind Into Baghdad,” and two books based from China, “Postcards From Tomorrow Square” and “China Airborne.”

Fallows will join Gerson in conversation for this lecture.

Tuesday

Morning: Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the co-founder of FactCheck.org, a nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. Jamieson has received numerous grants, awards and fellowships throughout her career, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the International Communication Association.

Afternoon: Peter Beinart is an associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York. He is also a contributor to The Atlantic, a senior columnist at The Forward and a CNN political commentator. Beinart has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Newsweek, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association. The Week magazine named him columnist of the year for 2004. In 2005 he gave the Theodore H. White lecture at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Fallows will join Beinart in conversation for this lecture.

Wednesday

Morning: Arzu Geybullayeva is an Azerbaijani columnist and journalist, with special focus in human rights and press freedom in Azerbaijan. She has written for numerous platforms and institutions, including Al Jazeera, openDemocracy, Foreign Policy Democracy Lab, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty as well as Meydan TV, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and Global Voices. She was the 2014 Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellowship with the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; a fellow of the Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study on Nonviolent Conflict with Tufts University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and a scholar in the School of Authentic Journalism for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict; among other fellowships. Most recently, she was a visiting fellow in the Central Asia-Azerbaijan Fellowship at George Washington University.

Afternoon: Gustav Niebuhr is an associate professor of newspaper and online journalism in the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University; he also teaches in the Religion Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Before coming to Syracuse in 2004, he was scholar-in-residence at Princeton’s Center for the Study of Religion. Until 2001, he covered religion for The New York Times and, earlier, for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.He is author of “Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, a Priest and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors” and “Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America.” In 2010 Niebuhr received the William Reed Lifetime Achievement Award of the Religion Newswriters Association.

Fallows will join Niebuhr in conversation for this lecture.

Thursday

Morning: Nancy Gibbs is the managing editor of Time, which has 50 million readers worldwide. She oversees the domestic, international and tablet editions of the magazine, Time.com, Time mobile and Time for Kids. Gibbs was named Time’s 17th managing editor in 2013, and is the first woman to hold the position. Named by the Chicago Tribune as one of the 10 best magazine writers in the country, she is the author of more than 150 Time cover stories and many back-page essays. Gibbs’ story for the black-bordered special issue on Sept. 11, 2001, won the National Magazine Award. She was the lead Time writer on virtually every major news event from Oklahoma City to Hurricane Katrina, as well as the last five presidential campaigns; after the 2008 election, Politico described her as “the poet laureate of presidents.”

David Von Drehle was, for 10 years, editor-at-large for Time magazine, a position he took after several editorships at The Washington Post. It was announced earlier this summer that this month, von Drehle will return to the Post as a staff columnist, writing twice-weekly columns. Von Drehle began his career in journalism at 17 years old, working as a sports writer for The Denver Post. Since then, he has written for the Miami Herald, The Washington Post and Time. In 1991 von Drehle became the New York bureau chief for The Washington Post, where he went on to become arts editor and assistant managing editor in charge of the Style section. He left The Washington Post in 2006 to become editor-at-large for Time, where he has written more than 160 articles for that magazine.

Von Drehle will join Gibbs in conversation for this lecture.

Afternoon: Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and teaches on the faculties of journalism, communication and religion. Her current research interests include religion, politics, the news media, and the entertainment media. She is the publisher of Religion Dispatches, an award-winning daily online magazine of religion, politics and culture. Winston is currently working on several research projects, including three books: “Making America Great: Religion, Reagan and the News Media”; “Un/Real Religion: Religion and Reality Genres,” an edited collection; and “Lost and Found: Religion in Los Angeles,” also an edited collection

Fallows will join Watson in conversation for this lecture.

Friday

Morning: Marty Baron became executive editor of The Washington Post on Jan. 2, 2013. He oversees the Post’s print and digital news operations and a staff of more than 700 journalists.

