2016-2017 Meetings
The Old Guard's 75th Year
The Old Guard's 75th Year
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September 14
Speaker: Marna Seltzer, Director, Princeton University Concerts
"Reimagining Classical Music in the 21st Century"
September 21
Speakers: Heather Smith and Beth Allan, Co-Curators, the Lindbergh Exhibit, Morven
"Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Celebrity Couple Reexamined"
September 28
Speaker: Thomas J. Christensen, Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
"The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power"
October 5
Speaker: Mollie Marcoux, Ford Family Director of Athletics, Princeton University
"Princeton Athletics -- Achieving, Serving and Leading!"
October 12
Speaker: Alexander Nehamas, interviewed by Landon Jones
Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
"On Friendship"
October 19
Speaker: Stacey Sinclair, Associate Professor of Psychology and African American Studies, Princeton
"Prejudice in the Blink of an Eye: The Science of Racial Bias"
October 26
Speaker: Wayne Pacelle, President, and CEO, Humane Society of the United States
"The Humane Economy and Building Momentum for Animal Protection"
November 2
Speaker: Brett Bonfield, Executive Director, Princeton Public Library
"Princeton Public Library and its Role in the Future of Libraries"
November 9
Speaker: Kate McCleery, Visiting Professor of Journalism, Princeton University
"Covering the 2016 Presidential Campaign"
November 16
Speaker: Elaine Showalter, Professor of English, Emeritus, Princeton University
"The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe"
Nov. 23
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break
November 30
Speaker: Joan Ruderman, Visiting Senior Biologist at Princeton University
"Hormonally Active Pollutants: What Are They, Where Do They Come From and What Can They Do?"
December 7
Speaker: Michael Woodl Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, Princeton University
"Hitchcock Revisited"
December 14
Speaker: Patrick McDonnell, Author and illustrator of the comic strip “Mutts” and many books
"The Art and Craft of Cartoon Illustration"
January 4
Speaker: Simon Morrison, Professor of Music, Princeton University
"Bolshoi Confidential"
January 11
Speaker: Pia de Jong, Author, Saving Charlotte (W.W. Norton, July 2017)
"A Mother and the Power of Intuition"
January 18
Speaker: Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
"You Can Check Out but You Cannot Leave: Why Brexit Cannot Occur"
January 25
Speaker: Yu Xie, Director, Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University
Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology and
the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
"Chinese Exceptionalism Resisted: 'Special Characteristics' of Chinese Society Today"
February 1
Speaker: Stacy E. Wolf, Professor of Theater; Director, Program in Music Theater; Princeton University
"Hamilton and American Musical Theater"
February 8
Speaker: Bill Wakefield, Chair of the Presbytery of the New Brunswick’s Mass Incarceration Task Force
"Mass Incarceration: Through a 2017 Lens"
February 15
Speaker: Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"Do Protests Matter? Evidence From the 1960s Black Insurgency"
February 22
Speaker: Janet Currie, Chair, Department of Economics, Princeton University
"Inequality in Mortality Over the Life Course: Why Things Are Not as Bad as You Think"
March 1
Speaker: Elaine Sciolino, Visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University
"The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs"
March 8
Speaker: Ronald G. Nahass, M.D., and Kathleen Seneca, APN, Infectious Disease Medicine
"Heroin and Hepatitis C: A Major Problem for the USA and New Jersey"
March 15
The Evolution of Animal Body Plans
Michael Levine, Professor and Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
March 22
"Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation
Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University
March 29
Not Your Father’s Drums
SŌ PERCUSSION, Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence, Department of Music, Princeton.
