Chautauqua Lecture Videos
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- Renewing intellectual curiosity
- Encouraging individual expression
- Promoting civil discourse.
Recent EKU Chautauqua Lecture recordings (starting with the fall 2020 series) can be viewed on the EKU Chautauqua Lecture Series Youtube channel. Any recent lectures that are restricted from public viewing on youtube will be uploaded to this platform for current EKU students, faculty, and staff to access.
Due to license restrictions, lecture recordings on this platform are available only to current EKU students, faculty, and staff.Videos from 2023
The Harlan Renaissance: a Memoir of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns [Video], William H. Turner
Videos from 2022
How the Word is Passed [Video], Clint Smith
Videos from 2021
Navigating Latinx/*: Challenging Norms of Language, Patriarchy and Gender [Video], Cristóbal Salinas Jr.
Videos from 2018
The Story of Ned Christie: Untruths and Their Consequences [Video], Devon Mihesuah
The Pursuit of Happiness in Trying Times [Video], Tom Gilovich
A Fantastic State of Ruin: the Painted Towns of Rajasthan [Video], David Zurick
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray [Video], Sabine Hossenfelder
A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters [Video], Amy Freeman and David Freeman
The LA School Walkouts: Reflections on 50 Years of Protest and Progress [Video], Bobby Lee Verdugo and Yoli Rios
Censorship and Literary Transformation: Bourbon France, British India and Communist East Germany [Video], Robert Darnton
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy [Video], Robert H. Frank
Money Movers: Ethnography of Desire in Gray Economies in Southeast Asia [Video], Kimberly Kay Hoang
Literacy in the Digital Age: Transformations of the Reading Brain [Video], Maryanne Wolf
The Outkast Imagination: Hip Hop Education and Transformative Pedagogy [Video], Joycelyn A. Wilson
Rapid Evolution: How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog [Video], Lee Alan Dugatkin
Videos from 2017
Transformation and Conservation: Climate Change and the Southern Landscape [Video], Pamela S. Soltis
An American DREAMer: from Undocumented to Wall Street to Immigration Advocacy [Video], Julissa Arce
Einstein v. Roberts: Does Diversity Matter in Science? [Video], Sylvester James Gates Jr.
The Transformation of Higher Education: The New Economics of College and their Consequences [Video], Sara Goldrick-Rab
Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference [Video], John D. Inazu
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: An Evening with Dr. Lisa Randall [Video], Lisa Randall
The Dangerous History of the Love Song [Video], Ted Gioia
The Only Way Out is Within: a Poet's Path to Surrender [Video], Bianca Lynne Spriggs
Videos from 2016
War and Development in the Age of Climate Change [Video], Christian Parenti
Entropy and Irreversible Change: The Thermodynamics of Evolutionary Adaptation [Video], Jeremy L. England
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings [Video], Joy Harjo
Don't Panic!: ISIS, Terror, and Today's Middle East [Video], Gwynne Dyer
I Choose to be Happy: Triumphing over Tragedy [Video], Missy Jenkins Smith
A Latina Perspective on the Politics of 2016 [Video], Maria Hinojosa
Celebrating 400 Years of Cervantes and Shakespeare, with EKU Professors Manuel Cortés‐Castañeda, Ezra Engling & Kevin Rahimzade [Video], Manuel Cortés‐Castañeda, Ezra Engling, and Kevin Rahimzadeh
Heroes, Mavericks, and Psychopaths: The Virtue and Vice of Defiance [Video], Nancy Nyquist Potter