2020 - 2021 Meetings
The Old Guard's 79th Year
Please Click on Links for Meeting Minutes
10:15 a.m. - Sept 9
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Julia Coale
The 2020 Presidential Election in Historical Context
Julian Zelizer
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. - Sept 16
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Ralph Widner
The Convergence of Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at Princeton
Rodney Priestley
Vice Dean for Innovation, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. - Sept 23
Introducer: John Cotton
Minutes: Charlie Ganoe
Xi for life? What does it mean for China and the World?
Rory Truex
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs,
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Sept 30
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Marue Walizer
Biographies of a Book: Writing the History of Gutenberg's Bible
Eric White
Curator of Rare Books, Firestone Library, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. - Oct 7
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Bernie Miller
How Crisis Accelerates Technology Change
Arun Sundararajan
Professor of Entrepreneurship, New York University
10:15 a.m. - Oct 14
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Jock McFarlane
Crisis in the Red Zone:
The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak, and the Outbreaks to Come
Richard Preston
Author
10:15 a.m. - Oct 21
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Owen Leach
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography
Katherine Bussard
Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum
10:15 a.m. – Oct 28
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Andrew Littauer
Walking Backwards
John Koethe
Poet
10:15 a.m. – Nov 4
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Peter Epstein
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Lynne Olson
Author, Historian, Journalist
10:15 a.m. - Nov 11
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Rob Fraser
Second Amendment: History and Current Issues
Philip Carchman
Presiding Judge, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, Retired
10:15 a.m. - Nov 18
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Welmoet van Kammen
Winging It: America's Earliest Avian Artists
Laura Berlik
Docent at the Princeton University Art Museum, Birder, Art Teacher, Art Therapist, Painter
Nov 25
No Meeting
10:15 a.m. - Dec 2
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Larry Hans
Comparative Employment Discrimination
Tanya Hernandez
Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law, School of Law, Fordham University
10:15 a.m. - Dec 9
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Priscilla Roosevelt
Soviet Things and Post-Soviet People: How to Remember the Communist Past
Serguei Oushakine
Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Jan 6
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Martin Schneiderman
The Falcon Thief:
A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
Josh Hammer
Former Newsweek Bureau Chief and Correspondent in Africa and the Middle East
10:15 a.m. – Jan 13
Intro: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Richard Fenn
Title: Racism, Selfishness, and the Crisis of American Democracy
Eddie Glaude
Chair, Dept. of African American Studies,
Professor of Religion, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Jan 20
INAUGURATION DAY
Intro: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Ruth Miller
American Ozymandias--the Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Henry Von Kohorn
10:15 a.m. – Jan 27
Intro: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Len Berlik
A Conversation with Bret Stephens
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
10:15 a.m. – Feb 3
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Ralph Widner
The New Reality at the Mexico-U.S. Border
Douglas Massey
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Feb 10
Introducer: Nancy Beck
Minutes: Anne Seltzer
Sounds of Solace
Simon Morrison
Professor of Music, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Feb 17
Intro: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
Life with Senator John McCain
Mark Salter
Author, confidant, and political adviser to the late Senator
10:15 a.m. – Feb 24
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Julie Denny
Everyday Allegories: Quotidian Subjects and Contemporary Art in the Middle East
Mitra Abbaspour
Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum
10:15 am – March 3
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Lois Shindelman
Update on the Coronavirus: The Road Ahead
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior VP & Director Global Health Policy Center,
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
10:15 a.m. – Mar 10
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Kathryn Trenner
A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter
Clare McHugh
Newspaper Reporter, Magazine Editor, Author
10:15 a.m. – Mar 17
Introducer: Micky Weyeneth
Minutes: Jeff Tener
Deaths of Despair and The Future of Capitalism
Sir Angus Deaton
Senior Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
and Anne Case
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Mar 24
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Bernie Shull
Love from Six Feet Apart: Telling Stories from the Pandemic
Joe Richman
Ferris Professor of Journalism,
Founder and Executive Producer of Radio Diaries
10:15 a.m. – Mar 31
Intro: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Patti Daley
Writing History with a Photograph: Fort Laramie, 1868
Martha Sandweiss
Professor of History, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Apr 7
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Jock McFarlane
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
Author, Member of the American Institute of Physics Foundation
10:15 a.m. – Apr 14
Introducer: Marge D'Amico
Minutes: Larry Hans
Getting to Zero: What Will It Take to Decarbonize Electricity?
Jesse Jenkins
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment
10:15 a.m. – Apr 21
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Anne Florey
Restitution and the Art Industry
Chika Okeke-Agulu
Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Apr 28
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Jane Silverman
What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Donovan Moore
Author, journalist, television reporter/producer
10:15 a.m. – May 5
Introducer: BFG Graham
Lynn Johnston
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World
Radcliffe Edmonds
Professor of Greek, Chair of the Dept. of Latin, Greek and Classical Studies,
Bryn Mawr College
10:15 a.m. – May 12
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: George Bustin
The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
R. Daniel Kelemen
Professor of Political Science and Law,
Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Politics, Rutgers University
10:15 a.m. – May 19
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: David Vilkomerson
The WEIRDEST People in the World: How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous
Joseph Henrich
Chair, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Julia Coale
The 2020 Presidential Election in Historical Context
Julian Zelizer
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. - Sept 16
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Ralph Widner
The Convergence of Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at Princeton
Rodney Priestley
Vice Dean for Innovation, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. - Sept 23
Introducer: John Cotton
Minutes: Charlie Ganoe
Xi for life? What does it mean for China and the World?
