Member Events, 2018–2019
The Academy holds events around the country and the world. These gatherings bring members and others in their communities together to explore topics of national and global concern through an interdisciplinary lens that draws on the breadth and expertise of the Academy’s membership.
* Activity of a Local Program Committee or Representative
California
Los Angeles
November 4, 2018
Los Angeles, CA
Ethical Issues in the Arts and Sciences*
Featured Speakers: Frances Arnold (California Institute of Technology); Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California); Peter Sellars (University of California, Los Angeles). Moderator: Kent Kresa (formerly, General Motors; formerly, Northrop Grumman Corporation)
Palo Alto
September 28, 2018
Palo Alto, CA
Technology and the Self
Featured Speaker: Peter Galison (Harvard University)
San Diego
October 22, 2018
University of California, San Diego
San Diego Program Committee Meeting*
November 5, 2018
Sanford Consortium
The Curiosity Mission: The Search for Habitable Environments on Mars*
Featured Speaker: John Grotzinger (California Institute of Technology)
March 8, 2019
University of California, San Diego
San Diego Program Committee Meeting*
May 31, 2019
University of California, San Diego
The Design Lab: Applying the Wisdom of the University to Societal Issues*
Featured Speaker: Don Norman (University of California, San Diego)
Santa Barbara
June 5, 2019
University of California, Santa Barbara
Member Reception with Academy President David W. Oxtoby
Connecticut
New Haven
All cosponsored by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University
September 28, 2018
Yale University
Collateral Crashes and Shakespeare*
Featured Speaker: John Geanakoplos (Yale University)
November 2, 2018
Yale University
The Secret to Superior Investment Performance*
Featured Speaker: Charles Ellis (Whitehead Institute)
November 9, 2018
Yale University
The Role of Art History in a Liberal Education*
Featured Speaker: Mary Miller (Yale University)
January 25, 2019
Yale University
Evolution of the Female Orgasm*
Featured Speaker: Günter Wagner (Yale University)
April 1, 2019
Yale University
Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture
A Conversation about Frederick Douglass*
Featured Speakers: Ian Shapiro (Yale University); David Blight (Yale University); Robert Stepto (Yale University). Moderator: Crystal Feimster (Yale University)
District of Columbia
Washington, D.C.
October 29, 2018
National Press Club
Science and the Legal System
Featured Speakers: Shari Seidman Diamond (Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; American Bar Foundation); Richard O. Lempert (University of Michigan); Nancy Gertner (Harvard Law School; formerly, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts); Jed S. Rakoff (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; Columbia Law School); David S. Tatel (United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit)
October 30, 2018
Georgetown University
Satellite Discussion: The 2020 Census: Unprecedented Challenges & Their Implications
Featured Speaker: Robert Groves (Georgetown University)
December 4, 2018
Washington, D.C.
The Practice of Democratic Citizenship*
Featured Speakers: Danielle Allen (Harvard University); Stephen Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund); Steven Knapp (The George Washington University); Jonathan Fanton (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
March 19, 2019
National Press Club
Science During Crisis: The Release of a New Report and Call to Action
Featured Speakers: Rita R. Colwell (University of Maryland; formerly, National Science Foundation); Gary E. Machlis (Clemson University; formerly, U.S. National Park Service); Brad J. Kieserman (American Red Cross)
May 11, 2019
Politics and Prose Bookstore
Access to Justice
Featured Speakers: David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group); Kenneth C. Frazier (Merck & Company, Inc.); Martha Minow (Harvard University); Rebecca L. Sandefur (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; American Bar Foundation)
June 10, 2019
Carnegie Institution for Science
Lessons from the Clean Air Act: Building Durability and Adaptability into U.S. Climate and Energy Policy
Featured Speakers: Dallas Burtraw (Resources for the Future); Ann Carlson (University of California, Los Angeles School of Law); Henry Waxman (formerly, U.S. House of Representatives)
Georgia
Atlanta
September 6, 2018
Emory University
Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture
The Study of African American Women’s Writing: Pasts and Futures
