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Bulletin Vol american academy of arts & sciences winter 2006 Bulletin vol. lix, no. 2 Page 1 American Academy Welcomes the 225th Class of Members Page 2 Exhibit from the Archives Members’ Letters of Acceptance Page 26 Concepts of Justice Essays by Alan Brinkley, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Geoffrey Stone, Patricia M. Wald, Charles Fried, and Kim Lane Scheppele inside: Projects and Studies, Page 15 Visiting Scholars Program, Page 24 New Members: Class of 2005, Page 42 From the Archives, Page 60 Calendar of Events Thursday, Saturday, February 9, 2006 March 18, 2006 Stated Meeting–Cambridge Stated Meeting–San Francisco “Tax Reform: Current Problems, Possible “Innovation: The Creative Blending of Art Contents Solutions, and Unresolved Questions” and Science” Speaker: James Poterba, mit Speaker: George Lucas, Lucas½lm Ltd. Academy News Introduction and Response: Michael J. Introduction: F. Warren Hellman, Graetz, Yale University Hellman & Friedman, LLC Academy Inducts 225th Class 1 Location: House of the Academy Location: Letterman Digital Arts Center, The Presidio of San Francisco Major Funding from the Mellon Time: 6:00 p.m. Foundation 1 Time: 5:00 p.m. Exhibit from the Academy’s Archives 2 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Challenges Facing the Regional Meeting–Chicago Intellectual Community 7 Stated Meeting and Joint Meeting with “America’s Greatest Lawyer: Abraham Lincoln the Boston Athenæum–Boston in Private Practice and Public Life” Projects and Studies 15 “Great Scienti½c Discoveries of the Twentieth Speaker: Walter E. Dellinger, Century” Duke University Visiting Scholars Program 24 Speaker: Alan Lightman, mit Introduction: Saul Levmore, Academy Lectures University of Chicago Law School Location: Boston Athenæum Location: University of Chicago Law School Time: 6:00 p.m. Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis Time: 5:00 p.m. Alan Brinkley 26 Friday, April 21, 2006 Tuesday, Do We Have An Emergency Constitution? February 28, 2006 Concert–Cambridge Kathleen M. Sullivan 30 Special Evening–Cambridge Location: House of the Academy Constitutions Under Stress: International “When There Are No Good Choices: Time: 5:30 p.m. and Historical Perspectives Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam/ Geoffrey Stone, Patricia M. Wald, Great Society Connection” Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Charles Fried, and Kim Lane Speaker: Francis M. Bator, Scheppele 34 Harvard University Stated and Annual Meeting–Cambridge Introduction: Ernest R. May, Speakers: Ronald George, Supreme Court New Members: Class of 2005 42 Harvard University of California, and Margaret Marshall, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Noteworthy 57 Location: House of the Academy Location: House of the Academy Time: 5:15 p.m. From the Archives 60 Time: 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, 2006 For information and reservations, contact the Stated Meeting–Cambridge Events Of½ce (phone: 617-576-5032; email: [email protected]). “Preparing for Pandemics” Moderator: Joseph Martin, Harvard Medical School Speakers: Barry R. Bloom and Howard Koh, both, Harvard School of Public Health Location: House of the Academy Time: 6:00 p.m. Academy News American Academy Inducts 225th Class of Members New Mellon Grant for Speaking to the over 500 members and guests assem- Humanities Indicators bled for the 2005 Induction Ceremony, new Fellow Elena Kagan, Dean of the Harvard Law School, pointed to the or over 30 years, scientists have relied on the Nation- Academy’s historic mission to bring together scholars F al Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indica- and practitioners dedicated to the public good. “This must tors for comprehensive statistics and information on be,” she noted, “because the Academy thinks that each science, engineering, and technology in the United can learn from the other, that those who think about the States. Now, thanks to a generous grant of $701,000 world and those who run the world both should want to from the Mellon Foundation, the Academy will pro- make it better. And that the chances of doing so depend duce Humanities Indicators, an initial effort to create a on the strength of their desires and the scope of their comparable picture of the state of the humanities. opportunities to work together.” The Humanities Indicators will bring together empiri- The vision of the Academy’s founders and its realization cal data on all aspects of the humanities, from primary over 225 years was one of the principal themes of the and secondary education, to university teaching and Ceremony that honored 197 new Fellows and 17 Foreign research activities, to the libraries, museums, and his- Honorary Members from 26 states and 10 foreign coun- torical societies where so many children and adults tries. They included scholars, scientists, and artists as receive signi½cant exposure to the humanities. It will well as civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders (see include essays describing the trends and challenges re- pages 