2023 Projects, Publications & Meetings of the Academy

Member Events, 2022–2023

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The Academy holds events virtually as well as around the country and the world that bring members, representatives of the Affiliates, and others together to explore topics of national and global concern. Academy President David W. Oxtoby provided opening remarks for most of the meetings.

* Activity of a Local Program Committee or Representative
 


 

Virtual Meetings


September – October 2022

Eleven Roundtables on Democracy

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Danielle Allen (Harvard University); Daniella Ballou-Aares (Leadership Now Project); Sam Gill (Doris Duke Charitable Foundation); Stephen B. Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund); Eric P. Liu (Citizen University); Martha McCoy (Everyday Democracy); Diane P. Wood (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit); Judy Woodruff (PBS NewsHour)


November 2, 2022

Online Celebration of New Members Elected in 2022

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Nancy C. Andrews (Boston Children’s Hospital); Ann Fudge (Young & Rubicam Brands); John Lithgow (Actor, Author); David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group); Deborah F. Rutter (The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)


November 29, 2022

A Conversation with Freeman Hrabowski III: Reflections on Higher Education Leadership

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Freeman A. Hrabowski III (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)


December 7–9, 2022

Reinventing Democracy: How Hometowns Are Strengthening America

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Danielle Allen (Harvard University); Jason Artman (Mendota, Illinois Public Schools); Sayu Bhojwani (Women’s Democracy Lab); Kristerfer Burnett (Baltimore City Council, District 8); Jerren Chang (GenUnity); Louise Dubé (iCivics); Archon Fung (Harvard University); Mark Gomez (California State University, Monterey Bay); Shamichael Hallman (Memphis Public Libraries); Linda Harris (City of Decatur, Georgia); Chris Hughes (Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center); Joseph Kahne (Civic Engagement Research Group); Malka Ranjana Kopell (Civity); Tom Latkowski (Los Angeles for Democracy Vouchers); Eric P. Liu (Citizen University); Martha McCoy (Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity); Anu Natarajan (Meta); Carmen Ortiz (City of Durham); Maria Perez (Democracy Rising); Pete Peterson (Pepperdine University); Rosemonde Pierre-Louis (NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research); Kelleen Leishman Potter (Utah Ranked Choice Voting); Alex Renirie (Healthy Democracy); Max Resnik (City Bureau); Lynn Ross (Spirit for Change Consulting); Hollie Russon Gilman (New America); Dave Smith (X Sector Labs); Palma Joy Strand (Civity); Judy Woodruff (PBS NewsHour); Richard Young (CivicLex)


January 18, 2023

Distrust, Political Polarization, and America’s Challenged Institutions

A Morton L. Mandel Conversation
FEATURED SPEAKERS:: Henry E. Brady (University of California, Berkeley); Tracey L. Meares (Yale University); Lee Rainie (Pew Research Center); Kay Lehman Schlozman (Boston College)


January 26, 2023

Beyond Affirmative Action: Ensuring Diversity on Campus

An Affiliate Convening
FEATURED SPEAKERS:: Mary Sue Coleman (University of Michigan); Christopher Edley (University of California, Berkeley)


March 16, 2023

A Conversation with Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman*

FEATURED SPEAKERS:: Katalin Karikó (BioNTech); Drew Weissman (University of Pennsylvania); MODERATORS: Kathleen Hall Jamieson (University of Pennsylvania); Nora Newcombe (Temple University)


May 10, 2023

AI’s Implications for Equitable Access to Legal and Other Professional Services

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Jason Barnwell (Microsoft); Margaret Hagen (Stanford University); Andrew Perlman (Suffolk University); MODERATOR: Martha Minow (Harvard University)


May 17, 2023

A Radical Old Idea: Expanding the U.S. House of Representatives

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Danielle Allen (Harvard University); Earl Blumenauer (U.S. House of Representatives, Third Congressional District of Oregon); Derek Kilmer (U.S. House of Representatives, Sixth Congressional District of Washington); Yuval Levin (American Enterprise Institute); Norman Jay Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute); Pete Peterson (Pepperdine University)


