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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the second annual KentPresents. By every measure, last year’s inau-gural event was a remarkable success. This year’s promises to be as good, per-haps even better. The speakers are accomplished, the topics provocative.

Unlike other ideas festivals, KentPresents strives to be small. We cherish intimacy, not size. KentPresents is designed to encourage mingling among attendees and speakers – during and after sessions, at receptions, meals and walks around the beautiful Kent School campus.

KentPresents has two principal missions: to disseminate great ideas and to help support charitable organizations serving people in need. Last year, we contrib-uted to 26 local charities. Our donations had a significant impact on their oper-ations, accounting for 1% to 46% of their annual budgets.

Donna and I have many to thank for making KentPresents happen. But one person in par-ticular deserves a special shout-out -- our col-league and friend, Michael Kramer. For the last two years, Michael’s contributions have been vital to making KentPresents happen. Thanks, Michael.

Our theme for KentPresents 2016 remains the same as last year’s: What Comes Next. Our hope is that by the time the festival ends Saturday evening, we’ll have succeeded in transforming What Comes Next? into What Comes Next!

Enjoy the festival.

WELCOME FROM BEN and DONNA

Donna and Ben RosenCo-Founders of KentPresents

MISSIONS OF KENTPRESENTS To share great ideas and support lo-cal charities. These charities primarily serve people in need. KentPresents, Inc., is a federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Connecticut state charitable organization.

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PRESENTERS There are 87 thought leaders partici-pating in 44 sessions. The presenters include three Nobel Laureates, multiple Pulitzer Prize winners, members of the three National Academies, and recipi-ents of awards including Tonys, MacAr-thurs, Emmys, Peabodys, National Book Awards and others.

TOPICS They include Art, China, Cuba, Eco-nomics, 2016 Election, Energy, Envi-ronment, Feminism’s Challenges, Food, Global Affairs, Health Care, Literature, Middle East, National Affairs, Per-forming Arts, Racial Divide, Russia, Supreme Court, Science, Sports and Technology.

PRESENTATION FORMATS Panel discussions, interviews, conversa-tions and debates.

NETWORKING A goal of KentPresents is to facilitate serendipitous opportunities for attend-ees to meet with speakers and each other at coffee breaks, meals, cocktail receptions and after-session breakouts.

BOARD OF ADVISERS KentPresents has a distinguished 29-member Board of Advisers, including such luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Jasper Johns, Henry Kissinger and Har-old Varmus. (Full list at KentPresents.org)

CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION Kent Presents, Inc., is registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity that is eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions. It is also regis-tered as a Connecticut state charitable organization. Last year, we made contri-butions to 26 such charities. The impact on the recipients was meaningful. The KentPresents grants accounted for 1% to 46% of the charities’ annual budgets.

KENT ARTS NIGHT When the curtain descends on Kent-Presents just after 6:30pm Saturday, all attendees are invited to a new evening celebration in Kent Village created by the town: a festive celebration of galler-ies, shops, restaurants, music, art exhib-its, restaurants and antiques. Just a short walk from the Kent School, venue of the ideas festival, Kent Arts Nights promises to be a small-town New England delight.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 207:00am-7:00pm Registration/Information open7:00-8:30 Continental breakfast8:30-1:00 12 sessions to choose from1:00-2:00 Lunch2:00-5:10 8 sessions to choose from5:10-6:30 KentPresents Closing Reception6:30-9:00

THURSDAY, AUGUST 189:00am-7:45pm Registration open11:30-12:30 Light lunch12:45-1:35 U.S. International Power in the 21st Century1:45-2:35 Space Exploration: Worlds Awaiting 2:35-2:55 Break2:55-3:45 The Racial Divide3:55-5:10 Aperitifs – Previews of Friday and Saturday Sessions5:20-5:50 A Surprise Entertainment5:50-7:00 KentPresents Opening Reception7:30-9:30 Theme Dinners in Kent Restaurants

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 7:00am-7:00pm7:00-8:30 8:30-1:00 1:00-2:00 2:00-5:20 5:30-6:30 6:30-9:30

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SESSION PREVIEWSAPERITIFS MATTISON,THURSDAY, 3:55-5:10pmHow to decide? That’s the single biggest frus-tration of KentPresents attendees. An embar-rassment of riches, or what might be called a high-class problem. On Friday and Saturday, you’ll be forced to decide among three tan-talizing sessions to attend, seven times each day. Fortunately, the Thursday Aperitifs session offers help. On Thursday afternoon, the speak-ers will give you brief and often entertaining previews of their sessions. Frank Delaney mod-erates

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BACK AT THE NUCLEAR BRINK MATTISON, FRIDAY, 11:00-11:50amNew York Times chief Washington correspon-dent David Sanger leads former Defense Sec-retary William Perry and Christopher Hill, a former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, in a discussion of the dangers of nuclear catastro-phe, which Perry warns is greater than it was during the Cold War. Included will be an as-sessment of the threats North Korea poses as a nuclear power implacably hostile to the West and Asia.

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BALANCING SECURITY AND LIBERTY MATTISON, FRIDAY, 8:30-9:20amIs there a happy medium between the increas-ing need for valuable intelligence and civil liberties? David Sanger of the New York Times, Frances Townsend (President George W. Bush’s Homeland Security advisor), Sir Richard Dear-love (the former head of Britain’s MI6), and Thomas Pickering, who worked on these issues as one

CUBA ENTERS A NEW ERA AT HOME AND ABROAD RECITAL HALL, SATURDAY, 9:40-10:30amFormer Cuban First Deputy Foreign Minister José Viera and American University Prof. Wil-liam LeoGrande discuss the far-reaching chang-es underway in Cuba during the past few years and the dramatic shift in U.S.-Cuban relations since December 2014. As the leaders who made the Cuban revolution prepare to hand power to the next generation, President Raúl Castro has launched a profound reorganization of the economy, moving toward a more mar-ket-oriented form of socialism, with significant political and social consequences. At the same time, Castro and President Obama have begun the complex and difficult process of normaliz-ing bilateral relations after half a century of hostility.

BEHIND THE RED CURTAIN: UNDERSTANDING CHINA MATTISON, SATURDAY, 2:00-2:50pmFormer Secretary of State Henry Kissinger helped “open” China to the West and former Ambassador to China Stapleton Roy served as U.S. Ambassador to Beijing. No two men better understand the nation that controls so much of the world’s destiny, the country that is both friend and foe as America fashions its own future in an increasingly multi-polar world. Michael Kramer moderates.

Kent Arts Night, a new village-sponsored celebration in Kent -- galleries, shops, restaurants, music, art ex-hibits, restaurants, antiques and entertainments. All KentPresents attendees and speakers are invited.

of the nation’s most respected diplomats, dis-cuss the problems and opportunities the West faces.

Registration openContinental breakfast11 sessions to choose fromLunch8 sessions to choose fromReceptionBarbeque Dinner on campus

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U.S. INTERNATIONAL POWER IN THE 21ST CENTURY MATTISON, THURSDAY, 12:45-1:35pmWith much of the world in crisis, Les Gelb kicks off this year’s festival with a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities facing the United States – no matter who the next President is. Gelb is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations; previously the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning chief diplomatic correspondent and foreign affairs columnist; director of policy planning for the State De-partment; and the Defense Department official responsible for assembling the Vietnam war history known as the Pentagon Papers. Michael Kramer moderates.

WHAT THE WISE MEN SEE MATTISON, FRIDAY, 4:30-5:20pmFormer Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove reflect on their time serving the world’s closest allies and dis-cuss the current state of global affairs. Michael Kramer moderates.

WHERE IS PUTIN TAKING RUSSIA? MATTISON, SATURDAY, 3:10-4:00pmTom Pickering and Jack Matlock, both former U.S. ambassadors to Russia, are particularly well placed to explain the challenges the West faces as a messianic ruler leads a resurgent nation striving to regain its former empire. Jim Hoge moderates.

