2020 - 2021 Meetings
The Old Guard's 79th Year
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10:15 a.m. - Sept 9
Virtual
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
Virtual
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Ralph Widner
Title
Rodney Priestley
Vice Dean for Innovation, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. - Sept 23
Virtual
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
Virtual
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
Virtual
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Bernie Miller
How Crisis Accelerates Technology Change
Arun Sundarajan
Professor of Entrepreneurship, New York University
10:15 a.m. - Oct 14
Virtual
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
Virtual
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Ruth Miller
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
Virtual
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Andrew Littauer
Walking Backwards
John Koethe
Poet
10:15 a.m. – Nov 4
Virtual
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Peter Epstein
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Lynne Olson
Author, Historian, Journalist
10:15 a.m. - Nov 11
Virtual
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
Second Amendment: History and Current Issues
Philip Carchman
Presiding Judge, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, Retired
10:15 a.m. - Nov 18
Virtual
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
Virtual
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
Virtual
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
Virtual
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
Virtual
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Ralph Widner
Title
Rodney Priestley
Vice Dean for Innovation, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. - Sept 23
Virtual
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
Virtual
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
Virtual
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Bernie Miller
How Crisis Accelerates Technology Change
Arun Sundarajan
Professor of Entrepreneurship, New York University
10:15 a.m. - Oct 14
Virtual
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
Virtual
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Ruth Miller
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
Virtual
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Andrew Littauer
Walking Backwards
John Koethe
Poet
10:15 a.m. – Nov 4
Virtual
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Peter Epstein
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Lynne Olson
Author, Historian, Journalist
10:15 a.m. - Nov 11
Virtual
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
Second Amendment: History and Current Issues
Philip Carchman
Presiding Judge, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, Retired
10:15 a.m. - Nov 18
Virtual
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
Virtual
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
Virtual
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
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