May 26, 2023

Leadership and the Future of Higher Education, Post-Affirmative Action

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Joanne Berger-Sweeney (Trinity College); Art Coleman (Education Counsel); Jamie Lewis Keith (Education Counsel); Ted Mitchell (American Council on Education); Kim Wilcox (University of California, Riverside)


 

In-Person and Hybrid Meetings


Arizona


February 3, 2023
Phoenix, AZ

Members’ Luncheon in Phoenix*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Stephen B. Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund); Eric P. Liu (Citizen University); Steven Olikara (Millennial Action Fund)


February 3, 2023
Flinn Foundation, Phoenix, AZ

Our Common Purpose and Opportunities for Civic Renewal in Arizona

Cosponsored with the Arizona Civic Life Partnership
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Stephen B. Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund); Eric P. Liu (Citizen University); Steven Olikara (Millennial Action Fund); and others; MODERATOR: Tania Munz (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)


California


October 23, 2022
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Members’ Reception*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: David W. Oxtoby (American Academy); Katherine E. Fleming (J. Paul Getty Trust)


October 25, 2022
The Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club
University of California, San Diego and Virtual

San Diego Reception Featuring Barbara F. Walter*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Barbara F. Walter (University of California, San Diego); INTRODUCTION: M. Margaret McKeown (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District); Susan Taylor (University of California, San Diego)


February 2, 2023Stanford University and Virtual

The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age

Sponsored by the Center for International Security and Cooperation 
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Rose McDermott (Brown University); Amy Zegart (Stanford University); Scott D. Sagan (Stanford University)


April 5, 2023
The Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club
University of California, San Diego

San Diego Program Committee Luncheon*


May 9, 2023
Palo Alto, CA

Climate Action Discussion and Member Reception

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Christopher Field (Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment)


May 10, 2023
The Faculty Club at UC Berkeley

Honoring Maxine Hong Kingston*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Maxine Hong Kingston (University of California, Berkeley); Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California); INTRODUCTION: Carol T. Christ (University of California, Berkeley)

Maxine Hong Kingston stands beside three attendees at her award ceremony. Kingston holds two bouquets of flowers in her arms. All face the viewer and smile.
Maxine Hong Kingston (University of California, Berkeley) receives the Emerson-Thoreau Medal (May 10, 2023; Berkeley)

Colorado


June 12–15, 2023
Aspen, CO

The Higher Education Forum at Aspen

FEATURED SPEAKERS AND MODERATORS: Mark Becker (The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities); Brandon Busteed (Kaplan University Partners); Nancy E. Cantor (Rutgers University–Newark); Lynn W. Chang (Boston Conservatory at Berklee); Kimberlee Eberle-Sudré (American Academy of Arts and Sciences); Julio Frenk (University of Miami); Ann M. Fudge (Young & Rubicam Brands); Helene D. Gayle (Spelman College); Jason Gonzales (Chalkbeat Colorado); Hahrie Han (Johns Hopkins University); Sara Hebel (Open Campus); Mary Dana Hinton (Hollins University); Kaye G. Husbands Fealing (Georgia Institute of Technology); William Jarvis (Bank of America); Sonia Katyal (University of California, Berkeley); Earl Lewis (University of Michigan); Goodwin Liu (California Supreme Court); Michael Lomax (United Negro College Fund); Gary S. May (University of California, Davis); Jamie Merisotis (Lumina Foundation); John C. Mitchell (Stanford University); Jennifer L. Mnookin (University of Wisconsin–Madison); David W. Oxtoby (American Academy of Arts and Sciences); Bobby Pace (Community College of Aurora); Laurie Patton (Middlebury College); Jessica Pisano (The New School); Vincent Price (Duke University); Emelia Probasco (Georgetown University); Madeline Pumariega (Miami Dade College); C. Cybele Raver (Vanderbilt University); John Shattuck (Tufts University); G. Gabrielle Starr (Pomona College); Geoffrey R. Stone (University of Chicago); Nabiha Syed (The Markup); Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University); Ben Vinson III (Case Western Reserve University); Harry L. Williams (Thurgood Marshall College Fund)


District of Columbia


December 13, 2022
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., Member Lunch Discussion

FEATURED SPEAKERS: James M. Fallows (Our Towns Civic Foundation); Ann Fudge (Young & Rubicam Brands)


January 26, 2023
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington, D.C.