WHAT HATH THE FOOD MOVEMENT WROUGHT? A CONVERSATION WITHMICHAEL POLLAN & CORBY KUMMER RECITAL HALL, FRIDAY, 12:10-1:00pmAs the US administration prepares to change and another every-five-year farm bill is about to be debated, the attention that Michelle Obama helped bring to childhood obesity and indus-trial food production is unlikely to be a similar priority to the next occupants of the White House. At the same time, consumers have perhaps never been as concerned, sometimes to a comical degree, about where their food comes from. Michael Pollan and Corby Kummer, two longtime observers and leaders of what is loosely called the food movement, assess how far it has come and the work that remains.

WHITHER THE RESTAURANT CRITIC? A CONVERSATION WITH ADAM PLATT AND CORBY KUMMER DICKINSON, SATURDAY, 3:10-4:00pmThe critic’s voice has never been more import-ant, if you look at what fuels people’s choices to go out to eat: online reviews and evaluations. But most of those are from unpaid critics moved to register their opinions online. Reliable, bi-ased or unusuable, reviews on Yelp and its ilk, in addition to a media industry without a penny to waste (and particularly not on foie gras) are supplanting the traditional restaurant critic whose meals, crucially, are reimbursed. Are in-dependent reviews still essential? Do they have a future? Adam Platt and Corby Kummer, two longtime and fortunate practitioners of the form, talk about the future of their profession—and the not-always-glamorous life of a working critic.

HEALTH CARELESS MEDICINE, MORE HEALTH RECITAL HALL, FRIDAY, 8:30-9:20amFind it early, treat it fast -- a mantra of modern health care that sounds as wise as its seems in-tuitive. But when medical researcher Dr. Gilbert Welch runs the numbers and applies his

LEISUREACIMAN ON PROUST DICKINSON, FRIDAY, 9:40-10:30amThe world and the mind of Marcel Proust is an alleged labyrinth without exit. His style is unforgiving and his insights into people seem so elaborate that many readers stop reading after a good-faith effort. And yet, to read Proust is to read oneself. Nothing that Proust says is really new to any of us. His thoughts and obser-vations have crossed our minds countless times. And all of us have felt the kind of emotions he describes in such minute detail—emotions that none of us is eager to admit we’re familiar with for fear of embarrassing ourselves: waiting for a mother’s goodnight kiss, being ripped

FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES BLOW DICKINSON, FRIDAY, 11:00-11:50amCharles M. Blow, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, discusses his critically ac-claimed, best-selling memoir, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” Blow will be interviewed by Jona-than Burnham, Sr. Vice President and Publisher, Harper Division at HarperCollins.

FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY DICKINSON, FRIDAY, 4:20-5:10pmDinitia Smith, Judith Thurman, and André Aci-man discuss their different approaches to writ-ing about real-life events and individuals. What are the challenges that confront a biographer, a novelist and a memoirist, and what differenti-ates the goals of each? What liberties can each take, and what are the constrictions each fac-es? Ultimately, what is it that makes an account feel true even when we suspect it might not be?

“HAMILTON” AND OTHERS:THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE NON-PROFIT THEATERS AND BROADWAY DICKINSON, FRIDAY, 2:00-2:50pmThe recent spectacular success of “Hamilton,” a musical born at the Public Theater and now taking the world by storm, has highlighted the long, sometimes vexed, relationship of the commercial theater to the non-profit theaters of the United States. How has the relation-ship between the two worlds developed over the almost fifty years since “The Great White Hope” and “A Chorus Line”? What are the conflicts, opportunities and perils that exist in such relationships? And how does the non-profit world hang onto its core values in this Brave New World? Aristic directors Oskar Eustis, John Doyle and moderator P. Carl discuss.

MYTHS, HALF-TRUTHS, AND OUTRIGHT LIES ABOUT YOUR BODY AND HEALTH RECITAL HALL, SATURDAY, 2:00-2:50pm Even though people have more access to med-ical information than ever before, they con-tinue to believe things about their bodies and health that are wrong. Some of these beliefs are simply unproven; more, however, have been proven by scientific research to be simply untrue. You don’t need to drink eight glasses of water a day. Exercise is not the key to weight loss. Breakfast isn’t “the most important meal of the day.” Sugar doesn’t make kids hyper. Eat-ing cholesterol doesn’t raise your cholesterol level. More important than hearing these things aren’t true is understanding why they’re not true. Dr. Aaron Carroll, author of three books on medical myths and regular contributor to the Upshot at the NYT, will walk you through the research, explaining how myths about nutrition and health arise and how they can be overcome. Corby Kummer moderates.

DEALING WITH THE MIDDLE EAST MESS MATTISON, SATURDAY, 8:30-9:20amThe strife that has marked the Middle East for decades continues unabated. Tom Pickering and Christopher Hill have served as U.S. ambassa-dors in the region and Hussein Al-Majali was Jordan’s Interior Minister. Chase Robinson, the president of CUNY’s Graduate Center, leads adiscussion of what we actually know about theMiddle East and what – if anything – can be done to ensure that the world’s most vexing hot spot becomes more peaceful.

own wisdom, he comes up with a startling con-clusion. “Too many people are being told they are sick,” he says, “and getting treatments that hurt, rather than help.” It might be good for business, but Welch argues that over-testing, over-screening and over-treating are violating medicine’s prime principle: first, do no harm. John Donvan moderates.

apart by the most shameful feelings of jealousy for someone we’re not even sure we’ve ever been in love with, waiting for a sign, a letter, a phone call from someone who is almost unaware that we exist. We’ve all been there. But we never focused. Which is why we need Proust. He knows who we are better than we do ourselves. André Aciman speaks, Jonathan Burnham moderates.

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SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES BE PAID? DICKINSON, FRIDAY, 12:10-1:00pmCollege sports is a multibillion dollar business. Yet the football and basketball players who make that business possible earn nothing be-yond their scholarships. New York Times sports business columnist Joe Nocera says that players should be paid for their work. Ekow Yankah, professor of law at the Cardozo School of Law, argues that paying athletes betrays the spirit of college athletics, and that the benefits athletes get from universities are incalculable. Jay Krie-gel moderates.

CHARLIE COOK DISSECTSTHE 2016 ELECTION MATTISON, FRIDAY, 3:10-4:00pmAmerica’s best election prognosticator, Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher of the Cook Political Report, takes us through what we can expect as the campaigns heat up, at both the presidential and down-ballot races. Long-time politico Jay Kriegel will moderate.

FORESHADOWING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: KEY CAMPAIGN ISSUESMATTISON, SATURDAY, 11:00-11:50amFormer U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) discuss the issues shaping the homestretch of the 2016 presidential race. Learn how the two parties are likely to face off on such hot-button issues as national security and terror-ism, jobs and employment, healthcare and the Supreme Court. TV correspondent Jane Whit-ney moderates.

A GUARANTEED INCOME FOR EVERY AMERICAN RECITAL HALL, FRIDAY, 2:00-2:50pmTwo proponents from opposite ends of the polit-ical spectrum agree that there should be a Uni-versal Basic Income. From the right is Libertari-an Charles Murray, author of “The Bell Curve.” From the left is Andy Stern, former president of the nation’s second-largest union, the Service Employees International Union. Hear why they agree, and just where they differ. John Donvan moderates.

SMART CITIES -- HYPE OR HOPE? RECITAL HALL, SATURDAY, 3:10-4:00pmA growing majority of the world’s people live in urban areas. New technologies hold the promise of making cities “smart,” so that they are more efficient, livable, sustainable and equitable. Steve Koonin, director of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, and Mark Gorenberg, former member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, will explore the implications of that vision and the challenges in creating truly smart cities.

