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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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