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Paul Schimmel, former chief curator, MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles; "New Directions in Contemporary Art" (12:00 p.m.)

George Roberts '66 P'93, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); Britt Harris, CIO, The Teacher Retirement System of Texas; Darren Filson, associate professor of economics, director of graduate progra…

Thomas Steyer, president, NextGen Climate; founder, Farallon Capital Management (1986); founder, TimKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Stanford University; "Acting Politically to Avert Climate Disaster and Preserve Amer…

Charles Murray, W.H. Brady scholar, American Enterprise Institute; author, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (2012) and Real Education (2008); "Coming Apart at the Seams: America’s New Cultural Divide"

Peter Schuck, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law; adjunct professor of law, Yale University; author, Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better (2014) and co-editor, Understanding America: The Anat…

John Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics; George P. Schultz Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Senior Fellow, Stanford University; author, First…

Eric Liu, White House speechwriter and Deputy Domestic Policy Adviser for President Bill Clinton (1997-2001); columnist for TIME.com and The Atlantic.com; co-author, The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Cit…

Richard Breitman, professor of history, American University; co-author, FDR and the Jews (2013) and co-editor, Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald 1935-45 (2009); "FDR and the Jews"

George Lakoff, professor of linguistics, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (2008) and Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's…

W.S. Merwin, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2010-2011); U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry  to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); Pulitzer Prize-winning (1970, 2009) an…