Thursday Afternoon, April 24
Benjamin Franklin Hall
1:15 p.m.

• 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
   
  

Intermission

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

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Friday Morning, April 25
9:15 a.m.

• 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
   
  

Intermission

• 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
   
  

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Friday Afternoon, April 25
Benjamin Franklin Hall
1:15 p.m.

• 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
   
  

Intermission

• 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
   
  

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Saturday Morning, April 26
9:15 a.m.

• 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
  NASAAstronaut, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
  Science of Opportunity on the International Space Station
   
  

Intermission

• 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