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the old guard of princeton

2008-2009 Meetings

The Old Guard's 67th Year

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September 17
Introducer: Jim Johnson
Speaker: Julien E. Zelizer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
"The Election of 2008 in Historical Perspective"

September 24
Introducer: Bob Varrin
Speaker: Danielle Allen, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
"Anonymous: On Democracy and Discourse in the Internet Age"

October 1
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Robert L. Hutchings, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
"A National Security Strategy for the New President"

October 8
Introducer: Rosemary O’Brien
Speaker: Lavinia Hall, Mediator and Conflict Consultant
"Creating a Positive Future: in Zimbabwe, 2008"

October 15
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Sophie G. Gee, Department of English, Princeton
"Fact into Fiction: How I Wrote The “Scandal of the Season"

October 22
Introducer: Joe Bolster
Speaker: Roger S. Berlind, Active Broadway Producer
"Mostly Theater"

October 29 
Introducer: George Hansen
Speaker: Edward W. Felten, Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton
"Will My Vote Be Counted?  Correctly?"

November 5
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Richard Leone, President, The Century Foundation
"The Morning After: Was It Worth the Effort"

November 12
Introducer: David Dodge
Speaker: John Waterbury, Past President of American University in Beirut 
"Higher Education in the Middle East"

November 19
Introducer: Jim Johnson
Speaker: Christopher P. Heuer, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton
"Dutch Paintings and Their Afterlives"

November 26      
Thanksgiving Break

December 3
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: David N. Spergel, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton
"The New Cosmology"

December 10
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: Jeff Nathanson, Executive Director, Arts Council of Princeton
"Balancing Act: Contemporary Arts in Princeton"

December 17
Introducer: Ben Colbert
Speaker: Thomas J. Espenshade, Department of Sociology, Princeton
"Affirmative Action at Elite Colleges and Universities"

January 7
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: James Kelly, Managing Editor, Time, Inc., Professor of Journalism, Princeton
"Obama and the Press: When Will the Honeymoon End?"

January 14
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Sean Wilentz, Professor of History, Princeton
"Reflections on the Age of Reagan"

January 21
Introducer: Dick Hanson
Speaker: John Haldon, Professor of History and Hellenic Studies, Princeton
"The Avkat Archaeological Project in Turkey: Landscapes and Resources"

Jan 28
Meeting canceled because of snow

February 4
Introducer: Bob Varrin
Speaker: Raymond Close, Retired CIA, Middle East Specialist
"A New and Different Culture of Foreign Policy?"

February 11
Introducer: Henry King
Speaker: George Hamilton, President, Institute for Sustainable Communities
"Community Based Climate Change Initiatives in China and the U.S."

February 18
Introducer: Jim Johnson
Speaker: Arthur Levine, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
"Who Will Teach Our Children?"

February 25
Introducer: Joe Bolster
Speaker: Neil Rudenstine, Former President, Harvard University
"American and International Higher Education: is There a Crisis?"

March 4
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: Marcia Van Dyck and Virginia Kerr, ABC Prison Literacy, Princeton, NJ
"Behind Bars but Still Human: Meeting the Educational Needs of Prisoners"

March  11
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Speaker: Bart Gellman, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Correspondent, The Washington Post, and author of Recent Book on Cheney.
"What 'Renegade' is Learning from 'Angler': Obama and the Cheney Inheritance"

March 18
Introducer: Ruth Miller                       
Speaker: Larry Bartels, Professor, Woodrow   Wilson School, Princeton
"Unequal Democracy"

March 25
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Philip Pettit, Professor of Politics and  Center for Human Values, Princeton
"How Scholarship Has Influenced Democracy in Spain"

April 1
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Professor Harold Feiveson, Woodrow Wilson School
"Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Proliferation"

April 8
Introducer: Dick Hanson
Speaker: Jim Wickenden, President Wickenden Associates, Princeton, NJ
"College Admissions"

April 15
Introducer: Henry King
Speaker: Anastasia Vrachnos, Executive Director, Princeton-in-Asia
"Princeton in Asia: 110 Years of Service in Asia"

April 22
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Kathy Kiely, Ferris Visiting Professor of Journalism, Princeton
"Journalism at a Crossroads: What the Demise of Newsprint and the Rise of Online Publishing Mean for Civic Discourse"

April 29
Introducer: John Harper
Speaker: James McPherson, Professor of American History, Emeritus, Princeton
"Lincoln and the West"

May 6
Introducer: John Schmidt
Speaker: Robert Peck, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
"The Discovery of the Gorilla and its Impact on Society: From Darwinian "Link" to King Kong"

May 13
Introducer: Joe Giordmaine
Speaker: Ron Weiss, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton
"Synthetic Biology: From Programming Bacteria to Programming Stem Cells"

May 20
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Ron McCoy, University Architect, Princeton
"Gehry at Princeton: New Science Library for New Learning"

​May 27
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Jerome Silbergeld, Professor of Art History, Princeton
"Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art
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