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Established in 1975, the Midwest Center was initially
located in Bloomington, Indiana, but moved in 1979 to Chicago. The Midwest
Center traditionally holds one Academy Stated Meeting per year.
Past Meetings
University of Chicago Law School, February 15, 2006
America’s Greatest Lawyer: Abraham Lincoln in Private Practice and Public Life.
The Honorable Walter Dellinger, former solicitor general of the United States, head of the Appellate
Practice at O'Melveny & Myers, and Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University.
225th Anniversary Celebration and 1896th Stated Meeting,
Art Institute of Chicago, November 19, 2005
Panel Discussion: Shapers of the New Chicago: Cultural Institutions and Universities.
Speakers: Richard Franke, Chairman of the Chicago Humanities Festival; John Bryan, Chairman
of Millennium Park Inc. and of the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago; James
Cuno, President and Director of the Art Institute; Don Michael Randel, President of the
University of Chicago; and Robert Campbell, architect and writer.
At a dinner following the panel discussion, John Bryan, Richard Franke, and Don Michael
Randel received Founders Awards.
Northwestern University, March 29, 2005
Why We're So Smart.
Dedre Gentner, Professor of Psychology and Education and Director of the
Cognitive Science Program, Northwestern University.
The Heart that Remembers: A Tale of Musicians in a Time of War. Paul Berliner, Professor of
Ethnomusicology, Northwestern University.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Center for Advanced Study, March 4, 2005
John Katzenellenbogen, Vice-Chair of the Midwest Center and Swanlund Professor of
Chemistry, UIUC, hosted a gathering of UIUC Fellows.
1885th Stated Meeting, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, November 13, 2004
Biodiversity and Our Common Future. Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Gardens
and Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 11, 2004
Stress and Equanimity in Turbulent Times. Huda Akil, Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished
University Professor of Neurosciences in Psychiatry and Co-Director of the U-M Mental Health
Research Institute.
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 30, 2004
Research and the Wisconsin Idea
Moderated by Cora Marrett with panel members Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Leonard
Berkowitz and Judith Kimble.
1874th Stated Meeting, The Adler Planetarium, Chicago,
IL, November 1, 2003
The Absurd Universe. Michael Turner, University of Chicago.
The University of Chicago, May 14, 2003
Recent Research Efforts
Bob Haselkorn, Susan Kidwell and Bruce Cumings.
1862nd Stated Meeting, The Minneapolis Institute of
Arts,
October 26, 2002
The Comedy of Errors as Early Experimental Shakespeare. David Bevington,
University of Chicago.
1849th Stated Meeting, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum,
Chicago, IL, October 27, 2001
The Genomic Revolution: Everything You Wanted to Know About Plant Genetic
Engineering but Were Afraid to Ask. Chaired by Robert Haselkorn,
University of Chicago with panel members Roger N. Beachy, Donald Danforth Plant
Science Center; Dean DellaPenna, Michigan State University; and Daphne Preuss,
University of Chicago.
1838th Stated Meeting, Chicago Cultural Center,
October 28, 2000
Toward Global Justice. Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago.
1826th Stated Meeting, Field Museum, Chicago, IL,
October 23, 1999
Gut Reactions: How Caterpillars Eat Plants. May Berenbaum, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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