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1877th Stated Meeting and Annual Holiday Concert, Cambridge, MA - December 3, 2003
The Academy's 1877th Stated Meeting and Annual Holiday Concert was held at the House
of the Academy on December 3, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. Lewis Lockwood of Harvard University
gave a talk entitled Beethoven and His Royal Disciple and The Boston Trio
will perform Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio, Op. 97.
1876th Stated Meeting, Cambridge, MA -
November 12, 2003
There was a tribute to Robert K. Merton at the Academy's 1876th Stated Meeting,
held at the House of the Academy on November 12, 2003 at 5:30 p.m. Robert M. Solow
of MIT and Robert C. Merton of Harvard University spoke. The Talcott Parsons Prize
was awarded at this event to William Julius Wilson of Harvard University.
1875th Stated Meeting, New York -
November 3, 2003
The 1875th Stated Meeting was held at The Century Association in New York on November
3, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. Robert E. Rubin of Citigroup, Inc., and Former U.S. Secretary
of the Treasury, gave a talk entitled The Economic Outlook and Current Policy Issues.
1874th Stated Meeting, Mid-West Center -
November 1, 2003
The 1874th Stated Meeting, Mid-West Center, was held at the Adler Planetarium in
Chicago on November 1, 2003 at 5:30 p.m. Michael Turner of the University of Chicago
gave a talk entitled The Absurd Universe.
1873rd Stated Meeting, Research Triangle Park, NC -
October 29, 2003
The 1873rd Stated Meeting was held at The National Humanities Center in North Carolina
at 5:00 p.m. Walter E. Dellinger III of Duke University gave a talk entitled The
Supreme Court and American Democracy 2004. Professor Dellinger was introduced
by John Hope Franklin.
Annual Induction of New Members, Cambridge, MA -
October 11, 2003
The Academy held its Induction Ceremony for the Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members
from the class of 2003 in Cambridge, MA. Lawyer and philanthropist William H. Gates,
Sr., MIT professor and Akamai founder Frank Thomson Leighton, chemist Carolyn R.
Bertozzi, and chair of Princeton University's Department of English Michael Wood
spoke at the ceremony, which also featured a performance by prominent operatic baritone
Sherrill Milnes. Read the Press
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1871st Stated Meeting, Western Center -
September 13, 2003
The 1871st Stated Meeting, Western Center, was held at the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art on September 13, 2003. Stephanie Barron, Vice President of Education and
Public Programs & Senior Curator, Modern Art and Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, gave a lecture entitled Old Masters, Impressionists and Moderns:
French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow: A Story of Collecting.
In addition, Thomas Crow, Director, Getty Research Institute, gave a talk entitiled
Collecting and Display as Subjects for History.
Spring Reception for Fellows and Visiting Scholars - June 3 , 2003
The Spring Reception for Fellows and Visiting Scholars was held on Tuesday, June
3 from 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. at the House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA.
1870th Stated Meeting at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC - May 15, 2003
Judith Resnick (Yale University School of Law), Danny J. Boggs (Judge, U. S. Court
of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), F. James Sensenbrenner (US House of Representatives
Committee on the Judiciary), and Abner J. Mikva (University of Chicago School of
Law) discussed "Congress and the Courts: Independence of the Federal Judiciary."
A panel discussion followed. The event took place at the Library of Congress in
Washington, D.C.
1869th Stated Meeting and 223rd Annual Meeting -
May 14, 2003
In the Inaugural S. T. Lee Lecture in the Humanities, Denis Donoghue of New York
University delivered a lecture entitled "Joyce, Leavis, and the Revolution of the
Word."
Joint Meeting with the Boston Athenaeum -
April 10, 2003
Academy President Patricia Meyer Spacks spoke at a joint meeting with the Boston
Athenaeum on April 10. The title of her communication was "How to Read a Diary."
The meeting was held at the Boston Athenaeum.
1868th Stated Meeting - March 12, 2003
In Memory of Herman Feshbach and Victor Weisskopf.
Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin delivered a communication
entitled Nuclear Terror: Ambling Toward Apocalypse. The event took place
at the House of the Academy in Cambridge.
Art, Race, and the Cold War - February 12, 2003
At the Academy's 1867th Stated Meeting Washington University's Gerald Early presented
a communication entitled Art, Race, and the Coldest War: The Image of the African
American Soldier in Three Hollywood Korean War Films. The speaker was introduced
by physicist, author and essayist Alan Lightman. The event took place at the House
of the Academy in Cambridge on February 12, 2003.
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