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SUMMARY:Diane Ackerman
DESCRIPTION:Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle — A Natural History of the Senses AND A Feast in Every Sense: The Mystery\, Marvel\, and New Science of Our Senses \nOriginally published in 1991\, A Natural History of the Senses is a vibrant celebration of our ability to smell\, taste\, hear\, touch\, and see. Poet\, pilot\, naturalist\, journalist\, essayist\, explorer\, Diane Ackerman weaves together scientific fact with lore\, history\, and voluptuous description. The resulting work is a startling and enchanting account of how human beings experience and savor the world.  \nIt asks and answers such questions as: How do perfumers know which scents allure? Why does music move us? How did kissing on the mouth begin? What is our craving for chocolate? It illuminates the phenomenon of pheromones and looks into the question of whether they control us. Incorporated in its superb reporting and splendid prose are fascinating facts: Humans have about 10\,000 taste buds\, cows 25\,000. What are they tasting\, and what are we missing? It probes such everyday mysteries as why leaves turn color in the fall and why we see them in color; and what it is that causes lovers to feel delight when they touch. A Natural History of the Senses is at once an ingenious exploration of the physical processes underlying our perceptions and an eloquent ode to life.  \nA companion work to A Natural History of the Senses and forthcoming in January 2027\, A Feast in Every Sense is Diane Ackerman’s luscious and tender journey into the mystery of our modern sensory lives\, a grand tour that captures the heady feelings of being alive. She introduces us to receptors that create the creamy sensation of a perfectly ripe avocado\, sound waves that allow us to identify hot versus cold water by sound alone\, skin sensors that lower pain and change brain chemistry at a lover’s touch.  \nThe sensory universe colors every morsel of human existence. Why does sitting in a hard chair make you a harder bargainer? Why does Tylenol decrease empathy? Why does sipping a bitter drink invite harsher moral judgments? How does the time of day you receive a flu vaccine or an organ transplant affect its success? Is airplane food really that dull\, or do our cravings and sense of taste warp at altitude? What sensory rebels have lived at the frontiers of perception? So many mysteries\, good and bad\, can only be understood through our senses.  \nAckerman also uses new scientific discoveries\, like our host of Secret Senses—ever-vigilant scouts—to explain life’s intricacies and understand how the world’s endless stimuli combine with our inner lives to form our deepest thoughts\, feelings\, hardships and joys.  \nBlending history\, science\, personal experience\, and a poet’s eye\, A Feast in Every Sense is both an ambrosial display of how we process the beauty around us and a call to rediscover what it means to be fully embodied and alive in a world brimming with wonders.  \nPoet\, essayist\, and naturalist\, Diane Ackerman is the author of over two dozen highly acclaimed works of nonfiction and poetry\, including The New York Times bestsellers The Zookeeper’s Wife\, A Natural History of the Senses\, and The Human Age. Ms. Ackerman has received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Communicating Science\, P.E.N. Henry David Thoreau Award for Nature Writing\, Orion Book Award\, John O’Donohue Poetry Award\, John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lavan Poetry Prize\, an honorary doctorate from Kenyon College\, among many others\, as well as being celebrated as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Several of her books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Circle Critics Award finalists. In 2016\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She also has the distinction of having a molecule named after her —dianeackerone— a sex pheromone in pygmy crocodiles. Ms. Ackerman has an M.F.A. and PhD from Cornell\, and has taught at a number of universities\, including Columbia and Cornell. Her essays about nature and human nature have been appearing for decades in the New York Times\, New Yorker\, American Scholar\, Smithsonian\, Nautilus\, National Geographic and many other journals. She hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by A Natural History of the Senses. In 2017\, The Zookeeper’s Wife was made into a feature film starring Jessica Chastain.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/diane-ackerman/
LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy\, Hall of Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC),Weekly Themes,Week Eight (August 15–22),Featured Events,Literary Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270823T104500
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SUMMARY:Jason Hanley and Greg Harris
DESCRIPTION:Chautauqua opens a week in partnership with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with two of the Rock Hall’s leaders\, helping to frame our weeklong conversation on “Turning Roots Into Rock.”  \nJason Hanley is the vice president of education and visitor engagement at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland\, where he ensures that every guest that visits the museum learns about the history of rock and roll and leaves inspired by its stories. Hanley works to develop the museum’s award-winning programs at the pre-K–12\, university and adult learning levels. The programs take place both on site and online and include the Rock Hall EDU educational platform. Hanley helps plan and implement all the museum’s family and community events and partnerships\, and live concerts — including the summer concert series Rock Hall Live. Hanley also oversees the museum’s daily operations and visitor experience in several related departments. He is executive producer of the museum’s Rock Hall Honors series\, the Rock the Ryman event and is often the face of the Rock Hall in interviews with artists\, producers and industry professionals.  \nBefore coming to the museum\, Hanley worked in New York as a performing musician\, songwriter\, record label owner\, scholar and author. His book\, Music Lab\, We Rock!: A Fun Family Guide for Exploring Rock Music History\, was released in 2014. His forthcoming book in 2027 is on the history of Industrial Music\, called The Wreckage Catalog. Hanley has spent time at the lectern in several schools teaching classes in music history\, electronic music and popular music studies at Hofstra University\, Stony Brook University\, Cleveland State University\, Case Western Reserve University and Cuyahoga Community College.   \nHanley holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Stony Brook University and has been with the Rock Hall since 2004. In 2015 he was awarded the Long Island Sound Award by the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame\, and the Shirley Strum Kenny Student Arts Festival Alumni Award by Stony Brook University\, and in 2025 he was inducted into the Sachem High School Hall of Fame.  \nGreg Harris\, president and CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum since 2012\, has guided the organization through an era of unprecedented transformation with a focus on innovation to drive growth. Under his leadership\, the museum has significantly increased attendance\, revenue\, fan engagement and community impact in fulfillment of its mission to honor the artists whose music connects us all. The museum has welcomed millions of visitors since 1995\, contributing billions in economic impact to the broader Northeast Ohio region.   \nConstruction on a Rock Hall expansion project\, designed by world-renowned architecture firm PAU\, was announced in 2023 and channels the energy of rock & roll\, pays homage to the existing I.M. Pei building\, and amps up the museum’s beautiful lakefront location. With this bold expansion\, fans will continue to experience the connective power of music through unparalleled\, technologically advanced\, interactive exhibits and educational programs.  \nBefore joining the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame\, Harris spent 14 years as a senior executive at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown\, New York. A native of Bucks County\, Pennsylvania\, he holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Temple University\, and an M.A. from the Cooperstown Graduate Program for History and Museum Studies.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/jason-hanley-and-greg-harris/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly,Week Nine (August 22–30)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270824T100000
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SUMMARY:Tour of Roe Green Theater Center
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URL:https://www.chq.org/event/tour-of-roe-green-theater-center-9/
LOCATION:Roe Green Theater Center
CATEGORIES:Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30)
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SUMMARY:CTC Theater Chats
DESCRIPTION:Theater Chats (formerly known as Brown Bags)  \n On selected Thursdays at 12:15 p.m.\, bring lunch to Smith Wilkes Hall and join special guests\, including actors\, designers\, playwrights and more\, for a look at our upcoming productions and discussions on the craft of theater-making. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/ctc-theater-chats-9/
LOCATION:Smith Wilkes Hall\, Smith Wilkes Hall
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Nine (August 22–30),Theater
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