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Title: Induction of New Members
Identifier(s): video:1499
Description: 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
Subject: APS Archives; American Philosophical Society, Members; Carroll, Sean B.; Daston, Lorraine, 1951-; Ellis, Katharine; Grenet, Frantz; Harris, Ellen T.; Shubin, Neil; Shulman, David Dean, 1949-; Skorton, David J.; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-26

Title: Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Identifier(s): video:1555
Description: 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)
Subject: APS Archives; Prizes, Societies; Gallagher, Catherine; Musunuru, Kiran; Dulac, Catherine; Morrison, Toni; Griffin, Farah Jasmine; Stevenson, Bryan; Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History; Judson Daland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Investigation; Karl Spencer Lashley Award; Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Benjamin Frankl; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-09

Title: Democracy Today: Ancient Lessons, Modern Challenges. Symposium Panel
Identifier(s): video:1503
Description: A panel discussion with the speakers on the subject of Democracy.
Subject: Democracy; Bejan, Teresa M.; Jamieson, Kathleen Hall; Fishkin, James S.; Stephanopolous, Nicholas; Teachout, Zephyr; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-27

Title: Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Identifier(s): video:1481
Description: 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)
Subject: APS Archives; Prizes, Societies; Weir, Todd H.; Tribe, Laurence H.; Creager, Angela N. H.; Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History; Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities; Patrick Suppes Prize; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-27

Title: Induction of New Members
Identifier(s): video:1556
Description: 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
Subject: APS Archives; American Philosophical Society, Members; Casper, Gerhard; Daniels, Ronald J. (Ronald Joel), 1959-; Keohane, Robert O. (Robert Owen), 1941-; Kitcher, Philip, 1947-; Kroll, Paul W., 1948-; Lawrence, Frederick M., 1955-; Lenski, Robert; Neiman, Susan; Spradling, Allan C.; Taylor, Shelley E.; Beckerle, Mary C; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-08

Title: Center for Native American and Indigenous Research: A Jefferson Legacy. Part 2: Indigenous Voice: Language and Identity in America's Native Nations
Identifier(s): video:1496
Description: Treuer talks about the importance of tribal languages to identity development, native health, and academic enterprise.
Subject: Ethnography & Linguistics; Cultural Competence; Ojibwe Language; American Philosophical Society Library. Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-28

Title: Democracy Today: Ancient Lessons, Modern Challenges. Part 5: Market Structure and Liberal Democracy
Identifier(s): video:1501
Description: Zephyr Teachout talks about the free market and neoliberal policies have had a negative effect on American democracy.
Subject: Democracy; Liberalism; Free market; Neoliberalism; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-27

Title: We Went to Mississippi: Nurses’ Civil Rights Activism of the Mid-1960s
Identifier(s): video:1551
Description: 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
Subject: Civil rights movement, History, 20th century; Segregation, United States, Mississippi; Nurses; Activists, United States, 1960-1970.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-10

Title: Legacy and Authenticity: The Barnes Foundation
Identifier(s): video:1504
Description: Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien explain how the new Barnes Foundation building was designed on the Ben Franklin Parkway.
Subject: Art museum architecture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Architecture, Modern, 21st century; Tsien, Billie, Contributor; Barnes Foundation; Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-26

Title: When We Were Young: The American Philosophical Society's First Half-Century
Identifier(s): video:1497
Description: 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.
Subject: Learned societies, United States; American Philosophical Society.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-26

Title: Center for Native American and Indigenous Research: A Jefferson Legacy. Part 1: Conversation Framed
Identifier(s): video:1476
Description: Patrick Spero and Regna Darnell discuss the formation of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research to open the symposium.
Subject: Ethnography & Linguistics; Darnell, Regna; American Philosophical Society Library. Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-28

Title: How Art Works: Psychological Approaches to Philosophical Questions
Identifier(s): video:1552
Description: 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)
Subject: Experimental psychology; Philosophy; Art, Psychology; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-10

Title: Music as Praise and Protest
Identifier(s): video:1479
Description: David Ludwig and Mikael Eliasen are accompanied by faculty and students of the Curtis Institute of Music
Subject: Music, History; Eliasen, Mikael, Contributor; Curtis Institute of Music; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-27

Title: Better Living with AI. Part 2: Voice Sharing: How AI-Powered Community Involvement Uplifts Those Living with Speech Impairments
Identifier(s): video:1549
Description: Dr. Patel talks about what speech means to humans. How can AI provide more options for those living with speech impairments?
Subject: History of Science; Artificial intelligence; Voice culture; Verbal abilitiy; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-09

Title: Democracy Today: Ancient Lessons, Modern Challenges. Part 4: The Injury of Gerrymandering
Identifier(s): video:1483
Description: Nicholas Stephanopoulos examines partisian gerrymandering. He talks about it from an academic and a litigation point of view.
Subject: Democracy; Gerrymandering; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-27

Title: Can the Census Be Gerrymandered?
Identifier(s): video:1544
Description: 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
Subject: Census, United States; Demographic surveys, United Sates; Gerrymandering, United States.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-08

Title: Better Living with AI. Part 4: Future Cameras: Redefining the Image
Identifier(s): video:1553
Description: Shree Nayar talks about the future of the camera. He talks about the shift from traditional imaging to computational imaging.
Subject: History of Science; Artificial intelligence; Cameras; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-09

Title: Democracy Today: Ancient Lessons, Modern Challenges. Part 2: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Exploited U.S. Media in 2016
Identifier(s): video:1480
Description: 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)
Subject: Democracy; Hackers, Russia (Federation); Presidents, Election, 2016; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-27

Title: The Lamppost Theory: Why Economic Policy So Often Comes Up Short
Identifier(s): video:1550
Description: 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)
Subject: Economics, History; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-08

Title: Democracy Today: Ancient Lessons, Modern Challenges. Introduction
Identifier(s): video:1478
Description: Jack Rakove introduces the Symposium on Democracy Today.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 163, No. 2 (June 2019)
Subject: Democracy; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-27