b'48 GENERAL INTEREST SPECIAL STUDIES 2022DIVE DEEPER WITH THE CHAUTAUQUA LECTURE SERIESThroughout the 2022 Summer Assembly Season, Chautauqua offers the opportunity to engage with Amphitheater lecturers in a classroom setting, digging deeper into the issues examined from stage that morning, learning more about the speakers extensive work, and discussing ways in which one can apply such learning within their community and their world. Ages 14+.A CONVERSATION WITH NOAH FELDMANJoin legal scholar Noah Feldman following his Chautauqua lecture for a robust discussion on human rights as they pertain to free expression, Big Tech and social media platforms. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Axios resident legal scholar and a Bloomberg opinion columnist who is regarded as one of the great legal minds of the time. Feldman, who specializes in the Supreme Court, philosophy, politics and religion, is the author of 10 books, including his latest, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery and the Refounding of America. The host of the podcast Deep Background, he is the founder and CEO of Ethical Compass, a consulting firm that helps organizations improve ethical decision-making by creating and implementing new governance solutions; clients have included eBay and Facebook. Feldman proposed the idea of a Facebook Supreme Court, and has counseled the company on the development of its Content Oversight Board to help regulate controversial posts. Ages 14+.Week 3, 7/14 / Th / 3:305 p.m. / Hultquist 101Fees: 1 session$45A CONVERSATION WITH NADIA MURADJoin human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad following her Chautauqua lecture for a discussion about her non-profit Nadias Initiative, established to create greater awareness of sexual violence and the needs of its victims, and the need to defend the rights of all marginalized ethnic and religious minorities. Murad will be joined by translator Abid Shamdeen, the executive director and co-founder of the non-profit. In 2014, ISIS attacked Murads small farming village in Northern Iraq and killed thousands of Yazidis, including her mother and several of her brothers. She was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into sexual slavery. After escaping captivity, Murad relocated to Germany as a refugee and began her work as an activist. In 2016, Murad became the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2019, Murad was appointed as a UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate. Ages 14+.Week 3, 7/15 / F / 3:305 p.m. / Hultquist 101Fees: 1 session$45A CONVERSATION WITH JELANI COBBJoin journalist Jelani Cobb following his Chautauqua lecture for further discussion on what the fight for voting rights looks like in the 21st century. Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker, writing on race, history, justice, politics and democracy, as well as Columbia Universitys Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism. During a historic election in the midst of a global pandemic, Cobb investigated allegations of voter fraud and disenfranchisement as a PBS Frontline correspondent in the documentary Whose Vote Counts, revealing how these unfounded claims entered the political mainstream and presenting how racial inequities, COVID-19, and voter suppression became interlinked crises, contributing to a long legacy of inequality. Cobb is the author of Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress, and To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright and Ford Foundations, and is a graduate of Howard University and Rutgers University, where he received his PhD in American history. Ages 14+.Week 5, 7/27 / W / 3:305 p.m. / Hultquist 101Fees: 1 session$45Additional classes may be added. For current class listings, visit learn.chq.org'