Thursday Afternoon, November 8
1:15 p.m.
Conrad K. Harper, Vice President, in the Chair
PUTTING THE CONSTITUTION INTO PRACTICE

• MAEVA MARCUS
  Director and Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University School of Law
  and
  LINDA K. KERBER
  May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of Iowa
  John Marshall Was Not the First Chief Justice and Why Diamonds Really are a Girl’s Best Friend
   
  

Intermission

• FRANCES E. ALLEN
  Fellow Emerita, IBM Research
  Parallelism: Can It Solve the Computer Performance Bottleneck?
   
  
• JOTHAM W. COE
  Research Fellow, Pfizer Global Research and Development
  Nicotine Meets Its Match?
   
  

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Friday Morning, November 9
9:15 a.m.
Baruch S. Blumberg, President, in the Chair

• PETER SINGER
  Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
  Our Obligation to Aid the Poor
   
  
• STEPHEN S. MORSE
  Founding Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
  The Next Influenza Pandemic?
   
  

Intermission

• CLYDE F. BARKER
  Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
  Thomas Eakins and His Medical Clinics
   
  

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Friday Afternoon, November 9
Benjamin Franklin Hall
1:15 p.m.
Clyde F. Barker, Vice President, in the Chair

• BILL KOVACH
  Founding Chairman of Concerned Journalists
  The Future of News
   
  
• MARK THOMPSON
  Director-General, The British Broadcasting Corporation
  Digital Media and the Future of Quality Broadcasting
   
  

Intermission

• MATT STOLLER
  Blogger/Organizer, OpenLeft.com
  The Rise of the Open Left
   
  
• JANE C. GINSBURG
  Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University School of Law
  The Author’s Place in the Future of Copyright
   
  

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Saturday Morning, November 10
9:15 a.m.
Harriet Zuckerman, Vice President, in the Chair

• BURTON G. MALKIEL
  Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics, Princeton University
  The Chinese Economy: Growth, Prospects and Risks
   
  
• PAUL GEWIRTZ
  Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law, Yale Law School, Director of the China Law Center, Yale University
  The Rule of Law in China
   
  

Intermission

• BRIGHT SHENG
  The Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Music, University of Michigan
  A Brief History of Chinese Music Through the Story of Pipa (Yang Wei Accompanying on the Pipa)