Member Events, 2017–2018
The annual program of Academy events held around the country as well as internationally is designed to connect Members, experts, and audiences in diverse geographic locations; promote civic discourse on topics of national and global concern from multidisciplinary perspectives; and gather feedback on, raise awareness of, and amplify the impact of the Academy’s work. During the 2017–2018 fiscal year, the Academy held events in 31 cities with nearly a thousand Members attending at least one event in person.
* Activity of a Local Program Committee or Representative
California
Berkeley
October 26, 2017*
University of California, Berkeley
Priorities for Progress: Advancing Higher Education in America
Featured Speakers: Robert J. Birgeneau (University of California, Berkeley), Bob Jacobsen (University of California, Berkeley), Monica Lozano (College Futures Foundation), Michael S. McPherson (formerly, Spencer Foundation)
Los Angeles
July 18, 2017*
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Program Committee Meeting
October 22, 2017*
Los Angeles, CA
Creativity: What Is It and Can It Be Taught?
Featured Speakers: Dianne Newman (California Institute of Technology), John Seely Brown (University of Southern California; Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation), Leo Braudy (University of Southern California). Moderator: Louis Gomez (University of California, Los Angeles)
May 29, 2018*
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Program Committee Meeting
PASADENA
March 1, 2018
California Institute of Technology
Bryson Symposium on Climate and Energy Policy
Featured Speakers: Dallas Burtraw (Resources for the Future), Ralph Cavanagh (NRDC), Nathan S. Lewis (California Institute of Technology), Mary Nichols (California Air Resources Board), Ronald Nichols (Southern California Edison), Thomas Rosenbaum (California Institute of Technology), Maxine L. Savitz (Honeywell, Inc., ret.), Robert Weisenmiller (California Energy Commission)
SAN DIEGO
September 25, 2017*
University of California, San Diego
San Diego Program Committee Meeting
October 23, 2017*
Sanford Consortium
Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture
How Are Humans Different from Other Great Apes?
Featured Speakers: Fred H. Gage (The Salk Institute; CARTA), Margaret J. Schoeninger (University of California, San Diego; CARTA), Pascal Gagneux (University of California, San Diego; CARTA), Ajit Varki (University of California, San Diego; CARTA)
February 1, 2018*
University of California, San Diego
San Diego Local Program Committee Meeting
February 13, 2018*
University of California, San Diego
Why are American Politics Polarized?
Featured Speakers: Gary C. Jacobson (University of California, San Diego), Thad Kousser (University of California, San Diego). Moderator: Peter Alexis Gourevitch (University of California, San Diego)
SAN FRANCISCO
October 26, 2017
The James Irvine Foundation
Democratic Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Featured Speakers: Deborah Cullinan (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), Thomas Ehrlich (Stanford University), Joseph Kahne (University of California, Riverside)
STANFORD
October 23, 2017
Stanford University
Civil Wars, Global Disorder, and the Future of the International System
Featured Speakers: Michael McFaul (Stanford University), Michele Barry (Stanford School of Medicine), Karl W. Eikenberry (Stanford University), James D. Fearon (Stan- ford University), Francis Fukuyama (Stanford University), Stephen D. Krasner (Stanford University), Stephen Sted-man (Stanford University), Paul Wise (Stanford University)
October 25, 2017
Stanford University
Citizenship in a Global Digital Era
Featured Speakers: Brittan Heller (Anti-Defamation League), Matt Mahan (Brigade), Adrian Reyna (United We Dream)
Connecticut
NEW HAVEN
September 8, 2017*
Yale University
Investment and Matching: The Economics of Specialized Markets
Featured Speaker: Larry Samuelson (Yale University)
November 3, 2017*
Yale University
Why Study Close Relationships?
Featured Speaker: Margaret Clark (Yale University)
December 1, 2017*
Yale University
Gains from Trade and Inequality
Featured Speaker: Samuel S. Kortum (Yale University)
February 2, 2018*
Yale University
Does Agency Structure Affect Decisionmaking?
Featured Speaker: Roberta Romano (Yale University)
April 6, 2018*
Yale University
The Practice of Democratic Citizenship
Featured Speaker: Stephen Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund)
April 27, 2018*
Yale University
Who Is Elite Higher Education For? Some Data Points from the History of an Answer
Featured Speaker: Richard H. Brodhead (Duke University)
May 4, 2018*
Yale University
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World
Featured Speaker: Richard O. Prum (Yale University)
District of Columbia
WASHINGTON, D.C.
