2021 - 2022 Meetings
The Old Guard's 80th Year
The Old Guard's 80th Year
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10:15 a.m. - Sept 8
Zoom
Picturing at the Limit, or the Art and Science of Impossible Images
Rachael DeLue
Christopher Binyon Sarofin ’86 Professor in American Art; Professor of Art and Archaeology and American Studies; Chair, Department of Art and Archaeology,
Princeton University
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Christine Danser
10:15 a.m. - Sept 15
Zoom
A World Safe for Democracy
John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs,
Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin:
Minutes: Julie Denny
10:15 a.m. - Sept 22
Zoom
Ticking Clock
Ira Rosen
Two-time Peabody Award-winning Writer and Producer of 60 Minutes
Introducer: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Ralph Widner
10:15 a.m. - Sept 29
Zoom
Letters of T.S. Eliot
Frances Dickey
Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri;
T.S. Eliot Scholar at Princeton University
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Lloyd Gardner
10:15 - Oct 6
Zoom
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
Tracy Campbell
E. Vernon Smith and Eloise C. Smith Professor of American History, University of Kentucky; winner of the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Rob Fraser
10:15 a.m. - Oct 13
Zoom
Fusion Energy to Combat Climate Change
Sir Steven Cowley
Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory;
former CEO of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Bernie Miller
10:15 a.m. - Oct 20
Zoom
The Natural History of Edward Lear
Robert Peck
Author, naturalist, historian and senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences,
Drexel University
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Joan Fleming
10:15 a.m. – Oct 27
Zoom
The Necessity of Utopias
Michael Robertson
Professor of English, The College of New Jersey
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Kathryn Trenner
10:15 a.m. – Nov 3
Zoom
The Joy of History
Allen Guelzo
Senior Research Scholar, Council of the Humanities, James Madison Society Scholar, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
10:15 a.m. - Nov 10
Zoom
Diversity, Equity and Student Activism on Today’s Campuses
Michele Minter
Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity, Princeton University
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Anne Seltzer
10:15 a.m. – Nov 17
Zoom
The Civil War and the Transition to Science-Based Medicine
Randall Krakauer, M.D.
Fellow of the American College of Physicians; Professor of Medicine, Seton Hall University
Introducer: Dan Shapiro
Minutes: Roger Moseley
Nov 24
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break
10:15 a.m. - Dec 1
Zoom
Rodham
Curtis Sittenfeld
Author
Introducer Lanny Jones
Minutes: Michael Mathews
10:15 a.m. - Dec 8
Zoom
The Partition of Ireland 1921-2021
Fintan O’Toole
Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Lecturer in Irish Studies, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Peter Epstein
10:15 a.m. – Jan 5
Zoom
Intro: Richard Trenner
Minutes: Bernard Abramson
Fair Shares: Who Owes What to Whom?
H. Woody Brock
President, Strategic Economic Decisions, Inc.
10:15 a.m. – Jan 12
Zoom
Intro: Bruce Schragger
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
Reflections on Revisionist History
James Banner
Visiting Professor of History, George Washington University;
former Professor, Dept of History, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Jan 19
Zoom
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Priscilla Roosevelt
Covid Takes Center Stage at Richardson Auditorium
Marna Seltzer
Director, Princeton University Concerts
10:15 a.m. – Jan 26
Zoom
Intro: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Julianne Elward-Berry
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Professor of History and of African American Studies, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Feb 2
Zoom
Intro: Christine Danser
Minutes: Marsha Levin-Rojer
A Proud Heritage: The African American Presence in the Sourland Mountain Area and Surrounding Regions of New Jersey
Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills
Authors and Co-founders of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum
10:15 a.m. – Feb 9
Zoom
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: David Vilkomerson
Probable Impossibilities
Alan Lightman
Professor of Physics Emeritus, Professor in the Humanities, MIT
10:15 a.m. – Feb 16
Zoom
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Julie Denny
The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance
Leonard Barkan
Class of 1943 Professor in Comparative Literature, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Feb 23
Zoom
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Helena Bienstock
More Than a One-Day Battle: Revolutionary Princeton 1774-1783
Larry Kidder
Author, Historian of Princeton
10:15 am – March 2
Zoom
Introducer: Dan Shapiro
Minutes: Bernie Miller
What Do Science and Democracy Have to Do with Each Other?
