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2014 ACLS Annual Meeting May 8-10, Philadelphia, PA 2014 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Sheraton Society Hill Hotel One Dock Street, Philadelphia, PA May 8-10 Thursday, May 8 12:00 noon-1:30 pm ACLS Board of Directors, Executive Committee (members only) – Boardroom 2:00-5:00 pm ACLS Board of Directors Meeting (members only) – Cook 5:45-6:30 pm Welcome Reception – )BNJMUPO 6:30-8:30 pm Buffet Supper – )BNJMUPO 8:00-10:00 pm Money, Members, Mission: Learned Societies by the Numbers – Ballroom C Friday, May 9 7:45-8:45 am Executive Committee of the Delegates Breakfast Meeting (members only) – Boardroom 7:45-9:00 am Continental Breakfast – Ballroom Foyer 9:00-10:15 am Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows – Ballroom CD&E Stephen Berry, 2013 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellow Professor, Department of History, University of Georgia Lori Khatchadourian, 2013 ACLS Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University Laura Turner Igoe, 2013 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art, Doctoral Candidate, Temple University, Tyler School of Art Elaine Sisman, Moderator ACLS Board of Directors, Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music, Columbia University 10:15-10:30 am Coffee Break 10:30-11:15 am Report of the President 11:15 am-12:00 noon Meeting of the Council 12:00 noon-12:30 pm Reception – Ballroom Foyer 12:30-2:00 pm Luncheon and Speaker – Ballroom A&B Earl Lewis President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2:15-4:00 pm The Public Face of the Humanities – Ballroom CD&E Kwame Anthony Appiah, Moderator ACLS Board of Directors, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University Michael Bérubé Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Chair of the History and Literature Program, Harvard University Alexander Nemerov Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University 4:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break – Ballroom Foyer 4:00-4:30 pm ACLS Board of Directors Annual Meeting Review (members only) – Boardroom 4:00-6:00 pm Optional activity Exhibit at the American Philosophical Society Museum (free admission for ACLS meeting attendees) http://www.apsmuseum.org/ Jefferson’s Legacy: Philadelphia and the Founding of a Nation 6:00-7:00 pm The Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture – Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society Bruno Nettl Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 7:00-9:30 pm Reception and Buffet Supper – Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Ballroom AB&C Saturday, May 10 7:30-9:30 am Breakfast – Ballroom A&B 8:30-11:30 am Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) Spring Meeting (members only) – Bromley/Claypoole 11:30-12:00 noon Optional CAO Session 2014 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Philadelphia, PA, May 8-10 Sheraton Society Hill Hotel AGENDA MATERIALS Thursday, May 8 8:00-9:30 pm Tab 1 Ballroom C Money, Members, Mission: Learned Societies by the Numbers Friday, May 9 9:00 am – 12:00 noon Ballroom CD&E Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Tab 2 Discussion with ACLS Fellows (9:00-10:15 am) Report of the President (10:30-11:15 am) Tab 3 Meeting of the Council (11:15 am-12:00 noon) Tab 4 12:30-2:00 pm Ballroom A&B Luncheon and Speaker Tab 5 Earl Lewis, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2:15-4:00 pm Ballroom CD&E The Public Face of the Humanities Tab 6 Additional Information Tab 7 Overview of ACLS Activities Biographies of ACLS Board of Directors ACLS Staff Report on Program Activities Back Pocket Biography of Haskins Prize Lecturer Bruno Nettl Directions to Haskins Prize Lecture at the American Philosophical Society Meeting Schedule Participants List 2014 ACLS Annual Meeting Philadelphia May 8, 8:00-9:30 pm Ballroom C Money, Members, Mission: Learned Societies by the Numbers The following charts are drawn from data yielded by the new census of ACLS societies. Fifty- six member societies completed a questionnaire regarding indicators of organizational health. The Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) plans to continue this census each year to detect trends among our member societies. Jack Fitzmier, moderator Chair, Executive Committee of the CAO Executive Director American Academy of Religion Beverly Diamond President, Society for Ethnomusicology Memorial University of Newfoundland Thomas DuBois Member, Executive Committee of the Delegates Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study University of Wisconsin-Madison Ed Liebow Executive Director American Anthropological Association Alyson Reed Executive Director Linguistic Society of America Money, Members, Mission: Learned Societies by the Numbers Panel Beverley Diamond (B.Mus, M.A. Ph.D. University of Toronto) is a Canadian ethnomusicologist who assumed the Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music at Memorial University in 