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For more information about these events, contact
Phyllis Bendell at (617) 576-5047.
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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