Featured Speakers: Frances Smith Foster (Emory University); Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College); Pellom McDaniels III (Emory University); Dwight A. McBride (Emory University). Moderator: Michelle M. Wright (Emory University)
Massachusetts
Cambridge
July 25, 2018
House of the Academy
Old in Art School
Featured Speaker: Nell Painter (Princeton University)
September 12, 2018
House of the Academy
Social Reception*
September 13, 2018
House of the Academy
Biomedical Science and the Academy
Featured Speaker: Robert Langer (MIT)
October 5, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Celebration of the Arts and Humanities
Featured Speakers: Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California); Jacqueline Stewart (University of Chicago); Damian Woetzel (The Julliard School); Tania León (City University of New York); Richard J. Powell (Duke University); John Lithgow (Actor and Author)
October 6, 2018
Cambridge, MA
Induction Ceremony
Featured Speakers and Performers: Linda T. Elkins-Tanton (NASA Psyche Mission; Arizona State University; Beagle Learning); Huda Y. Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine); Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Supreme Court of California); Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University); David Miliband (International Rescue Committee); André Watts (Pianist; Indiana University Jacobs School of Music)
October 7, 2018
House of the Academy
Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture
Featured Speakers: David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group); Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court of the United States)
October 15, 2018
House of the Academy
in collaboration with the Massachusetts Historical Society
“All Legislative Powers . . . ” Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Then and Now
Featured Speakers: Margaret H. Marshall (Choate, Hall & Stewart; formerly, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts); Jack N. Rakove (Stanford University). Moderator: Sanford V. Levinson (University of Texas at Austin; Harvard Law School)
October 30, 2018
House of the Academy
Distinguished Morton L. Mandel Annual Public Lecture
The 2020 Census: Unprecedented Challenges & Their Implications
Featured Speaker: Kenneth Prewitt (Columbia University)
November 2, 2018
House of the Academy
Auditing Leadership Performance: Where Boards Often Fail
Featured Speakers: Mitchell Rabkin (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Harvard Medical School); Susan Friedman (Strategy Consultant)
November 29, 2018
House of the Academy
An Evening of Music and Conversation with Kenny Barron
Featured Speakers: Kenny Barron (Pianist; Composer; Arranger; NEA Jazz Master); William Damon (Stanford University); Felton Earls (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Harvard Medical School). Moderator: Eric Jackson (WGBH; Northeastern University)
December 12, 2018
House of the Academy
Winter Concert
Featured performers: Alex Hersh (Cello); Heinz Holliger (Oboe); Kim Kashkashian (Viola); Alexi Kenney (Violin); Robert Levin (Piano)
December 14, 2018
House of the Academy
Modeling Time and Change in Historic Architecture
Featured Speaker: Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University)
December 20, 2018
House of the Academy
Meeting of the Boston Biotech Working Group
Featured Speakers: Sangeeta Bhatia (MIT); Susan Hockfield (MIT); Nancy Hopkins (MIT)
January 23, 2019
House of the Academy
Reception to Welcome Academy President David W. Oxtoby
January 28, 2019
House of the Academy
Meeting of the Boston Biotech Working Group
Featured Speakers: Sangeeta Bhatia (MIT); Susan Hockfield (MIT); Nancy Hopkins (MIT)
February 1, 2019
House of the Academy
Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract
Featured Speaker: Philip J. Deloria (Harvard University)
February 8, 2019
House of the Academy
Women Composers of Europe
Chamber series in collaboration with the Cantata Singers
February 13, 2019
House of the Academy
in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Privileged Poor
Featured Speakers: Bridget Terry Long (Harvard Graduate School of Education); Anthony Jack (Harvard University); Danielle Allen (Harvard University)
March 6, 2019
House of the Academy
Building, Exploring, and Using the Tree of Life
Featured Speakers: Douglas E. Soltis (University of Florida); Pamela S. Soltis (University of Florida). Moderator: Scott Vernon Edwards (Harvard University)
March 20, 2019
House of the Academy
An International Anti-Corruption Court
Featured Speakers: Robert Rotberg (World Peace Foundation; Harvard Kennedy School); Richard Goldstone (Constitutional Court of South Africa); Mark Wolf (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts)
