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The War Below: Lithium, Copper and the Global Battle For Power | Ernest Scheyder | Moderated by: Richard Adkerson
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Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection | Charles Duhigg
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Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Vanishing Coast: Stories of Place, Power and Preservation | Virginia Hanusik + Boyce Upholt | Moderated by: Brian Edwards
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Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Legacy in Action: Preserving Black History at Amistad | Carolyn Barber-Pierre + Kathe Hambrick | Moderated by: Kim Boyle
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Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Mystery, Magic, Myth and the Power of Imagination | A Special Family Day Session with Mia Araujo, Marti Dumas, M.R. Fournet, Adam Karlin + Rachel Marsh | Moderated by: Lindsay Cronk
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ROTC
Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating and Eating While Reading | Dwight Garner | Moderated by: Joe Yonan
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Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Power and Principle: A Conversation with Anne Applebaum and Gen. Mark A. Milley
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McAlister Auditorium
Johnette Downing - Petit Pierre and his Wild Adventure
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Family Day | Devlin Fieldhouse
Reagan: His Life and Legend | Max Boot | Moderated by: Sharon McMahon
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Dixon Hall
Reimagining the Future: Feminist Visions for a More Just World | Rachel Cargle, Sarah Jaffe + Samhita Mukhopadhyay | Moderated by: Anneliese Singh
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Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Black Women’s Agency in the New World: Preserving and Transforming Culture Through American History | Freddi Williams Evans, Annette Gordon-Reed + Jessica Marie Johnson | Moderated by: Imani Perry
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Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
From First Draft to Hardcover: The Life Cycle of a Book | ‘Pemi Aguda, Katherine Fausset, Crystal Hana Kim + Renée Zuckerbrot | Moderated by: Kate Baldwin
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Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Birding to Change the World |Trish O’Kane | Moderated by: Rien Fertel
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Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Educated: A Conversation with Tara Westover | Moderated by: Lily Cole
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Dixon Hall
War: A Conversation with Bob Woodward | Moderated by: Betsy Fischer Martin
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McAlister Auditorium
Curating the Catalogue: Post-Katrina Documentation of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun| Moderated by: Kara Oldige
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Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Painting the Town: The Importance of Color in Historic New Orleans Architecture | Danielle Del Sol, Chris Granger + John Pope | Moderated by: Susan Langenhennig
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Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
My Black Country: Country Music’s Black Past, Present and Future | Alice Randall | Moderated by: Melissa A. Weber
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Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Together: The Power of Human Connection | A Conversation With Dr. Vivek Murthy | Moderated by: President Michael A. Fitts
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ROTC
Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion and Tech | Maureen Dowd | Moderated by: Ken Auletta
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Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
The Intelligence Revolution: How AI and Big Data are Changing the World | Steven Johnson + Nicholas Mattei | Moderated by: Robin Forman
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Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Meet & Greet with Joe Yonan: Mastering the Art of Vegan Cooking
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Hyatt Regency Festival Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Power of Perception: Race, Class and the American Narrative | W. Kamau Bell, Charles Blow + Sarah Lewis | Moderated by: Mitch Landrieu
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Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
So You Want to Get Your Comedy Published | Emma Allen, Christopher Monks, Lauren Moser + Beth Newell | Moderated by: Mike Sacks
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Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
20 Years Later: Post-Katrina Music in New Orleans | Chris Thomas King + Dr. Michael White | Moderated by: Jason Berry
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Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
The Complex Terrain of Contemporary African Art | Amanda Maples, Tumelo Mosaka + Erika Witt | Moderated by: Maurita N. Poole
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Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Work, Power and Purpose: Women Changing the Leadership Playbook | Alison Fragale + Samhita Mukhopadhyay | Moderated by: Sarah Jaffe
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Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Whodunnit: True Crime and Crime Fiction | Danielle Arceneaux, Rich Cohen + Gary Phillips | Moderated by: Ethan Brown
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ROTC
An Unfinished Love Story | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Moderated by: Walter Isaacson
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McAlister Auditorium
Beyond the Dream: The Radical Legacies of Freedom Fighters | Edda Fields-Black, David Greenberg + Tamara Payne | Moderated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens | Rajiv Shah | Moderated by: Mitch Landrieu
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Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Finding my Voice: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett | Moderated by: James Bennet
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Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
The Science of Personal Power: How to Build Confidence, Create Success and Obtain Freedom | Chris Lipp | Moderated by: Michelle Johnston
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Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Navigating the NIL Era: Opportunities and Challenges in College Sports | Oliver Luck + Jon Sumrall | Moderated by: Gabe Feldman
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Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
United for Books: Defending the Right to Read | Megan Holt + Amanda Jones | Moderated by: Lindsay Cronk
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ROTC
From Bestsellers to Blockbusters: A Conversation with John Grisham + Michael Lewis | Moderated by: Michael Lynton
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McAlister Auditorium
Happily Ever After? Love and Romance in Fiction | Alison Espach + Casey McQuiston | Moderated by: Alice Randall
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Dixon Hall
Move Fast, Break Government? The Risks of Silicon Valley Thinking in Public Policy | Kim Scott | Moderated by: Rob Lalka
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Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Unlearning to Learn: Safiya Sinclair and Tara Westover on Self-Discovery | Moderated by: Molly Jong-Fast
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Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
The State of the Union: A Deep Dive into America’s Political Landscape | Jonathan Alter, Jonathan Martin + Tim Miller | Moderated by: Stephanie Grace
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Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution | Cat Bohannon | Moderated by: Anneliese Singh
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Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Making the Case for New Orleans as America’s Sandwich Capital | Tara Francolini, Nini Nguyen, Dan Stein + Julie Vaucresson | Moderated by: Brett Martin
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Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of Warfare | Christopher Kirchhoff | Moderated by: Michael Wallace
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Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Democracy and its Discontents: A Look at Why America Has Become Polarized | Doris Kearns Goodwin + Michael Sandel | Moderated by: Walter Isaacson
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McAlister Auditorium
On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything Nate Silver | Moderated by: Rajiv Shah
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Dixon Hall
Closing Celebration Featuring Deacon John
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Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn