2022 - 2023 Meetings
The Old Guard's 80th Year
The Old Guard's 80th Year
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9:30 a.m. - Sept 7
Hospitality Time
What’s “New” in The New Princeton Companion
Robert K. Durkee
Vice President and Secretary Emeritus, Princeton University
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Marue Walizer
10:15 a.m. - Sept 14
Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments 1930-2020
Charles Cameron
Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Ralph Widner
10:15 a.m. - Sept 21
An American Urbanist in the Suburban Nation
Richard Rein
Founder of US 1 Magazine, Author
Introducer: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Jock MacFarlane
10:15 a.m. - Sept 28
Arab Spring Ten Years Later
Amaney Jamal
Dean, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes:Tony Glockler
9:30 a.m. - Oct 5
Hospitality Time
Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs
of Upward Mobility
Jennifer Morton
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Ann Schmidt
10:15 a.m. - Oct 12
Wilson, Roosevelt and Addams :
Their Battle over the Decision that Changed the Twentieth Century
Neil Lanctot
American Historian, Author
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
10:15 a.m. - Oct 19
Preservation Architecture Practice Today: Where Teamwork, Technology and Architecture Connect
Annabelle Radcliffe-Trenner AIA, RIBA
Principal, Historic Buildings Architects LLC
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Richard Trenner
10:15 a.m. – Oct 26
Second Revolutions: Thomas Jefferson and the Making
of the Haitian Revolution
James Alexander Dun
Associate Dean, Princeton University
Introducer: Len Berlik
Minutes: Madelaine Shellaby
9:30 a.m. – Nov 2
Hospitality Time
Innovation and Challenge: A Brief Look at Public Art
and Contemporary Sculpture
Thomas Moran
Former Chief Curator at Grounds for Sculpture
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Michele Kent
10:15 a.m. - Nov 9
The Midterm Election and the Future of American Democracy
Nolan McCarty
Professor of Politics and of Public Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Dick Scribner
Minutes: Joan Fleming
10:15 a.m. – Nov 16
Slowing the Ticking Clock: Quantitating “Quality of Life” with Age
Coleen Murphy
Professor of Molecular Biology, Director, Laboratories for Aging Research, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Julie Elward-Berry
Nov 23
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break
10:15 a.m. – Nov 30
Historical Perspectives on the Ukraine War
Harold James
Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Micky Weyeneth
Minutes: Len Berlik
9:30 a.m. - Dec 7
Hospitality Time
Why Collaboration Between the Sciences and Humanities Is Difficult – and So Desperately Needed
David Nirenberg
Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Katherine Trenner
10:15 a.m. – Jan 11
Zoom
The Race to Address Flooding in Princeton: Partnering with the Municipality, the University, and the Watershed Institute
James Waltman and Sophie Glovier
Executive Director and Chief of Operations, The Watershed Institute
Introducer: Richard Trenner
Minutes: Lincoln Hollister
10:15 a.m. – Jan 18
Zoom
Evolution and Darwin’s Finches of the Galapagos Islands
Rosemary and Peter Grant
Evolutionary Biologists
Introducer: Christine Danser
Minutes: Ann Schmidt
10:15 a.m. – Jan. 25
Zoom
Getting China Wrong
Aaron Friedberg
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Donald Light
10:15 a.m. – Feb. 1
Zoom
Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Gene Jarrett
Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Priscilla Roosevelt
10:15 a.m. – Feb. 8
Zoom
Thirteen Months in Dixie, or,
The Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas
Steven Knowlton
Librarian, Department of History and of African American Studies, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Julie Elward-Berry
10:15 a.m. – Feb. 15
Zoom
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton and Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle in Princeton
Stanley Corngold
Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Joan Fleming
10:15 a.m. – Feb. 22
Zoom
Object Lessons in American Art
Karl Kusserow
Wilmerding Curator of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Marsha Levin-Rojer
9:30 am - Mar 1
Hospitality Time
Springdale Golf Club
Some Lessons from American Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Alan Blinder
Former Vice Chair, Federal Reserve; Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Dermot Gately
Minutes: Ralph Widner
10:15 a.m. – Mar 8
Springdale Golf Club
Ancient Stories, Great Floods, and an Atlas to the Future
Dr. Ben Strauss
CEO and Chief Scientist, Climate Central
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Joan Fleming
10:15 a.m. – Mar 15
Springdale Golf Club
“I Want Something to Do”:
Alcott and Whitman in the Washington Hospitals
John Matteson
Distinguished Professor of English, John Jay College, C.U.N.Y.
