November 2014
Thursday Afternoon, November 6, 2014
1:15 p.m.
Clyde F. Barker
President, in the Chair
A Conversation
The 21st century has seen a number of new initiatives that have pushed the boundaries of how we experience and engage with art. Marina Abramović and Doug Aitken are among the most daring and innovative artists to explore new ways of thinking about art and museums. They will be joined by Glenn D. Lowry in a conversation about their work, which has ranged from long-duration performance to a nationwide rolling “museum,” and the different ways contemporary art and the museum can, and must, engage each other.
Glenn D. Lowry, Director, Museum of Modern Art
Marina Abramović, Performance Artist
Doug Aitken, Multimedia Artist
Life at the Speed of Light
J. Craig Venter
Founder, Chairman and CEO, J. Craig Venter Institute
Co-founder and CEO, Synthetic Genomics
Co-founder and CEO, Human Longevity, Inc.
Friday Morning, November 7, 2014
9:15 a.m.
Linda Greenhouse
Vice President, in the Chair
Symposium
What’s on the Menu in Food Culture?
Paul Freedman, Moderator
Professor of History
Yale University
Restaurants Past and Present
Danny Meyer
New York City Restaurateur
CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group
Food Culture as Youth Culture: The Assumed Triviality of Cooked Food and Its Contemporary Cultural Significance
Krishnendu Ray
Associate Professor of Food Studies
Chair, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
New York University
Cookbooks and Reality
Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Honorary Curator of the Culinary Collection, Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
On the Psychology and Neurobiology of Taste, Flavor, and Feeding
Dana Small
Professor of Psychiatry
Fellow, The John B. Pierce Laboratory
Yale University
Friday Afternoon, November 7, 2014
1:15 p.m.
Barbara J. Grosz
Vice President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Songs That Speak
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Poetry Reading
Rosanna Warren
Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor
The Committee on Social Thoughts
The University of Chicago
Students From the Curtis Institute of Music
3:00 p.m.
Saturday Morning, November 8, 2014
9:15 a.m.
John W. O’Malley
Vice President, in the Chair
A Framing Introduction
Regna Darnell
Founding Director
The University of Western Ontario’s First Nations Studies Program
How to Buy a Continent: The Protocol of Indian Treaties as Developed by Benjamin Franklin and Other Members of the American Philosophical Society
Anthony F. C. Wallace
University Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania
Steering a Course Set by Thomas Jefferson: New Developments in Curating the Native American Collections at the American Philosophical Society
Timothy B. Powell
Director, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
American Philosophical Society
James Madison’s Dilemma – And Ours
Jack Rakove
William R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies
Stanford University
Sanative Contagion Among Cambridge Platonists
John V. Fleming
Fairchild Professor of English
Professor of Comparative Literature
Princeton University