2024 Projects, Publications & Meetings of the Academy

Member Events: 2023–2024

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The Academy holds events virtually as well as in person 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 listed below.

*Activity of a Local Program Committee or Representative

 

In-Person and Hybrid Meetings

Arizona

 

September 11, 2023 
University of Arizona Biosphere 2, Oracle 

Arizona Program Committee Luncheon*

 

California

 

February 13, 2024 
University of California, San Diego and Virtual 

Inspiring Collective Climate Action in California and Beyond*

FEATURED SPEAKER: David Victor (University of California, San Diego); INTRODUCTION: M. Margaret McKeown (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit); Susan Taylor (University of California, San Diego School of Medicine)

 

February 27, 2024 
Menlo Park, CA

The Geography of American Opportunity

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Reid Hoffman (Greylock Partners); Goodwin Liu (Supreme Court of California); Katherine Newman (University of California, Berkeley); MODERATOR: Michael Tubbs (End Poverty in California) 

 

March 3, 2024 
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Arts and Culture* 
A Morton L. Mandel Conversation

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Katherine E. Fleming (J. Paul Getty Trust); Michael Govan (Los Angeles County Museum of Art); Sandra Jackson-Dumont (Lucas Museum of Narrative Art); CLOSING REMARKS: Louise Bryson (Public Media Group of Southern California) 

Three adults in suit jackets have a friendly conversation in an art gallery.
Vamsi Mootha (Harvard University) and Jonas C. Peters (California Institute of Technology) at a member gathering in the galleries of the Getty Center in Los Angeles on March 3, 2024. Photo by Todd Cheney Photography.

 

May 1, 2024 
University of California, San Diego

San Diego Program Committee Planning Luncheon*

 

Colorado

 

June 10–13, 2024 
Aspen, CO 

Higher Education Forum, 2024

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Gilda Barabino (Olin College of Engineering); Sandy Baum (Urban Institute); Michael Bennett (Northeastern University); David Campbell (Notre Dame University); Cecilia Conrad (Lever for Change); Katherine Cramer (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Michael Crow (Arizona State University); Sean Decatur (American Natural History Museum); David DeSwert (Smith College); Alain-Philippe Durand (University of Arizona); Susan Dynarski (Harvard University); Adam Falk (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation); Kealoha Fox (Institute for Climate and Peace); Joan Gabel (University of Pittsburgh); Howard Gillman (University of California, Irvine); Jonathan Haidt (New York University); Sara Hebel (Open Campus); Fiona Hill (Brookings Institution); Xuedong Huang (Zoom); Kaye Husbands Fealing (Georgia Institute of Technology); Rishi Jaitly (Virginia Tech); John King (State University of New York); Bridget Terry Long (Harvard University); Jon Marcus (The Hechinger Report); Steven McLaughlin (Georgia Institute of Technology); Michael McPherson (Spencer Foundation, Emeritus); Angela Olinto (Columbia University); David Oxtoby (American Academy of Arts and Sciences); Lynn Pasquerella (American Association of Colleges and Universities); Avis Proctor (William Rainey Harper College); Francesca Purcell (Harvard University); L. Song Richardson (Colorado College); Elizabeth Simmons (University of California, San Diego); Blanton Tolbert (Howard Hughes Medical Institute; University of Pennsylvania); Frances Ward-Johnson (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University); Sisi Wei (The Markup); Ben Wildavsky (University of Virginia); Teresa Woodruff (Michigan State University)

 

Connecticut

 

October 16, 2023 
Yale University

The Battle Over the Israeli Judiciary*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Moshe Halbertal (New York University); Isabela Mares (Yale University); Samuel Moyn (Yale University)

 

March 26, 2024 
Yale University 

Amory Prize Presentation to Haifan Lin*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Nancy Brown (Yale School of Medicine); Haifan Lin (Yale School of Medicine); INTRODUCTION: Peter Salovey (Yale University) 

 

District of Columbia

 

October 23, 2023 
Washington, D.C.

Dinner to Celebrate the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action’s Report Launch

FEATURED SPEAKER: James Marshall Shepherd (University of Georgia)

Formally dressed people are in conversation in a wood-paneled room with chandeliers and gold-framed portraits.
Members and guests enjoy a reception and dinner at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the launch of Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Climate Action Across America. Photo by Noah Willman.

 

October 24, 2023 
Washington, D.C. and Virtual 

Report Launch of Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Action Across America

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Mustafa Santiago Ali (National Wildlife Federation; Revitalization Strategies); Christopher Bower Field (Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment); Kealoha Fox (Institute for Climate & Peace); David G. Victor (University of California, San Diego); Patricia Vincent-Collawn (PNM Resources); MODERATOR: Laura Helmuth (Scientific American)

 

June 27, 2024 
Washington, D.C. 

