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Please choose a day from the drop-down menu below to view the different presentations scheduled for July 16-18.
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9:00 AM
REGISTRATION OPENS
Bookstore Tent
11:30 AM
NEW ATTENDEE ORIENTATION
Tent C
1:00 - 1:45 PM
A Poetry Reading
Pavilion & Livestream
Rita Dove
2:15 - 3:15 PM
BREAKOUT - The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Pavilion & Livestream
Rebecca Donner
2:15 - 3:15 PM
BREAKOUT - MacArthur Park
SV Opera House
Judith Freeman
2:15 - 3:15 PM
BREAKOUT - The Story of Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Tent B
Sebastian Mallaby
2:15 - 3:15 PM
BREAKOUT - SVWC New Voices Panel
Pond Tent (D)
Kalani Pickhart
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Sanaë Lemoine
2:15 - 3:15 PM
BREAKOUT - More to Life Than More: A Personal History of Misunderstanding, Loss, and Learning
Alan Pesky
2:15 - 3:15 PM
BREAKOUT - Time Is a Mother
Tent A
Ocean Vuong
3:45 - 5:00 PM
Anthony Doerr
5:30 - 6:30 PM
The March of the Autocrats (moderated by Judy Woodruff)
Pavilion & Lawn & Livestream
Individual tickets available June 15
Stephen Kotkin
Ben Rhodes
Yascha Mounk
2021 Writers & Presenters
Be Inspired.
Barbara Ascher
Erich Schwartzel
Kalani Pickhart
Sanaë Lemoine
Evan Osnos
Kathryn Schulz
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Ocean Vuong
Stephen Kotkin
Sebastian Mallaby
Terry Tempest Williams
Ben Rhodes
Jeffrey Brown
Rita Dove
Alexander Maksik
Also joining us . . .
Alan Pesky
Anthony Doerr
Yascha Mounk
Heather McGhee
Admiral James Stavridis
Geoff Dyer
Imbolo Mbue
Arthur C. Brooks
Noah Feldman
Freestyle Love Supreme+
Elizabeth Kolbert
Lauren Groff
Natasha Trethewey
Rebecca Donner
A. Scott Berg
Judy Woodruff
Albert R. Hunt
