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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
April 28-30, 2011
Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
                                                                                                           
ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM
 
Thursday, April 28, 2011
1:15 p.m.
 
Induction of New Members *
 
Clyde F. Barker
Acting President, in the Chair
 
Bees in Crisis: Colony Collapse, Honey Laundering and
Other Problems Bee-Setting American Apiculture
May R. Berenbaum
Professor and Head, Department of Entomology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
Evolution of Whales from Land to Sea
Philip D. Gingerich
E.C. Case Professor of Paleontology
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
 
Intermission
 
Challenges Facing the United States in the Middle East
Thomas R. Pickering
Vice-Chairman, Hills & Company International Consultants
Career Ambassador, U.S. Foreign Service
 
“Of Elephants and Roses” . . . and Empress Josephine’s Black Swan
Sue Ann Prince
Founding Director and Curator, APS Museum
American Philosophical Society
 
Curator’s Tour of New APS Exhibition
 

Of Elephants and Roses

Philosophical Hall
(104 South Fifth Street)
 
Dinner on One’s Own
(Restaurant List Enclosed)
 
 
Friday, April 29, 2011
5:00 – 9:00 a.m.
 
Widescreen Viewing of The Royal Wedding
Benjamin Franklin Hall
 
 
*New Members will be formally inducted at the beginning of each session.
 
 
Friday, April 29, 2011
9:15 a.m.
 
Harriet Zuckerman
Vice President, in the Chair
 
Will Marriage Disappear?
Frank F. Furstenberg
Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
 
Introductory Remarks by President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes
 
Hepatitis C: Towards a Cure and Eradication
Charles M. Rice
Head, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease
Scientific and Executive Director, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C
The Rockefeller University
 
Intermission
 
Richard A.F. Penrose Lecture
The Planet Within: Life in the Subsurface of Earth, Mars, and Beyond
Penelope J. Boston
Director, Cave and Karst Studies, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Associate Director for Academics, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
 
Luncheon
 
Friday, April 29, 2011
1:15 p.m.
 
John O’Malley
Vice President, in the Chair
 
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
 
Symposium
Reading the Classical Past from Antiquity to the Enlightenment: Three Case Histories
Julia Haig Gaisser, Moderator
 
Against the Odds:  The Survival of Apuleius’ “Golden Ass”
Julia Haig Gaisser
Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities
Professor Emeritus of Latin
Bryn Mawr College
 
The Roman Republic in the Italian Renaissance
James Hankins
Professor of History
Harvard University
 
Intermission
 
The Reception of the Lost Greek and Roman Literature from Herculaneum
Richard Janko
Professor and Chair, Department of Classical Studies
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
 
Concert in Recognition
of
Baruch S. Blumberg
(July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011)
as
President of the American Philosophical Society
2005-2011
 
Curtis Institute of Music
 
 
Members’ Business Meeting
and
Presentation of Jefferson Gavel
to
President Elect Clyde F. Barker
Philosophical Hall
(104 South Fifth Street)
 
 
Cocktails and “Lite” Supper
Benjamin Franklin Hall
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
 
 
Saturday, April 30, 2011
9:15 a.m.
 
Barbara Grosz
Councilor, in the Chair
 
Symposium
Norms and Their Conflicts
Patrick Suppes, Moderator
Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
Stanford University
 
Normative Consistency
Allan Gibbard
Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
 
Happiness and Meaning: A Plurality of Values Rather Than A Conflict of Norms
Susan Wolf
Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
Intermission
 
Well-Being in Experience and in Memory
Daniel Kahneman
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus
Professor of Public Affairs Emeritus
Senior Scholar
Princeton University
 
Conflict of Values: A Decision Viewpoint
Kenneth J. Arrow
Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor
of Operations Research, Emeritus
Stanford University
 
 
Luncheon