Supreme Court Term Limits: Rethinking Life Tenure on a Divided Court 

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Sarah A. Binder (George Washington University; Brookings Institution); Stephen McAllister (University of Kansas); Diane P. Wood (American Law Institute); MODERATOR: Kimberly Atkins Stohr (The Boston Globe)

 

Illinois

 

March 20, 2024 
University of Chicago and Virtual

Anti-Globalism’s Past and Present* 
A Jonathan F. Fanton Lecture

FEATURED SPEAKER: Tara Zahra (University of Chicago); INTRODUCTION: John Mark Hansen (University of Chicago)

A full audience of seated people of all ages listen to a lecture from a speaker at a podium. The audience looks at a projected image of a hunger map of Europe.
Academy members and guests listen to a presentation from Tara Zahra (University of Chicago) entitled “Anti-Globalism’s Past and Present,” which was held as a Jonathan F. Fanton lecture at the University of Chicago’s David M. Rubenstein Forum on March 20, 2024. Photo by Eric Craig Studios.

 

Massachusetts

 

August 30, 2023 
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Local Fellows’ Luncheon

 

September 29, 2023 
Cambridge, MA

2023 Induction: Opening Celebration 
Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture 

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Shelia Johnson (Salamander Hospitality); John Lithgow (Actor, Author); David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group)

 

September 30, 2023 
Cambridge, MA

2023 Induction Ceremony 

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Kerwin Charles (Yale University); Oskar Eustis (The Public Theater); Katharine Hayhoe (The Nature Conservancy; Texas Tech University); Maja Matarić (University of Southern California); Abraham Verghese (Stanford School of Medicine)

 

October 11, 2023 
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Local Fellows’ Luncheon

 

October 17, 2023 
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA and Virtual 

Becoming Interplanetary and Action for Spaceship Earth 
A Morton L. Mandel Conversation

FEATURED SPEAKER: Dava Newman (MIT Media Labs)

 

October 25, 2023 
Boston, MA and Virtual

The Legislative Path to Supreme Court Reform 
Cohosted with the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Akhil Amar (Yale University); Charles Fried (Harvard University); Gabe Roth (Fix the Court); Kimberly Atkins Stohr (The Boston Globe); MODERATOR: Patti Saris (United States District Court, District of Massachusetts)

 

November 15, 2023 
Boston, MA

Members’ Reception at ICA Boston

FEATURED SPEAKER: Jill Medvedow (Institute of Contemporary Art)

 

December 1, 2023 
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Luncheon Discussion Featuring Cornell William Brooks 

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Cornell William Brooks (Harvard University); Ann Fudge (Young & Rubicam Brands)

 

December 14, 2023 
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

Winter Concert featuring The Balourdet Quartet 

FEATURED SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS: Angela Bae (Balourdet Quartet); Lynn W. Chang (Boston Conservatory at Berklee); Justin DeFilippis (Balourdet Quartet); Russell Houston (Balourdet Quartet); Benjamin Zannoni (Balourdet Quartet)

 

February 15, 2024 
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA

A Conversation on Seeing Others with Michèle Lamont

FEATURED SPEAKER: Michèle Lamont (Harvard University)

 

April 18, 2024 
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA 

Program Honoring Anthony Appiah & Dinner Celebrating David W. Oxtoby

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University); Margaret Sullivan (Columbia Journalism School); INTRODUCTION: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)

Two people wearing business suits have an animated conversation in front of framed letters written by American Academy members.
Margaret Sullivan (Columbia Journalism School) and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University) connect at the program honoring Anthony Appiah with the Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies at the House of the Academy in Cambridge on April 18, 2024. Photo by Martha Stewart Photography.

 

Michigan

 

April 3, 2024 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

Michigan Members’ Luncheon

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Richard Rapson (Kresge Foundation); Santa Ono (University of Michigan); INTRODUCTION: Earl Lewis (University of Michigan)

 

New York 

 

July 20, 2023 
International Peace Institute, New York and Virtual

21st Century Challenges and Opportunities for Humanitarian Health Responses 
Cohosted with the International Peace Institute

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Dirk Druet (McGill University); Fouad M. Fouad (American University of Beirut); David Miliband (International Rescue Committee); Jenna Russo (International Peace Institute); MODERATOR: Jennifer M. Welsh (McGill University); WELCOME: Adam Lupel (International Peace Institute); CLOSING: Paul H. Wise (Stanford University)

 

September 6, 2023 
New York, NY

Why the Museum Matters* 

FEATURED SPEAKER: Daniel Weiss (Johns Hopkins University)

 

October 18, 2023 
New York, NY

Americans and Our Economy: A Conversation about the Human Stakes*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Katherine J. Cramer (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Ann M. Fudge (Young & Rubicam Brands); Serene Jones (Union Theological Seminary); Nicholas B. Lemann (Columbia Journalism School)

Three formally dressed people pose for a photo at an evening reception.
Ann Fudge (Young & Rubicam Brands), Thomas Bender (New York University), and Bambi B. Schieffelin (New York University) at “Americans and Our Economy: A Conversation about the Human Stakes,” a preview event of the final products from the Commission on Reimagining Our Economy, held in New York on October 18, 2023. Photo by Jeff Weiner Photography, LLC.

