Webcast Archives

Annual Meeting: April 24 - 26, 2008

Benjamin Franklin Hall

OLEG GRABAR
Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Culture, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
When is a Bird a Bird? Representation and/or Abstraction in Islamic Art

IRENE J. WINTER
William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University
What is a Portrait? “Likeness” in Royal Sculpture of the Ancient Near East

DANIEL MENDELSOHN
Independent Scholar
Spectacles of Humiliation and Imperial Politics: Athens, Rome, Reality TV

CAROL J. GREENHOUSE
Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Cultural Subjects and Objects: The Legacy of Franz Boas and Its Futures In Anthropology, Academe, and Human Rights

LEE D. BAKER
Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Franz Boas and His “Conspiracy” to Destroy the White Race

JAMES A. BOON
Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
On Alternating Boasians: Generational Connections

NICHOLAS B. DIRKS
Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Reflections on Fieldwork in University Administration: The Liberal Arts in Global Perspective

JASON BAIRD JACKSON
Associate Professor of Folklore, Indiana University at Bloomington
Boasian Ethnography and Contemporary Intellectual Property Debates

JOHN A. ORCUTT
Director, Center for Earth Observations & Applications, University of California at San Diego
The Wired Planet: The Current and Future States of Earth

BONNIE L. BASSLER
Professor and HHMI Investigator, Princeton University
Small Talk: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria

HANSELL H. STEDMAN
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Room for Thought: Mutations, Muscle, “Fitness,” and the Human Condition

THOMAS W. SIMONS, JR.
U. S. Ambassador (retired) (Poland, Pakistan); Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Lecturer in Government, Harvard University
Pakistan and Islam 60 Years Further On

NEIL A. ARMSTRONG
Chairman Emeritus, EDO Corporation
Space: The Evolving Frontier

DAVID J. DESMARAIS
Space Scientist and Astrobiologist, NASA/Ames Research Center
Exploring Mars for Evidence of Habitable Environments and Life

DONALD R. PETTIT
NASA Astronaut, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Science of Opportunity on the International Space Station

JONATHAN LUNINE
Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, University of Arizona
Titan: A Once and Future Earth

GEOFFREY W. MARCY
Professor of Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley
New Worlds, Yellowstone, and Life in the Universe