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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.
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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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