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the old guard of princeton

2011-2012 Meetings

The Old Guard's 70th Year

Please Click on Links for Meeting Minutes
September 14
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Martha Sandweiss
​Professor of History, Princeton University
"Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line"

September 21
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Speaker: Nolan McCarty
Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics  Public Affairs, Chair, Department of Politics, Princeton University
"The Polarization of  American Politics"

September 28
Introducer: Don Edwards
Speaker: Maxine Lurie
Professor of History, Seton Hall University 
"Mapping New Jersey"

October 5
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Dorothea von Moltke
Co-owner, Labyrinth Books
"Bookstores and the Fate of Humanities"

October 12
Introducer: George Hansen
Speaker: James D. Murray
Visiting Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
"The Marriage Equation: A practical Theory for Predicting Divorce and a Scientifically-based Marital Theory"

October 19
Introducer: Landon Jones
Robert Hillier, Architect, Chairman, Princeton Chamber of Commerce
"Princeton:Village, Small Town or City?"

October 26
Introducer: Anton Lahnston
Speaker: Joseph Stefko
Director, Public Finance CGR (Center for Government Research)
"The Recommendations for Princeton Borough & Township Consolidation"

November 2
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Speaker: Clifford Zink
Architectural and Industrial Historian
"The Roebling Legacy"

November 9
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Richard Rein, Founder and Editor,
US 1 Newspaper
"Old Truths about the New Media"

November 16
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Gina Kolata
Senior Writer and Medical Reporter, The New York Times
"Recent Results in Alzheimer's Research"

Nov. 23
Thanksgiving Break
 
November 30
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Nannerl Keohane
Laurence S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values
"The Many Faces of Leadership"

December 7
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Daniel Klaidman
Former Managing Editor, Newsweek; Visiting Journalism Professor, Princeton University
"Kill or Capture: How Barack Obama Lost His War on Terror"

December 14
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: The Reverend Canon Joan E. Fleming
Rector Emerita, Christ Episcopal Church, New Brunswick
"A Walk in Time: Pilgrim on the Road to Santiago"

January 4
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Michael Cadden
Acting Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
"Putting the Arts Back Into the Liberal Arts"

January 11
Introducer: Jean Grey
Speaker: Stan Waterman
Pioneer underwater film producer and photographer
"Our World Underwater"

January 18
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Arnold Levine
Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study
"The Benefits of the Human Genome Project"

January 25
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: John Fleming, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Princeton
​"The King James Bible and More"


February 1
Introducer: Nancy Beck
Speaker: Alexandra Radbill
​Director of Development, Your Resource
"Would Sherlock Holmes Use Google?"

February 8
Introducer: Charles Plohn
Speaker: John Wilmerding
Christopher B. Sarofim '86 Professor of American Art, Emeritus, Princeton
"Frederic Church in Maine"

February 15
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Sara McLanahan
William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs,  Princeton
"Fragile Families in the 21st Century"

February 22
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Cecilia Rouse
Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton
"An Update on the Economy: Focusing on Jobs"

February 29
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Robert Irvin
President & CEO, American Rivers
"Rivers Connect Us:  Protecting and Restoring Our Nation’s Rivers"

March 7
Introducer: Nicholas Van Dyck
Speaker: David Miller
Director, Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative
"Business Ethics: Succeeding without Selling Your Soul"

March 14
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Ruth Mandel  
Director, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University
"The Ides of March: Politics in 2012--A Time for Cynicism? Optimism? The Ridiculous?"

March 21
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Jeroen Tromp
Professor of Geosciences and Applied and Computational Mathematics; Blair Professor of Geology, Princeton University
"Earthquakes, Impacts, and Seismic Imaging"

March 28
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Jeffrey Stout
Professor of Religion,  Princeton University
"Blessed are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America"

April 4
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Speaker: Daniel Oppenheimer
Associate Professor of Psychology
Princeton University.
"How Does Reasoning Influence Judgment?"

April 11
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Bernard Haykel
Professor of Near Eastern Studies;  Director, the Transregional Institute
Princeton University
"The Arab Spring: A Year Later"

April 18
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker:Deborah Amos
NPR Correspondent; Visiting Journalism Professor, Princeton University
"Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East"

April 25
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Speaker:Johanna (Jody) Seasonwein
Andrew W. Mellon  Curatorial Fellow for Academic Programs, Princeton University Art Museum
"Princeton and the Gothic Revival: 1870 - 1930"

May 2
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker:Atul Kohli
David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
"The Success of India's Democracy"

May 9
Introducer: Robert Varrin
Speaker:Mark Burstein
Executive Vice President,  Princeton University
"The Evolving Princeton Campus"

May 16
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker:Carolyn Williams
Chair, Department of English,  Rutgers University
"Gilbert & Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody"

May 23
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Speaker: Janet Vertesi
Cotsen Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Lecturer, Sociology Department Princeton University

"Seeing Like a Rover: Images in Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission"

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