WHERE IS THE SUPREME COURT HEADED? RECITAL HALL, FRIDAY, 9:40-10:30amFrom civil rights to voting rights to campaign finance to health care – and many other issues – the Supreme Court is changing the way Amer-ica is governed. What do its recent and up-coming decisions presage for the future? What should we expect of a new justice following the death of Antonin Scalia? Trevor Morrison, dean

THE ENVIRONMENT: WHY WE MUST OVER-COME OUR FEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET RECITAL HALL, FRIDAY, 11:00-11:50amSince the early 1970s, saving nature has been synonymous with reducing energy consump-tion, harmonizing with nature and moving from nuclear to renewables. But what if we got it all wrong? Time Magazine “Hero of the Environ-ment” and founder of Environmental Progress, Michael Shellenberger, makes the case that ris-ing energy consumption is good for people and nature, that attempts at harmonization increase humankind’s impact, and that nuclear power is essential to mitigating climate change. Frank Delaney moderates.

FEMINISM’S CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY MATTISON, FRIDAY, 2:00-2:50pmDuring the 20th century women made tre-mendous advancements in business, politics, academia, the arts, entertainment, science and many other fields. Most would agree that these social justice advances were made possible, in large part, by the women’s movement. And yet, because of women’s progress, some wom-en (young and not so young) view the label of feminism as outdated ideology, a 20th century relic that needs to be replaced. But by what? Moderator Darren Walker joins three remark-able panelists – Faye Wattleton, Eleanor Heart-ney and Laurie Simmons -- who have committed themselves to women’s equality as they discuss feminism and what still needs to be accom-plished to achieve equal rights for women.

AS TECHNOLOGY RACES AHEAD, HOW DO HUMANS KEEP UP? RECITAL HALL, FRIDAY, 4:30-5:20pmWe’re seeing innovations these days in every-thing from artificial intelligence to drones that are the stuff of science fiction, and there’s much more to come. In the face of this technology surge, can workers’ skills, government policies, business strategies, and educational approach-es change quickly enough? How can we build healthy, prosperous communities and societies as we move deeper into the Second Machine Age? MIT’s Andrew McAfee, co-author of the in-fluential “The Second Machine Age,” is joined by economist Charles Murray and artificial intelligence pioneer Stuart Russell. John Donvan moderates.

THE RACIAL DIVIDE MATTISON, THURSDAY, 2:55-3:45pmA house divided? Do recent tensions among the races -- and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement -- signal a greater split than America has experienced in recent times? Is police conduct more worrisome than in the past? Can anything be done? And is the current presidential campaign exacerbating matters?

SCIENCE THE FINAL FRONTIER PIERCED: PRECISE GENE ALTERATION MATTISON, SATURDAY, 12:10-1:00pm Science is on the brink of being able to alter human heredity at the finest level possible. We have three billion base pairs in our genetic material and we can now imagine altering any one or any combination at will in human germ cells or fertilized eggs, thus genetically sculpt-ing the next generation. This is pretty scary stuff. The question is this: Are we better off depending on the random genetic lottery that is sexual reproduction or should we use our tech-nology and intelligence to consciously interfere with the process? Nobel Laureate David Balti-more raises the question, while moderator and Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus will help guide us toward the answer.

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THE RIGHT SONG MATTISON, SATURDAY, 4:20-5:10pmA discussion with performances that consider the question, “How do you musicalize a mo-ment from previous source material when writ-ing a musical?” Broadway director Lonny Price, lyricist Michael Korie and composer-lyricist Da-vid Yazbek examine scenes from straight plays and films that have been adapted into musicals. Three Broadway actor-singers will perform the songs that these scenes have inspired. Included will be material from a variety of musicals.

MARLON AND ME RECITAL HALL, SATURDAY, 12:10-1:00pmCelebrated comedy screenwriter and director Andy Bergman (“Blazing Saddles”, “The In-Laws,” “The Freshman” and many others) knew Brando well, and will shed light on this legend in an insightful and humorous multimedia pre-sentation. Frank Delaney moderates.

of the NYU law school, leads former Obama assistant Danielle Gray and Assistant to the So-licitor General Jeff Wall in an attempt to better understand our most mysterious institution.

What is to be done? These and other questions will be discussed by civil rights lawyer Kristen Clarke, law professor Ekow Yankah and Man-hattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance. Darren Walker moderates.

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TECHNOLOGYARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIETY: SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION MATTISON, FRIDAY, 9:40-10:30amAI may well become the most transformational development of the first half of the 21st century.

DARPA: POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE MATTISON, SATURDAY, 9:40-10:30amGPS in the palm of your hand, artificial intel-ligence, wireless communications, the internet itself. Each was sparked by research invest-ments made by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. As it invents the technologies that change what’s possible for national security, DARPA also seeds revolu-tions that disrupt and reshape how we live and work. What’s brewing in today’s DARPA programs -- in autonomous systems, neurotech-nology, cyber defense, synthetic biology and other frontiers -- and how will those pending advances change our world? DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar gives a first-hand report from the technological horizon, and explores the opportunities, challenges, and tough choices ahead for all of us.

DRIVING IN THE DIGITAL AGERECITAL HALL, SATURDAY, 11:00-11:50amFew emerging technologies have the potential to so dramatically improve human society -- yet present so many unanswered questions. Every-one benefits from fast, safe, inexpensive and smart new ways to get from here to there, and the first cars with autonomous driving capability may go on sale as soon as 2020. But it is still unclear who will make them, what form they will take, how they will be controlled, and who will be financially -- and morally -- responsible for their safe operation. Ford Motors research chief Ken Washington and Toyota Research Institute president Gill Pratt will take on these issues. Alex Taylor moderates.

INNOVATIONS TO HELP AGING PEOPLE STAY HEALTHY AND INDEPENDENT RECITAL HALL, SATURDAY, 8:30-9:20amFalls are the leading cause of fatal injury and the most common cause of nonfatal trauma-re-lated hospital admissions among older adults. The cutting-edge wireless technologies devel-oped by our speaker, Prof. Dina Katabi of MIT, can remotely monitor incidents of falls, as well as a person’s heart rate, breathing rate and mobility, using only wireless signals – no sensors or connections or pendants required! Watch a remarkable demo. Mark Gorenberg moderates.

ROBOTICS: THE PROMISE AND THE REALITY RECITAL HALL, FRIDAY, 3:10-4:00pmA new generation of high-performance robots is leaving the laboratory and entering the world. How do they understand and navigate the spaces we take for granted? What can we hope to gain from their agility, autonomy, dexterity and intelligence? When will they enter our lives and free us from tasks that people can’t safely and comfortably do? Why do robots matter—and why do they matter now? Robotics legend Mark Raibert is joined by Gill Pratt, another robotics pioneer. John Donvan moderates.

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FIFTY YEARS AFTER: GORDON PARKS TO LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER DICKINSON, SATURDAY, 2:00-2:50pmAs we mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement, we look back on the career of Gordon Parks, groundbreaking African American photographer. Have we taken steps backward since the achievements of the Civil Rights movement? What was it like for Gordon Parks to document his era as one of the pio-neering black photographers? Photographers Deborah Willis, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Prof. Sarah Lewis discuss the relationship between art and social change. Curator Carter Foster mod-erates.

A FINE ROMANCE: MUSEUMS AND COLLECTORSDICKINSON, SATURDAY, 9:40-10:30amMuseums depend on collectors to donate the art that makes them great. Collectors depend on museums to provide a public for their art, to confirm their discernment, and to record their generosity. But the relationship between them is not always simple. When should a collec-tion get its own gallery or museum, and when should it be integrated into an existing collec-tion? How do the changing tastes of collectors change the task of museums? The directors of three major museums discuss what it takes to achieve the right match between collector and institution: Colin Bailey, Morgan Library & Museum; Thomas Campbell, Met Museum; and Gary Tinterow, Houston Museum of Fine Arts. NYU’s Pepe Karmel moderates.