April 3, 2019
House of the Academy
How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President
Featured Speaker: Kathleen Hall Jamieson (University of Pennsylvania)
April 4, 2019
House of the Academy
Boston-Cambridge Program Committee Meeting*
April 11, 2019
House of the Academy
Annual Awards Ceremony: Presentation of the Award for Excellence in Public Policy and Public Affairs and The Rumford Prize
Featured Speakers: Ash Carter (Harvard Kennedy School; formerly, U.S. Department of Defense); Ernest Moniz (Energy Futures Initiative; Nuclear Threat Initiative; formerly, U.S. Department of Energy); Lucia Rothman-Denes (University of Chicago); Edward Boyden (MIT)
April 26, 2019
House of the Academy
Women Composers of America
Chamber series in collaboration with the Cantata Singers
May 7, 2019
House of the Academy
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
Featured Speakers: John Palfrey (Philips Academy Andover; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation); Martha Minow (Harvard University)
May 8, 2019
House of the Academy
An International Anti-Corruption Court: Second Discussion
Featured Speakers: Robert Rotberg (World Peace Foundation; Harvard Kennedy School); Richard Goldstone (Constitutional Court of South Africa); Mark Wolf (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts); Carlos Holmes Trujillo (Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Republic of Colombia)
May 10, 2019
House of the Academy
Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Journey from the Bench to the Clinic
Featured Speaker: Patricia D’Amore (Massachusetts Eye and Ear; Harvard Medical School)
May 14, 2019
House of the Academy
Meeting of the Boston Biotech Working Group
Missouri
St. Louis
October 24, 2018
Washington University in St. Louis
Playing It Forward in Classical Music*
Featured Speakers: David Robertson (The Julliard School; formerly, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra); Robert Peterson (St. Louis Public Radio)
April 12, 2019
Washington University in St. Louis
Shaping the Public Face of Science
Featured Speakers: Barbara Schaal (Washington University in St. Louis); Peter Raven (Missouri Botanical Garden); Erica Kimmerling (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
April 18, 2019
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis Program Committee Meeting*
May 2, 2019
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
A Conversation with Emily Rauh Pulitzer*
Featured Speakers: Emily Rauh Pulitzer (Pulitzer Arts Foundation); Cara Starke (Pulitzer Arts Foundation)
New York
New York
November 26, 2018
New York, NY
Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture
An Evening with Nicholas Kristof
Featuring: Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times)
March 11, 2019
New York, NY
Reception to Welcome Academy President David W. Oxtoby
June 3, 2019
New York, NY
New Member Reception
Featured Speakers: Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University; Harvard Law School; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study); David W. Oxtoby (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
September 20, 2018
University of Pennsylvania
Understanding Public Attitudes and Engagement with Science
October 30, 2018
American Philosophical Society
Satellite Discussion: The 2020 Census: Unprecedented Challenges & Their Implications
Featured Speaker: Robert M. Hauser (American Philosophical Society)
March 27, 2019
Philadelphia, PA
Reception with Academy President David W. Oxtoby
May 20, 2019
Philadelphia, PA
New Member Dinner
Rhode Island
Providence
October 23, 2018
Brown University
Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis: Innovative Science-Based Solutions*
Featured Speakers: Jill Pipher (Brown University); Christina Paxson (Brown University); Sheldon Whitehouse (U.S. Senate); Rebecca Boss (Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare); Traci Green (Brown University; Center of Biomedical Research Excellence [COBRE] on Opioids and Overdose); Brandon Marshall (Brown University; PreventOverdoseRI); Josiah Rich (Brown University; Center of Biomedical Research Excellence [COBRE] on Opioids and Overdose). Keynote and Moderator: Michael Botticelli (Boston Medical Center; formerly, Center for National Drug Control Policy, The White House)
International Meetings
United Kingdom
June 11, 2019
The British Academy
Member Reception with Academy President David W. Oxtoby and Presentation of the 2018 Sarton Prize for History of Science
Featured Speakers: David W. Oxtoby (American Academy); Sarton Prize winner Jenny Bulstrode (University of Cambridge; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)