Emilie Anderson has secured a small number of invitations to the 275th Anniversary American Philosophical Society Meetings session on Saturday morning, November 10th.   

"An eminent scholarly organization of international reputation, the American Philosophical Society promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach. This country's first learned society, the APS has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life for 275 years."

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

We will depart the Quad at 8:15am to arrive at the American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Hall in Old City in time for a light breakfast and conversation with the Society's fellows.  There will be another opportunity to meet with fellows during the intermission.