April 5
What Works in Education? Lessons From Charter Schools
Will Dobbie, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
April 12
Democracy for Realists
Christopher Achen, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Politics, Princeton
April 19
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study
April 26
Critic in the Musical Ecosystem
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, Classical Music Critic, New York Times
May 3
Mr. Boswell Goes to Corsica: Charismatic Authority in the Age of Revolutions
David Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions; Professor of History, Princeton University
May 10
The State of the Humanities
Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion and Chair of the Council of the Humanities,
Princeton University
May 17
Thinking About Genetics: History and Contemporary Issues
Harold Shapiro. President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Speaker: Marna Seltzer, Director, Princeton University Concerts
"Reimagining Classical Music in the 21st Century"
September 21
Speakers: Heather Smith and Beth Allan, Co-Curators, the Lindbergh Exhibit, Morven
"Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Celebrity Couple Reexamined"
September 28
Speaker: Thomas J. Christensen, Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
"The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power"
October 5
Speaker: Mollie Marcoux, Ford Family Director of Athletics, Princeton University
"Princeton Athletics -- Achieving, Serving and Leading!"
October 12
Speaker: Alexander Nehamas, interviewed by Landon Jones
Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
"On Friendship"
October 19
Speaker: Stacey Sinclair, Associate Professor of Psychology and African American Studies, Princeton
"Prejudice in the Blink of an Eye: The Science of Racial Bias"
October 26
Speaker: Wayne Pacelle, President, and CEO, Humane Society of the United States
"The Humane Economy and Building Momentum for Animal Protection"
November 2
Speaker: Brett Bonfield, Executive Director, Princeton Public Library
"Princeton Public Library and its Role in the Future of Libraries"
November 9
Speaker: Kate McCleery, Visiting Professor of Journalism, Princeton University
"Covering the 2016 Presidential Campaign"
November 16
Speaker: Elaine Showalter, Professor of English, Emeritus, Princeton University
"The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe"
Nov. 23
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break
November 30
Speaker: Joan Ruderman, Visiting Senior Biologist at Princeton University
"Hormonally Active Pollutants: What Are They, Where Do They Come From and What Can They Do?"
December 7
Speaker: Michael Woodl Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, Princeton University
"Hitchcock Revisited"
December 14
Speaker: Patrick McDonnell, Author and illustrator of the comic strip “Mutts” and many books
"The Art and Craft of Cartoon Illustration"
January 4
Speaker: Simon Morrison, Professor of Music, Princeton University
"Bolshoi Confidential"
January 11
Speaker: Pia de Jong, Author, Saving Charlotte (W.W. Norton, July 2017)
"A Mother and the Power of Intuition"
January 18
Speaker: Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
"You Can Check Out but You Cannot Leave: Why Brexit Cannot Occur"
January 25
Speaker: Yu Xie, Director, Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University
Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology and
the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
"Chinese Exceptionalism Resisted: 'Special Characteristics' of Chinese Society Today"
February 1
Speaker: Stacy E. Wolf, Professor of Theater; Director, Program in Music Theater; Princeton University
"Hamilton and American Musical Theater"
February 8
Speaker: Bill Wakefield, Chair of the Presbytery of the New Brunswick’s Mass Incarceration Task Force
"Mass Incarceration: Through a 2017 Lens"
February 15
Speaker: Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"Do Protests Matter? Evidence From the 1960s Black Insurgency"
February 22
Speaker: Janet Currie, Chair, Department of Economics, Princeton University
"Inequality in Mortality Over the Life Course: Why Things Are Not as Bad as You Think"
March 1
Speaker: Elaine Sciolino, Visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University
"The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs"
March 8
Speaker: Ronald G. Nahass, M.D., and Kathleen Seneca, APN, Infectious Disease Medicine
"Heroin and Hepatitis C: A Major Problem for the USA and New Jersey"
March 15
The Evolution of Animal Body Plans
Michael Levine, Professor and Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
March 22
"Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation
Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University
March 29
Not Your Father’s Drums
SŌ PERCUSSION, Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence, Department of Music, Princeton.
April 5
What Works in Education? Lessons From Charter Schools
Will Dobbie, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
April 12
Democracy for Realists
Christopher Achen, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Politics, Princeton
April 19
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study
April 26
Critic in the Musical Ecosystem
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, Classical Music Critic, New York Times
May 3
Mr. Boswell Goes to Corsica: Charismatic Authority in the Age of Revolutions
David Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions; Professor of History, Princeton University
May 10
The State of the Humanities
Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion and Chair of the Council of the Humanities,
Princeton University
May 17
Thinking About Genetics: History and Contemporary Issues
Harold Shapiro. President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
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