November 2013

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Speakers
Marjorie Garber, Purnell W. Choppin, Anthony Cerami, David S. Tatel, Richard H. Pildes, Heather K. Gerken, Robert F. Bauer, Benjamin L. Ginsberg, Paula S. Fass, Joel E. Cohen, Ralph E. Gomory, William J. Baumol, Richard Sylla, Lynn A. Stout, Edward N. Wolff

AUTUMN MEETING PROGRAM
Thursday Afternoon, November 14, 2013
1:15 p.m.

Barbara J. Grosz
Vice President, in the Chair

Induction of New Members

Fig Leaves
Marjorie Garber
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies
Harvard University

Yellow Fever, a Success Story
Purnell W. Choppin
President Emeritus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 

Walter L. Robb Symposium on “Useful Knowledge”
 

A 40-year Odyssey in the Sea of Translational Medicine
Anthony Cerami
Boerhaave Professor of Translational Medicine, Leiden University
Chief Executive Officer, Araim Pharmaceuticals, Inc

 


Friday Morning, November 15, 2013
9:15 a.m.

Linda Greenhouse
Vice President, in the Chair

Symposium

The Right to Vote
David S. Tatel, Moderator
United States Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

The Past and Future of Voting Rights
Richard H. Pildes
Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law
New York University School of Law

The Myth of “Citizens United” and the Real Reason Why It Matters
Heather K. Gerken
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law
Yale Law School
 

The Right to Vote: A Conversation with the Co-Chairs of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration
Heather K. Gerken, Moderator
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Robert F. Bauer
Former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama
Partner, Perkins Coie

and

Benjamin L. Ginsberg
National Counsel to Governor Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 Presidential Campaigns
Partner, Patton Boggs

 

Friday Afternoon, November 15, 2013
1:15 p.m.

Clyde F. Barker
President, in the Chair

Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes

How Americans Raise Their Children: Generational Relations in the United States
Paula S. Fass
Margaret Byrne Professor of History Emerita, University of California at Berkeley
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Rutgers (New Brunswick) University

Is a Limit to Length of Human Life Imminent?
Joel E. Cohen
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations
Laboratory of Populations, The Rockefeller University and Columbia University

Concert
Faculty and Student Performance
Curtis Institute of Music


Saturday Morning, November 16, 2013
9:15 a.m.

John W. O’Malley
Vice President, in the Chair

Symposium

The American Corporation
Ralph E. Gomory, Moderator
Research Professor
New York University
 

William J. Baumol, Moderator
Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship
Academic Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

How the American Corporation Evolved Over Two Centuries
Richard Sylla
Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets
Professor of Economics
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

The Corporation and the Law
Lynn A. Stout
Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Business Law
Cornell Law School
 

Who Owns Stock in American Corporations?
Edward N. Wolff
Professor of Economics
New York University

Consequences and Possibilities for Change
Ralph E. Gomory
Research Professor
New York University

Panel Discussion