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December 2, 2005
1897th Stated Meeting

Pianist Robert Levin
Location: House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

November 21, 2005
UCSD Campus Meeting

Host: Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor, UCSD
Co-Host: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Presentations by: Gordon Gill, Professor of Medicine, UCSD and
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, UCSD Location: La Jolla, CA

November 21, 2005
UC Irvine Campus Meeting

Host: Michael V. Drake, Chancellor, UC Irvine
Co-host: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Location: Irvine, CA

November 19, 2005
1896th Stated Meeting, Art Institute of Chicago

Shapers of the New City: Cultural Institutions and Universities
Moderator: Robert Campbell, architect and writer
Featured Speakers: Richard Franke, Chairman of the Chicago Humanities Festival John Bryan, Chairman of Millenium Park Inc. and the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago; James Cuno, President and Director of the Art Institute; Don Michael Randel, President of the University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, IL

November 16, 2005
1895th Stated Meeting Is Science Under Siege?

Speaker: Harold Varmus, President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Location: New York, NY

November 9, 2005
1894th Cambridge Stated Meeting

Presentation by: David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize winning author
Location: House of the Academy

October 19, 2005
University of Washington Campus Meeting

Host: Mark Emmert, President Co-host: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Location: Seattle, WA

October 17, 2005
UC Berkeley Campus Meeting
Host: Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor, UC Berkeley
Co-host: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Moderator: Jesse H. Choper, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley Presentations by: Randy Schekman, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC Berkeley and Marjorie Shultz, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
Location: Berkeley, CA

October 14, 2005
Stanford University Campus Meeting

Host: John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University
Co-host: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Presentation by: David M. Kennedy, Professor of History, Stanford University
Location: Stanford, CA

October 8, 2005
1893rd Cambridge Stated Meeting and National Induction Ceremony
Location: House of the Academy

May 12, 2005
1892nd Stated Meeting, George Washington University Campus Constitutions Under Stress: International and Historical Perspectives

Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard University; Geoffrey Stone, Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago; Kim Lane Scheppele, John J. O'Brien Professor of Comparative Law & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; and Patricia M. Wald, Former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Location: Washington, D.C

May 11, 2005
1891st Cambridge Stated Meeting and 224th Annual Meeting
America: In Principle

Alan Brinkley, Provost and Allan Nevins Professor of American History, Columbia University and Denis Donoghue, Henry James Professor in English and American Letters, New York University
Location: House of The Academy

May 5, 2005
A Discussion on Democracy and Islam

Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2003
Location: House of the Academy

April 21, 2005
225th Anniversary Celebration
Commemorative Ceremony - Founding of the Academy 1780-2005
Readings from the letters of John and Abigail Adams; a performance by the Lydian String Quartet; tributes from Margaret Marshall, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Samuel W. Bodman, United States Secretary of Energy; Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court; Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass), United States Senator
Location: House of The Academy

April 6, 2005
1890th Stated Meeting with the Boston Athenaeum
An Evening with Robert Pinsky

Presentation by: Robert Pinsky, Professor of English, Boston University and former US Poet Laureate
Location: House of The Academy

March 9, 2005
1889th Cambridge Stated Meeting and S. T. Lee Lecture
in the Humanities

Images of Power in Shakespeare
Presentation by: Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor, Harvard University
Location: House of The Academy

February 28, 2005
1888th Stated Meeting, New York, NY
Universities as Urban Planners

Presiding: E. John Rosenwald, Jr., Vice Chairman & Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. Presentations by: Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University James Polshek, Polshek Partnership Architects LLP Omar Blaik, Senior Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Moderator: Robert Campbell, architect and writer

February 23, 2005
Special Meeting with The Dibner Institute James Bowdoin
and the Patriot Philosophers

Speaker: Fritzie P. Manuel Moderator: Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics & Research Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Location: House of The Academy

February 17, 2005
UCSF Campus Meeting

Host: Dr. David Kessler, Dean, UCSF School of Medicine Co-host: Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Location: San Francisco, CA

February 16, 2005
UCLA Campus Meeting
Host: Albert Carnesale, Chancellor, UCLA Presentations by: Andrea Mia Ghez, Professor of Astronomy, UCLA Joel Handler, Professor of Law, UCLA
Location: Los Angeles, CA

February 15, 2005
California Institute of Technology Campus Meeting
Neuroeconomics
Host: David Baltimore, President, California Institute of Technology Presentation by: Colin Camerer, Rea A. & Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics, California Institute of Technology
Location: Pasadena, CA

February 9, 2005
1887th Cambridge Stated Meeting

Markets, Morals and Civic Life
Presiding: Jerome Kagan, Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Harvard University Introduction: Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University Presentation by: Michael J. Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
Location: House of The Academy

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