November 2018
Meetings of the American Philosophical Society are held each April and November for elected Members, their families, and distinguished guests. Most sessions are available to watch via web streaming.
275th ANNIVERSARY MEETING PROGRAM
Thursday Afternoon, November 8, 2018
1:15 p.m.
Linda Greenhouse
President, in the Chair
The Ghosts of Census Past and Their Relevance to 2020
Margo Anderson
Distinguished Professor Emerita, History and Urban Studies
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Can the Census Be Gerrymandered?
Kenneth Prewitt
Professor, Advisor to President, and Director, Future of Scholarly Knowledge
Columbia University
Intermission
Present Bias, Self-Defeating Behaviors, and Behavior Change
David Laibson
Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics
Director, Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative
Harvard University
The Lamppost Theory: Why Economic Policy So Often Comes Up Short
Alan S. Blinder
Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Cocktail Reception
Museum of the American Revolution
(3rd and Chestnut Streets)
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Dinner on One’s Own
or
Optional Philadelphia Orchestra Concert
7:30 p.m. Curtain
(Coach leaves 3rd and Chestnut Streets promptly at 7:00 p.m.)
*New Members are inducted at the beginning of each Meeting session.
Friday Morning, November 9, 2018
9:15 a.m.
Rowena Matthews
Vice President, in the Chair
Symposium
Better Living with AI
Julia Hirschberg, Moderator
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science
Columbia University
Voice Sharing: How AI-Powered Community Involvement Uplifts Those Living with Speech Impairments
Rupal Patel
Professor, Computer and Information Science
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Northeastern University
Founder & CEO, VocaliD
Intermission
Does This Vehicle Belong to You?: Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations
Dan Jurafsky
Professor and Chair of Linguistics
Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University
Future Cameras: Redefining the Image
Shree K. Nayar
T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science
Director, Columbia Vision Laboratory
Columbia University
Luncheon
Friday Afternoon, November 9, 2018
1:15 p.m.
Warren M. Washington
Vice President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Memory and Justice: Confronting the Past to Create a Different Future
Bryan Stevenson
Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative
Montgomery, AL
275th Anniversary Concert
SoundLAB
Contemporary Ensemble-in-Residence
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Benjamin Franklin Hall
3:00 p.m.
Members’ Business Meeting
Philosophical Hall
(104 South Fifth Street)
4:30 p.m.
Friday Evening, November 9, 2018
Cocktails and Light Supper
Benjamin Franklin Hall
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Saturday Morning, November 10, 2018
9:15 a.m.
Elizabeth Cropper
Vice President, in the Chair
Toward Personalized Wellness: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
Larry Smarr
Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
University of California at San Diego
We Went to Mississippi: Nurses’ Civil Rights Activism of the Mid-1960s
Julie A. Fairman
Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans
Chair, Biobehavioral Health Sciences Department
School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
Intermission
How Art Works: Psychological Approaches to Philosophical Questions
Ellen Winner
Professor of Psychology
Boston College
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
LIDAR Technology and the Future of Lowland Maya Archaeology
Marcello A. Canuto
Director and Professor, Middle American Research Institute
Tulane University
Luncheon