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Appendix A: Main Stages Agenda
Pages 54-57

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... , Professor of Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University 1 1:00 am MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AND ART PIECE: BEATIE WOLFE FEATURING FROM GREEN TO RED Artist and UN Women campaign role model for innovation Beatie Wolfe shares her latest work, built using 800,000 years of climate data. With an introduction by Nobel Prize laureate Robert Woodrow Wilson
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... , Nobel Prize laureate, Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics and former Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara Beatie Wolfe, artist and UN Women campaign role model Ahmad Mobayed, digital education advocate, youth leader, and Co-Founder, Syrian Youth Assembly Hosted by actor, writer, musician, producer, futurist, and science enthusiast Ahmed Best 1 2:10 pm DYNAMIC DIALOGUES BREAKOUT Choose your own adventure audience Q&A: Which of the dynamic dialogues piqued your curiosity? Join the discussion group of your choice to take a deeper dive with one of our dynamic dialogue scientists.
From page 56...
... 3:50 pm MANY AVENUES FOR ACTION: A PANEL DISCUSSION APPENDIX A Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize laureate and Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs Tamar Krishnamurti, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh and CEO, Naima Health Rana el Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO, Affectiva Moderated by Nisha Anand, CEO, Dream Corps 4:10 pm GIVING POWER TO SOLUTIONS A conversation between 56 Steven Chu (NAS) , Nobel Prize laureate and Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University Natalia Kanem, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund 4:25 pm A COMMITMENT TO COOPERATION A conversation between John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Marcia McNutt (NAS/NAE)
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... , Nobel Prize laureate and Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, and Bryan Doerries, Artistic Director, Theater of War Productions, The Oedipus Project 3:30 pm THE OEDIPUS PROJECT: A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AND GLOBAL DISCUSSION The Oedipus Project presents acclaimed actors reading scenes from Sophocles' Oedipus the King as a catalyst for powerful, constructive, global conversations about climate change, ecological disaster, and environmental justice. Sophocles' ancient play, first performed in 429 BC just after the first wave of a plague that killed nearly one-third of the Athenian population, is a story of arrogant leadership, ignored prophecy, intergenerational curses, and a pestilence and ecological collapse that ravages the archaic city of Thebes.


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