2002. Before arriving in St. John’s she held full-time teaching positions at McGill, Queen's, and York Universities, as well as visiting professorships at the University of Toronto and Harvard University. At Memorial University, she established the Research Centre for Music, Media and Place (MMaP) to serve as a liaison between university and communities on research projects of mutual interest. MMaP publishes in a variety of print and audio-visual media, including an archival CD series “Back on Track.” Since the early 1970s, she has worked extensively in Inuit and First Nations communities in the Northwest Territories, Labrador, Quebec, and Ontario. Since 1999, she has done research in Sami communities in Norway and Finland. Her work has explored the relationship of music to issues of cultural identity, indigenous modernity issues, and the role of the arts in reconciliation. Her most recent research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), has concerned the transnational circulation of indigenous music, cultural property, and the social construction of meaning in relation to changing technologies. She is finishing a book on the social history of audio recording in Newfoundland and Labrador. Diamond was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), considered to be the highest academic honor in Canada. The society credits her for developing cross-cultural perspectives on gendered musical practices. She received a Trudeau Fellowship (2009-12) and was the first recipient of the SOCAN Foundation/CUMS Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music. A Festschrift was published in her honor in 2010. Tom DuBois received his Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. His research focuses on folklore and identity in the Nordic region, particularly in connection with Finnish, Sámi, and Swedish cultures. He also has strong interests in the Baltic region and the broader cultural context of Northern Europe. His books include: Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala, Nordic Religions in the Viking Age, Finnish Folklore (co-edited with Leea Virtanen), Lyric, Meaning and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe, and An Introduction to Shamanism. He has also edited or co-edited two volumes: Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia, and The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen (co-edited with Susan Brantly). Together with Jim Leary, he is currently coeditor of the Journal of American Folklore. His teaching includes elementary and continuing Finnish, as well as courses on Kalevala, Sámi culture, Celtic-Scandinavian cultural relations, and shamanism. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies and is currently director of the Religious Studies Program. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Delegates for the American Council of Learned Societies and is president of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Jack Fitzmier serves as executive director of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). His duties include coordination of the work of the AAR executive staff at the Luce Center in Atlanta, strategic planning, fundraising, programming, and public affairs. Prior to his work at the AAR, he served as professor of American religious history, vice president for academic affairs, and dean at the Claremont School of Theology (1999-2005) and associate dean at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School (1989-1998). He attended the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1973), Gordon Conwell Seminary (M.Div., summa cum laude, 1981) and Princeton University (M.A., 1983; Ph.D., 1986). His scholarly interests are in the history of American religious thought from the Puritans through the mid- nineteenth century. He is the author of The Presbyterians (Greenwood, 1993, 1994, and 2004), with Professor Randall Balmer, and New England’s Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817 (Indiana UP 1999). Ed Liebow is executive director of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Liebow is an accomplished administrator and researcher. In addition, he has been very active in AAA, serving as treasurer as well as an executive board member. He comes to the executive director’s position after a long career with the Battelle Memorial Institute, the world’s largest not-for-profit research and development organization. He joined Battelle in 1986, the year he received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Arizona State University. Liebow also has a B.A. in sociology/anthropology from Carleton College. He has conducted research and public policy analysis on a variety of energy, public health and social policy issues concerning disadvantaged communities. While at Battelle, he rose from the rank of research scientist to project leader to director of research operations in the Seattle office. Liebow maintains a position as affiliate associate professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Washington.