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Why We're Excited: Arguendo

WHY WE'RE EXCITEDThroughout the leadup to Festival 2014, Festival staff and volunteers will contribute a video and a few notes on events that we're particularly excited about. This week, Cathy...

Global Innovators: From Recession to Prosperity

How do companies innovate, and how do regional and national strategies incentivize creative growth? Connecticut has a history rich in innovation, from Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin to the...

The Politics of Food

 Marion Nestle is a consumer activist, nutritionist, award-winning author, and academic who specializes in the politics of food and dietary choice. Her research examines scientific, economic, and...

What is a Visionary Leader? pt.2

As we get ready to honor Sheila Nevins, documentary film producer and President of HBO Documentary Films for Home Box Office, with our 4th Annual Visionary Leadership Award, our first awardee, Zainab...

What is a Visionary Leader?

As we get ready to honor Sheila Nevins, documentary film producer and President of HBO Documentary Films for Home Box Office, with our 4th Annual Visionary Leadership Award, last years winner,...

If Mayors Ruled the World

Cities are home to more than half of the world's population, and are the primary incubators of the cultural, social and political innovations that shape our planet. Benjamin Barber, author of the...

Preparing for 2050: The Changing Face of Race

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New Haven and Yale: Dreaming New Worlds Together

John DeStefano Jr., outgoing mayor of New Haven, and Richard Levin, outgoing president of Yale University, reflect on their 20-year partnership to knit together university and city. At the close of...

Shantala Shivalingappa

A classical Indian dancer whose artistic curiosity has spanned contemporary and traditional forms, Shantala Shivalingappa is widely acclaimed for her vivid, brilliantly musical performances....

Good Ideas

Ideas have enormous power. They inspire, they provoke, they delight. The thinkers, scholars, adventurers, and artists gathered at this year’s Festival are people with ideas to share. Some have...

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