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Recent 2011 Events
Recordings available where noted.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - Click for video.
Concert – Cambridge
An Evening of Robert Levin and Mozart
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Introduction:
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Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor and Curator of the Isham Memorial
Library Historical Musicology, Harvard University
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Performer:
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Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music Performance & Analysis,
Harvard University
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - Click for video.
Stated Meeting – Stanford
The Future of the Military
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Introduction:
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John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
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Speakers:
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David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford
University
William J. Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor; Codirector of
the Preventive Defense Project; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International
Studies, Stanford University
James Sheehan, Dickason Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Modern
European History, Emeritus, Stanford University
Karl Eikenberry, Payne Distinguished Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute for
International Studies, Stanford University
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Saturday, November 12, 2011 - Click for video.
Stated Meeting – Chicago
Wikileaks and the First Amendment
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Introduction:
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John A. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Chair and Professor of Chemistry, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Speakers:
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Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University
of Chicago Law School
Judith Miller, Journalist; formerly of the New York Times
Gabriel Schoenfeld, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Resident Scholar, Witherspoon
Institute
Richard Posner, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - Click for video.
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
Awarding of the Talcott Parsons Prize and Response: Two Systems in the Mind
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Introduction:
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Harriet Zuckerman, Senior Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Professor
of Sociology Emeritus, Columbia University
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Speaker:
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Daniel Kahneman, Senior Scholar; Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology,
Emeritus; and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - Click for video.
Congressional Briefing – Washington, D.C
New Models for Internet Privacy and Security
In coordination with The Honorable Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
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Speakers:
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Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.
Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication. New York
University
Deirdre K. Mulligan, Assistant Professor, School of Information, University
of California–Berkeley
Fred B. Schneider, Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science, Cornell
University
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Stated Meeting – Berkeley
Healing the Troubled American Economy
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Introduction:
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Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
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Speakers:
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Christina Romer, Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics, University
of California, Berkeley
David H. Romer, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, University of
California, Berkeley
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - Click for video.
Stated Meeting – Stanford
Perspectives on the Future of Nuclear Power After Fukushima
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Introduction:
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Scott Sagan, Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science; Senior Fellow,
Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University
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Speakers:
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Jayantha Dhanapala, President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Noramly Muslim, Professor Emeritus, National University of Malaysia; Visiting
Professor, Universiti Tenaga Malaysia College of Engineering
Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs,
Harvard University
Harald Müller, Director, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
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Induction Weekend in Cambridge - Click for
video.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
2011 Induction Ceremony – Cambridge
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
American Institutions and a Civil Society
Panel I: The American Military as an Institution of Democracy
Watch C-SPAN's coverage of Panel I.
David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford
University
Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin, Commandant, United States Army War College
Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, Deputy Chief of Staff G-1, United States Army
Panel II: The Constitution, the Practice of Democracy, and Unintended Consequences
Watch C-SPAN's coverage of Panel II.
David Souter, Associate Justice (retired), Supreme Court of the United States
Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University
of Chicago Law School
Mickey Edwards, Vice President, Aspen Institute; former member of Congress
Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Meeting – Chicago
Leadership and the Future of Nuclear Energy
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Co-hosts:
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Harrison Energy Policy Institute, University of Chicago and the Bulletin of Atomic
Scientists
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 -
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Stated Meeting – Chicago
Prospects and Challenges for the Global Nuclear Future: After Fukushima
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Speakers:
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Robert Gallucci, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Steven Miller, Director of the International Security Program at the Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School
Mark Peters, Deputy Laboratory Director for Programs, Argonne National Laboratory
Robert Rosner, William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy
and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago
Amir Shahkarami, Chief Executive Officer of Exelon Nuclear Partners and Nuclear
Development; Senior Vice President of Exelon Generation, LLC
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Thursday-Friday, May 19-20, 2011 - Click for multimedia
presentations.
Workshop: The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future
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Welcome:
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Steven Knapp, President, The George Washington University
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Keynote Presentations:
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Steven E. Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Myron Gutmann, Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences,
National Science Foundation
Nicholas Donofrio, Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation; former Executive Vice
President of Innovation and Technology, IBM Workshop
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Overview:
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Robert Fri, Visiting Scholar Resources for the Future
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Reception – Washington, DC
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Remarks:
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Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Robert W. Fri, Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Founders' Day - House of the Academy, Cambridge
An Evening of Chamber Music
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Performers:
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Edward Arron, cello
Ronald Arron, viola
John Marcus, violin
Jeewon Park, piano
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Thursday, April 14, 2011 -
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Afternoon Symposium – Cambridge, in collaboration with the National Academy of Engineering,
Institute of Medicine, and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Privacy, Autonomy and Personal Genetic Information in the Digital Age
- Panel I: Open Sourced and Crowdsourced: The Promise and Peril of Shared Genetic
Information
Moderator: Jeffrey Flier, Dean, Harvard Medical School
Panelists: George Church, Professor of Genetics, Director of the
Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Christine Patch,
Consultant Genetic Counselor and Manager, Guys Hospital, London; Chair, British
Society of Human Genetics; member, UK Human Genetics Commission; Professional and
Public Policy Committee, European Society for Human Genetics; Philip Reilly,
Venture Partner, Third Rock Ventures Hank Greely, Professor of
Law, Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford University
Latanya Sweeney, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science,
Technology and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- Panel II: Individual Rights to Genetic Information—Issues for Medicine and Government
Moderator: Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Harvard Law School, Kennedy
School of Government, and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Panelists: Art Beaudet, Henry and Emma Meyer Professor, Chair,
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine; Gaia
Bernstein, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; Michele
Caggana, Deputy Director, Division of Genetics, Chief of the Laboratory
of Human Genetics, Director of the Newborn Screening Program, State of New York;
John Schumann, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Faculty Associate,
MacLean Center for Medical Ethics, University of Chicago; Dan Vorhaus
, Attorney; Editor, Genomics Law Report
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Thursday, April 14, 2011 -
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Annual Meeting – Cambridge, in collaboration with the National Academy of Engineering,
Institute of Medicine, and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Making America More Competitive, Innovative, and Healthy
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Speakers:
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Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine
Cherry A. Murray, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard
University
Charles M. Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 -
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Stage Reading and Panel Discussion – Cambridge, in collaboration with Catalyst Collaborative
@ MIT
Breaking the Code
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Speakers:
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Alan Lightman, Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Oratory and Director of Graduate
Studies, Tufts University
Ronald L. Rivest, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shafi Goldwasser, RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Weizmann
Institute of Science
Silvio Micali, Ford Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
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Friday, February 25, 2011 -
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Stated Meeting – Washington University in St. Louis
Race in the Age of Obama
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Speakers:
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Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and Director of the
Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis
David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University
of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey B. Ferguson, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Black Studies
and American Studies, Amherst College
Korina Jocson, Assistant Professor of Education, Washington University in
St. Louis
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - Click for audio and video.
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
The Future of Power
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Introduction:
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Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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Speaker:
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Kennedy
School
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Reception – San Francisco
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Co-Host:
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Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 -
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Stated Meeting – Stanford, California
The Future of Our Research Universities: Challenges and Opportunities
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Speaker:
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John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
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