BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Chautauqua Institution - ECPv6.3.6//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Chautauqua Institution
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.chq.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Chautauqua Institution
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T202116
CREATED:20260407T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T140008Z
UID:98730-1784210400-1784210400@www.chq.org
SUMMARY:E.J. Dionne\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Dionne is a senior fellow and the W. Averell Harriman Chair in American Governance in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. He is also a Distinguished University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University\, affiliated with the McCourt School of Public Policy\, and a contributing columnist to The New York Times.   \nDionne began his career with The New York Times\, reporting on state and local government\, national politics\, and from around the world\, including stints in Paris\, Rome\, and Beirut. In 1990\, Dionne joined The Washington Post as a reporter covering national politics\, and was a columnist for The Post from 1993 to 2025\, when he became a Times contributor. He was an NPR commentator for two decades.  \nHis 1991 best-selling book\, Why Americans Hate Politics\, won The Los Angeles Times book prize\, and was a National Book Award nominee. He is the author and co-author of eight other books\, editor and co-editor of six volumes published by the Brookings Institution Press and co-editor of a collection of the speeches made by Barack Obama.  \nDionne has received numerous awards\, including the American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award\, Volunteers of America Empathy Award\, the National Human Services Assembly’s Award for Excellence by a Member of the Media and the Sidney Hillman Foundation’s Hillman Award for Career Achievement. He has been named among the 25 most influential Washington journalists by the National Journal and among the capital city’s top 50 journalists by the Washingtonian magazine. He was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.   \nDionne grew up in Fall River\, Mass. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Harvard University and received his doctorate from Oxford University\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  \nHe will also be speaking at the 10:45 a.m. Chautauqua Lecture Series platform earlier the same day.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/e-j-dionne-jr/
LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy\, Hall of Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Week Three (July 11–18),Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly,Interfaith Lecture Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Dionne_EJ_ILS_071626.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR