Events

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Academy is planning to hold an Induction Ceremony for members elected in 2020 and 2021 in Spring 2022. More details are forthcoming.

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May 2021

May 20, 2021 Public

Artists at Work

Featuring Oskar Eustis, Thelma Golden, David W. Oxtoby, and Laura Zabel

Zoom Videoconferencing

May 27, 2021 Public

Reflections on a Full, Consequential, and Lucky Life: Science, Leadership, and Education

Featuring Walter E. Massey, Don Michael Randel, David W. Oxtoby, and Young-Kee Kim

Zoom Videoconferencing

June 2021

Jun 1, 2021 Public

Exploring the Future of International Large-Scale Science

Featuring Arthur I. Bienenstock, E. William Colglazier, France A. Córdova, James W. Curran, Kaye G. Husbands Fealing, Peter F. Michelson, and David W. Oxtoby

Zoom Videoconferencing

Jun 10, 2021

The Hybrid Workplace of the Future

Featuring James M. Manyika, Indra Nooyi, David W. Oxtoby, and Robert Charles Pozen

Zoom Videoconferencing

Jun 14, 2021 Public

Reckoning with Organizational History

Featuring Claudia Rankine, John J. DeGioia, Susan Goldberg, Brent Leggs, Ben Vinson, and David W. Oxtoby

Zoom Videoconferencing

Events

May 2021

May 13, 2021

Finding a Shared Historical Narrative

Featuring Danielle Allen

Zoom Videoconferencing

May 6, 2021

A Conversation with Architect Jeanne Gang

Featuring Jeanne K. Gang

Online

April 2021

Apr 23, 2021

The Post-Pandemic Future of Higher Education: A Convening of American Academy Affiliates

Featuring Richard Arum, Ana Mari Cauce, Robert J. Jones, Christina Hull Paxson, and David W. Oxtoby

Online

Apr 21, 2021

Investing in Civic Education and Our Democracy

Featuring Danielle Allen, Shawn P. Healy, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, David McCullough III, David W. Oxtoby, and Tammy Waller

Online

Apr 15, 2021

How Political Institutions Shape Outcomes and How We Might Reform Them

Featuring Danielle Allen

Online

Apr 8, 2021

“Our Towns” Virtual Screening and Q&A

Featuring Steven Ascher, Deborah Fallows, James M. Fallows, Jeanne Jordan, Dee Davis, and David W. Oxtoby

Online

Apr 6, 2021

The American Mythology of Racial Progress

Featuring Jennifer A. Richeson and David W. Oxtoby

Online

March 2021

Mar 24, 2021

Honoring Margaret Atwood

Featuring Margaret Atwood, Gish Jen, Nancy C. Andrews, and David W. Oxtoby

Online

Mar 24, 2021

The Ash Center Presents Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century

Featuring Danielle Allen, Stephen B. Heintz, Eric P. Liu, and Archon Fung

Online

Mar 18, 2021

America’s Black-White Divide: Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Forward

Featuring Lawrence D. Bobo, Henry Louis Gates, Margaret Levi, and Claude Mason Steele

Online

Mar 16, 2021

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Vaccine Development

Featuring Rommie Amaro, Natasha Martin, David W. Oxtoby, and Robert “Chip” Schooley

Online

Art by Rordrigo Corral

Mar 11, 2021

Using Civic Media to Build A Better Society

Featuring Danielle Allen

Online

Mar 10, 2021

Empathy and Our Future

Featuring Eric P. Liu, Sherry Turkle, and David W. Oxtoby

Online

Mar 3, 2021

Why America Needs Service, Now More Than Ever

Featuring Kristen Bennett, Josh Fryday, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Darryl Lester, David W. Oxtoby, and Fareed Zakaria

Online

February 2021

Feb 23, 2021

American Democracy and Civic Participation in 2021: A Conversation with Danielle Allen and Eric Liu

Featuring Danielle Allen, Helene D. Gayle, Eric P. Liu, and David W. Oxtoby

Online

Feb 21, 2021

Southern California Members Reception

Featuring Geoff Geoffrey Cowan, Antonia Hernandez, John A. Lithgow, David W. Oxtoby, and Ernest James Wilson

Online

Feb 11, 2021

A Circle of Notable Native American Scholars

Featuring Philip J. Deloria, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Henrietta Mann, Greg Sarris, and Robert Warrior

Online

Feb 9, 2021

Introducing ‘Measuring Civil Justice for All’

Featuring John Mark Hansen, David W. Oxtoby, Rebecca L. Sandefur, and James Joseph Sandman

Online