ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Thursday Afternoon, April 22
1:15 p.m.
Admission of New Members *
Frank H.T. Rhodes, President and Moderator, in the Chair
Science, Art and Knowledge:
Practicing Natural History from the Enlightenment to the 21st Century
MARTIN RUDWICK
Cambridge University
Picturing Nature in the Age of Enlightenment
ASHTON NICHOLS
Dickinson College
Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin
Intermission
LONDA SCHIEBINGER
Co-Director of Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture
Pennsylvania State University
Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in Eighteenth-Century Science
EDWARD O. WILSON **
Harvard University
The Linnaean Enterprise: Past, Present and Future
BRETT KEYSER
Horridus, Horridus: Name-Calling in the Wilderness
(A humorous, mock-lecture and theatrical presentation on "Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America 1730-1860")
** We gratefully acknowledge the Herman H. Goldstine Fund for Research in the History of Science for support of this presentation.
5:30 p.m.
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
140 South Broad Street
Buses will depart from the Omni Hotel beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Buses will depart from the Society Hill Sheraton beginning at 5:15 p.m.
At the conclusion of the dinner, all buses will go to
Benjamin Franklin Hall and both hotels.
CONCERT
Program to be Announced
At the conclusion of the concert, buses will go to the Society Hill Sheraton.
On this occasion, we gratefully remember the services to the Society of I. Minis Hays, Secretary and Librarian, 1897-1922, whose generous bequest included a modest sum for entertainment at our stated Meetings.
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Vincent L. McKusick, Vice President, in the Chair
Effective Philanthropy
STANLEY N. KATZ
Princeton University
What Does it Mean to Say that Philanthropy is "Effective"
PAUL BREST
Taking the Heart Out of Philanthropy
Intermission
50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
LOUIS H. POLLAK, Moderator
WILLIAM T. COLEMAN, JR.
O'Melveny & Myers, LLP
Truths Which, Fortunately, Were Self-Evident
ANTHONY LESTER
President, International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS)
Brown v. Board of Education Overseas
LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
1:15 p.m.
Purnell Choppin, Vice President, in the Chair
IRVING WEISSMAN
Stanford University
Cell Science, Stem Cell Plasticity, and Stem Cell Politics
CLAUDIO VITA-FINZI
Natural History Museum, London
The Inconstant Sun
Intermission
HENRY LA BARRE JAYNE LECTURE
SEAMUS HEANEY
Harvard University
Title Deeds: On Translating a Classic
BUSINESS MEETING
(Members Only)
Frank H.T. Rhodes, President, in the Chair
Necrology
Election of Officers
Election of Members
Proceedings of the Council
Report of the President
Reports of the Committees
Other Business
Members are invited to pick up advance copies of
Business meeting materials at the Registration Desk.
5:30 p.m.
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
2nd and Walnut Streets
Buses will depart from the Omni Hotel beginning at 5:15 p.m.
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS
At the conclusion of the evening, buses will return to the Omni Hotel.
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Mary Patterson McPherson, Vice President, in the Chair
Privacy
KATHLEEN SULLIVAN, Moderator and Speaker
Stanford Law School
Privacy and the Constitution
LAWRENCE LESSIG
Stanford Law School
The Code of Privacy
Intermission
JEFFREY ROSEN
George Washington University Law School
The Silver Bullet: Protecting Privacy and Security Through Law and Technology
ANITA L. ALLEN
Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Face to Face with It: Privacies of Health
LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS