CHAUTAUQUA – Chautauqua Institution has partnered with the National Geographic Society for Week Two, Sunday through Saturday summer season.

The morning lectures, themed “Feeding a Hungry Planet,” will be held at 10:45 a.m. from Monday to Friday in the Amphitheater. Continuing the discussion, the afternoon Interfaith Lecture Series, “With Economic Justice for All,” features expert insight on the crisis as it pertains to political and economical perspectives.

The afternoon lectures begin at 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, in the Hall of Philosophy. Both lecture series will offer an in-depth evaluation of the current global food supply chain and the barrier to overcoming poverty.

As the world’s population swells and more countries become industrialized, Chautauqua and National Geographic, along with Wegmans, present a week focused on the increasingly stressed global food shortage, a subject the magazine had made into a yearlong series in 2014.

Dennis Dimick, National Geographic magazine’s executive environmental editor, will lead off the week with photographer Jim Richardson with a visual introduction to the state of the food supply.

On Tuesday, Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating, and photographer Amy Toensing will illustrate Americans’ relationships with food.

Professor of plant pathology Pamela C. Ronald, co-author of Tomorrow’s Table, speaks Wednesday on the role of genetically modified foods.

For Thursday, Barton Seaver, director of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program at Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, will highlight the important connection between environmental resiliency and human health.

To end the week, Jonathan Foley, incoming executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, speaks on sustainability of civilization and the global environment.

Offering sociopolitical and socioeconomic expertise, “With Economic Justice for All,” an afternoon lecture series at 2 p.m. beginning Monday, and ending Friday,, will offer thought provoking discussions on the many factors that lead to inequality.

To enhance the cultural experience, Chautauqua Institution will showcase various performing arts in the evenings throughout the week. The highlight of Week Two is the one-night-only performance of the world-renowned opera Madam Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. The collaboration between the Chautauqua Opera and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra will begin at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater. Guests are also welcomed to enjoy Chautauqua Theater Company’s A Raisin in the Sun, on stage at Bratton Theater throughout the week.

The live excitement continues with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday and on Thursday in the Amphitheater. In addition, the Ladies First Big Bang will perform at the Amphitheater Ball at 8 p.m. on Friday.

Day tickets are available for purchase at the Main Gate Welcome Center Ticket Office on the day of your visit. Morning tickets grant visitors access to the grounds from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. for $22. Afternoon tickets grant access from noon to 8 p.m. for $14. Combined morning /afternoon passes allow access from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and cost $36. Evening passes grant access from 4 p.m. to Midnight and cost $40. For tickets and information, call 357-6250.