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A Conversation with Don Lemon | Moderated by: Tim Miller

Avron B. Fogelman Arena at Devlin Fieldhouse
When Life Makes Other Plans: The Science & Stories of Change | Maya Shankar | Moderated by: Catherine Price

Marshall Family Commons, Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Power, Memory & the Stories We Tell: Black Women Leading through Generations | Keisha N. Blain + Sasha Bonét | Moderated by: Kim Boyle

Diboll Gallery, Malkin Sacks Commons
Pros & Cons of Substack for Writers | Jami Attenberg + Maurice Carlos Ruffin | Moderated by: Kate Baldwin

ROTC
The Baker's Table | Kelly Jacques + Bronwen Wyatt | Moderated by: Poppy Tooker

The Burgundy Room, Berger Family Lawn
Music, Education & The Sounds of Change | Julian “Juice” Gosin + Gayle Wald | Moderated by: Kyle DeCoste

Stibbs, LBC
How to Make Money in Any Market | Jim Cramer | Moderated by: Peter Ricchiuti

Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History & How It Shattered a Nation | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Moderated by: David M. Rubenstein

McAlister Auditorium
Art Tour: The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery

Newcomb Art Museum
Book Signing: Don Lemon

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Atlantic Across America Series with Mayor Helena Moreno | Moderated by: Evan Smith

Dixon Hall
Chain of Ideas: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi | Moderated by: Cleo Wade

Avron B. Fogelman Arena at Devlin Fieldhouse
Book Signing: Jami Attenberg, Keisha N. Blain, Sasha Bonét, Jim Cramer, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Molly Jong-Fast, Maya Shankar, Gayle Wald, Juan Williams

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Stories We Tell: Reclaiming Identity through Memoir & Personal Essay | Thomas Beller, Beth Ann Fennelly + David Weill, MD | Moderated by: Jedidiah Jenkins

Diboll Gallery, Malkin Sacks Commons
From Cellar to Shaker | Neal Bodenheimer, Jordan Salcito + Sue Strachan | Moderated by: Brett Martin

The Burgundy Room, Berger Family Lawn
When a Cookbook Becomes a Book: Rescuing Recipes, Preserving Stories | Mara Baumgarten Force + Alon Shaya | Moderated by: Golan Moskowitz

Stibbs, LBC
How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing & Community Transformation from the Inside Out | La June Montgomery Tabron | Moderated by: Judy Reese Morse

Marshall Family Commons, Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Shaping Cities Through Art | Jeff Koons | Moderated by: Kate D. Levin

Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
Stephen Ambrose & the Creation of the National WWII Museum: From D-Day to Liberation & Legacy | Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller | Moderated by: Steve Vogel

ROTC
Book Signing: Andrew Ross Sorkin

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written: A Conversation with Walter Isaacson | Moderated by: David Brooks

McAlister Auditorium
The American Revolution & America at 250 | Ken Burns | Moderated by: John Avlon

Avron B. Fogelman Arena at Devlin Fieldhouse
Kin: A New Novel by Tayari Jones | Moderated by: Imani Perry

Dixon Hall
Musical Performance: Kristin Diable

Festival Tent presented by The Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing: Thomas Beller, Neal Bodenheimer, Beth Ann Fennelly, Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, Jordan Salcito, Sue Strachan, La June Montgomery Tabron, Steve Vogel, David Weill, MD

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
How to Break Up With Your Phone and Come Back to Life | Catherine Price | Moderated by: President Michael A. Fitts

ROTC
For Small Creatures Such As We: Understanding Our Place in the Universe | Sasha Sagan | Moderated by: Nicole Richie

The Burgundy Room, Berger Family Lawn
New Orleans Garden District: Profiles in Preservation | Andrea St. Paul Bland + Sally Reeves | Moderated by: Howard Hunter

Stibbs, LBC
Forty Years: Painting French Louisiana | Francis X. Pavy | Moderated by: Nick Spitzer

Diboll Gallery, Malkin Sacks Commons
The State of Civil & Individual Rights | Annette Gordon-Reed, Brandon M. Terry + Juan Williams | Moderated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Marshall Family Commons, Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Stay in the Game: Making the Most of Every Season | Matt Forté | Moderated by: Jeff Duncan

Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
Book Signing: Walter Isaacson, Tayari Jones

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing: Andrea St. Paul Bland, Matt Forté, Annette Gordon-Reed, Nicholas Lemann, Elaine Pagels, Catherine Price, Sally Reeves, Sasha Sagan, Brandon M. Terry

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Art as a Force for Justice | Sister Helen Prejean + Rose Vines | Moderated by: Sophie Cull

Diboll Gallery, Malkin Sacks Commons
The Thing About Falling: A Conversation with Tarriona “Tank” Ball | Moderated by: Stevona Elem-Rogers

The Burgundy Room, Berger Family Lawn
Balancing Craft & Community: Restaurants with a Purpose | Kelly Jacques, Alon Shaya, Arvinder Vilkhu + Cathy Whims | Moderated by: Nini Nguyen

