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the old guard of princeton
2021 - 2022 Meetings

The Old Guard's 80th Year
Please Click on Links for Meeting Minutes
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
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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

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