Recent 2008 Events
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Holiday Concert: An Evening with Robert Levin
Location: House of the Academy
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Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music Performance
& Analysis, Harvard University |
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Stated Meeting - La Jolla, CA
The New Pragmatism: Coping with Overwhelming Problems
Location: University of California, San Diego
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Welcome: |
Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor, University of California, San Diego |
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Speaker:
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Daniel Yankelovich , Chairman, Viewpoint Learning, Inc.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 -
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Stated Meeting - Berkeley, CA
Challenges to Public Universities
Location: University of California, Berkeley
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Speakers:
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Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Yudof, President, University of California
Christopher F. Edley, Jr, Dean, University of California, Berkeley
Law School
Christina Romer, Class of 1957 Professor of Economics, University
of California, Berkeley
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Monday, December 1, 2008 -
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Stated Meeting - Stanford, CA
The Election and its Consequences
Location: Stanford University
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Moderator: |
John Hennessy, President, Stanford University |
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Speakers:
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David Brady, Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political
Science and Leadership Values; Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University
Pamela Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public
Interest Law, Stanford University
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Living and Dying: James Merrill's Last Poems
Location: House of the Academy
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Introduction:
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Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature,
Harvard University
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Speaker:
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Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard
University
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Stated Meeting – Chicago
The Invisible Constitution and the Rule of Law
Location: Northwestern Law School
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Moderator: |
Diane P. Wood, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit |
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Speakers:
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Frank H. Easterbrook, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals,
Seventh Circuit
Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago Law School
Laurence Tribe, Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional
Law, Harvard University
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Thursday, November 6, 2008 -
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Symposium - New York
Judicial Independence
Location: New York University Law School
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Moderator: |
Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence
and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow, Yale Law School
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Speakers:
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Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice (retired), United States
Supreme Court
Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Viet Dinh, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School
Bert Brandenburg, Executive Director, Justice at Stake
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
Andrei Sakharov: The Nuclear Legacy
Location: House of the Academy
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Moderator: |
Paul Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus; Director,
Emeritus, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs, Harvard University
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Speakers:
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Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal
Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard University
František Janouch, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Founder,
The Charter 77 Foundation, Prague
Pavel Podvig, Research Associate, Center for International Security
and Cooperation, Stanford University
Eugene Miasnikov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental
Studies, Moscow
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 -
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Stated Meeting – Cambridge
The Nuclear Future
Location: House of the Academy
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Moderator: |
Richard Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution; former Chairman,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Speakers:
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Sidney Drell, Professor and Deputy Director Emeritus, Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center
Richard Lester, Director, Industrial Performance Center and a Professor
of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Steve Miller, Director, International Security Program, Harvard
University
Sam Nunn , Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat
Initiative; former United States Senator
William Perry, Michael & Barbara Berberian Professor and Senior
Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University;
former United States Secretary of Defense
Robert Rosner, Director, Argonne National Laboratory
Scott Sagan, Co-Director, Center for International Security and
Cooperation, Stanford University
George Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow,
Hoover Institution, Stanford University; former United States Secretary of State
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 - Click for audio.
228th Induction Ceremony - Cambridge
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Spring Concert and Annual Meeting - Cambridge
An Evening of Chamber Music
Location: House of the Academy
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Performers: |
Edward Arron, cello; Ronald Arron, viola; Aaron Boyd, violin; Jeewon Park, piano
Edward Arron, cello; Ronald Arron, viola; Aaron Boyd, violin;
Jeewon Park, piano
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 -
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Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Location: House of the Academy
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Introduction: |
Claude Canizares is
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics, Vice President for Research, and Associate Provost
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Speaker:
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Steven W. Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy,
Cornell University; Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rover Project |
Thursday, March 13, 2008 -
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Stated Meeting - Cambridge
The Research Library in the Information Age
Location: House of the Academy
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Introduction: |
Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, emeritus, Harvard University |
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Speaker:
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Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of
the Harvard University Library
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Film Screening and Discussion - Cambridge
Constantine's Sword
Location: House of the Academy
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James Carroll, author and film co-producer
Michael J. Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government,
Harvard University
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Book Hour - Cambridge
The Cancer Treatment Revolution: How Smart Drugs and Other New Therapies Are Renewing
Our Hope and Changing the Face of Medicine
Location: House of the Academy
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David Nathan, President Emeritus, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 - Click for audio.
Stated Meeting - Pacific Palisades, California
The Art and Science of Conservation
Location: Getty Villa in Malibu
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James Wood, President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust
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Speakers:
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Jerry Podany, Head, Department of Antiquities Conservation, J. Paul
Getty Museum
Jorge Silvetti, A Principal Architect of the Getty Villa Restoration
Robert Campbell, architect and architecture critic, The Boston Globe
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - Click for audio.
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Science, Policy, and the Media
Location: House of the Academy
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Welcome:
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Emilio Bizzi, President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences;
Institute Professor, MIT |
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Speaker:
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Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science magazine; President Emeritus,
Stanford University
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