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F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1995); Donald Bren research professor of chemistry, U.C. Irvine; author, Climate Change and Its Consequences (2001) and Atmospheric Changes Caused by Human Activities: F…

Tom Campbell, professor of law, Stanford University; author, Predation and Competition in Antitrust: The Case of Nonfungible Goods (1987) and co-author, The Link Between Liability Reforms and Productivity: Some Empirica…

Sergei Chugrov, senior researcher, Center for Comparative Socio-Political Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences; deputy editor in chief, The World Economy a…

Duncan Thomas, professor of economics, UCLA; author, Gender Differences in Household Resource Allocation (1991) and co-author, Longer Term Effects of Head Start (2000); "Real Costs of an Economic Crisis: Evidence From I…

David Sedaris, humorist; author, Naked (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000); "An Evening with David Sedaris"

Burton Levin, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma; "The U.S. and China: A Relationship Marred by Misperception" (12:15 p.m.)

Stuart Eizenstat, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; author, Appendix: U. S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hi…

Esther Maria Hernandez Arocha, assistant professor, Instituto Superior de Arte de la Habana (Havana University for the Arts); "Transformation of Cuban Art Since the Revolution: Creative Explosion vs. Censorship"

Pat Carroll, actress in The Show Off (1992) and Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (1979); and the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid (1989); "Readings and Reflections"

Alain Mabanckou, visiting professor of French, Francophone studies, comparative literature, UCLA; author, Bleu-Blanc-Rouge (Blue-White-Red) (1998) and Verre Casse (Broken Glass) (2005); "For a World-Literature in French…