Welcome and thank you all for coming, especially on this evening. Im Eileen Gillooly and. As the executive director of the Society Fellows and heyman ceer humanities here at columbia. Its my privilege as well as my pleasure to welcome you to this evenings celebration of lorraine dustins. New book rivals how science has learned to cooperate. This is the first of what we hope will be many cooperative hosted by the columbia Global Reports, which my colleague Nicholas Lemann will tell you more about in a minute. And the society of fellow at human centers, otherwise known as the of new book series in the society of fellows. Its a series whichondistinguise society of fellows in the humanities at columbia, and which founded in 1975, is about celebrate its 50th anniversary. Before i introduce the speakers and turn over the proceedings to nick, wholl be moderating the conference session, id like to thank all the many folks who helped to make this event possible, especially camille mcduffie, cou
Welcome and thank you all for coming, especially on this evening. Im Eileen Gillooly and. As the execuSociety Fellows andn center for the humanities here at columbia. Its my privilege as well as my pleasure to welcome you to this evenings celebration of lorraine dustins. New book rivals how science has learned to cooperate. This is the first of what we hope will be many cooperative hosted by the columbia Global Reports, which my colleague Nicholas Lemann will tell you minute. And the society of fellow at human centers, otherwise known as the of new book series in the society of fellows. Its a series which honors recent publications of the distinguished alumni of the society of fellows in the humanities at columbia, and which founded in 1975, is about celebrate its 50th anniversary. Before i introduce the speturn o nick, wholl be moderating the conference session, id like to thank all the many folks who helped to make this event possible, especially camille mcduffie, courtney knights, A
Constitution. And now it is such a pleasure to introduce our extremely distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery
Featuring members of the aspen Economic Strategy group. Big thanks to our society of fellows and community of donors for supporting our programming and your engagement all summer long. We cant do it without you. Thank you so much for your support. [applause] i dont know if they are here yet, but a big thanks to tom and bonnie for their support of the institute and for endowing the fletcher series. [applause] its my pleasure to introduce our speakers and thank them for being here. First, to my immediate right is rob portman. Rob is a former u. S. Senator from ohio, distinguished visiting fellow at the american in Price Institute American Enterprise institute. His career spans three decades including three president ial administrations and two terms in the United States senate and six terms in the United States house of representatives. Thank you, senator portman, for being with us. [applause] to senator portmans right is cecilia rouse, who previously served as chair of the council of ec
Midst of global challenges. The event is about an hour. Portman. Featuring members of the aspen Economic Strategy group. Big thanks to our society of fellows and community of donors for supporting our programming and your engagement all summer long. We cant do it without you. Thank you so much for your support. [applause] i dont know if they are here yet, but a big thanks to tom and bonnie for their support of the institute and for endowing the fletcher series. [applause] its my pleasure to introduce our speakers and thank them for being here. First, to is rob portman, rob is a former u. S. Senator from ohio, distinguished fellow ohio, distd siting fellow at the american in Price Institute American Enterprise institute. His career spans three decades including three president ial administrations and two terms in the United States senate and six terms in the United States house of representatives. Thank you, senator portman, for being with us. [applause] to senator portmans right is cec