AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
November 11-13, 2010
Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
AUTUMN MEETING PROGRAM
Thursday, November 11, 2010
1:15 p.m.
Clyde F. Barker
Vice President, in the Chair
Herman H. Goldstine Lecture
Simple Ideas That Changed Printing and Publishing
John E. Warnock
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Intermission
The Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Argentine Ant Supercolonies
Neil D. Tsutsui
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
University of California at Berkeley
An Acute Olfactory System is Essential for Reproduction: The Raison d’être for Adult Insects
Walter S. Leal
Professor of Entomology
University of California at Davis
Dinner on One’s Own
Friday, November 12, 2010
9:15 a.m.
John W. O’Malley
Vice President, in the Chair
Richard A.F. Penrose Lecture
The Homeric Question Today
Martin L. West
Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College
Oxford University
Intermission
Henry LaBarre Jayne Memorial Lecture
Giuseppe Verdi and the Italian Risorgimento
Philip Gossett
Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
The University of Chicago
Luncheon
Friday, November 12, 2010
1:15 p.m.
Baruch S. Blumberg
President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
What’s Happening in our Colleges: Thoughts on the New Meritocracy
Andrew H. Delbanco
Director of American StudiesJulian Clarence Levi Professor of Humanities
Columbia University
Chemical Signaling in Marine Ecosytems
Julia Kubanek
Associate Professor, School of Biology and School of Chemistry and Biochemisty
Georgia Institute of Technology
Intermission
Concert
Chamber Music Performance by Faculty and Students
of the
Bard College Conservatory of Music
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Members’ Business Meeting
Philosophical Hall
(104 South Fifth Street)
Cocktails and “Lite” Supper
Benjamin Franklin Hall
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
9:15 a.m.
Harriet Zuckerman
Vice President, in the Chair and Symposium Moderator
Symposium
Current Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Across Disciplinary Lines
Understanding the Increased Prevalence of Autism
Peter S. Bearman
Cole Professor of the Social Sciences
Columbia University
Rationing College Opportunity: Financial Issues
For American Students and Their Universities
Michael Hout
Natalie Cohen Professor of Sociology and Demography
University of California at Berkeley
Intermission
Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Comparison Divides Us
Susan T. Fiske
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology
Princeton University
The Origin of Bounded Rationality and Intelligence
Andrew W. Lo
Harris and Harris Group Professor, Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Luncheon
Symposium
Beneath the Surface: Oil in Troubled Waters
William H. Hooke, Moderator
Senior Policy Fellow and Director of Policy Program
American Meteorological Society
The State of Science and its Role in Oil Spill Response: Lessons from Deepwater Horizon
Jane Lubchenco
Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrator
Offshore Energy Reform: Now or Never
Marilyn Heiman
Director, U.S. Arctic Program
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Deepwater Horizon: A Black Swan for U.S. Oil and Gas Exploration
Randall B. Luthi
President
National Ocean Industries Association