Newsrooms under his leadership have won 12 Pulitzer Prizes, including five at The Washington Post. Throughout his tenure, The Post has won three times for national reporting, once for explanatory reporting and once for public service, the final award in recognition of revelations of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency. Before joining The Washington Post, Baron was editor of The Boston Globe. During his 11 and a half years there, The Globe won six Pulitzer Prizes – for public service, explanatory journalism, national reporting and criticism. The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was awarded to the Globe in 2003 for its investigation into a pattern of concealing clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Prior to the Globe, Baron held top editing positions at The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald.

Eric Newton is a global leader in the digital transformation of news. As the Innovation Chief at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications, he drives change and experimentation at Cronkite News, the news division for Arizona PBS. Prior to joining the Cronkite School, Newton was senior adviser to the president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He expanded the foundation’s journalism and media innovation program, overseeing the development of more than $300 million in grants.

He previously was founding managing editor of the Newseum, the first major museum of news, and managing editor of the Oakland Tribune, where he helped guide the paper to numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize.

Newton will join Baron in conversation for this lecture.

Afternoon: Wajahat Ali is a journalist, writer, lawyer, an award-winning playwright, a TV host and a consultant for the U.S. State Department. As creative director of Affinis Labs, he works to create social entrepreneurship initiatives that have a positive impact for marginalized communities, and to empower social entrepreneurs, young leaders, creatives and communities to come up with innovative solutions to tackle world problems. Previously, Ali helped launch the Al Jazeera America network as co-host of “The Stream,” a daily news show that extended the conversation to social media and beyond. He focused on stories of communities and individuals often marginalized or under-reported in mainstream media. Ali is also the author of “The Domestic Crusaders” – the first major play about Muslim Americans after the September 11 attacks – which was published by McSweeney’s and performed off-Broadway and at the Kennedy Center. Currently, with Dave Eggers, Ali is writing a television show about a Muslim American cop in the Bay Area.

Fallows will join Ali in conversation for this lecture.

Additional Lectures

3:30 p.m. Monday, Hall of Philosophy: Terrance Egger, Lauren Rich Fine, Susan Goldberg and Richard Tofel will give a special lecture titled “The Impact of Changing Ownership on Journalism.” Egger is the president and CEO of Philadelphia Media Network, the parent company of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com. Fine is the managing director of Gries Financial LLC. Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of National Geographic Magazine and editorial director of National Geographic Partners. Tofel is the president of ProPublica.

4 p.m. Wednesday, Hall of Philosophy: Jon O. Newman is a United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He assumed senior status in 1997. At the time of his appointment in 1979, he was a United States District Court Judge for the District of Connecticut. He served as Chief Judge from 1993 to 1997. Newman will deliver the 13th Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States, presented in partnership with the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, N.Y.

3:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall of Philosophy: Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Barry writes the “This Land” column for TheNew York Times. Prior to joining the Times in 1995, he worked at the Journal Inquirer and TheProvidence Journal. At the Providence Journal, he received a George Polk Award for his work on an investigation into the causes of a state banking crisis. In 1994 he and the other members of the Journal’s investigative team won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles about Rhode Island’s court system. Barry visits Chautauqua this week to discuss his book “Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Starvation in the Homeland,” the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection of the week.

3:30 p.m. Friday, Hall of Philosophy: Kathy Hochul currently serves as lieutenant governor of New York. She acts president of the New York State Senate and chairs the Regional Economic Development Councils and New York State Women’s Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission. She also co-chairs the New York State Heroin and Opioid Abuse Task Force and Community College Councils. Beginning in 2015, Hochul spearheaded Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Enough is Enough campaign to combat sexual assault on college campuses, hosting and attending more than 25 events.

Amphitheater Entertainment

Aside from the daily lectures, Week Eight features a variety of evening entertainment programs at the Amphitheater.

The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will make their debut performance with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, August 12. The program will feature excerpts from the beloved ballet “Coppelia,” choreographed by Arthur Saint-Leon, “Petite Mort,” choreographed by JiriÌ Kylian, and “Le Corsaire,” choreographed by Marius Petipa and Konstantin Sergeyev. Tickets are $43.