Rush Holt
Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study;
former member U.S. House of Representatives, 12th Congressional District
10:15 a.m. – Mar 9
Zoom
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Rob Coghan
Nessun dorma! Ancient Greece between Dusk and Dawn
Angelos Chaniotis
Professor of Ancient History, Institute for Advanced Study
10:15 a.m. – Mar 16
Zoom
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Anne Seltzer
Seeing the Sourlands
James Amon
Author, Ecologist
10:15 a.m. – Mar 23
Zoom
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: George Bustin
Sidney Poitier and His Fellow All-Stars Who Challenged and Changed the American Film Industry
Wil Haygood
Biographer, Journalist, and Broadway Distinguished Scholar at
Miami University, Ohio
10:15 a.m. – Mar 30
Zoom
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Ruth Miller
Reporting From Repressive Regimes as Authoritarianism Is on the Rise
Barbara Demick
Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times; Author;
Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities Council, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Apr 6
Zoom
Introducer: Greg Dobbs
Minutes: Larry Hans
Major League Baseball: Covering All Bases
Sandy Alderson
President, New York Mets
10:15 a.m. – Apr 13
Zoom
Introducer: John Cotton
Minutes: Herb Kaufmann
Princeton Hospital’s Covid Experience
David Herman MD, FACP
Infectious Disease Specialist
10:15 a.m. – Apr 20
Zoom
Introducer: Len Berlik
Minutes: Barry Breen
China and Xi
Martin Flaherty
Professor, Fordham University Law School, Visiting Professor, Princeton University (2020)
10:15 a.m. – Apr 27
Zoom
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Henry Von Kohorn
The Challenge of Free Speech
Stuart Taylor
Author and Journalist;
Former Columnist for National Journal;
Former Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
10:15 a.m. – May 4
Zoom
Speaker Cancelled
Minutes: Sandra Shapiro
10:15 a.m. – May 11
Zoom
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Bernie Shull
On the Fringe: When Science Meets Pseudo-Science
Michael Gordin
Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – May 18
Zoom
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Lee Gladden
The 25: People, Innovations, and Technology that Define the Modern American Sports Experience
Sam McCleery
Retired Media and Sports Products Executive
Zoom
Picturing at the Limit, or the Art and Science of Impossible Images
Rachael DeLue
Christopher Binyon Sarofin ’86 Professor in American Art; Professor of Art and Archaeology and American Studies; Chair, Department of Art and Archaeology,
Princeton University
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Christine Danser
10:15 a.m. - Sept 15
Zoom
A World Safe for Democracy
John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs,
Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin:
Minutes: Julie Denny
10:15 a.m. - Sept 22
Zoom
Ticking Clock
Ira Rosen
Two-time Peabody Award-winning Writer and Producer of 60 Minutes
Introducer: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Ralph Widner
10:15 a.m. - Sept 29
Zoom
Letters of T.S. Eliot
Frances Dickey
Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri;
T.S. Eliot Scholar at Princeton University
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Lloyd Gardner
10:15 - Oct 6
Zoom
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
Tracy Campbell
E. Vernon Smith and Eloise C. Smith Professor of American History, University of Kentucky; winner of the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Rob Fraser
10:15 a.m. - Oct 13
Zoom
Fusion Energy to Combat Climate Change
Sir Steven Cowley
Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory;
former CEO of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Bernie Miller
10:15 a.m. - Oct 20
Zoom
The Natural History of Edward Lear
Robert Peck
Author, naturalist, historian and senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences,
Drexel University
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Joan Fleming
10:15 a.m. – Oct 27
Zoom
The Necessity of Utopias
Michael Robertson
Professor of English, The College of New Jersey
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Kathryn Trenner
10:15 a.m. – Nov 3
Zoom
The Joy of History
Allen Guelzo
Senior Research Scholar, Council of the Humanities, James Madison Society Scholar, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
10:15 a.m. - Nov 10
Zoom
Diversity, Equity and Student Activism on Today’s Campuses
Michele Minter
Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity, Princeton University
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Anne Seltzer
10:15 a.m. – Nov 17
Zoom
The Civil War and the Transition to Science-Based Medicine
Randall Krakauer, M.D.
