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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Handel’s Portraits of Italy in the Early Chamber Cantatas
Location: House of the Academy
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Speaker:
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Ellen Harris, Class of 1949 Professor of Music and Musicology, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
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Performers:
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Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano
Daniel Ryan, baroque cello
Michael Beattie, harpsichord
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Thursday, December 7, 2006
Stated Meeting - New York
The Future of News
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Welcome:
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Ann Moore, Chairman and CEO, Time, Inc.
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Moderator:
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Norman Pearlstine, former Editor-in-Chief, Time Warner, Inc. and Senior Advisor,
The Carlyle Group
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Panel:
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Jill Abramson, Managing Editor, The New York Times
John Carroll, Knight Visiting Lecturer, Shorenstein Center, Harvard University
Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine.com
Geneva Overholser, Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, University of
Missouri
Jonathan Klein, President, CNN
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Monday, November 20, 2006
Campus Meeting – University of California, Berkeley
Who's Watching Me Now? Surveillance, Exposure, Privacy and New Technologies
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Welcome:
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Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
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Convener:
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Jesse Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, University of California,
Berkeley
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Moderator:
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Michael Traynor, Senior Counsel, Cooley Godward Kronish
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Presenters:
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Deirdre Mulligan, Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Nancy Van House, Professor, School of Information, University of California,
Berkeley
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Friday, November 17, 2006 Campus Meeting – University of California, San
Diego
The Birth of Oxygen
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Welcome:
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Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor, University of California, San Diego
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Convener:
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Gordon Gill, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, University of California, San
Diego
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Speaker:
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John Abelson, Professor of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
Politics and Knowledge in the Middle East
Location: House of the Academy
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Moderator:
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Philip Khoury, Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Panel:
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John Waterbury, President, American University of Beirut
Itamar Rabinovich, President, Tel Aviv University
Sari Nusseibeh, President, Al-Quds University
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Stated Meeting – Chicago
War and Peace in the Operas of Guiseppe Verdi
Location: Gleacher Center, University of Chicago
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Speaker:
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Philip Gossett, Robert W. Render Distinguished Service Professor of Music
History, University of Chicago
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Performers:
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Quinn Kelsey, University of Chicago Motet Choir
Marjorie Owens, University of Chicago Motet Choir under the direction of
James Kallembach
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Monday, October 30, 2006
Meeting - Cambridge
Our Undemocratic Constitution:
Where the US Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct it)
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Speaker:
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Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial
Chair and Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School
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Respondents:
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Barney Frank, US Congress (D-Massachusetts)
Robert Post, David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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Saturday, October 7, 2006 – 226th Induction Ceremony
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
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Thursday, September 7, 2006
Meeting - New York
The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track
Cohosted by New York University’s John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress
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Speakers:
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Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute, and Thomas Mann, Brookings
Institution Location: New York University
Thomas Mann, Brookings, Institution Location: New York University
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Speakers: Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute, and Thomas Mann, Brookings
Institution Location: New York University
May 31, 2006
Panel Presentation:
The Massachusetts Health Insurance Plan: How will it work? Is it a Model for
the Nation?
Moderator: Robert Pozen, Chairman of MFS Investment
Management
Panel: Samuel Thier, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy,
Harvard Medical School
Timothy R. Murphy, Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services
John W. Rowe, M.D., Executive Chairman of Aetna Inc
Jonathan Gruber, Professor of Economics, MIT
Location: House of the Academy
May 18, 2006
Joint Academy and Cambridge Public Library Special Lecture
John Kenneth Galbraith Honor Lecture
Speaker: Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
Location: House of the Academy
May 10, 2006
Cambridge Stated and Annual Meeting
Threats to the Rule of Law: State Courts, Public Expectations, and Political
Attitudes
Speakers: Margaret Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
of Massachusetts and Ronald M. George, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
Location: House of the Academy
April 21, 2006
Spring Concert
Performers:
Abraham Appleman, violin
Edward Arron, Cello
Ronald Arron, viola
Jeewon Park, piano
Location: House of the Academy
April 4, 2006
Boston Stated Meeting and Joint Meeting
with the Boston Athenaeum
Great Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century
Speaker: Alan Lightman, Adjunct Professor of Humanities, MIT
Location: Boston Athenaeum
March 18, 2006
San Francisco Stated Meeting
The Creative Blending of Art & Science
Speaker: George Lucas, Chairman, Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Location: The Presidio, Letterman Digital Arts Center
March 8, 2006
Cambridge Stated Meeting
Preparing for Pandemics
Moderator: Joseph Martin, Dean, Harvard Medical School
Featured Speaker: Barry R. Bloom, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
Speaker: Howard Koh, Associate Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
Location: House of the Academy
February 28 , 2006
Cambridge Lecture
"When There Are No Good Choices: Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam/Great Society
Connection"
Speaker: Francis Bator, Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University
Location: House of the Academy
Introduction: Ernest R. May, Professor of American History, Harvard University &
February 9, 2006
Cambridge Stated Meeting
Tax Reform: Current Problems, Possible Solutions, and Unresolved Questions
Speaker: James Poterba, Professor of Economics, MIT
Introducer: John Reed, CitiCorp (retired)
Respondent: Michael J. Graetz, Professor of Law, Yale University
February 15, 2006
Chicago Regional Meeting
America's Greatest Lawyer: Abraham Lincoln in Private Practice and Public
Life
Speaker: Walter Dellinger, Douglas B. Maggs
Professor of Law, Duke University
Location: University of Chicago - Law School
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