Mark your calendars for the Buckley Institute’s Fourteenth Annual Conference on Friday, November 8, 2024, at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. Join us as we recognize the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodward Report, Yale’s free speech principles, and discuss free speech on campus.
This year's conference will feature a keynote address from author, entrepreneur, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
12:00pm | Lunch
12:30pm | The Woodward Report at 50: A Conversation with Signers and Administrators
1:30pm | A Conversation with Dr. Pericles Lewis, Dean of Yale College
2:45pm | Panel Discussions and Debate on Free Speech
6:30pm | Reception
7:30pm | Dinner with Keynote Address from Vivek Ramaswamy introduced by Amy Chua
Other speakers and panelists include:
- Yale University Professor Nicholas Christakis
- American Enterprise Institute President Robert Doar
- George Washington University Law School Professor Mary Anne Franks
- University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
- Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s Alex Morey
- Former ACLU President Nadine Strossen
- Yale Law School Professor Keith Whittington
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Vivek Ramaswamy is an American business leader, New York Times bestselling author, and former 2024 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, he went on to become a serial entrepreneur and CEO who founded several successful businesses including Roivant Sciences, Strive, and Chapter. He is a bestselling author with three books already published — Woke, Inc. (2021), Nation of Victims (2022), and Capitalist Punishment (2023) — with a fourth book coming in 2024, Truths: The Future of America First. Vivek is a graduate of St. Xavier High School, Harvard College, and Yale Law School.
Vivek is married to Apoorva, a throat surgeon and Assistant Professor at the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University. They live in Columbus, Ohio, where they are raising their two sons.
