Amphitheater Lecture Speakers - Post-Journal

Chautauqua 2012Amphitheater Lecture SpeakersMornings At ChautauquaEach weekday during the Chautauqua season at 10:45 a.m.,the Amphitheater stage becomes a platform for distinguishedscientists, authors, educators and other experts in such fieldsas national and international affairs, arts and humanities,business and the environment. Ideas and opinions areexchanged in an open, challenging atmosphere, and Chautauqua'sknowledgeable audiences have the opportunity toparticipate in question-and-answer sessions at the conclusionof the lectures.WEEK ONEMonday–FridayJune 25–July 29Roger RosenblattAuthor, essayist, playwrightand professor Roger Rosenblattreturns to Chautauqua in 2012 tolead a third week of onstage conversationswith his literary friends.Rosenblatt served as a columnist andessayist for The Washington Post,Time and “PBS NewsHour,” and as literaryeditor of The New Republic. He has been an editor at U.S.News and World Report and Life, editor-at-large at Time Inc.,the youngest House Master in the history of Harvard, and directorof education at the National Endowment for the Humanities.Rosenblatt has written five Off-Broadway plays and 13 books,four of which have been Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circleselections: “Making Toast,” “Beet,” “Lapham Rising” and“Life Itself.” His latest books are “Kayak Morning: Reflectionson Love, Grief, and Small Boats” and “Unless It Moves theHuman Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing.”Open Monday - Friday for lunch and dinnerSaturday & Sunday for breakfast, lunch & dinner142 Boulevard Avenue(Located at Holiday Harbor Marina)716-720-5959www.harborgrillceloron.comPAGE 16Rosenblatt’s list of awards and honors includes a FulbrightScholarship, Washingtonian Magazine’s award for the bestcolumnist in Washington, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize,two George Polk Awards, a Peabody Award and an Emmy. Heis a distinguished professor of English at Stony Brook Universityand has taught at Columbia School of Journalism, Georgetownand Harvard, his alma mater.Monday, June 25Norman LearNorman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film,and as a political and social activist and philanthropist.He is perhaps best-known asthe creator of the 1970s CBS sitcom“All in the Family,” which won thePeabody Award in 1978 and four“Outstanding Comedy Series”Emmys. He later created or producedmany hit shows, including“Maude,” “Sanford and Son,” “TheJeffersons,” “One Day at a Time,”“Good Times” and “Mary Hartman,Mary Hartman.”Lear is a founder or co-founder ofPeople for the American Way, the NormanLear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication,the Environmental Media Association and Declare Yourself, anonpartisan youth voter registration initiative. He is currentlychairman of Act III Communications, a multimedia holding company.Lear attended Emerson College and is a World War II veteran.Tuesday, June 26Jules FeifferJules Feiffer is an award-winning cartoonist, playwright,screenwriter and children’s book authorand illustrator, best known for hislong-running comic strip in TheVillage Voice, for which he won aGeorge Polk Award and PulitzerPrize. The first cartoonist commissionedby The New YorkTimes to create comic strips forits Op-Ed page, Feiffer has sinceshifted his focus towards writingand illustrating books for childrenand young adults, including TheMan in the Ceiling, A Room with aZoo and Bark, George!SEE PAGE 18