Book Launch—The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Nicholas Miller (Dartmouth University); Ankit Panda (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace); Scott D. Sagan (Stanford University); Heather Williams (Center for Strategic and International Studies)


Illinois


October 13, 2022
The Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago

STEM Representation*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago); Nergis Mavalvala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


April 24, 2023
Chicago, IL

Chicago and Its Institutions: What is Our Responsibility to the City?*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Paul Alivisatos (University of Chicago); Michael Schill (Northwestern University); MODERATOR: Andrea Sáenz (The Chicago Community Trust)


Massachusetts


September 9, 2022
Boston, MA

2022 Induction: Opening Celebration

Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture 
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Yo-Yo Ma (Cambridge, MA); David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group)


September 10, 2022
Cambridge, MA

2022 Induction Ceremony

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Kimberlé W. Crenshaw (Columbia Law School; UCLA Law School); Mary Kay Henry (Service Employees International Union); Patricia Limerick (University of Colorado, Boulder); Sanjay Gupta (Emory University; Warner Media); Lisa T. Su (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)


October 3, 2022
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Reimagining the American Economy

A Morton L. Mandel Conversation 
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Ann Fudge (Young & Rubicam Brands); Jim Himes (U.S. House of Representatives); Goodwin H. Liu (Supreme Court of California); Bryan Steil (U.S. House of Representatives)


November 15, 2022
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Members’ Reception


January 24, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Local Fellows’ Luncheon


February 2, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Local Fellows’ Luncheon


February 16, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Local Fellows’ Luncheon


March 28, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA, and Virtual

The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age—Book Event

FEATURED SPEAKERS: David Allison (Harvard Kennedy School); Giles David Arceneaux (University of Colorado); Emma Belcher (Ploughshares Fund); Matthew Bunn (Harvard Kennedy School); Christopher Clary (University at Albany); Nicole Grajewski (Harvard Kennedy School); Rebecca Davis Gibbons (University of Southern Maine); Matthew Guasco (Harvard Kennedy School); Doreen Horschig (American Academy of Arts and Sciences); Robert Legvold (Columbia University); Nicholas Miller (Dartmouth College); Steven Miller (Harvard Kennedy School); Heather Williams (Center for Strategic and International Studies; MODERATORS: Mariana Budjeryn (Harvard Kennedy School); Francesca Giovannini (Harvard Kennedy School)


March 30, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA and Virtual

The Humanities and the Rise of the Terabytes

A Morton L. Mandel Conversation 
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Danielle Allen (Harvard University); Jeffrey Brown (PBS NewsHour)


April 3, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Local Fellows’ Luncheon


April 13, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA and Virtual

Honoring Robert D. Putnam

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Antonia Hernández (California Community Foundation); Robert D. Putnam (Harvard Kennedy School)


April 19, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Local Fellows’ Luncheon


May 17, 2023
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Local Fellows’ Luncheon


New York


September 21, 2022
New York, NY

An Evening with Mary Beard*

Cohosted with Cambridge in America 
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Mary Beard (University of Cambridge); Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)


March 13, 2023
New York, NY

Injustice in America*

FEATURED SPEAKER: Sherrilyn Ifill (formerly, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund)

Four people in formal attire face the viewer and smile.
Adam Falk (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), Sheldon Danziger (Russell Sage Foundation), Sherrilyn Ifill (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), and Nancy Hopkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) at “Injustice in America” (March 13, 2023; New York City)

May 23, 2023
Whitney Museum of American Art

New York Reception to Welcome Newly Elected Members

FEATURED SPEAKER: Adam Weinberg (Whitney Museum of American Art)


Washington


June 5, 2023
Seattle, WA

Reimagining the Political Economy in Seattle*

FEATURED SPEAKER: Margaret O’Mara (University of Washington)


Wisconsin


April 26, 2023
Olin House, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison Members’ Reception

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Jennifer L. Mnookin (University of Wisconsin–Madison); David W. Oxtoby (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)