Keynote Speaker: Strobe Talbott, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

	Oksana Bulgakowa, Professor, Free University of Berlin
	Manuel Castells, Professor of Urban Studies & Sociology, University of California at Berkeley
	Katerina Clark, Professor of Comparative Literature & Slavic Languages & Literatures, Yale University
	Nancy Condee, Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies and Associate Professor of Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh
	Evgeny Dobrenko, Karl Lowenstein Fellow in political science at Amherst College
	Boris Dubin, Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (Moscow)
	Gregory Freidin, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Stanford University
	Susan Freier, Senior Lecturer in Violin and Chamber Music, member of the Stanford String Quartet, Music Department, Stanford University.
	Lev Gudkov, Head of Department of Social & Political Studies, Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (Moscow)
	David Holloway, Senior Associate Dean of H&S, Professor of Political Science and History, Stanford University
	Peter Holquist, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cornell University
	Natalya Ivanova, First Deputy Editor, Journal Znamya (Moscow)

	Sergey Kortunov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Defence Council, Office of the President of the Russian Federation
	Alexei Levinson, Research Fellow, Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (Moscow)
	Masha Lipman, Deputy Editor-In-Chief, Itogi (Moscow), news magazine published in cooperation with Newsweek
	Vladimir Mau, Director, Working Centre for Economic Reform, Government of the Russian Federation
	Michael McFaul, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
	Vladimir Padunov, Associate Professor of Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh
	Emil Pain, Advisor to President of the Russian Federation
	Irina Prokhorova, Publisher of Novoe Literaturnoe Pbpzrenie (Moscow)
	Thomas Schultz, Lecturer in Piano, Music Department, Stanford University
	Richard Taruskin, Professor, Department of Music, University of California at Berkeley
	Margarita Tupitsyn, Independent Scholar & Curator (New York)
	Hayden White, University Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz
	Vadim Volkov, Dean, Professor of Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg
	Victor Zaslavsky, Professor of Sociology, University of Rome
	Andrey Zorin, Professor, Russian State Humanities University (Moscow)

Organizing Committee:

	Gregory Freidin, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Stanford University
	Evgeny Dobrenko, Karl Lowenstein Fellow in political science at Amherst College (formerly, Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center)
	Andrey Zorin, Professor, Faculty of Philology, Russian State Humanities University