November 2005
Thursday November 10
Gene Therapy for Congenital Blindness
Jean Bennett
Professor, Ophthalmology, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Improving Language and Literacy: Moving Research from the Laboratory to the Classroom
Paula Tallal
Board of Governor's Professor of Neuroscience
Rutgers University
Neuronal Replacement in the Adult Brain
Fernando Nottebohm
Professor
Rockefeller University
The Surprising Biology of Short RNAs
Phillip A. Sharp
Institute Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, November 11
Counting the Dead: Historical Reflections on the Casualty List
Drew G. Faust
Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University
Research Issues Related to Combat Casualty Care
John B. Holcomb
Commander, United States Army Institute of Surgical Research
Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston
It Depends on How We Look at Things: New Perspectives on the Postclassic Period in the Northern Maya Lowlands
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Literary Continuities Across the Transformation from Maya Hieroglyphic to Alphabetic Writing
Victoria R. Bricker
Professor of Anthropology
Tulane University
Enduring Pleasures: Classical Chinese Poetry in a Visual Age
Paula Varsano
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature
University of California at Berkeley
Chinese Poetry and the European Imagination
Pauline Yu
President
American Council of Learned Societies
Chinese Development in Long-Run Perspective
Kenneth Pomeranz
Chancellor's Professor of History
University of California at Irvine
Chinese Development: A Contemporary Perspective
Dwight H. Perkins
Professor Of Economics
Harvard University
Saturday Morning, November 12
Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses
Judith Resnik
Arthur Liman Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Dennis E. Curtis
Clinical Professor
Yale Law School
Oceans, Climate, and Health: The Cholera Paradigm
Rita R. Colwell
Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland/Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Contrast between Slave Life in Jamaica and Virginia, 1760-1865
Richard S. Dunn
Co-Executive Officer
American Philosophical Society