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Annual Meeting: April 27 - 29, 2006

Benjamin Franklin Hall

Baruch S. Blumberg
President and Moderator, in the Chair
Introduction

JOHN MEURIG THOMAS
Honorable Professor, Cambridge University
Faraday and Franklin

AHMED H. ZEWAIL
Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and Physics, California Institute of Technology
Franklin's Vision

PETER STALLYBRASSY
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Co-Director of the Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin and Erasable Writing

WALTER ISAACSON
President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
Franklin and Einstein

Conrad Harper
Vice President and Moderator, in the Chair
Introduction

PAUL LeCLERC
President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Public Library
The Enlightenment On-Line: Opportunities and Complexities

MICHAEL D. GORDIN
Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
Arduous and Delicate Task: Princess Dashkova, the Academy of Sciences, and the Taming of Natural Philosophy

Portrait Unveiling of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Librarian and Executive Officer Emeritus, American Philosophical Society

La Fenice Ensemble with Randall Scarlata
Celebratory Concert

Admission of New Members

Purnell W. Choppin
Vice President and Moderator, in the Chair
Introduction

PIERRE ROSENBERG
President-Director Emeritus, Muse du Louvre
Fragonard et Franklin

DOUARD BREZIN
President, Acadmie des Sciences (Institut de France)
Trends in French Science

MICHAEL ATIYAH
President, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Benjamin Franklin and the Edinburgh Enlightenment

Admission of New Members

JOHN HEILBRON
Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley
Plus and Minus: Franklin's Zero-Sum Way of Thinking

GARY B. NASH
Professor of History Emeritus and Director, National Center for History in the Schools, University of California at Los Angeles
Franklin and Slavery: The Peculiar Connection

ROSALIND REMER
Director, Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
The Art of the Anniversary: Celebrating Ben at 300

PAGE TALBOT
Associate Director and Chief Curator, Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
How Do You Fit Benjamin Franklin Into 8,000 Square Feet?

Admission of New Members

Symposium: American Empire?: The Role of the United States in the World Today

Baruch S. Blumberg
President, in the Chair
Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Introduction

WILLIAM E. ODOM
Lieutenant General (Retired) United States Army, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Yale University
The Nature of American Hegemony: How to Use it, How to Lose it

JESSICA TUCHMAN MATHEWS
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Studies
How to Achieve Non-Proliferation Without Force: Solving the Problem of Rogue States

WILLEM FREDERIK VAN EEKELEN
Former Minister of Defense, The Netherlands
America in the World Today: Two European Views

KARL KAISER
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Former Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn-Berlin
America in the World Today: Two European Views

STEPHEN BREYER
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
The Work of the Supreme Court