November 30, 2017
National Press Club
Report Launch and Discussion: The Future of Undergraduate Education, The Future of America
Featured Speakers: Deborah Loewenberg Ball (University of Michigan); Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. (Purdue University); John J. DeGioia (Georgetown University); Roger W. Fergu- son, Jr. (TIAA); Michael S. McPherson (formerly, Spencer Foundation)
November 30, 2017*
The Cosmos Club
Member Dinner and Discussion: The Future of Undergraduate Education, The Future of America
Featured Speakers: Rebecca Blank (University of Wisconsin- Madison), Steven Knapp (George Washington University), Nicholas Lemann (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism)
December 5, 2017
National Museum of Natural History
Objects of Wonder: The Face of Battle without the Rules of War
Featured Speakers: Jake Homiak (National Museum of Natural History), Scott D. Sagan (Stanford University)
Illinois
CHAMPAIGN
April 25, 2018
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roundtable Discussion: Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships
Featured Speakers: Arthur Bienenstock (Stanford University), Robert Jones (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), John Katzenellenbogen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Reitu Mabokela (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Peter Michelson (Stanford University), Gene Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
CHICAGO
November 5, 2017
University of Chicago
Reception Honoring Alan Alda and Edward O. Wilson
Featured Speakers: Mark Hansen (University of Chicago), John McCarter (Field Museum of Natural History)
November 5, 2017
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Chicago Humanities Festival: The Humanities, Sciences, and the Origins of Creativity
Featured Speakers: Alan Alda (New York, NY), Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University), Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University)
April 23, 2018
University of Chicago
Roundtable Discussion: Stability and Instability in the Nuclear Age
Featured Speakers: Robert Rosner (University of Chicago), Francesca Giovannini (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
April 23, 2018
Chicago, IL
Member Dinner
Featured Speaker: Diane Wood (United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit)
EVANSTON
April 24, 2018
Northwestern University
Roundtable Discussion: An Africa Story
Featured Speaker: Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University)
Massachusetts
CAMBRIDGE
August 29, 2017
House of the Academy
A Discussion of Current Events
September 22, 2017
House of the Academy
An Evening with the Holberg Prize
Featured Speakers: Sigmund Grønmo (University of Bergen), Manuel Castells (University of Southern California), Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), Eliza Griswold (New America Foundation)
October 6, 2017
House of the Academy
A Celebration of the Arts and Humanities
Featured Speakers: Elizabeth Broun (Smithsonian American Art Museum), Brenda L. Hillman (St. Mary’s College of California), Greil Marcus (Oakland, CA), Lynn Nottage (Columbia University), Faith Ringgold (University of California, San Diego), Mark S. Slobin (Wesleyan University), Arthur C. Sze (Institute of American Indian Arts)
October 7, 2017
Harvard University
Induction Ceremony
Featured Speakers: Ursula Burns (Xerox Corporation), James P. Allison (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center), Heather K. Gerken (Yale Law School), Jane Mayer (The New Yorker), Gerald Chan (Morningside)
October 8, 2017
House of the Academy
Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture
Looking at Earth: An Astronaut’s Journey
Featured Speakers: Kathryn D. Sullivan (Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum), David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group; Smithsonian Institution)
October 17, 2017*
House of the Academy
Social Reception
Featured Speakers: Laurence Senelick (Tufts University), David Gullete (The Poets’ Theatre), Robert Scanlon (The Poets’ Theatre)
November 3, 2017
House of the Academy
Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free
Featured Speaker: Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot (Harvard University)
November 8, 2017
House of the Academy
Redistricting and Representation
Featured Speakers: Gary King (Harvard University), PattiB. Saris (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts), Jamal Greene (Columbia Law School), Moon Duchin (Tufts University)
November 9, 2017
House of the Academy
Conversation with Robert Kraft
Featured Speaker: Robert Kraft (The Kraft Group)
November 17, 2017
House of the Academy
Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn
Chamber series in collaboration with the Cantata Singers
December 1, 2017
House of the Academy
American Philosophy: A Love Story
Featured Speaker: John Kaag (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
December 5, 2017
House of the Academy
The Origins of Creativity
Featured Speaker: Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University)
December 6, 2017
House of the Academy
Winter Concert featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra Horn Quartet
December 8, 2017
House of the Academy
The Collapse of Ancient Civilizations
Featured Speaker: Malcolm Wiener (Institute for Aegean Prehistory; Harvard University)
February 2, 2018
House of the Academy
Who Was Elizabeth Bishop?