SHAHZIA SIKANDER:GLOBALIZING MODERNISM DICKINSON, SATURDAY, 12:10-1:00pmShahzia Sikander, who reinvented Indo-Persian miniature painting in the 1990s, will discuss her work with the critic Eleanor Heartney and the art historian Pepe Karmel. They will discuss how her work has been shaped by her cultural roots in both Pakistan and the United States, by the political conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia, and by the art world tensions between generations of artists working in the medium she invented.

SPACE EXPLORATION: WORLDS AWAITINGMATTISON, THURSDAY, 1:45-2:35pmWe have visited every planet of our solar sys-tem, have been “roving” on Mars for more than a decade, are planning to land and explore the “Ocean Worlds” of the outer solar system, and are starting to image and study planets around other stars. Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the last 15 years, gives us a first-hand view of the challenges and excitement of space exploration. John Donvan moderates.

THE EVER-CHANGING ART MARKET DICKINSON, FRIDAY, 4:30-5:20pmWhy are works of art soaring to stratospheric prices? Why do buyers from Asia and the Mid-dle East desire American and European trea-sures? What is the trajectory of the art market in the face of economic and political volatility? What’s the impact on collecting, historically the pursuit of passion, in the market that increas-ingly sees works of art as an asset class and an alternative global currency? Why does profit remain elusive for many art businesses -- gal-leries, auction houses, online platforms -- even as the market has dramatically expanded? All these questions and more will be addresed by panelists Amy Cappellazzo, Adam Lindemann and moderator Katya Kazakina.

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES:ALBERT EINSTEIN TO LIGO MATTISON, FRIDAY, 12:10-1:00pmLast September 14, LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) discovered gravitational waves produced by the collision of two black holes a billion light-years from Earth. In a fraction of a second, the storm in-jected as much energy into the waves as onewould get by annihilating three suns. The power output during that fraction of a second was 50 times the total luminosity of all the stars in the universe put together, and it all came off as gravitational waves, with no accompanying electromagnetic emission. This was humanity’s first encounter with a gravitational wave, and it gives us a whole new way of observing the universe -- a way that will be a major tool for astronomy for decades and even centuries to come. The technology required to pull this off is the culmination of a 40-year R&D effort by a LIGO team that now includes 1,000 scientists and engineers at 80 institutions in 16 nations. Caltech’s Prof. Kip Thorne, one of the scientists who conceived the LIGO experiment, will be interviewed by “Einstein” biographer Walter Isaacson.

Already, a new breed of “cognitive computing” technologies that work side by side with human experts are fundamentally changing our under-standing of the world’s most complex systems, including health care, education, financial services and the environment. This discussion brings together some of the field’s most respect-ed experts – IBM’s John Kelly and U.C. Berke-ley’s Stuart Russell. Walter Isaacson mderates.

WHEN IS A PAINTING OVERCOOKED? DICKINSON, SATURDAY, 11:00-11:50amOvercooked refers to an artwork that an artist feels is ruined by having taken it too far. But what can be learned from the experience? Often, discoveries, or even surprising break-throughs. Some artists need to overcook regu-larly in order to find out where they’re going. As Cocteau said, “The art of genius is knowing how far to go too far.” In the year of the Met Breuer’s popular “Unfinished” show, this is a look at the other end of the spectrum by artists Dana Schutz, Julian Lethbridge and art writer Dodie Kazanjian, who moderates.

PRESENTERSAndré Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays.

David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate, President Emeritus of Caltech, is considered one of the world’s most influential biologists. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1975 in Physiology, he has profoundly influenced national science policy on such issues as recombinant DNA research and the AIDS epidemic. His present research fo-cuses on control of inflammatory and immune responses as well as on the use of gene therapy methods to treat HIV and cancer in a program called “Engineering Immunity.” He played a major role in the 1970s in the formation of Collaborative

Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum. Dr. Bailey is a spe-cialist in 18th-century French art and is a recognized authority on the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He earned his PhD in Art History from the University of Ox-ford. Dr. Bailey was previously Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francis-co, the Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick Collection, deputy director and chief curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and senior curator at the Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas.

Andrew Bergman, crowned the “Unknown King of Comedy” by New York Mag-azine, is the writer and director of “The Freshman,” “Honeymoon In Vegas,” and “The In-Laws.” He co-authored the screenplay of “Blazing Saddles” and the Broadway hit, “Social Security.” He was awarded the Writers Guild of America Award in 1975 for best original screenplay (“Blazing Saddles”). In 2007, the Writ-ers Guild of America awarded him the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing.

Charles Blow is a New York Times columnist. Blow previously served as the pa-per’s graphics director and then Design Director for News before leaving in 2006 to become the Art Director of National Geographic Magazine. Blow is the author of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” released in September 2014. He graduated mag-na cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a B.A. in mass communications.

Jonathan Burnham is the Senior Vice President and Publisher of the Harper Divi-sion at HarperCollins and previously President of Miramax Books. His Harper list includes Barbara Kingsolver, Louise Erdrich, Harper Lee, Nicole Krauss, Milan Kundera, Anderson Cooper, General Colin Powell and many others. He is also on the board of Senior Conservators at New York Public Library and is a faculty member at New York University.

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ARE OLD MASTERS RELEVANT IN THE HIGH-FUELED WORLD OF CONTEMPORARY ART? DICKINSON, FRIDAY, 3:10-4:00pmMost artists mine one another’s work, with influence coming from the dead as much as -- or more than -- from the living. But in the last 20 years, trends have favored contemporary art production and practice, accompanied by a fall in interest in, and knowledge of, older art. We see evidence of this in the exponential rise of the market for contemporary art, the number of exhibitions devoted to it, the breathless atten-tion of prominent collectors, and the seemingly endless proliferation of contemporary art muse-ums. In this environment, what is the relevance of the so-called “old masters”? What does it mean when the larger culture seems to place greater value on the newly made? Moderator

Scott Rothkopf, Whitney Museum curator, is joined by Thomas Campbell of the Met Muse-um, Kevin Salantino of the Huntington Library, and Carter Foster of the Whitney.

Eric Cantor was formerly United States Representative for Virginia’s 7th Con-gressional District and House Majority Leader. One of his many accomplishments as Majority Leader was the passage of the JOBS Act, which makes it easier for start-up and emerging growth companies to access capital. He is currently Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Moelis & Company. Mr. Cantor received his undergraduate degree from The George Washington University, his law degree from The College of William and Mary, and his master’s degree from Columbia University in New York.

Thomas Campbell is the Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to his appointment in 2009, Campbell was a curator in the Metropolitan’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts for 14 years where he organized two major exhibitions on Renaissance and Baroque tapestry.

Amy Cappellazzo is Chairman of the Fine Arts division of Sotheby’s. Her firm, Art Agency, Partners, was acquired by Sotheby’s in a groundbreaking deal. Cappel-lazzo previously served as a market leader in the field of contemporary art at Christie’s, where she rose to the post of Chairman of Post-War & Contemporary Development. Previously, Cappellazzo was an art advisor, curator and key figure in the establishment of Art Basel in Miami Beach. She holds a MA in Urban De-sign from the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, where she focused on the role of public art in shaping cities.

P. Carl is the Director and co-founder of HowlRound—a think tank of theater mak-ers worldwide. He is also the co-artistic director of ArtsEmerson at Emerson Col-lege. Carl is a Distinguished Artist in Residence on the Emerson faculty and an Associate Vice President of the college. He is the former Producing Artistic Direc-tor of the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and the former Director of Artistic Development at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. He holds a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is a distinguished physician, administrator and researcher at Indiana University. He is also the host of “Healthcare Triage” on YouTube, where he interprets medical conundrums and debunks health myths for a wide audience. He is Director of the Section of Pediatric and Adolescent and Comparative Effec-tiveness Research, Vice Chair for Health Policy and Outcomes Research and Direc-tor, Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at Indiana University. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the National Lawyers’ Commit-tee for Civil Rights Under Law, leads one of the country’s most important national civil rights organizations in the pursuit of equal justice for all. Clarke formerly served as the head of the Civil Rights Bureau for the New York State Attorney General, worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division.