 

February 8, 2024 
Yale Club of New York

New York Members’ Luncheon*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Thomas DiPrete (Columbia University); Mary Hatten (Rockefeller University); Jennifer Homans (New York University); INTRODUCTION: Carol Gluck (Columbia University) 

 

June 3, 2024 
American Museum of Natural History 

A Reception to Welcome Newly Elected Members*

FEATURED SPEAKER: Sean Decatur (American Museum of Natural History)

 

North Carolina 

 

May 16, 2024 
Durham, NC

Research Triangle Program Committee Planning Luncheon*

 

Pennsylvania 

 

February 28, 2024; June 5, 2024 
Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Program Committee Dinners*

 

Texas

 

March 18, 2024 
Rice University, Houston, TX 

Accelerating Climate Action Across America*

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Robert Bullard (Texas Southern University); Patricia Vincent-Collawn (PNM Resources); Christopher Field (Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment); Mustafa Santiago Ali (National Wildlife Federation; Revitalization Strategies); INTRODUCTION: Reginald DesRoches (Rice University)

A panelist in a suit and glasses smiles mid-conversation.
Panelist Robert Bullard (Texas Southern University) during “Accelerating Climate Action Across America,” a conversation hosted by the Houston Program Committee on March 18, 2024, at Rice University to highlight the recommendations of the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action. Photo by Rice University Photo Services.

 

March 19, 2024 
University of Texas, Austin 

Austin Members’ Luncheon 

FEATURED SPEAKER: James B. Milliken (University of Texas System)

 

WASHINGTON

 

June 20, 2024 

Seattle Members’ Dinner* 

FEATURED SPEAKER: Wallace Loh (University of Maryland); INTRODUCTION: Patricia Ebrey (University of Washington)

 

International

United Kingdom

 

November 6, 2023 
Chatham House, London and Virtual

Challenges to Delivering Humanitarian Health Care in Today’s Conflicts 
Cohosted with Chatham House

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Larissa Fast (University of Manchester); Ulana Suprun (Commission for Universal Health); Natalie Roberts (Médecins Sans Frontières UK); MODERATOR: Patricia Lewis (Chatham House)

 

November 7, 2023 
Cambridge University

Members’ Luncheon

 

Mexico

 

September 12, 2023 
El Colegio de México, Mexico City and Virtual

A World in Humanitarian Crisis: Forced Mobility and Organized Crime in Latin America 
Cohosted with El Colegio de México

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Sergio Aguayo (El Colegio de México); Ietza Bojórquez (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte); Tamara Taraciuk Broner (Inter-American Dialogue); Julia Carabias (National Autonomous University of Mexico); Emilio González (UNHCR); Miguel Ángel Valverde Loya (Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Silvia Giorguli Saucedo (El Colegio de México); Jaime Sepúlveda (University of California, San Francisco)

 

September 12, 2023 
El Colegio de México, Mexico City

Members’ Luncheon 

 

Virtual Meetings

 

July 27, 2023

The Promise of Proportional Representation for Democracy 

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Andy Craig (Rainey Center; CATO Institute); Steven Olikara (Bridge Entertainment Labs); Norman Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute); Alora Thomas-Lundborg (Harvard Law School); Grant Tudor (Protect Democracy)

 

September 18, 2023

Language and Social Justice in the United States 

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Julia C. Fine (University of California, Santa Barbara); Anne H. Charity Hudley (Stanford University); Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of California, Los Angeles); Guadalupe Valdés (Stanford University); Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University)

 

October 5, 2023 

Safeguarding American Democracy: Civic Literacy for a Secure Nation 
Cohosted with iCivics

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Danielle Allen (Harvard University); Louise Dubé (iCivics); James N. Mattis (Stanford University) 

 

November 9, 2023 

Launch of Report and Data Dashboard for a People-First Economy

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Katherine J. Cramer (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Ann M. Fudge (Young & Rubicam Brands); Jacob Hacker (Yale University); Nicholas B. Lemann (Columbia Journalism School); Anna Deavere Smith (New York University); MODERATOR: David Leonhardt (The New York Times)

 

April 30, 2024 

Understanding Implicit Bias and How to Combat It 
A Morton L. Mandel Conversation

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Frank Dobbin (Harvard University); Jennifer Eberhardt (Stanford University); Camara Phyllis Jones (King’s College London); Goodwin Liu (Supreme Court of California)

 

May 30, 2024

A Conversation on Campus Speech  
American Academy Affiliate Convening

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Ana Mari Cauce (University of Washington); Laurie Patton (Middlebury College); David French (The New York Times)

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