Keynote speaker Kai Bird, a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and journalist who's written The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter and The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames and American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin), comes to Mandel Concert Hall as part of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival. The event begins at 7 p.m.