November 2015
Thursday Afternoon, November 12, 2015
1:15 p.m.
John W. O’Malley
Vice President, in the Chair
The Past Unshackled: When Revolutions Go Backward
Linda K. Kerber, Moderator
May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences
Lecturer in the College of Law
University of Iowa
“Invisible” Disabilities: Black Women in War and Freedom
Thavolia Glymph
Associate Professor, Departments of History and African American Studies
Duke University
Legacies “Dis-remembered:” Re-Reading Moments of Emancipation
Thomas C. Holt
James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of American and African American History
The University of Chicago
Question and Answer Session with Thavolia Glymph and Thomas C. Holt
R.A.F. Penrose Lecture
A Context for the Emergence of Modern Human Cognition
Ian Tattersall
Curator Emeritus
American Museum of Natural History
Friday Morning, November 13, 2015
9:15 a.m.
Linda Greenhouse
Vice President, in the Chair
The Ups and Downs of Animal Abundance: Why Do Some Species Exhibit Population Cycles?
Peter Hudson
Willaman Professor of Biology
Director, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Pennsylvania State University
Asymmetry in the Archives
Jill Lepore
David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History
Harvard University
Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture
250 Years of America’s First Medical School: An Unexpurgated History
Clyde F. Barker
Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Friday Afternoon, November 13, 2015
1:15 p.m.
Barbara J. Grosz
Vice President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Shakespeare from Page to Stage
Suzanne Gossett
Professor Emerita of English, Loyola University Chicago
and
Tina Packer
Founding Artistic Director, Shakespeare & Company
Ms. Packer will be accompanied in her presentation by actor Nigel Gore.
Question and Answer Session with Suzanne Gosset and Tina Packer
Saturday Morning, November 14, 2015
9:15 a.m.
Clyde F. Barker
President, in the Chair
A Perfect Solar Storm
Claudio Vita-Finzi, Moderator
Scientific Associate, Geological Sciences
Natural History Museum of London
The Carrington Event of 1859
Robert Giegengack
Professor Emeritus, Earth and Environmental Science
The University of Pennsylvania
Everyday Solar Storms …. and Their Everyday Impacts
Judith L. Lean
Senior Scientist for Sun-Earth System Research
Naval Research Laboratory
Can the Economics of Happiness Cheer Up the Dismal Science?
Angus Deaton
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Economics
Princeton University
Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia
Loren Graham
Professor of History of Science, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University