The Chautauqua School of Dance’s student gala takes place at 2:30 p.m. today. Chautauqua is recognized as having one of the finest summer dance programs in the United States. Young dancers from around the country audition to be part of this excellent program. This student gala gives Chautauqua an opportunity to see, first hand, the talent, dedication and grace of these incredible young people.

The students of the Music School Festival Orchestra perform for the final time in 2017 at 8:15 p.m. on Monday. Timothy Muffitt serves as the conductor. The evening’s program features Edward Elgar’s “In the South” and Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique.” Tickets are $20.

The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s “A Russian Evening” takes place at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. Rossen Milanov serves as the conductor. The evening’s program features Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphonic Suite, op. 91, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy,” Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Russian Easter Festival Overture,” op. 36, and Tchaikovsky’s Gopak from “Mazeppa.”

The juggling-comedy duo the Passing Zone performs at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Awarded five Guinness World Records and 18 gold medals from the International Jugglers’ Association, the Passing Zone has brought audiences to their feet all across the globe by combining comedy, dexterity, danger and hilarity. Their latest show “The Passing Zone Saves the World” features tricks involving stun guns, chainsaws, superheroes and ping pong balls. Tickets are $20.

The CSO’s “A Hymn, a Poem, a Symphony” takes place Thursday at 8:15 p.m. Giancarlo Guerrero serves as the conductor and CSO concertmaster Brian Reagin as the solo violinist. The evening’s program features Jean Sibelius’ “Finlandia,” op. 26, Ernest Chausson’s “Poeme,” op. 25, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 56, “Scottish.” A pre-performance lecture will take place at 6:45 p.m. in Hurlbut Sanctuary.

The two-time Grammy Award-winning band Kool & the Gang performs at 8:15 p.m., Friday. “Get Down On It” and be a part of the “Celebration” as Kool & the Gang create “Summer Madness” at Chautauqua! Tickets are $50-80. Preferred seating is available.

The CSO performs with the string trio Time for Three at 8:15 p.m. Saturday. Rossen Milanov serves as the conductor. Of the trio Time for Three, Nicolas Kendall and Charles Yang are on violin and Ranaan Meyer is on double bass.

Alternative Entertainment Options

The Chautauqua Theater Company’s run of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” continues through this week, with the production closing at 4 p.m. Friday in Bratton Theater. Perhaps the most famous love story ever written, the play is a timeless tale of two young lovers caught between feuding families and swept away by the powerful nature of love. Tickets are $35.

The Kaler Family Trio — father, mother and son — performs at 4 p.m. Monday in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. Ilya Kaler is the world’s only gold medal winner at the three most prestigious international violin competitions: the Tchaikovsky Competition, the Sibelius Competition and the Paganini Competition. Olga Kaler has toured three continents and is a member of the World Orchestra for Peace under the direction of Valery Gergiev. Ilya and Olga serve as professor and associate professor of violin, respectively, at the DePaul University School of Music. Daniel Kaler is recognized by many as a rising star, appearing as a soloist in multiple orchestras around the United States and studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

The Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet performs at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. A part of the Chautauqua community for over 20 years, CRYB has maintained a reputation for excellence in both their teaching studios and on stage in their performances. Come join these talented youth as they show young audience members the best part about staying on their toes! This is a free family event. Free passes are available at the Main Gate Welcome Center.

The Bratton Late Night Cabaret takes place at 10:30 p.m. Friday. Celebrate the unleased talents of the 2017 Chautauqua Theater Company in this one-night-only extravaganza. The doors to Bratton Theater open at 10 p.m. Seating is limited. Although this is a free event, a ticket is required for admission. Available tickets will be handed out at the ticketing kiosk at 9:45 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.

Gate Pass Information

Day tickets are available for purchase at the Main Gate Welcome Center Ticket Office on the day of your visit. Morning tickets grant visitors access to the grounds from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. for $24. Afternoon tickets grant access from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. for $17. Combined morning/afternoon passes allow access from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and cost $41. Evening passes grant access from 4 p.m. to midnight with the cost varying based on the evening entertainment. For tickets and information, visit chqtickets.com or call 716-357-6250. Gate passes are free on Sundays from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Parking in the Main Lot is free from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday.

About Chautauqua Institution

Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue.