The popular summer lecture series kicks off Thursday, July 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Covering striking Air France mechanics in Paris early in her career as a reporter, Sarah Chayes was hit hard by a wave of inferiority.

Everybody here knows that the great American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote prophetically that you can’t go home.

The former Secretary of State regaled a packed house in Edgartown with humor and gravitas in a speech that was a pointed call to activism.

Former director of BBC Radio and BBC News Helen Boaden painted a bleak picture of the journalistic landscape before a packed audience Thursday evening.

Three leading voices in U.S. policy and economics spoke optimistically about the prospects for the U.S. economy before a near-capacity crowd at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center last week.

On Thursday, July 13, Helen Boaden will be the featured speaker at the Summer Institute Speaker Series at the Hebrew Center.

The Summer Institute Speaker Series at the Hebrew Center begins this Thursday, July 6, at 7:30 p.m.

While politically-oriented programming is often a big part of the Summer Institute series, this year politics takes even more of a center stage.

Love thy neighbor, author James Carroll stressed as he opened the Summer Institute's annual speaker series on Thursday night. This message was part of a powerful lecture defending the role of religion in an increasingly secular and violent world.