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1866th Stated Meeting - December 11, 2002
Stanford University's Persi Diaconis illustrated The Problems of Thinking
Too Much at the 1866th Stated Meeting of the Academy. The communication was
presented on December 11, 2002 at the House of the Academy in Cambridge.
Annual Holiday Concert - December 8, 2002
The Boston Trio performed at the Academy's annual holiday concert on December 8,
2002. The event began at 3:00 p.m. at the House of the Academy in Cambridge.
1865th Stated Meeting - December 4, 2002
Academy Fellow and Professor of the History of Art at the Institute for Advanced
Study J. Kirk Varnedoe spoke on Matisse, Picasso, and the Idea of Influence
at the 1865th Stated Meeting of the Academy. Dr. Varnedoe is a co-curator of the
exhibition, Matisse Picasso at MoMA in Queens, N.Y. The Stated Meeting took
place in The Rockefeller University's Caspary Auditorium.
About J. Kirk Varnedoe
1864th Stated Meeting - November 13, 2002
On November 13, Harvard University's John Holdren presented the communication Environmental
Change and the Human Condition at the Academy's 1864th Stated Meeting. The
event took place at the House of the Academy in Cambridge.
About John P. Holdren
1863rd Stated Meeting (Napa Valley, California) - November 2, 2002
The Western Center's fall Stated Meeting took place in the wine country of Napa
Valley, California, on Saturday, November 2, 2002. The communication was presented
by Carole P. Meredith, Professor of Vitaculture and Enology at the University of
California, Davis. Dr. Meredith is a renowned specialist in the DNA and genealogy
of grapes. The event was preceded by a tour of
COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts.
The Comedy of Errors as Early Experimental Shakespeare (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
The 1862nd Stated Meeting, sponsored by the Midwest Center, was held at the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts on the evening of Saturday, October 26, 2002. The communication,
given by David Bevington (University of Chicago), was entitled "The Comedy of Errors
as Early Experimental Shakespeare." The talk was preceded by a private tour of the
exhibition "American Sublime: Epic Landscape of our Nation 1820-1880."
Induction
The Induction Ceremony for newly elected Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members
took place at the 1861st Stated Meeting, held on Saturday, October 5, 2002 at Sanders
Theater on the Harvard University campus. The ceremony was preceded by an afternoon
orientation session at the House of the Academy; new members were introduced to
the Academy's history, programs, and publications.
Global Climate Change and the Making of a Report to the President of the United
States (Western Center)
In the spring of 2001, President George W. Bush issued a special request to the
National Academy of Sciences for an analysis of current scientific thinking on global
warming. On May 18, 2002 at the 1860th Stated Meeting, UC Irvine Chancellor Ralph
Cicerone discussed the findings of the report, which he authored, in a communication
entitled "Global Climate Change and the Making of a Report to the President." The
commentator for the evening was Nobel laureate F. Sherwood Rowland, Donald Bren
Research Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science at UC Irvine.
Literature and Religion (Annual Meeting)
Novelist E. L. Doctorow, the Lewis and Loretta Gluckman Professor in American
Letters at New York University, presented a communication entitled "Literature and
Religion" at the Academy's Annual Meeting (the 1859th Stated Meeting) on May 8,
2002. The author of The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and other
noted books, Doctorow is known for his skillful blending of fiction and fact into
the reconstruction of eras in American History.
A Report Card on Education and Reform
On April 10, Marshall S. Smith, Professor of Education at Stanford University, presented
"A Report Card on Education and Reform" at the 1858th Stated Meeting of the Academy.
At this meeting the Academy honored Dr. Howard Hiatt for his leadership of The Initiatives
for Children Program and Professor Frederick Mosteller for a lifetime of contributions
to the evaluation of education reform.
Congress and the
Supreme Court
On March 21, 2002, Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson
III, U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, discussed the changing relationship between
Congress and the Court at a special meeting of the American Academy in Washington,
D.C. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion including Academy Fellows
Jesse Choper, Robert C. Post, and Nelson W. Polsby of the University of California,
Berkeley, Abner Mikva of the University of Chicago Law School and a former member
of Congress, and Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times.
John Adams and the
Good Life of the Mind
To honor the close relationship between the American Academy and John Adams, on
March 13th acclaimed historian and author David McCullough discussed "John Adams
and The Good Life of the Mind" at the Academy's 1856th Stated Meeting. The meeting
was held at Harvard's Memorial Church and was presented in collaboration with the
Boston Athenaeum.
A World Changed? Art Museums After September 11
James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art
Museums, addressed the changing role of art museums after September 11 at the 1855th
Stated Meeting of the Academy, held on February 13, 2002.
Whither China: Strategic
Competitor? Global Trader? Anti-Terrorist Partner?
Roderick MacFarquhar of Harvard University, Jonathan Spence of Yale University,
Jerome A. Cohen of New York University, and Tu Weiming of Harvard University discussed
China's role in the global community at the 1854th Stated Meeting of the Academy,
held on February 7th at the TIAA-CREF building in New York City.
Security and Civil Liberties
On February 4, 2002, former Assistant Secretary of State Harold Koh, former ACLU
president Norman Dorsen, and former Director of the CIA John Deutch discussed the
potential tradeoffs between security and civil liberties at the Academy's 1853rd
Stated Meeting. The panel presentation was followed by a question-and-answer session.
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