Sir Richard Billing Dearlove KCMG, OBE, served as Chief (known as ‘C’) of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), known colloquially as MI6. Preceding this, he was Director of Operations and Assistant Chief. As Director of Finance, Administration and Personnel he also oversaw the move of SIS into its Head-quarter Building at Vauxhall Cross in 1994. He is a career intelligence officer of thirty-eight years standing and has served in Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva and Washington as well as in a number of key London-based posts. He is Chair of Trustees of the University of London and a trustee of Kent School, Connecticut.

Frank Delaney, born and raised in Ireland, spent more than 25 years in England before moving to the United States in 2002. His first “American” book was the New York Times bestseller, “Ireland - a Novel.” His second, the non-fiction “Simple Courage,” was chosen as one of the top five books of the year by the American Library Association. A former Booker Prize Judge and Literary Director of the Edinburgh Festival, and a renowned BBC news and arts broadcaster, and he has created landmark programs and passionate documentaries on subjects including Joyce, Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and more Emily Dickinson.

John Donvan, two-time Emmy winner, is an author, broadcaster, speaker and per-forming storyteller. His 2016 book, “In A Different Key: The Story of Autism,” is a New York Times bestseller. He is also host and moderator of the acclaimed “Intel-ligence Squared U.S.” debate series. As a correspondent for ABC News, Donvan has served as Chief White House correspondent and held postings in London, Jerusalem, Moscow and Amman.

John Doyle, Tony Winner, has been Artistic Director at four prestigious regional theaters in the UK. He now has an extensive freelance directing career in theater, film and opera. Doyle’s U.S. credits include productions of “Sweeney Todd,” “Company,” “The Visit” and “The Color Purple.” He also has numerous credits in London’s West End. In addition, Doyle has directed at the Sydney Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera and many others. He recently became Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company.

Dr. Charles Elachi is the recently retired Director of the Jet Propulsion Laborato-ry and Vice President of Caltech. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science at Caltech. He is a member of the Commission on DOE Nation-al Laboratories, a fellow of IEEE and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). In his 40-year career at JPL, Dr. Elachi played the lead role in developing the field of spaceborne imaging radar, which led to the Mars Exploration Rover Mission.

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Charlie Cook is Editor and Publisher of the Cook Political Report and a political analyst for National Journal magazine, where he writes a twice-weekly column. Charlie is considered one of the nation’s leading independent and non-partisan authorities on American politics and U.S. elections. In 2010, he was a co-recipi-ent of the American Political Science Association’s prestigious Carey McWilliams award to honor “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of poli-tics.” In the spring semester of 2013, he served as a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

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Carter E. Foster is currently the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Cura-tor of Prints and Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin. He previously served as the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Special areas of interest and research have included the tradi-tion and pedagogy of life drawing in France, French festival design in the 18th century, the influence of ancient sculpture on Neoclassicism and Edward Hopper. He has held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

LaToya Ruby Frazier, a MacArthur Fellow, works in photography, video and per-formance to build visual archives that address industrialism, rust belt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, family and communal history. She is an assistant professor of photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, hav-ing previously lectured worldwide. Her work is exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally.

Leslie H. Gelb is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a columnist, editor and correspondent for the New York Times, and is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He served as an Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs in the Carter Administration, Director of Policy Planning in the Pentagon un-der Lyndon B. Johnson, Director of the Pentagon Papers Project and as Executive Assistant to Senator Jacob Javits. He holds a PhD from Harvard. He has written a number of books, including most recently, “Power Rules.”

Danielle Gray served in the administration of President Barack Obama for five years in senior legal and policy positions, most recently as Assistant to the Presi-dent and Cabinet Secretary. Currently she is a litigation partner in O’Melveny & Myers’s New York and Washington, DC, offices. Previously, as Associate Counsel to the President, she served as one of the principal lawyers advising on the Af-fordable Care Act and played a lead role in judicial selection and confirmation

Eleanor Heartney is an author and Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress. Among her books are “Art and Today,” “Postmodernism, and Postmod-ern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art,” and co-author of “After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art.” Heartney is a past President of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Crit-ics Association. She has received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Ma-ther Award and the French government’s Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Mark Gorenberg is a Founder and Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners. With 25 years of venture capital experience, Gorenberg serves on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation and is a board member of the MIT Investment Committee. In 2011, Gorenberg was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers.

Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. He is the author of “The Innovators,” “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” “Steve Jobs” and many oth-er books. He is chair emeritus of Teach for America, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of United Airlines, Tulane University, the Overseers of Harvard University, the New Orleans Tricentennial Commission, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Society of American Historians, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.

James Hoge was for 18 years editor of Foreign Affairs. Previously, he spent three decades in newspaper journalism, rising to editor and publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times and publisher of The New York Daily News. Under his direction, the Sun-Times won six Pulitzer Prizes and the Daily News one. He is the Vice Chair-man of the International Center for Journalists and Former Chairman of Human Rights Watch. He writes, lectures, and has edited several books on international affairs. Currently, he is Senior Advisor, Teneo Intelligence, in New York.

Hakeem Jeffries has represented New York’s 8th Congressional District in the House of Representatives since taking office in 2013. This vibrant and diverse District encompasses neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Southwest Queens. He over-whelmingly won the seat in the 2012 election, succeeding a thirty-year incumbent. Jeffries currently serves on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, including the subcommittees on Higher Education and Workforce Training and on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions and the House Judiciary Committee, including the subcommittees on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet and on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law.

Christopher Robert Hill is a former career diplomat, a four-time ambassador, nom-inated by three presidents, whose last post was as Ambassador to Iraq. Previously he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Poland, the Republic of Macedonia and Special Envoy to Kosovo. He also served as a Senior Director on the staff of the National Security Council. He was the head of the US delegation to the Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Currently he is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at The University of Denver.

Oskar Eustis is the Artistic Director of The Public Theater in New York. Previously he served as Artistic Director at Trinity Repertory Company and Associate Artistic Director at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum. Prior to that he was with the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco. Eustis is currently a Professor of Dramatic Writing and Arts and Public Policy at New York University. Eustis received honor-ary doctorates from Rhode Island College in 1999 and Brown University in 2001.

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Katya Kazakina has been covering the art market for Bloomberg News since 2006. She has reviewed gallery and museum exhibitions, profiled artists and col-lectors and reported from major auctions and art fairs. Her articles have won top awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and the Society of Silurians. Kazakina is an alumna of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Born in Leningrad, she moved to the U.S. as a political refugee with her parents in 1990.

Dr. John Kelly is senior vice president, Solutions Portfolio and Research for IBM. He is focused on the company’s investments in several of the fastest-growing and most strategic parts of the information technology market, including IBM Watson. He also oversees the development of units devoted to serving clients in specific industries, beginning with the April 2015 launch of IBM Watson Health. Dr. Kelly holds a PhD in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Dodie Kazanjian has covered and written about the art world for Vogue since 1989. She is the founding director of Gallery Met, the non-profit contemporary art space at the Metropolitan Opera. Her books include “Icons: The Absolutes of Style,” “Dodie Goes Shopping,” and “Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman,” co-authored with her husband Calvin Tomkins.

Henry Kissinger, 1973 Nobel laureate, was the 56th U.S. Secretary of State. Prior to that, he was Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He is cur-rently Chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm. Author of 18 books, they range from “Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy” in 1957 to “World Order” in 2014.

Steven E. Koonin was appointed as the founding Director of NYU’s Center for Ur-ban Science and Progress in April 2012. This consortium of academic, corporate and government partners pursues research and education activities to develop and demonstrate informatics technologies for urban problems in the “living labo-ratory” of New York City. Previously, he served as Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy, where he oversaw technical activities across the De-partment’s science, energy, and security activities, and led the Department’s first Quadrennial Technology Review for energy.

