Thursday Afternoon, November 10
1:15 p.m.
Baruch S. Blumberg, President, in the Chair

• JEAN BENNETT
  Professor, Ophthalmology, Cell and Developmental Biology University of Pennsylvania
  Gene Therapy for Congenital Blindness
   
  
• PAULA TALLAL
  Board of Governor's Professor of Neuroscience Rutgers University
  Improving Language and Literacy: Moving Research from the Laboratory to the Classroom
   
  

Intermission

• FERNANDO NOTTEBOHM
  Professor, Rockefeller University
  Neuronal Replacement in the Adult Brain
   
  
• PHILLIP A. SHARP
  Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Surprising Biology of Short RNAs
   
  

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Friday Morning, November 11
9:15 a.m.
Clyde F. Barker, Vice President, in the Chair

• DREW G. FAUST
  Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Lincoln Professor of History Harvard University
  Counting the Dead: Historical Reflections on the Casualty List
   
  
• JOHN B. HOLCOMB
  Commander, United States Army Institute of Surgical Research Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston
  Research Issues Related to Combat Casualty Care
   
  

Intermission

• JEREMY A. SABLOFF
  Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences University of Pennsylvania
  It Depends on How We Look at Things: New Perspectives on the Postclassic Period in the Northern Maya Lowlands
   
  
• VICTORIA R. BRICKER
  Professor of Anthropology Tulane University
  Literary Continuities Across the Transformation from Maya Hieroglyphic to Alphabetic Writing
   
  

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Friday Afternoon, November 11
Benjamin Franklin Hall
1:15 p.m.
Conrad K. Harper, Vice President, in the Chair

• PAULA VARSANO
  Associate Professor of Chinese Literature University of California at Berkeley
  Enduring Pleasures: Classical Chinese Poetry in a Visual Age
   
  
• PAULINE YU
  President, American Council of Learned Societies
  Chinese Poetry and the European Imagination
   
  

Intermission

• KENNETH POMERANZ
  Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California at Irvine
  Chinese Development in Long-Run Perspective
   
  
• DWIGHT H. PERKINS
  Professor of Economics, Harvard University
  Chinese Development: A Contemporary Perspective
   
  

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Saturday Morning, November 12
9:15 a.m.
Purnell W. Choppin, Vice President, in the Chair

• JUDITH RESNIK
  Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  DENNIS E. CURTIS
  Clinical Professor, Yale Law School
  Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses
   
  

Intermission

• RITA R. COLWELL
  Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland/Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Oceans, Climate, and Health: The Cholera Paradigm
   
  
• RICHARD S. DUNN
  Co-Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society
  The Contrast between Slave Life in Jamaica and Virginia, 1760-1865