Webcast Archives

Autumn Meeting: November 10 - 12, 2005

Benjamin Franklin Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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

JUDITH RESNIK
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
DENNIS E. CURTIS
Clinical Professor, Yale Law School
Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses

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