Michael Korie created lyrics to Scott Frankel’s music for “Grey Gardens,” “Far From Heaven,” “Doll,” “Happiness” and “Meet Mister Future.” Their scores have been nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards, received The Outer Critics Cir-cle Award, and have been produced on Broadway, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, throughout the USA, in Europe and South America. He teaches lyric writing at Yale.

Michael Kramer is a playwright and award-winning journalist. He was New York Magazine’s political columnist and Time magazine’s political columnist, covering national and foreign affairs. He was also chief political correspondent for U.S. News and World Report and managing editor of the New York Daily News. The Shubert Organization is producing his drama, “Divine Rivalry,” about Machiavel-li, Leonardo and Michelangelo.

Dr. William M. LeoGrande is Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Government at American University. Dr. LeoGrande was an Interna-tional Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and worked with the Democratic Policy Committee of the United States Senate. Professor LeoGrande specializes in Comparative Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy. He has written widely in the field of Latin American politics and U.S. policy toward Latin America, with a particular emphasis on Central America and Cuba.

Corby Kummer is a senior editor of The Atlantic, restaurant critic of Boston Mag-azine, frequent contributor to other magazines including Technology Review, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, and author of “The Joy of Coffee” and “The Pleasures of Slow Food.”

Julian Lethbridge is a painter whose abstraction is cerebral, often based on math-ematical or natural principles. Methodically building up his surfaces with pigment, he then incises them with repeated patterns. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and can be found in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Tate Gallery and many others.

Sarah Lewis is the Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate Modern, London and taught at Yale University School of Art. She is also the author of the bestseller, “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery.” She received her Ph.D. in History of Art from Yale.

Jay Kriegel is Senior Advisor for the Related Companies, developer of Hudson Yards, the largest project in NYC history. He was Mayor John V. Lindsay’s Chief of Staff from 1966 to 1973. Kriegel ran New York’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games and co-founded The American Lawyer magazine. He serves on the boards of Prep for Prep, New Visions for Public Schools, and The After School Corpora-

Pepe Karmel teaches in the Department of Art History, New York University. His book, “Picasso and the Invention of Cubism,” was published by Yale University Press in 2003. He organized the 1989 exhibition, “Robert Morris: Felt Works,” at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, and was co-curator, with Kirk Varnedoe, of the 1998 retrospective, “Jackson Pollock,” at the Museum of Modern Art. In 2004, he orga-nized “The Age of Picasso: Gifts to American Museums,” which was seen in Rome and in Santander, Spain. He is currently working on a history of abstract art.

Dina Katabi is the Andrew & Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and Director of MIT’s Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing. She received her PhD and MS from MIT in 2003 and 1999, and her Bachelor of Science from Damascus University in 1995. Katabi was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2013. Several start-ups have been spun out of Kata-bi’s lab, such as PiCharging and her current project, Emerald, which was recently praised by President Obama at the White House.

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Jack Matlock served 35 years in the American Foreign Service as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council Staff and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Before his appointment to Mos-cow as Ambassador, Mr. Matlock served three tours at the American Embassy in the Soviet Union. Currently, he is a Visiting Scholar and Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University. He is the author of “Superpower Illusions.”

Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at MIT and co-founder of its Ini-tiative on the Digital Economy, studies how computer technologies are changing business, the economy and society. His book on these topics, “The Second Ma-chine Age” (co-authored with Erik Brynjolfsson) has been both a New York Times and Wall Street Journal top-ten bestseller. McAfee received his PhD from Harvard Business School.

Charles Murray is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a political scientist, author and libertarian. His 1994 New York Times best-seller, “The Bell Curve,” sparked heated controversy for its analysis of the role of IQ in shaping America’s class structure. His most recent book, “By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission,” urges Americans to stem governmental overreach and use America’s unique civil society to put government back in its place. Dr. Murray holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT.

Trevor Morrison is currently the Dean and Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He spent 2009 in the White House, where he served as associate counsel to President Barack Obama. He is a mem-ber of the American Law Institute and the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Com-mittee on International Law. Prior to becoming NYU Dean he was a professor at Columbia Law School and had held many posts in the Justice Department.

Joe Nocera is the sports business columnist for The New York Times. He joined the Times 10 years ago as a business columnist before moving to the op-ed page in 2011. The focus for most of his career has been on business, including 10 years as a writer and editor at Fortune, as well as a business columnist for Esquire and GQ magazines. He is the author of four books, his most recent being 2016’s “Inden-tured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA,” with co-author Ben Strauss.

Dr. Gill Pratt is the Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Research Institute, a research and development enterprise designed to bridge the gap between fundamental research and product development. He also serves as the Executive Technical Advisor to Toyota Motor Corporation. Before joining Toyota, Dr. Pratt served as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Pratt’s primary interest is in the field of robotics and intelligent systems.

Dr. Arati Prabhakar is the director of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Proj-ects Agency), a government body that commissions advanced technological re-search for the Department of Defense. Arati served as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1993 to 1997. She then spent 15 years in Silicon Valley. Arati is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She received her PhD in applied physics and MS in electrical engineering from the Caltech.

Thomas R. Pickering, holds the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades, he was ambassa-dor to Russia, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan. He also served as the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Executive Secretary of the Department of State and as Ambassador and Representative to the United Na-tions. Currently he is Vice Chairman at Hills and Company, which provides advice and counsel to a number of major US enterprises and is the retired Senior Vice President International Relations and a member of the Executive Council of The Boeing Company.

Adam Platt is contributing editor and restaurant critic for New York magazine. He won the James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Restaurant Reviews in 2010. Platt has written for a variety of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Observer, Esquire and Condé Nast Traveler, where he is also a con-tributing editor. He developed his eclectic palate growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. Adam is a graduate of the American School in Japan, the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and the Columbia School of Journalism.

Michael Pollan is the author of “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation” and four New York Times bestsellers: “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,” “In De-fense of Food,” “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “The Botany of Desire.” In 2013, Pollan was awarded a Premio Nonino prize. In 2010, Pollan was named to the TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. A contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine since 1987, his writing has received numerous awards.

Adam Lindemann is an influential collector, writer and dealer of contemporary art and design. In 2012, Lindemann opened his public gallery Venus Over Manhattan in New York. VENUS opened a second space in downtown Los Angeles in 2015 He is also the author of the bestselling “Collecting Contemporary” as well as “Col-lecting Design,” both published by Taschen.

Hussein Majali is a retired four-star Jordanian General. Currently, he is Executive Vice Chairman, Middle East and North Africa at Magellan Global Advisers. Prior to co-founding Magellan in early 2016, Hussein served in a variety of leadership roles in the Jordanian Government, including Minister of the Interior and Head of the Jordanian Public Security Directorate.

William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, is a leading voice in the international effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately to end them as a threat to the world. Secretary Perry is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies. He is the Michael and Bar-bara Berberian Professor at Stanford University and serves as co-director of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and the Preventive Defense Project. Perry current-ly serves on the Defense Policy Board, the International Security Advisory Board, and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.

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Marc Raibert is Director of Robotics and Founder of Boston Dynamics, a company that develops some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots. These robots are inspired by the remarkable ability of people and animals to move with agility, dexterity and speed. Before starting Boston Dynamics, Raibert was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Chase F. Robinson is President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the doctorate-granting institution of the nation’s largest university. A historian of the pre-modern Middle East, he is also Distinguished Professor of His-tory. From 2008 through June 2013, he served as Provost and Senior Vice Pres-ident of the Graduate Center. In 1993 he joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Wolfson College, Oxford, where he taught until 2008. A specialist in early Islamic history, Robinson is the author or editor of seven books and more than 40 articles.

