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1886th Stated Meeting, Cambridge, MA
December 15, 2004
The Academy's 1886th Stated Meeting was held at the House of the Academy on December
15, 2004. Professor Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor of Musicology at
Harvard University, gave a talk entitled A Bach Cult.
Academy Meeting, New York City
December 1, 2004
The Academy held a meeting in New York City on December 1, 2004. Robert Legvold,
Professor of Political Science at Columbia University; Dmitri Trenin, Colonel, Soviet
and Russian Armed Forces (Ret.) and Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center;
and William Odom, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Ret.) and Senior Fellow at the
Hudson Institute, spoke on Russia and Its Neighbors.
Western Center Meeting, Stanford, CA
November 23, 2004
The Academy's Western Center held a meeting to discuss the topic of National Security
and Civil Liberties. Kathleen Sullivan, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former
Dean, gave a talk entitled Do We Have an Emergency Constitution? at Stanford
University.
Western Center Meeting, Berkeley, CA
November 22, 2004
The Academy's Western Center had a gathering of Fellows at the University of California
at Berkeley to meet the new chancellor, Robert J. Birgeneau, recognize new Fellows
and hear about Academy activities.
1885th Stated Meeting, Midwest Center, St. Louis, MO
November 13, 2004
The Academy's 1885th Stated Meeting was held at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in
St. Louis on November 13, 2004. Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical
Gardens and Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis,
gave a talk entitled Biodiversity and Our Common Future.
Midwest Center Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI
November 11, 2004
The Academy had a Meeting at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on November
11, 2004. Huda Akil, Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished University Professor of Neurosciences
in Psychiatry and Co-Director of the U-M Mental Health Research Institute, spoke
on Stress and Equanimity in Turbulent Times.
1884th Stated Meeting, Cambridge, MA
November 10, 2004
The Academy's 1884th Stated Meeting was held at the House of the Academy on November
10, 2004. Loren Graham, Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and Jean-Michel Kantor, a mathematician from the Institut
Mathématiques de Jussieu Université Paris, gave a talk entitled Russian Religious
Mystics and French Rationalists: Mathematics, 1900-1930.
1883rd Stated Meeting, Western Center, Seattle, WA
October 30, 2004
The Academy's 1883rd Stated Meeting was held at the Seattle Art Museum on October
30, 2004. Harvey Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine, gave a talk entitled
The Predicament of American Healthcare.
1882nd Stated Meeting and National Induction Ceremony, Cambridge, MA
October 9, 2004
The Academy's 1882nd Stated Meeting and National Induction Ceremony was held on
October 9, 2004.
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Lecture and Fall Reception, Cambridge, MA
September 28, 2004
The Academy hosted a lecture on September 28, 2004, entitled Perspectives on the
National Elections, 2004, which was followed by a Fall Reception. The event
took place at the House of the Academy. The speakers were Howard Gardner, John H.
& Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Education at Harvard University, Ernest May,
Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard University, and Sidney Verba, Carl
H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University.
Spring Program and Reception for Fellows and Visiting Scholars, Cambridge, MA
May 27, 2004
The Academy will have a Spring Program and Reception for Fellows and Visiting Scholars
at the House of the Academy on Thursday, May 27, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. James Carroll,
chair of the Visiting Scholars Program, will moderate as members of the 2003-4 class
of Visiting Scholars give brief talks about their experience this past year at the
Academy, and their current research.
1881st Stated Meeting and 224th Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA
May 12, 2004
The Academy's 1881st Stated Meeting will be held at the House of the Academy on
May 12, 2004 at 5:30 p.m. May Berenbaum of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tom Eisner of Cornell University, John Hildebrand of the University of Arizona,
and Jerrold Meinwald of Cornell University, will give a talk entitled Bugs, Behavior,
and Biomolecules: The Naturalist’s Guide to the Future.
Understated Meeting, Cambridge, MA
May 3, 2004
Sanford Levinson of the UT Austin, School of Law, and Philip Heymann of Harvard
Law School gave a talk entitled Contemplating Torture and Lesser Forms of Highly
Coercive Interrogation at the House of the Academy.
1880th Stated Meeting and Joint Meeting with the Boston Athenaeum, Cambridge, MA
April 14, 2004
The Academy's 1880th Stated Meeting was held at the House of the Academy on April
14, 2004 at 6:00 p.m. Peter Galison of Harvard University gave a talk entitled
Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time.
Inaugural John Kenneth Galbraith Honor Lecture, Cambridge, MA
March 31, 2004
In collaboration with the Cambridge Public Library, the Academy held a lecture by
Peter Galbraith entitled How to Get Out of Iraq: What Went Wrong and What it Means
at the House of the Academy.
Understated Meeting, Madison, WI
March 30, 2004
The Academy held a roundtable discussion entitled Research and the Wisconsin Idea
at the Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Cora Marrett of the
University of Wisconsin was the moderator.
1879th Stated Meeting, Cambridge, MA
March 10, 2004
The Academy's 1879th Stated Meeting was held at the House of the Academy on March
10, 2004 at 5:30 p.m. Bruce Ackerman of Yale Law School gave a talk entitled Voting
with Dollars. A response by Barney Frank, US House of Representatives, followed.
Panel Discussion and Reception, Berkeley, CA
February 27, 2004
On Friday, February 27, 2004, a panel discussion on "The Court and Congress" was
held in 140 Boalt Hall on the UC Berkeley campus from 3:00-5:00 p.m. The speakers
were Philip Frickey and Gordon Silverstein, both UC Berkeley faculty. Neal Devins
of the College of William and Mary and Nelson Polsby of UC Berkeley delivered comments.
A reception for Academy Fellows followed at 5:30 p.m. in the Goldberg Room in Boalt
Hall.
This event is part of the conference on Earl Warren and the Warren Court: A Fifty-Year
Retrospect, organized by the Earl Warren Legal Institute, UC Berkeley, and
co-sponsored by the American Academy and UC Berkeley.
1878th Stated Meeting, Cambridge, MA -
February 11, 2004
The Academy's 1878th Stated Meeting was held at the House of the Academy on February
11, 2004 at 5:30 p.m. Amartya Kumar Sen of Harvard University gave a talk entitled
What's the Point of Democracy?
Symposium, Cambridge, MA
January 26, 2004
An Academy Symposium was held at the House of the Academy on January 26, 2004 at
5:00 p.m. The panel of speakers included Nathan Glazer of Harvard University; Anthony
Lewis, former columnist for The New York Times; and Sam Tanenhaus of Vanity
Fair. The topic of the discussion was “Have You No Sense of Decency?” McCarthyism
50 Years Later.
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