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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
April 25-27, 2013
Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
                                   
ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM

Clyde F. Barker
President, in the Chair

American Indian Constitutions and Their Influence on the United States Constitution
Robert James Miller
Professor of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School

Franz Boas’ Legacy of “Useful Knowledge”:  The APS Archives
and the Future of Americanist Anthropology
Regna Darnell
Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology
University of Western Ontario

Intermission

Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture
Rebirth and Revolution:  The Library of Alexandria in the 21st Century
Ismail Serageldin
Director
Library of Alexandria

Dinner on One’s Own
(Restaurant List Enclosed)

*New Members will be formally inducted at the beginning of each session.

Friday, April 26, 2013
9:15 a.m.

Barbara Grosz
Vice President, in the Chair

Greek Slavery and the History of Emotions:  Epigraphic Evidence
Angelos Chaniotis
Professor of Ancient History and Classics
Institute for Advanced Study

Miracles of Cryptography and Secure Auctions
Michael O. Rabin
T.J. Watson Senior Research Professor of Computer Science
Harvard University
Professor of Computer Science
Columbia University SEAS

Intermission

Richard A.F. Penrose Lecture
The Perfect Storm
Walter Munk
Secretary of the Navy Chair in Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California at San Diego

Luncheon

Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes

Bioimaging at the Nanoscale:  Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy
Xiaowei Zhuang
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor of Physics
Harvard University

Finding a Man Who Will Take Advice:  Woodrow Wilson and Edward House
Perry Leavell
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of History
Drew University

Intermission

Concert

Faculty and Students from the Curtis Institute of Music

4:30 p.m.

Cocktails and Light Supper
Benjamin Franklin Hall
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 27, 2013
9:15 a.m.

Linda Greenhouse
Vice President, in the Chair

Democratic Excellence:  New Models of Musical Collaboration
Tod Machover
Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab

Intermission

Implications of the Attack on “Fact” in Contemporary Politics
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communications
Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center
University of Pennsylvania

Title To Be Announced
Jill Abramson
Executive Editor
“The New York Times”

Luncheon