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THE
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Knowledge as the Foundation for a Democratic Society
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Friday, April 27, 2007
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"Convocation of the
Academies" (18 min.) Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and
Portraiture
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Welcome:
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Leslie Berlowitz,
Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
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Mary
Maples Dunn, Co-Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society |
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Greetings: |
Baruch S. Blumberg,
President, American Philosophical Society |
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Emilio Bizzi,
President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
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Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National
Academy of Sciences |
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Harvey
V. Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine |
| Keynote
Address (16 min.) |
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Don Michael Randel, President, Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation |
Saturday, April 28, 2007 |
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Discussions, Mayflower Hotel |
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"The Independence of the
Courts" (68 min.)
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Introduction: |
Richard
S. Dunn, Co-Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society
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Chair:
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Linda Greenhouse,
Supreme Court correspondent,
The New York Times
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Panelists: |
Sandra Day O'Connor,
retired Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court |
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Judith S. Kaye,
Chief Judge of the State of New York |
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Charles
G. Geyh, John F. Kimberling Professor of Law, Indiana University
at Bloomington
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| "Religion and the
Enlightenment" (56 min.) |
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Chair:
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Martin Marty,
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus,
University of Chicago
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Panelists: |
Joyce Appleby,
Professor of History Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Mark Noll,
Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame |
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James Carroll,
writer, Boston, Massachusetts
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"The United States and
the Global Economy" (55 min.)
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Introduction: |
John S.
Reed, former Chair and CEO, Citigroup, Inc. |
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Chair:
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Robert M. Solow,
Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Panelists: |
Pedro
Aspe, Co-Chariman, Evercore Partners; CEO, Protego; former
Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico |
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Edward P. Lazear,
Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisors |
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Janet
Yellen, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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| "The Media and Society" (66 min.) |
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Introduction: |
Sharon Percy Rockefeller,
President and CEO, WETA |
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Chair:
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson,
Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for
Communication, and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg
Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
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Panelists:
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Tom Brokaw,
Special Correspondent, NBC News
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Gwen Ifill,
Moderator and Managing Editor, Washington Week, Senior Correspondent, The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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Saturday evening, April 28, 2007
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"Celebrating
Knowledge" Library of Congress (42 min.)
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Introduction:
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Gerald
Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern
Letters, Washington University in St. Louis |
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Keynote Address: |
E. L.
Doctorow, Glucksman Professor of American and English Letters, New
York University |
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Readings: |
Rosanna Warren,
Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor in the Humanities, Boston University |
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Sunday, April 29, 2007 |
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Panel Discussions,
National Academy of Sciences
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"Science, Health, and an Aging Society" (56 min.)
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Introduction: |
Peter Nicholas, Co-founder
and Chairman of the Board, Boston Scientific Corporation
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Chair: |
Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Institute
of Medicine |
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Panelists:
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John Bongaarts,
Vice President and Distinguished Scholar, Population Council |
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Lisa Berkman,
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of
Public Health |
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John W.
Rowe, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management,
Columbia University; former Chairman and CEO, Aetna, Inc.
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| "Energy Choices and
Global Warming" (57 min.) |
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Chairs: |
Ralph
J. Cicerone , President, National Academy of Sciences |
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Richard
A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution of
Washington |
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Panelists: |
Ralph
J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
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Charles
O. Holliday, Jr., Chairman of the Board and CEO, DuPont |
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Jane Lubchenco, Wayne
and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of
Zoology, Oregon State University |
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