Featured Speaker: Lloyd Schwartz (University of Massachusetts Boston)
February 2, 2018
House of the Academy
Music of South America and Spain
Chamber series in collaboration with the Cantata Singers
February 6, 2018
House of the Academy
Jefferson, Race, and Democracy
Featured Speakers: Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University), Peter Onuf (American Antiquarian Society; University of Virginia)
February 22, 2018*
House of the Academy
Boston-Cambridge Planning Committee Meeting
February 23, 2018
House of the Academy
The Leadership Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
Featured Speaker: Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard University)
April 6, 2018
House of the Academy
Dying in America
Featured Speaker: Marcia Angell (Harvard Medical School)
April 6, 2018
House of the Academy
Music of the Baltic Nations
Chamber series in collaboration with the Cantata Singers
April 12, 2018
House of the Academy
Annual Awards Ceremony: A Celebration of the Arts and Sciences
Featured Speakers: Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago), Barbara J. Meyer (University of California, Berkeley)
April 19, 2018*
Fish Family Foundation
Luncheon and Discussion: The Future of Higher Education
Featured Speakers: David W. Oxtoby (Pomona College), Lawrence K. Fish (Fish Family Foundation)
May 3, 2018
House of the Academy
Member Luncheon
May 3, 2018
House of the Academy
Songs of Love and Death: Sonnets by Petrarch and others set by Cipriano de Rore in “I madrigali a cinque voci” (Venice, 1542)
Featured Speaker: Jessie Ann Owens (University of California, Davis). Introduction: Jane A. Bernstein (Tufts University).
Performance by Blue Heron
May 11, 2018
House of the Academy
The City in Film: How Watching Movies Taught Me To Read Cities
Featured Speaker: Ezra Haber Glenn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
June 13, 2018
House of the Academy
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
Featured Speaker: Beverly Daniel Tatum (Spelman College)
June 18, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roundtable Discussion: Challenges for International Science Partnerships
New Jersey
PRINCETON
February 21, 2018*
Princeton University
Research, Truth, and Academic Freedom
Featured Speakers: Anne A. Cheng (Princeton University), Jill Dolan (Princeton University), Hendrik Hartog (Princeton University), Joan Wallach Scott (Institute for Advanced Study). Moderator: Peter Brooks (Princeton University)
May 10, 2018*
Princeton University
Princeton Program Committee Meeting
New York
ITHACA
September 11, 2017*
Cornell University
Roundtable Discussion: The Public Face of Science
Featured Speakers: Diane Ackerman (Ithaca, NY); Nancy C. Andrews (Duke University)
NEW YORK CITY
September 7, 2017*
New York, NY
New York Program Committee Meeting
November 28, 2017
New York, NY
Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture
From Enrollment to Excellence: New Opportunities for American Undergraduate Education
Featured Speakers: Vartan Gregorian (Carnegie Corporation of New York), Nicholas Lemann (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism), Michael S. McPherson (formerly, Spencer Foundation), Gail O. Mellow (LaGuardia Community College)
June 4, 2018
New York, NY
Reception for New Members
Featured Speakers: Jonathan F. Fanton (American Academy), Stephen Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund)
North Carolina
Durham
September 26, 2017
Duke University
Member Reception: The Future of Undergraduate Education
Featured Speakers: Nancy C. Andrews (American Academy of Arts and Sciences), Michael McPherson (formerly, Spencer Foundation)
RALEIGH
September 29, 2017
Stough Elementary School
America’s Languages in North Carolina
Featured Speakers: Nancy C. Andrews (American Academy of Arts and Sciences); Jeffrey Braden (North Carolina State University); Karl W. Eikenberry (Stanford University); David E. Price (U.S. House of Representatives, North Carolina’s Fourth District); Frederick Rick Van Sant (Go Global NC); Randy Woodson (North Carolina State University)
Texas
AUSTIN
February 14, 2018
University of Texas at Austin
Roundtable Discussion: Perceptions of Science in America
Featured Speaker: Larry R. Faulkner (University of Texas at Austin)
HOUSTON
September 26, 2017*
Rice University
Genomics in Medicine
Featured Speakers: Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine), Richard Gibbs (Baylor College of Medicine), Brendan Lee (Baylor College of Medicine), Andrew Futreal (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center). Moderator: John Mendelsohn (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)
April 26, 2018
Houston, TX
Roundtable Discussion: Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships