An Urgent Task

• Welcome and Keynote Remarks by Judith Rodin (transcript)
• Roundtable discussion with Commission Members

The Distorted Conversation: Mediating Institutions, Politics, and Race

• Moderator: Judith Rodin
  
• Presentations by:
  
  • Thomas Bender
    
  • Lani Guinier
• Roundtable discussion with Commission members

Politics and the Culture of Contempt

• Moderator: Cass Sunstein
  
• Presentations by:
  
  • Paul Begala
    
  • David Bromwich
• Roundtable discussion with Commission members

How Bad Is It? Lessons from Media Research

• Moderator: Judith Rodin
  
• Presentation by:
  
  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson
    
• Roundtable discussion with Commission members

Hypothesizing Causes: Social Policies, TV, and the '60's

• Moderator: Joel Fleishman
  
• Presentations by:
  
  • John Skrentny
    
  • Leonard Eron
    
  • Thomas Sugrue
    
• Roundtable discussion with Commission members

Surmounting Conflict and Building Community: Rational Discourse in the 1990's

• Moderator: Martin Marty
  
• Presentations by:
  
  • Mari Fitzduff
    
  • James Fishkin
    
  • Bill Rauch
    
• Roundtable discussion with Commission members

The Commission's Charge

• Concluding Remarks by Judith Rodin
• Roundtable discussion with Commission Members