APS Meetings

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Friday Morning, November 12
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS
AND INVITED GUESTS

Benjamin Franklin Hall

9:15 a.m.

Admission of New Members*

Frank H. T. Rhodes, President, in the Chair

SYMPOSIUM
Exploration and Discovery in the American Imagination

In Honor of Edward C. Carter II, 1928 - 2002

BARBARA B. OBERG, Moderator

Editor, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University

JAMES P. RONDA

H. G. Barnard Professor of Western American History
University of Tulsa
"To Acquire What Knowledge Your Can": Thomas Jefferson Defines Western Exploration

JOHN LOGAN ALLEN

Professor and Chair, Department of Geography
University of Wyoming
Legacies of Lewis and Clark: The Immediate Response of the American Fur Trade Read by Barbara Oberg

Intermission

MARTHA A. SANDWEISS

Professor of American Studies and History
Amherst College
Picturing the Nineteenth-Century West

Marsha Ivins

Astronaut
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Earth, Moon, Mars and Beyond: The Future of Space Exploration

11:45 a.m.

LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS

Benjamin Franklin Hall

*New members will be formally admitted at the beginning of each session.

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

Purnell W. Choppin, Vice President, in the Chair

LEON LEDERMAN

Resident Scholar
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
The Future of High Energy Physics

MARTHA NUSSBAUM

Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Chicago
Disgust and the Law

Intermission

JANE F. FULCHER

Professor of Musicology
Indiana University
Renegotiating French Identity: Vichy's Collaboration, Incoherence, and Antigone's Triumph

BRYAN GILLIAM

Francis Hill Fox Professor in Humanities, Department of Music
Duke University
Richard Strauss and the National Socialist Regime

3:30 p.m.

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS

Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History

Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities

John Frederick Lewis Award

Karl Spencer Lashley Award

Friday Evening, November 12
5:15 p.m.

Academy of Natural Sciences
19th Street at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

PRIVATE TOUR

LEWIS AND CLARK: THE NATIONAL BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITION

Buses will depart from both hotels at 5:00 p.m.

COCKTAILS

6:00 p.m.

For those not wishing to view the Lewis and Clark Exhibition,
buses will depart from both hotels at 5:45 p.m.

6:45 p.m.

NEIL A. ARMSTRONG

Chairman Emeritus
EDO Corporation
Reflections on Exploration

PRESENTATION OF THE KARL SPENCER LASHLEY AWARD

CAMPAIGN FOR THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

GEORGE B. BEITZEL

Former Senior Vice President and Director, IBM Corporation

Chairman, Development Committee and Capital Campaign

7:45 p.m.

DINNER

At the conclusion of the evening, all buses will return to both hotels

Saturday Morning, April 24
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS

Benjamin Franklin Hall

9:15 a.m.

Vincent L. McKusick, Vice President, in the Chair

RICHARD A. F. PENROSE LECTURE

PATRICIA M. WALD

United States Court of Appeals Judge (retired)
Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1999-2001)
Some Kudos and Some Concerns about International Courts

Intermission

PAUL BERNARD

Member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Letters
Institute of France
Afghanistan: The Destruction of an Archaeological Heritage

STEPHEN HINDS

Professor of Classics and Lockwood Professor of the Humanities
University of Washington
Ovid, Time and Exile

11:45 a.m.

LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS

Benjamin Franklin Hall

Saturday Afternoon, November 13
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.

Frank H. T. Rhodes, President, in the Chair

DEDICATION

Edgar P. and Constance C. Richardson Hall

SYMPOSIUM
Current Issues in Agriculture

MARKLEY GORDON WOLMAN, Moderator

B. Howell Griswold, Jr. Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Johns Hopkins University

VERNON W. RUTTAN

H. G. Barnard Professor of Western American History
University of Minnesota
Scientific and Technical Constraints on Agricultural Production: Prospects for the Future

ROBERT E. EVENSON

Professor of Economics
Yale University
Beating Malthus: The Green Revolution

Intermission

ROBERT W. HERDT

Adjunct International Professor of Applied Economics and Management
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University
Treaties, Intellectual Property, Market Power and Food in the Developing World

ROSAMOND L. NAYLOR

Julie Wrigley Senior Fellow
Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University
Unleashing the Genius of the Genome to Feed the Developing World

3:30 p.m.

BUSINESS MEETING

(Members Only)

Benjamin Franklin Hall

Frank H. T. Rhodes, President, in the Chair