A presentation of awards and prizes: 1) Jacques Barzun Prize (Catherine Gallagher);2) Judson Daland Prize (Kiran Musunuru);3) Karl Spencer Lashley Award (Catherine Dulac);4) Thomas Jefferson Medal (Toni Morrison, accepted by Farrah Griffin);5) Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service (Bryan Stevenson)
A presentation of awards and prizes: 1) Jacques Barzun Prize (Todd H. Weir);2) Henry Allen Moe Prize (Laurence H. Tribe);3) Patrick Suppes Prize (Angela Creager)
Dr. Gerhard Casper, Mr. Ronald J. Daniels, Dr. Robert O. Keohane, Dr. Philip Stuart Kitcher, Dr. Paul W. Kroll, Mr. Frederick M. Lawrence, Dr. Richard E. Lenski, Dr. Susan Neiman, Dr. Allan Spradling, Dr. Shelley Taylor, Dr. Mary C. Beckerle, Dr. Helen M. Blau, Dr. Karen S. Cook, Dr. Eric Foner, Mr. Kenneth C. Frazier, Dr. William A. Graham, Dr. Diane E. Griffin, Dr. Vijay Kumar, Dr. Margaret Levi, Professor Reva Siegel, and Dr. Michael W. Young are admitted to the society and sign the members' book
Dr. Sean B. Carroll, Dr. Lorraine Daston, Dr. Katharine Ellis, Dr. Frantz Grenet, Dr. Ellen T. Harris, Dr. Neil H. Shubin, Dr. David Dean Shulman, Dr. David Skorton, and Dr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak are admitted to the society and sign the members' book
Nurses, both white and black, were an active part of the Civil Rights Movement. How did they become activists and how do they confound medical historians?; Further reading: Fairman was the first nurse to deliver the Garrison Lecture in May of this same year: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/news/1103-fairman-first-nurse-to-deliver-garrison-lecture
Gary Nash talks about the beginning of the American Philosophical Society. He discusses the contested start dates (1927 and 1943) and why the men involved started the society.
What is art? Do we feel real emotions when we see art? Does fiction make us more empathic? How do we evaluate art? Ellen Winner examines these questions from a psychology point of view.; Further reading: Winner, E. How Art Works: a psychological exploration. (Oxford Univerty Press: 2019);Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 163, No. 2 (June 2019)
Prewitt explains how the census can be politicized. Public money funds the program, but the government cannot dictate how that science is conducted. This talk was later re-visted in the APS Great Talks blogpost and as virtual public programming during the COVID-19 pandemic.; Podcast: https://www.amphilsoc.org/museum/exhibitions/great-talks-american-philosophical-society/good-numbers-make-good-democracy;Prewitt was also interviewed by Patrick Spero during the COVID-19 pandemic on the effect of the virus on the 2020 Census
Alan Blinder talks about his most recent book with the tag line: "Politicians use lampposts the same way that drunks do, for support and not illumination."; Further reading: Blinder, A. Advice and Dissent : Why Policy Suffers When Economists and Politicians Collide. (Basic Books: 2008)
Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses the presidential election of 2016 and how Russian "trolls" and "hackers" exploited social media to effect the results.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 163, No. 2 (June 2019)