Rory Truex
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs,
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Sept 30
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Marue Walizer
Biographies of a Book: Writing the History of Gutenberg's Bible
Eric White
Curator of Rare Books, Firestone Library, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. - Oct 7
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Bernie Miller
How Crisis Accelerates Technology Change
Arun Sundararajan
Professor of Entrepreneurship, New York University
10:15 a.m. - Oct 14
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Jock McFarlane
Crisis in the Red Zone:
The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak, and the Outbreaks to Come
Richard Preston
Author
10:15 a.m. - Oct 21
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Owen Leach
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography
Katherine Bussard
Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum
10:15 a.m. – Oct 28
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Andrew Littauer
Walking Backwards
John Koethe
Poet
10:15 a.m. – Nov 4
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Peter Epstein
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Lynne Olson
Author, Historian, Journalist
10:15 a.m. - Nov 11
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Rob Fraser
Second Amendment: History and Current Issues
Philip Carchman
Presiding Judge, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, Retired
10:15 a.m. - Nov 18
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Welmoet van Kammen
Winging It: America's Earliest Avian Artists
Laura Berlik
Docent at the Princeton University Art Museum, Birder, Art Teacher, Art Therapist, Painter
Nov 25
No Meeting
10:15 a.m. - Dec 2
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Larry Hans
Comparative Employment Discrimination
Tanya Hernandez
Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law, School of Law, Fordham University
10:15 a.m. - Dec 9
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Priscilla Roosevelt
Soviet Things and Post-Soviet People: How to Remember the Communist Past
Serguei Oushakine
Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Jan 6
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Martin Schneiderman
The Falcon Thief:
A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
Josh Hammer
Former Newsweek Bureau Chief and Correspondent in Africa and the Middle East
10:15 a.m. – Jan 13
Intro: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Richard Fenn
Title: Racism, Selfishness, and the Crisis of American Democracy
Eddie Glaude
Chair, Dept. of African American Studies,
Professor of Religion, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Jan 20
INAUGURATION DAY
Intro: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Ruth Miller
American Ozymandias--the Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Henry Von Kohorn
10:15 a.m. – Jan 27
Intro: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Len Berlik
A Conversation with Bret Stephens
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
10:15 a.m. – Feb 3
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Ralph Widner
The New Reality at the Mexico-U.S. Border
Douglas Massey
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Feb 10
Introducer: Nancy Beck
Minutes: Anne Seltzer
Sounds of Solace
Simon Morrison
Professor of Music, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Feb 17
Intro: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
Life with Senator John McCain
Mark Salter
Author, confidant, and political adviser to the late Senator
10:15 a.m. – Feb 24
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Julie Denny
Everyday Allegories: Quotidian Subjects and Contemporary Art in the Middle East
Mitra Abbaspour
Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum
10:15 am – March 3
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Lois Shindelman
Update on the Coronavirus: The Road Ahead
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior VP & Director Global Health Policy Center,
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
10:15 a.m. – Mar 10
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Kathryn Trenner
A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter
Clare McHugh
Newspaper Reporter, Magazine Editor, Author
10:15 a.m. – Mar 17
Introducer: Micky Weyeneth
Minutes: Jeff Tener
Deaths of Despair and The Future of Capitalism
Sir Angus Deaton
Senior Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
and Anne Case
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Mar 24
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Bernie Shull
Love from Six Feet Apart: Telling Stories from the Pandemic
Joe Richman
Ferris Professor of Journalism,
Founder and Executive Producer of Radio Diaries
10:15 a.m. – Mar 31
Intro: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Patti Daley
Writing History with a Photograph: Fort Laramie, 1868
Martha Sandweiss
Professor of History, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Apr 7
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Jock McFarlane
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
Author, Member of the American Institute of Physics Foundation
10:15 a.m. – Apr 14
Introducer: Marge D'Amico
Minutes: Larry Hans
Getting to Zero: What Will It Take to Decarbonize Electricity?
Jesse Jenkins
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment
10:15 a.m. – Apr 21
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Anne Florey
Restitution and the Art Industry
Chika Okeke-Agulu
Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Apr 28
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Jane Silverman
What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Donovan Moore
Author, journalist, television reporter/producer
10:15 a.m. – May 5
Introducer: BFG Graham
Lynn Johnston
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World
Radcliffe Edmonds
Professor of Greek, Chair of the Dept. of Latin, Greek and Classical Studies,
Bryn Mawr College
10:15 a.m. – May 12
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: George Bustin
The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
R. Daniel Kelemen
Professor of Political Science and Law,
Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Politics, Rutgers University
10:15 a.m. – May 19
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: David Vilkomerson
The WEIRDEST People in the World: How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous
Joseph Henrich
Chair, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
How to Search the Old Guard Minutes
Use the search feature at the bottom of each page to locate topics of interest or speakers in Old Guard minutes (from 2005 to the present).
Type a keyword (e.g., France) or a phrase in quotation marks (e.g., "Rue des Martyrs")
and click on the magnifying glass (or hit the Enter key).
A list of pages containing your search word or phrase will appear on a new page.
Click on each page's link to read the complete minutes from that date.
Note: Without quotation marks surrounding a phrase, pages containing any of the words in that phrase will be listed.
Type a keyword (e.g., France) or a phrase in quotation marks (e.g., "Rue des Martyrs")
and click on the magnifying glass (or hit the Enter key).
A list of pages containing your search word or phrase will appear on a new page.
Click on each page's link to read the complete minutes from that date.
Note: Without quotation marks surrounding a phrase, pages containing any of the words in that phrase will be listed.