Chautauqua 2012<strong>Amphitheater</strong> <strong>Lecture</strong> <strong>Speakers</strong>Thursday, Aug. 2Dahlia LithwickDahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and, in thatcapacity, writes the “Supreme Court Dispatches”and “Jurisprudence”columns. She also serves as a lectureron the faculty of the Universityof Virginia School of Law.Lithwick received the OnlineNews Association’s award foronline commentary in 2001 andagain in 2005, for a series she coauthoredon torture, and was thefirst online journalist invited toserve on the Steering Committee forthe Reporters Committee for Freedom ofthe Press. She is the co-author of Me v. Everybody: AbsurdContracts for an Absurd World, a legal humor book, and IWill Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall GangCamp, a book about seven children from Paul Newman’scamp with life-threatening illnesses.Before joining Slate, Lithwick worked for a family lawfirm in Reno, Nev., and clerked for Procter Hug, chief justiceof the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She earned herundergraduate degree from Yale College and her law degreefrom Stanford University Law School.Friday, Aug. 3Andrew ZolliAndrew Zolli is the executive director and curator ofPopTech, an elite annual gathering of thought leaders thatexplores the social impact of technology and the shape ofthings to come, and the founder of futures research thinktank Z + Partners. He is an expert in global foresight andinnovation, studying the complex trends at the intersectionof technology, sustainability and global society that areshaping our future.3375 E. Main Rd.,Dunkirk, NY 14048PAGE 34FROM PAGE 32dunkirkhomebrew.com716.679.7977Chautauqua County’s Only Beer & WineMaking Supply Store.Home Winemaking SuppliesBeermaking Supplies • Winexpert KitsBrewer’s Best Kits • Equipment • BottlesZolli serves as a National Geographic Society fellow,leading development of a global initiative to envision newscenarios for a sustainable world in 2030 and beyond. Formerlythe futurist-in-residence at Popular Science, AmericanDemographics and American PublicMedia’s “Marketplace,” he is theauthor of the forthcoming bookResilience: The Science of WhyThings Bounce Back. His workhas been featured on PBS, NPRand the History Channel, and inThe New York Times, Wired,Businessweek, I.D. and Fast Company.In addition to his work with largemultinational organizations, Zolliadvises a number of cutting-edge, notfor-profit,public policy and venture-backedstart-ups. He was named in 2005 to Fast Company’s “Fast50,” the magazine’s annual compilation of emerging businessleaders, and as one of Red Herring’s “Top 20 Under35.” Zolli attended Vassar College, Brown University andthe University of Houston.WEEK SEVENMonday, Aug. 6Dan ArielyDan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professorof Psychology & Behavioral Economicsat Duke University, where he holdsappointments at the Fuqua Schoolof Business, the Center for CognitiveNeuroscience, the School ofMedicine and the Department ofEconomics. He is also a foundingmember of the Center forAdvanced Hindsight.Ariely is the author of the NewYork Times best-seller PredictablyIrrational: The Hidden Forces thatShape Our Decisions and of The Upsideof Irrationality: The Unexpected Ways We Defy Logic atWork and at Home. Using simple experiments, he studieshow people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed tohow they should or would perform if they were completelyrational. His research has been published in leading psychology,economics and business journals, and has been featuredoccasionally in the popular press. He is a regular contributorto Marketplace.Ariely has taught at MIT, Princeton, Stanford and the Universityof California, Berkeley. He earned a bachelor’sdegree in psychology from Tel Aviv University, his master’sand doctoral degrees in cognitive psychology from the Universityof North Carolina, and a doctorate in business administrationfrom Duke University.SEE PAGE 36
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