November 2019
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.
Thursday Afternoon, November 7, 2019
1:15 p.m.
Elizabeth Cropper
Vice President, in the Chair
A Divisive Heritage: Wahhabism and the Sunni Jihadi Movement
Cole M. Bunzel
Hoover Fellow, Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Living with the Bedouin: Some Personal Experiences of a Social Anthropologist
Frank H. Stewart
Professor Emeritus, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Intermission
Holocaust Era Art Displacement
James A. Leach
Member of the U. S. House of Representatives, Iowa (1977-2007)
Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities (2009-2013)
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Iowa
Through the Looking Glass: The Future of Collecting Antiquities
Timothy Rub
The George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Cocktail Reception
Franklin Hall
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Dinner on One’s Own
*New Members are inducted at the beginning of each Meeting session.
Friday Morning, November 8, 2019
9:15 a.m.
Rowena Matthews
Vice President, in the Chair
Symposium
The Next Influenza Pandemic
Thomas E. Shenk, Moderator
James A. Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons
John M. Barry
Distinguished Scholar, ByWater Institute
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Scientific Insights into the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Their Implications for the Future
Jeffery K. Taubenberger
Chief, Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section
National Institutes of Health
Intermission
Keeping an Eye to the Sky: Emerging Influenza Viruses and the Challenges We Face
Stacey Schultz-Cherry
Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
The Long Road to a Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine
Peter Palese
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Luncheon
Friday Afternoon, November 8, 2019
1:15 p.m.
Warren M. Washington
Vice President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
2019 Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecture
and
Presentation of Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Medicine
Why Don’t We Get More Cancer
Mina Jahan Bissell
Distinguished Senior Scientist of Biological Systems and Engineering Division
Senior Advisor to the Laboratory Director on Biology
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Intermission
Concert
Ethan Uslan: Ragtime and Jazz-Age Piano
Benjamin Franklin Hall
3:00 p.m.
Members’ Business Meeting
Philosophical Hall
(104 South Fifth Street)
4:30 p.m.
Friday Evening, November 8, 2019
Cocktails and Light Supper
Benjamin Franklin Hall
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Saturday Morning, November 9, 2019
9:15 a.m.
Linda Greenhouse
President, in the Chair
Enlightened Outrage: The Three Imposters
Margaret C. Jacob
Distinguished Professor of Research, Department of History
University of California at Los Angeles
The Nobel Archives: A Historical Goldmine
Erling Norrby
Chairman Emeritus, Karolinska Institute
Professor of Virology, Karolinska Institute
Center for the History of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Intermission
Networks Thinking Themselves
Danielle Bassett
Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
The Human Swarm: Examining Societies and Identity
Mark W. Moffett
Research Associate, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Visiting Scholar, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Luncheon