Calendar of Events
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.
For press inquiries, please contact the Communications Office at 617-576-5043.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
228th Induction Ceremony - Cambridge
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
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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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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Thursday, November 6, 2008
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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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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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Living and Dying: James Merrill's Last Poems
Location: House of the Academy
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Speaker:
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Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard
University
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Monday, December 1, 2008
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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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Stated Meeting - La Jolla, CA
Evidence-Based Decision Making on Public Issues
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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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Holiday Concert: An Evening with Robert Levin
Location: House of the Academy
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Performer: |
Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music Performance & Analysis, Harvard University |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
After the 2008 Elections: How Will They Govern?
Location: House of the Academy
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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
David Ellwood, Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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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
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Partial List of Speakers:
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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
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Symposium - Washington, DC
The Humanities Now
Location: TBD
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Partial List of Speakers:
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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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For additional information or to make reservations, call
the Events Office at 617-576-5032.
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