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Raymond Burghardt, former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam (2001-2004); director, East-West Center Seminars, East-West Center, Hawaii; "Prospects for Peace in Relations Across the Taiwan Strait" (12:00 p.m.)  

David "Scotty" Dawson, Command historian, U.S. Central Command; co-author, The U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1968: The Defining Year (1997) and co-editor, The Impact of Project 100,000 on the Marine Corps (1996); "Working wi…

Round Table Discussion: "The Recovery of 2009: Myth or Reality?" Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation, professor of economics, vice president for academic affairs, Dean of Faculty, CMC; c…

Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He is a renowned scholar and author of numerous books on modern Eastern Europe and the Hol…

Marci Shore is associate professor of History at Yale University where she teaches European cultural and intellectual history. She is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918…

Brian Parker is the director of education at The Taylor Hooton Foundation. The Foundation is solely dedicated to increasing education and awareness about the dangers of appearance and performance enhancing drugs (APEDs)…

Jean Yarbrough is professor of government and the Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. A recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she teaches political…

Renowned Indian music artists Paul Livingstone, Vineet Vyas, and Pandit (‘Maestro’) Kanhaiya Lal Mishra will play solo and together on sitar, tabla, and sarangi a selection of Hindustani ragas and talas (melodic and rhy…

Diana Linden, art historian, is the author of The New Deal Murals of Ben Shahn: Jewish Identity in the American Scene (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming 2015). Linden will situate Shahn’s New Deal mural producti…

Verlyn Klinkenborg, a writer and former editorial board member of The New York Times, has been praised for his NYT editorial series "The Rural Life," a collection of meditations on rural life and his farm in upstate New…