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Autumn Meeting: November 17 - 19, 2011

Benjamin Franklin Hall

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CLYDE F. BARKER
President, in the Chair
Induction of New Members

ANDREW O’SHAUGHNESSY
Saunders Director, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Monticello
British Leadership and the Loss of America

MAYA JASANOFF
Professor of History, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Harvard University
Our Loss is Our Gain: The American Revolution and the Reshaping of the British Empire

R. HOWARD BLOCH
Sterling Professor of French, Chair of the Humanities Program Yale University
Good Uses of the Humanities in Bad Times

JERROLD MEINWALD
Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology Cornell University
Chemical Studies of Violence and Sex In and Beyond the World of Insects

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CLYDE F. BARKER
President, in the Chair
Induction of New Members

MARTINE ROTHBLATT
Chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics
The Feasibility of a Xeno-Lung by the End of the Decade

JOHN W. O’MALLEY
University Professor Georgetown University
The Council of Trent (1545-1563) and Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” (1542)

LOREN GRAHAM
Professor Emeritus of the History of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
The Power of Names: In Culture and In Mathematics

Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes

SHERWIN B. NULAND
Clinical Professor of Surgery (Ret.), Yale School of Medicine Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
2011 Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecture: Books and Men, Redux

STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Curtis Institute of Music
Concert

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CLYDE F. BARKER
President, in the Chair
Induction of New Members

Walter L. Robb Symposium on “Useful Knowledge”
The Future of Food

SOLOMON H. KATZ
Director, Krogman Center for Childhood Growth and Development University of Pennsylvania Editor-in-Chief, “Encyclopedia of Food and Culture”
Food: Its Past, Present, and Future

PER PINSTRUP-ANDERSEN
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics Cornell University
Food Policy for Developing Countries

CHRISTOPHER J. LEAVER
Emeritus Professor of Plant Science St. John’s College Oxford University
Achieving Food Security and Sustainability for Nine Billion

MARY ROBINSON
President of Ireland, 1990 – 1997 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1997 - 2002 President, Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice
Climate Justice and Food Security