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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
November 11-13, 2010
Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia

AUTUMN MEETING PROGRAM

Thursday, November 11, 2010
1:15 p.m.

Clyde F. Barker
Vice President, in the Chair

Herman H. Goldstine Lecture
Simple Ideas That Changed Printing and Publishing
John E. Warnock
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors
Adobe Systems, Inc.

Intermission

The Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Argentine Ant Supercolonies
Neil D. Tsutsui
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
University of California at Berkeley

An Acute Olfactory System is Essential for Reproduction: The Raison d’être for Adult Insects
Walter S. Leal
Professor of Entomology
University of California at Davis

Dinner on One’s Own

Friday, November 12, 2010
9:15 a.m.

John W. O’Malley
Vice President, in the Chair

Richard A.F. Penrose Lecture
The Homeric Question Today
Martin L. West
Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College
Oxford University

Intermission

Henry LaBarre Jayne Memorial Lecture
Giuseppe Verdi and the Italian Risorgimento
Philip Gossett
Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
The University of Chicago

Luncheon

Friday, November 12, 2010
1:15 p.m.

Baruch S. Blumberg
President, in the Chair

Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes

What’s Happening in our Colleges: Thoughts on the New Meritocracy
Andrew H. Delbanco
Director of American StudiesJulian Clarence Levi Professor of Humanities
Columbia University

Chemical Signaling in Marine Ecosytems
Julia Kubanek
Associate Professor, School of Biology and School of Chemistry and Biochemisty
Georgia Institute of Technology

Intermission

Concert

Chamber Music Performance by Faculty and Students
of the
Bard College Conservatory of Music
Benjamin Franklin Hall

Members’ Business Meeting
Philosophical Hall
(104 South Fifth Street)

Cocktails and “Lite” Supper
Benjamin Franklin Hall
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 13, 2010
9:15 a.m.

Harriet Zuckerman
Vice President, in the Chair and Symposium Moderator

Symposium
Current Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Across Disciplinary Lines
Understanding the Increased Prevalence of Autism
Peter S. Bearman
Cole Professor of the Social Sciences
Columbia University

Rationing College Opportunity: Financial Issues
For American Students and Their Universities
Michael Hout
Natalie Cohen Professor of Sociology and Demography
University of California at Berkeley

Intermission

Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Comparison Divides Us
Susan T. Fiske
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology
Princeton University

The Origin of Bounded Rationality and Intelligence
Andrew W. Lo
Harris and Harris Group Professor, Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Luncheon

Symposium
Beneath the Surface: Oil in Troubled Waters
William H. Hooke, Moderator
Senior Policy Fellow and Director of Policy Program
American Meteorological Society

The State of Science and its Role in Oil Spill Response: Lessons from Deepwater Horizon
Jane Lubchenco
Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrator

Offshore Energy Reform:  Now or Never
Marilyn Heiman
Director, U.S. Arctic Program
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Deepwater Horizon: A Black Swan for U.S. Oil and Gas Exploration
Randall B. Luthi
President
National Ocean Industries Association