Fellow of the American College of Physicians; Professor of Medicine, Seton Hall University
Introducer: Dan Shapiro
Minutes: Roger Moseley
Nov 24
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break
10:15 a.m. - Dec 1
Zoom
Rodham
Curtis Sittenfeld
Author
Introducer Lanny Jones
Minutes: Michael Mathews
10:15 a.m. - Dec 8
Zoom
The Partition of Ireland 1921-2021
Fintan O’Toole
Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Lecturer in Irish Studies, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Peter Epstein
10:15 a.m. – Jan 5
Zoom
Intro: Richard Trenner
Minutes: Bernard Abramson
Fair Shares: Who Owes What to Whom?
H. Woody Brock
President, Strategic Economic Decisions, Inc.
10:15 a.m. – Jan 12
Zoom
Intro: Bruce Schragger
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
Reflections on Revisionist History
James Banner
Visiting Professor of History, George Washington University;
former Professor, Dept of History, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Jan 19
Zoom
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Priscilla Roosevelt
Covid Takes Center Stage at Richardson Auditorium
Marna Seltzer
Director, Princeton University Concerts
10:15 a.m. – Jan 26
Zoom
Intro: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Julianne Elward-Berry
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Professor of History and of African American Studies, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Feb 2
Zoom
Intro: Christine Danser
Minutes: Marsha Levin-Rojer
A Proud Heritage: The African American Presence in the Sourland Mountain Area and Surrounding Regions of New Jersey
Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills
Authors and Co-founders of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum
10:15 a.m. – Feb 9
Zoom
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: David Vilkomerson
Probable Impossibilities
Alan Lightman
Professor of Physics Emeritus, Professor in the Humanities, MIT
10:15 a.m. – Feb 16
Zoom
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Julie Denny
The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance
Leonard Barkan
Class of 1943 Professor in Comparative Literature, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Feb 23
Zoom
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Helena Bienstock
More Than a One-Day Battle: Revolutionary Princeton 1774-1783
Larry Kidder
Author, Historian of Princeton
10:15 am – March 2
Zoom
Introducer: Dan Shapiro
Minutes: Bernie Miller
What Do Science and Democracy Have to Do with Each Other?
Rush Holt
Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study;
former member U.S. House of Representatives, 12th Congressional District
10:15 a.m. – Mar 9
Zoom
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Rob Coghan
Nessun dorma! Ancient Greece between Dusk and Dawn
Angelos Chaniotis
Professor of Ancient History, Institute for Advanced Study
10:15 a.m. – Mar 16
Zoom
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Anne Seltzer
Seeing the Sourlands
James Amon
Author, Ecologist
10:15 a.m. – Mar 23
Zoom
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: George Bustin
Sidney Poitier and His Fellow All-Stars Who Challenged and Changed the American Film Industry
Wil Haygood
Biographer, Journalist, and Broadway Distinguished Scholar at
Miami University, Ohio
10:15 a.m. – Mar 30
Zoom
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Ruth Miller
Reporting From Repressive Regimes as Authoritarianism Is on the Rise
Barbara Demick
Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times; Author;
Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities Council, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – Apr 6
Zoom
Introducer: Greg Dobbs
Minutes: Larry Hans
Major League Baseball: Covering All Bases
Sandy Alderson
President, New York Mets
10:15 a.m. – Apr 13
Zoom
Introducer: John Cotton
Minutes: Herb Kaufmann
Princeton Hospital’s Covid Experience
David Herman MD, FACP
Infectious Disease Specialist
10:15 a.m. – Apr 20
Zoom
Introducer: Len Berlik
Minutes: Barry Breen
China and Xi
Martin Flaherty
Professor, Fordham University Law School, Visiting Professor, Princeton University (2020)
10:15 a.m. – Apr 27
Zoom
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Henry Von Kohorn
The Challenge of Free Speech
Stuart Taylor
Author and Journalist;
Former Columnist for National Journal;
Former Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
10:15 a.m. – May 4
Zoom
Speaker Cancelled
Minutes: Sandra Shapiro
10:15 a.m. – May 11
Zoom
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Bernie Shull
On the Fringe: When Science Meets Pseudo-Science
Michael Gordin
Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
10:15 a.m. – May 18
Zoom
Introducer: Rob Fraser
Minutes: Lee Gladden
The 25: People, Innovations, and Technology that Define the Modern American Sports Experience
Sam McCleery
Retired Media and Sports Products Executive