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2009 Events
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
Holiday Concert – An Evening with Malcolm Bilson
Location: House of the Academy
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Introduction:
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Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor, Harvard University
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Performer:
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Malcolm Bilson, Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music, Emeritus, Cornell
University
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Monday, November 30, 2009 -
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Stated Meeting – New York
Business and Society in the 21st Century: The Way Forward
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Welcome:
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Richard L. Revesz, Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University
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Moderator:
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William T. Allen, Clinical Jack H. Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business;
Director, Pollack Center for Law and Business, New York University
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Rajat Gupta, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Stated Meeting – Chicago
Black Humor: Reflections on an American Tradition
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Speakers:
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Glenda Carpio, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
and of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature;
Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and Director of the
Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - Click for audio.
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His
Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond
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Speakers:
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Peter Peterson, Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Peter Nicholas, Chairman of the Board, Boston Scientific Corporation
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Sunday, October 11, 2009 -
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Stated Meeting – Cambridge
Harvey Brooks Lecture
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Speaker:
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John Holdren, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive
Office of the President of the United States
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The Energy Future
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Moderator:
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Richard Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science
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Speakers:
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John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Paul Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Steven Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, United States Department of Energy
John W. Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 -
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229th Induction Ceremony
Location: Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Meeting - Cambridge
An Evening with Academy Writers, Featuring Galway Kinnell
Location: House of the Academy
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Speakers:
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Denis Donoghue, University Professor and Henry James Professor of English
and American Letters, New York University
Gish Jen, Author
Jamaica Kincaid, Novelist; Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College
Galway Kinnell, Poet; Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing,
New York University
James Salter, Author
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 - Click for audio.
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
The New Literary History of America
Location: House of the Academy
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Speakers:
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Greil Marcus, author
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature;
Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 - Click for audio.
Stated Meeting – Stanford, California
The Challenges of Mass Incarceration in America
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Welcome:
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Larry Kramer, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean, Stanford Law School
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Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory, London School of
Economics
Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences; Professor
of Economics, Brown University
Joan Petersilia, Professor of Law. Stanford Law School
Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 -
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Space Policy Briefing - Washington, D.C.
Location: Rayburn House Office Building
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Overview:
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John D. Steinbruner, Project Director, Reconsidering the Rules of Space,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Public Policy and Director of
the Center for International Security Studies, University of Maryland
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Remarks:
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Robie I. Samanta Roy, Assistant Director for Space and Aeronautics, White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy
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Presentations:
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Nancy Gallagher, Reconsidering the Rules for Space Security, Associate
Director of Research Center for International and Security Studies, University of
Maryland
Jeffrey G. Lewis, China’s Space Program, Director, Nuclear Strategy
and Nonproliferation Initiative, New America Foundation
Neal Lane, U.S. Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities, Malcolm
Gillis University Professor and Senior Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for
Public Policy, Rice University
George Abbey, U.S. Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities, Baker
Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy,
Rice University
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Annual and Stated Meeting - Cambridge
What Is Missing in Medical Thinking?
Location: House of the Academy
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Speaker:
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Jerome Groopman, Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine, Harvard Medical
School; Chief of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; staff
writer in medicine and biology, The New Yorker
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Spring Concert - Cambridge
An Evening of Chamber Music
Location: House of the Academy
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Performers::
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Edward Arron, cello
Ronald Arron, viola
Aaron Boyd, violin
Jeewon Park, piano
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Novel Applications of Nanotechnology
Location: House of the Academy
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Moderator:
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Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Speakers:
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Robert Langer, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(applications in medicine)
Angela Belcher, Germehausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (applications
in energy)
Evelyn Hu, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering,
Harvard University (applications in photonics)
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Symposium - Washington, DC
The Humanities in a Civil Society
Location: George Washington University
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Moderator:
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Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer, American Academy
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Speakers:
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Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond
Don Michael Randel, President, The Mellon Foundation
David Souter, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
Patricia Q. Stonesifer, Chairwoman, Smithsonian Institution
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Saturday, February 28 to Sunday, March 1, 2009 - Click for video and audio.
Symposium - Mountain View, CA
The Public Good: The Impact of Information Technology on
Society
Location: Google, Microsoft, and Computer History Museum
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Partial List of Speakers:
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C. Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Jonathan Berger, Composer, Associate Professor, and Co-Director of the Institute
for Creativity and the Arts, Stanford University
Henry Brady, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.
David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory
Joshua Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, Law and Political Science, Stanford
University
Dale Dougherty, Editor and Publisher, Make Magazine, O’Reilly Media Inc.
Cynthia Dwork, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Edward Feigenbaum, Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus,
Stanford University
Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton
University
Charles Geschke, Co-chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems Inc.
Pat Hanrahan, Canon USA Professor, Computer Graphics Laboratory, Stanford
University
John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
John Hollar, President and CEO, Computer History Museum
Irwin M. Jacobs, Chairman, Co-Founder, and Former CEO, Qualcomm Inc.
Michael A. Keller, Ida M. Green University Librarian and Director of Academic
Information Resources, Stanford University
Butler Lampson, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Inc.
Edward Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science, and Engineering,
University of Washington
Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine
Carl Rosendahl, founder and former President, Pacific Data Images
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Inc.
John E. Warnock, Co-Chairman of the Board and former President and Chief
Executive Officer, Adobe Systems
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center
for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Film Screening and Discussion - Cambridge
In Search of Memory
Location: House of the Academy
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Speakers:
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Eric Kandel, University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor and Director of
the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons; Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Petra Seeger, film director
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - Click for audio.
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
After the 2008 Elections: How Will They Govern?
Location: House of the Academy
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Moderator:
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David Ellwood, Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and Dean, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
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Speakers:
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Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow and W. Averell Harriman Chair, Brookings Institution
Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research
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