Scott Rothkopf is the Deputy Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Rothkopf previ-ously served as a guest curator at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. Rothkopf was a senior editor of Artforum International. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and has been a visiting critic at Hunter College and Yale University’s School of Art, among others.

Stuart Russell is a Professor and former Chair of Electrical Engineering and Com-puter Sciences at UC Berkeley and holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering. His book “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” is the standard text in AI, used in over 1,300 universities in 116 countries. Dr. Russell received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.

J. Stapleton Roy, a former U.S. Ambassador to China, is Founding Director Emer-itus of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, and a Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar. He joined the US Foreign Service immediately after gradu-ating from Princeton in 1956, retiring 45 years later with the rank of Career Am-bassador, the highest in the service. He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Chairman of the United States Asia Pacific Council, and a Vice Chairman of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Kevin Salatino is the Director of the Art Collections at The Huntington. He has been Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Curator and Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Curator of Graphic Arts at the Getty Research Institute. Salatino earned his AB from Columbia University and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at Middlebury College and the University of Pennsylvania.

Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist, known since the 1970s for her staged photographic works. Her work is included in the collection of The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum, among others. She will have a retrospective in 2018 that originates at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. She has just completed pro-duction of her first feature film, titled “My Art.”

Shahzia Sikander, a MacArthur Fellow, is a Pakistani-American artist best known for contemporizing the traditional Indo-Persian discipline of miniature painting. Her work includes digital animation, video, performance, large-scale mural, instal-lation, projection, and works on paper. Her work has been exhibited worldwide. In the last year, she has exhibited in Hong Kong, New York, Tokyo and Venice.

Dinitia Smith is an author whose fourth book, “The Honeymoon,” was published in May. She is the author of three other novels, including “The Illusionist,” which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Smith was also for 11 years a cultural correspondent for the New York Times. In addition, she is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. She has taught literature at Columbia University, New York University and elsewhere.

David E. Sanger is National Security Correspondent for The New York Times and one of the newspaper’s senior writers. He is the author of bestsellers on foreign policy and national security: “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power” (2009) and “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power” (2012). He served as the Times’ Tokyo Bureau Chief, Washington Economic Correspondent, White House correspondent during the Clinton and Bush Administrations and Chief Washington Correspondent.

Dana Schutz is an artist who received her BFA at the Cleveland Institute Art and her MFA at Columbia University. She has had solo exhibitions of her work in museums around the world, most recently at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Neuberger Museum, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemoranea di Trento e Roverto, Italy and Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.

Michael Shellenberger is a leading global thinker on energy and the environment. He is co-founder and Senior Fellow at Breakthrough Institute, where he was pres-ident from 2003 - 2015. Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environ-ment” and winner of the Green Book Award for his 2007 book, “Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.”

Lonny Price, Emmy Winner, most recently directed Glenn Close in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the English National Opera. His Broadway pro-duction of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” has been turned into a film for HBO. Other recent productions include “Company,” “Sondheim: The Birthday Concert” and “Candide.” He was nominated for a Tony for “A Class Act.” His first film, “Master Harold” received the 2011 Best Drama Award at the New York International Film and Video Festival.

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Andy Stern is the President Emeritus of the 2.2-million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Mr. Stern has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN and on the covers of the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and Business Week. He is on the boards of the Open Society Foundations and the Broad Center. Mr. Stern is now a Senior Fellow at Columbia University. His new book, “Raising the Floor,” calls for America to debate and take bold action in the face of the massive potential of job disruption.

Alex Taylor, Senior Editor-at-large (ret.), Fortune magazine, has covered the auto industry for more than 30 years and is the author of “Sixty to Zero: An inside look at the collapse of General Motors – and the Detroit Auto Industry.” The author of the “MotorWorld” column on Fortune.com, he has won numerous awards for his automotive writing, including three first prizes from the Detroit Press Club Foun-dation and “Journalist of the Year” from the Washington Automotive Press Asso-ciation. A former adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, in 2000 he was selected one of 100 Notable Business Journalists Of The 20th Century.

Kip Thorne is a cofounder of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Project, which in February 2016 announced confirmation of Ein-stein’s theory of the existence of gravitational waves. Dr. Thorne is also The Feyn-man Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus at Caltech. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Gary Tinterow became director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2012, following a 30-year career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. There, his curatorial projects ranged from major exhibitions of Impressionist and 19th-century painting to collaborations with contemporary artists. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Tinterow has expanded the Museum’s international initiatives and has overseen the restoration of the Caroline Wiess Law Building.

Judith Thurman is the author of “Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller,” which won The National Book Award for Non-Fiction, and served as the basis for Syd-ney Pollack’s Oscar-winning film, “Out of Africa.” She is a staff writer for The New Yorker specializing in cultural criticism -- essays on literature, art, fashion, and language, and profiles of distinguished women.

Frances Fragos Townsend served as Assistant to President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and chaired the Homeland Security Council. She also served as Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism. Ms. Townsend was an on-air national security analyst for CNN and she regularly appears on television as a foreign policy, counterterrorism, national and homeland security expert. She is now an Executive Vice President for Worldwide Government, Legal and Business Affairs at MacAndrews and Forbes Incorporat-ed.

Jeffrey B. Wall is the Co-Head of the Sullivan & Cromwell’s Appellate Litigation Practice. He has argued 11 cases before the Supreme Court and filed more than 175 merits or certiorari-stage briefs in that Court. He also has briefed and argued numerous cases before federal and state courts of appeals and administrative agencies. Prior to joining the Firm in 2013, Mr. Wall served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice for five years.

Darren Walker is President of the Ford Foundation, the nation’s second largest philanthropy, and for two decades has been a leader in the nonprofit and phil-anthropic sectors. Prior to joining Ford, he was Vice President at the Rockefeller Foundation where he managed the Rebuild New Orleans initiative after Hurricane Katrina. In 2016, Time magazine named him to its annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” He is a member of the Council on Foreign Rela-tions, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of ten honor-ary degrees.

Dr. Ken Washington is Vice President of Research and Advanced Engineering at the Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining Ford, he was Vice President of Space Technology, Advance Research and Development Laboratories at Lockheed Mar-tin Space Systems. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Washington served as chief information office at Sandia National Laboratories. An automotive disrupter, Washington was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2016.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., is the District Attorney of New York County. He is the co-founder of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence and has also taken a national leadership role in addressing the issue of race in the criminal justice system. Mr. Vance is a graduate of Yale University and Georgetown University Law Center.

Harold Varmus, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, became the Lewis Thomas University Professor at the Meyer Cancer Cen-ter at Weill Cornell Medicine in April 2015. Formerly he served as Director of the National Cancer Institute and as Director of the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Med-icine. He is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books, including a recent memoir, “The Art and Politics of Science.”

José Viera Linares served as the Deputy Minister and First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba. Having joined the Cuban Revolution as a teacher in 1960, he was appointed Head of the Department of International Organizations. Mr. Viera Linares holds a Law degree from the University of Havana and worked as Legal Adviser in several State enterprises until his retirement. He has lectured about changes in the Cuban economy and social system at several American Uni-versities and the Brookings Institute.

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Faye Wattleton was President and CEO of the nation’s oldest and largest volun-tary reproductive health provider, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). She was the youngest woman, first woman, first African-American, and longest tenured professional to hold this position. She was also Co-Founder and President of the Center for the Advancement of Women, an independent, nonpar-tisan think tank. She is now a Managing Director, Corporate Suite of Alvarez & Marsal, and practice leader for corporate governance.

Dr. Gilbert Welch is a general internist and Professor of Medicine at the Dart-mouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Research in the Geisel School of Medicine. He is also a professor of Public Policy at Dartmouth College and a professor of Business Administration at the Amos Tuck School. Dr. Welch questions the assumption that more medical care is always better. His most recent book, “Less Medicine, More Health – 7 Assumptions that Drive Too Much Medical Care,” touches on this question.

