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Samuel Sommers, associate professor of psychology, Tufts University; author, On Racial Diversity and Group Decision-making: Identifying Multiple Effects of Racial Composition on Jury Deliberations (2006) and co-author,…

Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley; former U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993-1997); author, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future (2010) and Supercapitalism: The Transformation…

Jonathan Berk, A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance, Stanford University; co-author, Corporate Finance (2007) and Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (2009); "Are Mutual Fund Managers Skilled?" (12:00 p.m.)  

David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley; co-editor, Finding Work: Jobs and Welfare Reform (2000) and Handbook of Labor Economics (1999); "Immigration: Economics, Attitudes and Policies" (12:30 p.…

Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies, international politics, and governance, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, Confronting the Weakest Link: Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies (2006)…

Mark Bauerlein, professor of English, Emory University; author, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30) (2008) and Negrophobia:…

Timothy Naftali, director, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum; author, George H.W. Bush (2007); "To Tell the Truth: Public History in a Public Museum"  

Hamza Yusuf, co-founder, Zaytuna College (1996); author, The Prayer of the Oppressed and Walking On Water (2010) and The Creed of al-Tahawi (2007); "Law, Ethics, and Shari'a" (12:00 p.m.)  

Edward Leamer, Director of Anderson Forecast, Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management, professor of economics and statistics, UCLA; author, Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories (2009) and co-editor, Handbook of Econometr…

Seth Lerer, Dean of Arts and Humanities, Distinguished Professor of Literature, U.C. San Diego; author, Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008) and editor, The Wind in the Willows: An…