April 2019
Meetings of the American Philosophical Society are held each April and November for elected Members, their families, and distinguished guests. Most sessions are available to watch via web streaming.
ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM
Thursday Afternoon, April 25, 2019
1:15 p.m.
Linda Greenhouse
President, in the Chair
Lincoln and Marfan Syndrome
Ronald M. Fairman
Clyde F. Barker–William Maul Measey Professor in Surgery
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
"The Papers Have Blown Me Up Sky High!": John James Audubon (APS 1831), America's First Celebrity Scientist
Gregory Nobles
Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow in Early American History
Henry E. Huntington Library
Intermission
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Jill Abramson
Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Harvard University
Former Executive Editor, The New York Times
Separation of Powers and Statutory Interpretation: A Battle Hidden in Plain Sight
David S. Tatel
United States Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Cocktail Reception
Benjamin Franklin Hall
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Dinner on One’s Own
*New Members are inducted at the beginning of each Meeting session.
Friday Morning, April 26, 2019
9:15 a.m.
Warren M. Washington
Vice President, in the Chair
Landscape and History in the Early Modern Atlantic Basin
Peter C. Mancall
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
University of Southern California
Design Problem-Solving in the Anthropocene
David A. Rubin
Principal
DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
Intermission
On Sheet Ice Melt in a Warming Climate and What We Should Do About It
Eric Rignot
Donald Bren Professor, Earth System Science
University of California at Irvine
Senior Research Scientist
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Why Are There So Many Kinds of Leaves?
Michael J. Donoghue
Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
Luncheon
Friday Afternoon, April 26, 2019
1:15 p.m.
Elizabeth Cropper
Vice President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Woman Suffrage West to East
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
300th Anniversary University Professor Emerita, Department of History
Harvard University
Juggling the Middle Ages
Jan M. Ziolkowski
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Harvard University
Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Intermission
Friday Afternoon, April 26, 2019
3:15 p.m.
Concert
Students and Faculty from the Curtis Institute of Music
Benjamin Franklin Hall
4:30 p.m.
Members’ Business Meeting
Philosophical Hall
(104 South Fifth Street)
Friday Evening, April 26, 2019
Cocktails and Light Supper
Benjamin Franklin Hall
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Saturday Morning, April 27, 2019
9:15 a.m.
Rowena G. Matthews
Vice President, in the Chair
A Path to a Low Carbon Energy Future: A Conversation
Daniel G. Nocera
Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
and
Ernest J. Moniz
United States Secretary of Energy, May 2013 to January 2017
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Intermission
The Model International Mobility Convention: Beyond Migrants and Refugees
Michael W. Doyle
University Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Some Thoughts on 2050 and Beyond
Martin Rees
Former Master, Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
Astronomer Royal