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Stated Meetings occur monthly during the academic year and give Academy Fellows a chance to meet and attend lectures by their colleagues. They are closed to the general public and are held at the House of the Academy in Cambridge, MA unless otherwise noted. For more information on an upcoming event, call our Events Office at 617-576-5032.

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October 2008

Saturday, October 11, 2008
228th Induction Ceremony - Cambridge


Sunday, October 12, 2008
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
The Nuclear Future
Location: House of the Academy
Moderator: Richard Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution; former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Speakers:

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

Friday, October 24, 2008
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
Andrei Sakharov: The Nuclear Legacy
Location: House of the Academy
Moderator: Paul Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus; Director, Emeritus, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Speakers:

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


November 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Symposium - New York
Judicial Independence 
Location: New York University Law School
Moderator: Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow, Yale Law School
Speakers:

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

Saturday, November 8, 2008
Stated Meeting – Chicago
The Invisible Constitution and the Rule of Law
Location: Northwestern Law School
Moderator: Diane P. Wood, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Speakers:

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

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Living and Dying: James Merrill's Last Poems
Location: House of the Academy
Speaker:

Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University


December 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Stated Meeting - Stanford, CA
The Election and its Consequences 
Location: Stanford University
Moderator: John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
Speakers:

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

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Stated Meeting - Berkeley, CA
Challenges to Public Universities
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:

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

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Stated Meeting - La Jolla, CA
Evidence-Based Decision Making on Public Issues
Location: University of California, San Diego
Welcome: Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor, University of California, San Diego
Speaker:

Daniel Yankelovich , Chairman, Viewpoint Learning, Inc.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Holiday Concert: An Evening with Robert Levin
Location: House of the Academy
Performer: Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music Performance & Analysis, Harvard University

January 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
After the 2008 Elections: How Will They Govern?
Location: House of the Academy
Speakers:

Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow and W. Averell Harriman Chair, Brookings Institution
Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
David Ellwood, Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University


February 2009
Saturday, February 28 - Sunday, March 1, 2009
Symposium - Mountain View, CA
The Impact of Information Technology on American Society
Location: Google, Microsoft and Computer History Museum
Partial List of Speakers:

Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer, University of Washington
David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pat Hanrahan, CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University
Edward Feigenbaum , Professor of Computer Science; Co-Scientific Director, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University


March 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Symposium - Washington, DC
The Humanities Now
Location: TBD
Partial List of Speakers:

Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond
Francis Oakley, President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Williams College
Don Michael Randel, President, The Mellon Foundation
David Souter, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court



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