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The Buckley Institute’s Fourteenth Annual Conference will be 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.
Full schedule:
11:00am – 5:15pm Career Fair
11:45am – 12:45pm Open Lunch Buffet
12:20pm – 1:15pm Lunch Plenary: The Woodward Report at 50: A Conversation with Committee Members and Administrators
1:30pm – 2:30pm A Conversation with the Dean of Yale College
2:45pm – 3:45pm Panel Discussion: The 21st Century Free Speech Crisis at Yale and Beyond: Can We Fix It?
4:00pm – 5:00pm Panel Discussion: Can Intellectual Diversity Restore the Reputation of Elite University Graduates?
5:15pm – 6:15pm Debate: What are the Limits of Free Speech?
6:30pm – 7:30pm Cocktail Reception
7:30pm Dinner with Keynote Address
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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