Program - November 2012
Printer-friendly versionAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
November 8-10, 2012
Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
AUTUMN MEETING PROGRAM
Thursday, November 8, 2012
1:15 p.m.
Induction of New Members *
Barbara Grosz
Vice President, in the Chair
Albert Barnes and the Rejection of History
Derek Gillman
Executive Director and President
The Barnes Foundation
Intermission
Albert Barnes and His Foundation: Three Paradoxes
Neil L. Rudenstine
President Emeritus, Harvard University
5:45 to 8:15 p.m.
Motor coaches begin departing OMNI Hotel
at 5:45 p.m. for The Barnes Foundation.
Gallery Tours and Light Supper
Motor coaches will return to the Hotel
periodically throughout the evening.
Last coach departs the Barnes at 8:15 p.m.
*New Members will be formally inducted at the beginning of each session.
Friday, November 9, 2012
9:15 a.m.
Linda Greenhouse
Vice President, in the Chair
The Affordable Healthcare Case and the U.S. Supreme Court
Kathleen Sullivan
Former Dean, Stanford Law School
Partner and Chair, National Appellate Practice
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Intermission
Health Care Reform and the Future of American Medicine
Ezekiel Emanuel
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives
Chair, Medical Ethics and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania
The Roberts Court and the Constitution
Geoffrey R. Stone
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law
The University of Chicago
Luncheon
Friday, November 9, 2012
1:15 p.m.
Clyde F. Barker
President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Life at the Single Molecule Level
X. Sunney Xie
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Fetal Surgery for Spina Bifida: Trials and Tribulations
N. Scott Adzick
Surgeon-in-Chief
Director of the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Intermission
Concert
Curtis Institute of Music
4:30 p.m.
Members’ Business Meeting
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Dinner on One’s Own
Saturday, November 10, 2012
9:15 a.m.
John W. O’Malley
Vice President, in the Chair
Rational Expectations for Returns on Stocks and Bonds
John C. Bogle
Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer
The Vanguard Mutual Fund Group
Earnings, Inflation, and Future Stock and Bond Returns
Jeremy J. Siegel
Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Markets are Global but Politics are Local
Steve Galbraith
Former Chief Investment Officer, Morgan Stanley
Partner, Maverick Capital
Intermission
The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Pulse of Our Galaxy
Andrea Ghez
Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Chair in Astrophysics
Professor of Physics & Astronomy
University of California at Los Angeles
The Accelerating Universe: A Nobel Surprise
Robert P. Kirshner
Clowes Professor of Science
Harvard University
Luncheon
