Ohio Chautauqua 2016 Events - Cincinnati Event
June 14, 2016 to June 18, 2016 -
Ohio Chautauqua 2016:
Tuesday, June 14
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum
State Route 128
Hamilton, Ohio 45013
10:30 a.m. Youth Program:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Susan Marie Frontczak: Writing about Nature
By describing what she experienced through her five senses—what she saw, heard, smelled, touched, and even tasted—Mary Shelley makes us feel like we were there with her, wandering through a forest, sailing across a lake in the night, or a climbing on a glacier. We will learn a fun technique of writing and then play a riddle game, where you pick a place to describe through your five senses, and we guess where you are through your description.
2:00 p.m. Adult Program: Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Dianne Moran: Dian Fossey, Passionate Mountain Gorilla Researcher and Defender
Dian Fossey reached a scientific epiphany no other researcher had attained—the trust of the gorilla families she studied, furthering scientific knowledge of gorillas and humankind's evolutionary origins. Dian's passion as a researcher was altered as she abandoned her research to save them. A closer look at her life reveals a troubled person whose entire life was dedicated to mountain gorillas.
Wednesday, June 15
Butler County Historical Society
327 N 2nd St
Hamilton, Ohio 45011
10:30 a.m. Youth Program- 10:30 a.m.
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Dan Cutler: Prehistoric People—How Primitive Were They?
In this hands-on workshop, Dan shares his extensive collection of natural items and replica tools made in the manner of the prehistoric peoples of the Ohio country. Participants will compare Native tools with tools used by settlers and frontiersmen. Which seem more effective? Which are more practical? What did the native peoples make out of rocks, sticks, and animal parts? (Almost everything!). During this workshop, Dan will talk about home life in the Native villages, share fire-starting techniques, explore games played by the pre-Columbian boys and girls, and examine the important roles played by the "three sisters"—corn, beans, and squash. By adapting to the "modern" 18th-century world, the First Americans may have lost more than they gained.
2:00 p.m. Adult Program:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Susan Marie Frontczak: Does a Clone Have a Soul - or - Grappling with the Monster
Mary Shelley's science fiction description of Frankenstein manipulating our natural world is nearly reality today. Consider: cloning, genetic engineering, and extension of life or capability through artificial means. First, as context, Susan Marie gives a brief overview of Shelley's novel Frankenstein, in which it is not the scientific discovery alone, it is the abandonment of the discovery to irresponsible use that turns a creation into a monster. Come ready to grapple with questions and venture opinions on a variety of ethical questions raised as a result of being able to do things today that Mary Shelley presented in the context of fiction. Does a Clone have a soul? Is it ever appropriate to use someone's body or cells to research without their permission? What if that research cures diseases? What is a scientist's responsibility toward their inventions? When should science be given free rein in order to discover something new? When does the society have the right or responsibility to step in? What new moral and ethical dilemmas would emerge from the potential of immortality? Susan Marie will moderate a discussion of these and other knotty questions. Explore the boundaries of what is possible today, and the responsibility that comes with that discovery.
Thursday, June 16
Partners in Prime
140 Ross Ave.
Hamilton, Ohio 45013
10:30 a.m. Youth Program- 10:30 a.m.
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Chuck Chalberg: Roosevelt's Character and Roosevelt as an American Character
This talk will emphasize TR's upbringing, with special emphasis on the impact of the natural world on his development.
2:00 p.m. Adult Program:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Dan Cutler: Living in the Natural World
An audience-friendly examination of tools and necessary lifestyles of pre-Columbian hunter- gatherers and the first complications thereof; population density resulting from the development of agriculture so that water supplies, fuel, drainage, game and trade with other population centers began to change the impact on the environment before contact. With the Europeans came increased trade but created other problems. Erosion, sulfur dioxide from the smelting process, the need for clean water, efficient sewage and dams for mills changed the environment while the natural world was gradually influenced by industry.
10:30 a.m. Youth Program:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Dianne Moran: Animal Researchers
Using a table covered with animal biofacts, participants will discover many animal secrets by examining the body parts. A program highlight is the appearance of several live animals. Participants may wish to bring pencil and paper to sketch the biofacts and animals.
2:00 p.m. Adult Program:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Susan Marie Frontczak:What Almost Stopped Marie Curie
How real were the apparent obstacles blocking Marie Curie's path to the laboratory? Find out the political, medical, and romantic backstories of hardships that could easily kept Marie Sklodowska's (Marie Curie's) name in obscurity.
Saturday, June 18
Lane Public Library
1502 University Blvd
Hamilton, Ohio 45011
10:30 a.m. Youth Program:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Susan Marie Frontczak: Storytelling: How Math Can Save Your Life
This amusing set of stories draws upon several math concepts—including counting by twos, simple division, and exponential growth—introduced in a way that is accessible to upper elementary school students and older. Susan Marie's upbeat and entertaining approach shows that math can be not only useful, but fun!Marie Curie's second college degree was in Mathematics, and it served her well throughout her long career in the laboratory. Her husband, Pierre, would send his students to her when they came to him with a particularly knotty math problem.
2:00 p.m. Adult Program:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Chuck Chalberg: Roosevelt as a Progressive
The focus of this talk will be on what the progressive movement was all about, as well as Roosevelt's place/role in that movement. There will be special emphasis on the conservation movement and just how it fit into the larger progressive movement. There will also be a discussion of the differences and similarities between the conservation movement of Roosevelt's era and the environmental movement of ours.
Evening Performances
Miami University-Hamilton Campus
1601 University Blvd
Hamilton, Ohio 45011
Performances begin at 7:30 p.m.
Live local music at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 14:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Chuck Chalberg as Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or TR, was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States, from 1901 to 1909. John Charles Chalberg's Teddy Roosevelt introduces us to this "force of nature" who believed in both preserving wilderness and making use of its natural resources.
Wednesday, June 15:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Dianne Moran as Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 - c. December 26, 1985) was an American zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist whose 1983 book Gorillas in the Mistbrought worldwide attention to her study of mountain gorilla groups in Rwanda and her battle to save the gorillas from extinction. Dianne Moran's dramatic depiction of Fossey uncovers a life of passion and trust that challenged the accepted role of the scientist in the world of primates in the wild.
Thursday, June 16:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Susan Marie Frontczak as Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 - 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized French physicist and chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry for her pioneering research on radioactivity. Susan Marie Frontczak brings Madame Curie to life to share how this tenacious and brilliant scientist strove to understand the invisible force of nature we call radioactivity.
Friday, June 17:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Dan Cutler as Chief Cornstalk
Chief Cornstalk (Shawnee: Hokoleskwa) (ca. 1720 - November 10, 1777) was a prominent leader of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolution. Dan Cutler's portrayal of Cornstalk reveals how Native American practices regarding the natural world changed in the face of European colonization.
Saturday, June 18:
Ohio Chautauqua 2016: Susan Marie Frontczak as Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus(1818). Susan Marie Frontczak's presentation will illuminate Shelley's relationship with the natural world, which for her variously represented healing, romance, adventure, inspiration, adventure, terror, and solace.
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