Marshall Family Commons, Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
From Mistakes to Meaning: Owning Your Past So It Doesn't Own You | Joshua L. Steiner + Michael Lynton | Moderated by: Ken Auletta

ROTC
Instant Classics: New Memoirs from Molly Jong-Fast + Susan Orlean | Moderated by: Thomas Beller

Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
Smallx20: Twenty Years of Community Engaged Design in New Orleans | Maggie Hansen, Patty Heyda, Emilie Taylor Welty + Sue Mobley | Moderated by: Ann Yoachim

Stibbs, LBC
Special Book Signing with 2026 Festival Poster Artist Francis X. Pavy

Festival Tent presented by The Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Berger Family Lawn
A Conversation with Anderson Cooper + Dax Shepard

Avron B. Fogelman Arena at Devlin Fieldhouse
Feminism, Culture & Voice: A Conversation with Roxane Gay | Moderated by: Imani Perry

McAlister Auditorium
Conquering Crisis: Leadership Lessons When It Matters Most | Adm. William H. McRaven | Moderated by: Andrew Ross Sorkin

Dixon Hall
Book Signing: Tarriona “Tank” Ball, Maggie Hansen, Patty Heyda, Michael Lynton, Sue Mobley, Susan Orlean, Sister Helen Prejean, Alon Shaya, Joshua L. Steiner, Wright Thompson, Rose Vines, Emilie Taylor Welty, Cathy Whims, Ann Yoachim

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Batt Out of Heaven: A Conversation with Bryan Batt | Moderated by: Michael Lewis

Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
Dark, Dangerous & Devoted: Crafting Romance Fiction | Juliette Cross + Olivia Worley | Moderated by: Jessica Spotswood

Diboll Gallery, Malkin Sacks Commons
Second Line Culture & Street as Story | Karen Celestan, Eric Waters + Freddi Williams Evans | Moderated by: Tara Hernandez

Stibbs, LBC
Lives Lived, Stories Told | John T. Edge, Nicholas Lemann + Viet Thanh Nguyen | Moderated by: Anna Adams

ROTC
In a World of Sunrises: Cleo Wade + Friends

The Burgundy Room, Berger Family Lawn
Miracles & Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus | Elaine Pagels | Moderated by: Tania Tetlow

Marshall Family Commons, Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Book Signing: Roxane Gay, Admiral William H. McRaven

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
A Conversation with Senator John Kennedy | Moderated by: Walter Isaacson

Dixon Hall
Heart Life Music | Kenny Chesney | Moderated by: Holly Gleason

Avron B. Fogelman Arena at Devlin Fieldhouse
Coded Justice: A Thriller | Stacey Abrams | Moderated by: Molly Jong-Fast

McAlister Auditorium
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi | Wright Thompson | Moderated by: Imani Perry

Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
Musical Performance: Jon Cleary

Festival Tent presented by The Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing: Bryan Batt, Karen Celestan, Juliette Cross, John T. Edge, Katie Kitamura, Megha Majumdar, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sigrid Nunez, Cleo Wade

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Rethinking Women’s Health at Every Stage | Heddwen Brooks, Veronica Gillispie-Bell, MD + Sara Reardon | Moderated by: Jennifer Avegno, MD

Diboll Gallery, Malkin Sacks Commons
Southern Football Noir, Big Apple Sleuths & Spine-tingling Obsessions: Crime Fiction to Die For | Eli Cranor, Stephen Spotswood + Olivia Worley | Moderated by: Michael Strecker

ROTC
Live from New Orleans: A Conversation with The New Yorker's Susan Morrison About Her Biography 'Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live' | Moderated by: Mike Sacks

Stibbs, LBC
Democracy in Practice: Law, Activism & the American Story | Akhil Reed Amar + Keisha N. Blain | Moderated by: John Avlon

Marshall Family Commons, Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Musical Performance: DJ Brice Nice

The Burgundy Room, Berger Family Lawn
Silent Reading Hour

The Burgundy Room, Berger Family Lawn
The Power of Reading: A Conversation with Lauren Sánchez Bezos | Moderated by: Lucy Bustamante

Dixon Hall
Book Signing: Akhil Reed Amar, John Avlon, Eli Cranor, Susan Morrison, Sara Reardon, Mike Sacks, Stephen Spotswood, Olivia Worley

Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Profoundly Human: Fiction of & for Our Time | Katie Kitamura, Megha Majumdar + Sigrid Nunez | Moderated by: C. Morgan Babst

Marshall Family Commons, Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Sports, Character & Leadership | Gov. Wes Moore | Moderated by: Wright Thompson

Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
Who We Are: Stories That Shape a Nation | Stacey Abrams, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. + Viet Thanh Nguyen | Moderated by: Charles M. Blow

McAlister Auditorium
Musical Celebration with Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias

Festival Tent presented by The Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Berger Family Lawn