Jane Whitney was a correspondent for NBC News based in Central America and a reporter for “Entertainment Tonight.” During her 25-year career in television, she has anchored broadcasts for PBS, CNN and CNBC. She was dubbed a “re-covering talk show host” by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd after she hosted the Warner Bros. nationally syndicated TV program “The Jane Whitney Show.” Her political columns and social commentary have appeared in News-week, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Observer.

Ekow Yankah, a professor at Cardozo Law School, holds degrees from the Uni-versity of Michigan, Columbia Law School and Oxford University. He has written on questions of race, equality and moral values in areas ranging from policing to education and athletics. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Huffington Post, among others, and has been a regular commentator on criminal law issues on television and radio, including MSNBC, BBC and BBC International.

Dr. Deborah Willis, a MacArthur Fellow, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She has pursued a dual professional career as an art photogra-pher and as one of the nation’s leading historians of African-American photogra-phy and curator of African-American culture. Her photography has been exhibited around the U.S., and she is the author of many books, most recently, “Posing Beauty.”

David Yazbek has a varied career as a recording artist, Emmy-winning TV and film writer, music producer, and is one of Broadway’s preeminent composers and lyricists. He has been nominated for 3 Tonys, has received three Grammys and a Drama Desk Award. His new musical, “The Band’s Visit” is set to open next sea-son in New York.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express our great appreciation for the generous help that the following individu-als, donors, partners and speaker hosts have so graciously provided KentPresents. There is no way that it could have happened without you.

PARTNERS

SPEAKER HOSTS

THE KentPresents TEAM

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Bruce AdamsLynn AngelsonLisa AtkinCatherine BachrachBetsy BarnbanellRobert BarbanellJames BarronWalda and Syndney BesthoffJim BlacketterMardee CavallaroKen CooperPeter D’AprileAnnette de la RentaFrank DelaneyBetsy EnnisShelley Floyd

Tim GoodAgnes GundChristine HarperCatherine and Donald HealdRebecca HolmesJanette IrelandMichael KramerJay KriegelJeanette LoebDwight LeeAlbert LoshkajianPaul and Joan MarksPeter and Leni MayBen Nickoll, Christine ArmstrongKathleen O’Grady

Waring PartirdgeElissa and George PottsAllan PriaulxLeah PullaroJanet RivkinKen RomanFr. Richardson SchellLorry SchieselKathryn ScurlockRich SimmsIra D. SmithPatsy StrobelPaul TinesBurton Visotzky Roger White

Elizabeth K. Allen EventsThe Graduate Center, CUNYHorizon MediaKent Chamber of CommerceKent School Board of TrusteesKent School Faculty and Staff

Kent Volunteer Fire DepartmentKent Wine & SpiritKentPresents Board of AdvisersKentPresents VolunteersPergolaRoaring Oaks Florist

Nancy and Henry KissingerKathryn McAuliffe and Jay KriegelAdriana and Robert MnuchinCharmian PlaceFr. Richardson Schell

Anne BassFlora BiddleBlair Brown and Dwight LeeKen CooperAgnes GundCatherine and Donald Heald

ElizabethAllen

SusanAllen

ShannonThomas

PalomaCriollo

Rebecca Holmes

CHARITABLE GRANTS 2015One of the principal missions of KentPresents is to support local charitable organizations that serve people in need. Last year, we made contributions to 26 such charities. The impact on the recipients was meaningful. Last year, we made contributions to 26 such charities. The impact on the recipients was meaningful. The KentPresents grants accounted for 1% to 46% of the charities’ annual budgets.Berkshire Taconic Community Fund -- Blue Horizons Health FundPays medical expenses, care and treatment of indigent, sick and helpless persons.Berkshire Taconic Community Fund -- Jane Lloyd FundSupports cancer patients and their families, pays living expenses.

Children’s Center of New MilfordProvides quality early childhood education and care for children.

Chore Service, Inc.Assists seniors and the disabled live independently at home and provides part-time work.

Civic Life ProjectAllows high school and college students to promote civic engage-ment and social responsibility.

Community Culinary School of Northwest CTAssists unemployed or in-come-stressed individuals earn a living wage in the food service industry.Corner Food PantryProvides nutritious, healthful food without charge to the needy.

Greenwoods Counseling ReferralsProvides access to quality and affordable mental healthcare and related social services for individu-als and families.

Hotchkiss Library of SharonContributes to the community qual-ity of life by serving as the literary, cultural and educational center.

Kent Affordable HousingDevelops affordable housing in Kent for families and individuals of low and moderate income.

Kent Center School Scholarship Fund Inc.Distributes scholarships for tuition and college expenses to Kent stu-dents with financial need.

Kent Community FundHelps individuals meet emergency needs and supports community charitable programs.

Kent Volunteer Fire Department, Emergency ServiceProvides fire, hazard and emer-gency services.

Kent Education Center and Nursery SchoolProvides pre-K and prepares them to respect others and themselves.

Berkshire Taconic Community Fund -- Neighbor-to-Neighbor FundProvides one-time emergency as-sistance for residents in economic distress.

Kent Library AssociationProvides materials, programs and services to encourage reading, learning and imagination

Kent Village Housing for theElderly/Templeton FarmsSupports an apartment facility for independent living for low- to moderate-income seniors with financial need.

Kent Historical SocietyFunds scholarships for summer programs directed to individuals with financial need.

Literacy Volunteers on the GreenPromotes literacy to help recipients with reading, writing, speaking and listening to English.

New Beginings of Northwest Hills Litchfield County (The Gathering Place)Improves the quality of life of homeless individuals by providing referral services and advocacy.

Prime Time HouseAssists adults with mental illness to find employment, education, housing and friendship.

Salisbury VisitingNurse AssociationProvides comprehensive, compas-sionate health and hospice care at home and in the community.

Scoville Memorial LibraryAssociationProvides interactive and inspiring programs and innovative services.

Sharon PlayhouseFunds scholarships for programs directed to individuals with finan-cial need.

UWWC-Back to School Clothes for Kids Program of United Way of Western CTProvides school supplies, clothing, and personal hygiene items to low-income children.

Women’s Support ServicesReduces domestic violence and abuse by intervention, prevention and education.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

New Milford Hospital21 Elm StreetNew Milford, CT 06776 (800) 585-7198

Sharon Hospital50 Hospital Hill Rd, Sharon, CT 06069 (860) 264-4000

Kent Station Pharmacy 38 N Main StreetKent, CT 06757(869) 927-3725

EMERGENCY BEAUTY

David Gavin Salon25 N Main St, Kent, CT 06757 (860) 927-4671

Academy Street Salon 27 Academy Street #1Salisbury, CT 06068(860) 435-3500

CAR SERVICES

Executive Livery(877) 854-8379

Lakeville Taxi(860) 435-8000

Harlem Valley Wingdale Taxi(845) 224-1893

In case of a medical emergency, call 911.

Berkshire Livery(860) 567-8769

Dover Plains Taxi(845) 877-4747

COFFEE & SNACKS

J.P Giffords12 N Main StreetKent, CT 06757(860) 592-0200

The Villager28 N Main StKent, CT 06757(860) 927-1555

SoDelicious Bakery 1 Kent Green Blvd.Kent, CT 06757(860) 592-0743

GENERAL

Post Office31 Kent Green Blvd.Kent, CT 06757(860) 927-3435

Library 32 N Main StreetKent, CT 06757(860) 927-3761

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This year KentPresents is going green.We ask that you bring your water bottles pro-vided in your welcome bags to campus each day and use the water stations for fresh drinking water. Also new this year are the recycling bins, which you will see around campus. Please use them for any plastic and/or paper you need to dis-pose of during your time at KentPresents. Thank you.

There is complimentary WiFi-internet available throughout campus for your use. Please choose Kent-GUEST. There is no

password, but you must open a browser window to accept the terms in order to access the web. After you log on once, you should not have to do it again over the course of KentPresents. Assistance can be provided to you at Registration.