Thursday Morning, April 27
Benjamin Franklin Hall
9:15 a.m.
Baruch S. Blumberg, President and Moderator, in the Chair

• 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
   
  

Intermission

• 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
   
  

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Thursday Afternoon, April 27
1:15 p.m.
Conrad Harper, Vice President and Moderator, in the Chair

• 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
   
  

Intermission

• PORTRAIT UNVEILING of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Librarian and Executive Officer Emeritus, American Philosophical Society
   
  
• CELEBRATORY CONCERT
  La Fenice Ensemble with Randall Scarlata
   
  

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Friday Morning, April 28
Benjamin Franklin Hall
10:30 a.m.
Admission of New Members
 
Purnell W. Choppin, Vice President and Moderator, in the Chair

• PIERRE ROSENBERG
  President-Director Emeritus, Muse du Louvre
  Fragonard et Franklin
   
  
• DOUARD BRZIN
  Prsident, Acadmie des Sciences (Institut de France)
  Trends in French Science
   
  
• MICHAEL ATIYAH
  President, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
  Benjamin Franklin and the Edinburgh Enlightenment
   
  

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Friday Afternoon, April 28
1:15 p.m.
Admission of New Members
 
Clyde F. Barker, Vice President and Moderator, in the Chair

• 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
   
  

Intermission

• 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?
   
  

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Saturday Morning, April 30
9:15 a.m.
Admission of New Members

• SYMPOSIUM
  American Empire? : The Role of the United States in the World Today
  Baruch S. Blumberg, President, in the Chair
  and
  Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Moderator, Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union
   
  
• 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
   
  

Intermission

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