42–56 for descriptors of the new members). vealed by this data. The Indicators will be made avail- The daylong series of events began with an orientation able on the Academy website. Academy Fellow Norman session providing new members with an overview of Bradburn, a nationally recognized researcher on sur- Academy studies, the Visiting Scholars Program, and vey methodology at the National Opinion Research activities across the country. In welcoming remarks, Center and the University of Chicago, is overseeing data President Patricia Meyer Spacks emphasized that the collection and analysis. Academy President Patricia Academy looks to its members for new ideas and per- Meyer Spacks is the codirector of the Humanities spectives and urged the group to take an active part in Indicators Project. the research program, governance, and election process. “The nation lacks a broad-based, quantitative analysis Introducing the leaders of current Academy projects, of the state of the humanities in the United States,” Chief Executive Of½cer Leslie C. Berlowitz noted: noted Chief Executive Of½cer Leslie C. Berlowitz in “Today, as 225 years ago, the Academy focuses its atten- acknowledging the award. “We don’t have suf½cient tion on those issues that are of deep concern to the intel- empirical data about what is being taught in the hu- Continued on page 2 manities, how they’re funded, the size of the work force, and public attitudes toward the ½eld. This is a key goal of the Academy’s humanities program. The Indicators Project will be an important step in closing that fundamental knowledge gap for the bene½t of scholars, policymakers, and the public at large.” This grant brings to fruition several years of prelimi- nary work on humanities data. This work, which was supported by the Rockefeller and Hewlett Foundations, included planning meetings, conferences, surveys of data resources, and two Occasional Papers, Making the Humanities Count: The Importance of Data (2002) and Tracking Changes in the Humanities: Essays on Finance and Education (2006). New members Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley) and Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia University) Bulletin of the American Academy Winter 2006 1 every lover of his Country & Exhibit from the Academy’s Archives mankind.” Fifty years later, processors in between. De- British mathematician Charles spite the changes in forms of Babbage’s August 1832 letter communication, they are re- has a similar theme: “I beg you markably consistent in reveal- will assure the Academy how ing how honored the new much I feel grati½ed at being members feel and how com- thus connected with an insti- mitted they are to advancing tution which having for its the Academy’s goals. From object the discovery of truth, George Washington’s accep- must have for its supporters all tance, dated March 22, 1781, to those who wish well to the the responses of recent induct- interests of mankind.” Nearly ees, members express their 200 years later, writing from enthusiasm for the Academy’s California using a technology made possible by Babbage’s Every newly elected member ½ve documents on display role in the life of the nation work on computing machines, of the Academy is asked to are the acceptance letters of and the importance of its work Quincy Jones echoes his pre- write a letter of acceptance. Charles Darwin, Washington to the world. decessors: “The signi½cant ac- The thousands of such letters Irving, Mary Leakey, Martin complishments and innovative received over the past 225 years Luther King, Jr., Marion An- Written from a ½eld camp dur- approaches of the Academy are are one of the Academy’s most derson, Willa Cather, John F. ing the Revolutionary War, compatible with my own vi- important collections of docu- Kennedy, Abba Eban, John Washington’s letter states: sions of global peace and pros- ments. Now, visitors to the Cage, and Igor Stravinsky. “The Arts & Sciences essential perity.” Silvio Micali pulls all Academy’s House in Cambridge The letters show the progress to the prosperity of the State & of these sentiments together in can view a selection of these of technology, from handwrit- to the ornament & happiness his rousing 2003 response: letters in a new exhibit in the ten notes to email, with tele- of human life have a primary “Long Live Art and Science!” atrium. Among the seventy- grams, typewriters, and word claim to the encouragement of Induction acknowledged the individual Continued from page 1 accomplishments of the newly lectual community and socie- elected members. Representa- ty. If the original Fellows stud- tives of various disciplines ied subjects ranging from ‘the spoke about the challenges of various soils of the country’ to contemporary society and re- the commerce of America, the flected on important issues Academy now provides analy- facing American science and ses of security on the Internet, scholarship. The natural di- corporate responsibility, and sasters of the past year were the place of the humanities in much on the minds of those the university and beyond.
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