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Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate in literature (2006); professor of comparative literature, Fellow, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University; author, Other Colors: Essays and a Story (2007) and Istanbul: Memories and…

David Talbot, founder, former editor-in-chief, Salon.com; author, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (2007); "Why JKF is Still Ahead of His Time"  

Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2001-2003); distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Trouble with Poetry and Other P…

Bono, lead singer, U2; co-founder, advocacy organization DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) ; "A Lesson in Giving Back" (7:30 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)  

William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard; chairman and co-founder, Project for the New American Century; author, The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005 (2006) and co-author, War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and Ame…

Paul Shapiro, director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; "Opening the Archives of the International Tracing Service" (12:15 p.m.)  

Adrian Buono, guitar; Santiago Lee, guitar; Jose Agote, guitar; Juan Manzur, guitar; Juan Manuel Leguizamon, percussion; artists on albums Live in Los Angeles (2005) and Peripecias (2006); "Los Pinguos: A Musical Celebr…

Oona Eisenstadt, Fred Krinsky Chair of Jewish Studies and assistant professor of religious studies, Pomona College; author, Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Post Modernism (2001), "Is Judaism…

Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit (2004) and "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change" (2006)  

Noa Baum, performance artist; member, National Storytelling Network; author, "A Land Twice Promised" (2002)