AUTUMN GENERAL MEETING
November 10 - November 12, 2005
HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HALL
427 CHESTNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA
PARTICULARS
ACCOMMODATIONS: Members, their spouses (or one family member) and invitees are guests of the Society while attending the Meeting. The Society will pay room and tax charges for members and Society guests at the Omni Hotel (4th and Chestnut Streets) for two nights. Those who wish to include additional persons will be billed for their guests' hotel and meal expenses. Check-in time is 4:00 p.m.; checkout time is 11:00 a.m. When checking out, please pay all charges except the two-night allowance.
PARKING: Valet and self-parking are available at the Omni.
RESERVATIONS, CHANGES, CANCELLATIONS: Please register on-line at www.apsmeetings.org or complete and return the enclosed registration form to the Society. You will receive confirmation of your reservation about two weeks prior to the Meeting. Should your plans change and you or your guests are unable to use all or part of your reservation, please notify Annie Westcott promptly by telephone at 215-440-3441 or email at westcott@amphilsoc.org. The Society must pay for all rooms and meals not canceled 72 hours in advance. We will bill you for room reservations and meals not canceled 72 hours before your scheduled arrival.
REGISTRATION: Registration will open in Benjamin Franklin Hall on Thursday, November 10, at 9:30 a.m. and will reopen on Friday and Saturday mornings, November 11 and 12, at 7:45 a.m. Please sign in and receive a program, a list of those expected to attend, a name badge and other related Meeting materials.
PAGERS AND CELL PHONES: As a courtesy to our speakers and audience, please silence pagers and cell phones upon entering the Auditorium.
ACOUSTICS: Earphones are available at the registration desk to enhance hearing as necessary. Participation in the discussion to follow each presentation or symposium is encouraged. To ensure that everyone will be able to hear and appreciate your question or comment, please stand upon being recognized by the Chair, wait for the arrival of a microphone, and introduce yourself to the audience.
DINING: A continental breakfast will be served in Benjamin Franklin Hall on Friday and Saturday mornings from 7:45 to 9:00 a.m. Luncheon will be served in Benjamin Franklin Hall both days. Friday evening's dinner (business attire) will be held at the Sheraton Society Hill. Please choose a table in advance by signing the reservation sheets located in the registration room of Benjamin Franklin Hall. Table selections will be available for review during cocktails.
RECEPTION: Members and guests of the Society are cordially invited to attend the annual reception of the Friends of the Library on Wednesday, November 9 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
EXHIBITION: During the Meeting, members and guests are encouraged to view the Society's exhibition - "Treasures Revealed: 260 Years of Collecting at the APS" - located in Philosophical Hall. In addition, books recently published by the Society or by its members will be on display in the registration room.
MEETINGS
THE CLASS COMMITTEES ON MEMBERSHIP will meet at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
THE STATED MEETING OF COUNCIL will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 10, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
ORIENTATION FOR NEW MEMBERS will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 10, in Library Hall.
THE BUSINESS MEETING will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, November 11, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, November 10
1:15 p.m.
Admission of New Members *
BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
President, in the Chair
JEAN BENNETT
Professor, Ophthalmology, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Gene Therapy for Congenital Blindness
PAULA TALLAL
Board of Governor's Professor of Neuroscience
Rutgers University
Improving Language and Literacy: Moving Research from the Laboratory to the Classroom
Intermission
FERNANDO NOTTEBOHM
Professor, Rockefeller University
Neuronal Replacement in the Adult Brain
PHILLIP A. SHARP
Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Surprising Biology of Short RNAs
* New members will be formally admitted at the beginning of each session.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11
7:45 to 9:00a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS
AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
9:15a.m.
CLYDE F. BARKER
Vice President, in the Chair
DREW G. FAUST
Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Lincoln Professor of History
Harvard University
Counting the Dead: Historical Reflections on the Casualty List
JOHN B. HOLCOMB
Commander, United States Army Institute of Surgical Research
Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston
Research Issues Related to Combat Casualty Care
Intermission
JEREMY A. SABLOFF
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
It Depends on How We Look at Things: New Perspectives on the Postclassic Period in the Northern Maya Lowlands
VICTORIA R. BRICKER
Professor of Anthropology
Tulane University
Literary Continuities Across the Transformation from Maya Hieroglyphic to Alphabetic Writing
11:45 a.m.
LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11
1:15 p.m.
CONRAD K. HARPER
Vice President, in the Chair
PAULA VARSANO
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature
University of California at Berkeley
Enduring Pleasures: Classical Chinese Poetry in a Visual Age
PAULINE YU
President, American Council of Learned Societies
Chinese Poetry and the European Imagination
Intermission
KENNETH POMERANZ
Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California at Irvine
Chinese Development in Long-Run Perspective
DWIGHT H. PERKINS
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Chinese Development: A Contemporary Perspective
3:30 p.m.
BUSINESS MEETING
(Members Only)
Benjamin Franklin Hall
BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
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
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11
5:30 p.m.
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
(Business Attire)
Sheraton Society Hill
2nd and Walnut Streets
Buses will depart from the Omni Hotel beginning at 5:15 p.m.
AWARDS PRESENTATION
At the conclusion of the dinner, all buses will return to the Omni Hotel and Benjamin Franklin Hall
8:45 p.m.
CONCERT
The Wistar Quartet
Benjamin Franklin Hall
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS
AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
9:15a.m.
PURNELL W. CHOPPIN
Vice President, in the Chair
HENRY LA BARRE JAYNE LECTURE
JUDITH RESNIK
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
with
DENNIS E. CURTIS
Clinical Professor, Yale Law School
Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography
to Twenty-First Century Courthouses
Intermission
RITA R. COLWELL
Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland/Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Oceans, Climate, and Health: The Cholera Paradigm
RICHARD S. DUNN
Co-Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society
The Contrast between Slave Life in Jamaica and Virginia, 1760-1865
LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
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