Introducer: Len Berlik
Minutes: Julie Denny
10:15 a.m. – Mar 22
Springdale Golf Club
I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton
Kathryn (“Kitsi”) Watterson
Journalist; Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Owen Leach
10:15 a.m. – Mar 29
Springdale Golf Club
Analogue in Black and White: A Photographer’s Journey
Andrea Baldeck
Freelance Photographer
Introducer: Richard Trenner
Minutes: Sarah Ringer
9:30 a.m. – Apr 5
Hospitality Time
Springdale Golf Club
Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall and Rise
Dame Linda Colley (OBE)
Shelby M.C. Davis Professor of History, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Jane Silverman
10:15 a.m. – Apr 12
Springdale Golf Club
Celebrity and Its Discontents
Landon Jones
Author, Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers (forthcoming)
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Patti Daley
10:15 a.m. – Apr 19
Springdale Golf Club
Espionage and the Archives: Diaries of Count Ciano
Tilar Mazzeo
Faculty, University of Montreal; New York Times Best-Selling Cultural Historian
Introducer: Sandra Shapiro
Minutes: Peter Epstein
10:15 a.m. – Apr 26
Springdale Golf Club
Frankenstein: The Opera
Gregg Kallor
Composer; Pianist
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Anne Seltzer
10:15 a.m. – May 3
Springdale Golf Club
A Paris for Our Time
Esther DaCosta Meyer
Professor of Art and Architecture, Emerita, Princeton University
Introducer: Nancy Beck
Minutes: Kathryn Trenner
10:15 a.m. – May 10
Springdale Golf Club
The Legacy of Pete Carril
Mitch Henderson
Head Coach, Princeton Men’s Varsity Basketball
Introducer: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Lee Gladden
9:30 a.m. – May 17
Hospitality Time
Springdale Golf Club
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Leah Boustan
Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Introducer: Micky Weyeneth
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
Hospitality Time
What’s “New” in The New Princeton Companion
Robert K. Durkee
Vice President and Secretary Emeritus, Princeton University
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Marue Walizer
10:15 a.m. - Sept 14
Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments 1930-2020
Charles Cameron
Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Ralph Widner
10:15 a.m. - Sept 21
An American Urbanist in the Suburban Nation
Richard Rein
Founder of US 1 Magazine, Author
Introducer: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Jock MacFarlane
10:15 a.m. - Sept 28
Arab Spring Ten Years Later
Amaney Jamal
Dean, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes:Tony Glockler
9:30 a.m. - Oct 5
Hospitality Time
Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs
of Upward Mobility
Jennifer Morton
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Ann Schmidt
10:15 a.m. - Oct 12
Wilson, Roosevelt and Addams :
Their Battle over the Decision that Changed the Twentieth Century
Neil Lanctot
American Historian, Author
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Keith Wheelock
10:15 a.m. - Oct 19
Preservation Architecture Practice Today: Where Teamwork, Technology and Architecture Connect
Annabelle Radcliffe-Trenner AIA, RIBA
Principal, Historic Buildings Architects LLC
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Richard Trenner
10:15 a.m. – Oct 26
Second Revolutions: Thomas Jefferson and the Making
of the Haitian Revolution
James Alexander Dun
Associate Dean, Princeton University
Introducer: Len Berlik
Minutes: Madelaine Shellaby
9:30 a.m. – Nov 2
Hospitality Time
Innovation and Challenge: A Brief Look at Public Art
and Contemporary Sculpture
Thomas Moran
Former Chief Curator at Grounds for Sculpture
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Michele Kent
10:15 a.m. - Nov 9
The Midterm Election and the Future of American Democracy
Nolan McCarty
Professor of Politics and of Public Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Dick Scribner
Minutes: Joan Fleming
10:15 a.m. – Nov 16
Slowing the Ticking Clock: Quantitating “Quality of Life” with Age
Coleen Murphy
Professor of Molecular Biology, Director, Laboratories for Aging Research, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Julie Elward-Berry
Nov 23
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break
10:15 a.m. – Nov 30
Historical Perspectives on the Ukraine War
Harold James
Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Micky Weyeneth
Minutes: Len Berlik
9:30 a.m. - Dec 7
Hospitality Time
Why Collaboration Between the Sciences and Humanities Is Difficult – and So Desperately Needed
David Nirenberg
Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Katherine Trenner
10:15 a.m. – Jan 11
Zoom
The Race to Address Flooding in Princeton: Partnering with the Municipality, the University, and the Watershed Institute
James Waltman and Sophie Glovier
Executive Director and Chief of Operations, The Watershed Institute
Introducer: Richard Trenner
Minutes: Lincoln Hollister
10:15 a.m. – Jan 18
Zoom
Evolution and Darwin’s Finches of the Galapagos Islands
Rosemary and Peter Grant
Evolutionary Biologists
Introducer: Christine Danser
Minutes: Ann Schmidt
10:15 a.m. – Jan. 25
Zoom
Getting China Wrong
Aaron Friedberg
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Donald Light
10:15 a.m. – Feb. 1
Zoom
Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Gene Jarrett
Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Priscilla Roosevelt
10:15 a.m. – Feb. 8
Zoom
Thirteen Months in Dixie, or,
The Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas
Steven Knowlton
Librarian, Department of History and of African American Studies, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Julie Elward-Berry
10:15 a.m. – Feb. 15
Zoom
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton and Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle in Princeton
Stanley Corngold
Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Joan Fleming
10:15 a.m. – Feb. 22
Zoom
Object Lessons in American Art
Karl Kusserow
Wilmerding Curator of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Marsha Levin-Rojer
9:30 am - Mar 1
Hospitality Time
Springdale Golf Club
Some Lessons from American Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Alan Blinder
Former Vice Chair, Federal Reserve; Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Introducer: Dermot Gately
Minutes: Ralph Widner
10:15 a.m. – Mar 8
Springdale Golf Club
Ancient Stories, Great Floods, and an Atlas to the Future
Dr. Ben Strauss
CEO and Chief Scientist, Climate Central
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Joan Fleming
10:15 a.m. – Mar 15
Springdale Golf Club
“I Want Something to Do”:
Alcott and Whitman in the Washington Hospitals
John Matteson
Distinguished Professor of English, John Jay College, C.U.N.Y.
Introducer: Len Berlik
Minutes: Julie Denny
10:15 a.m. – Mar 22
Springdale Golf Club
I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton
Kathryn (“Kitsi”) Watterson
Journalist; Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Introducer: Lanny Jones
Minutes: Owen Leach
10:15 a.m. – Mar 29
Springdale Golf Club
Analogue in Black and White: A Photographer’s Journey
Andrea Baldeck
Freelance Photographer
Introducer: Richard Trenner
Minutes: Sarah Ringer
9:30 a.m. – Apr 5
Hospitality Time
Springdale Golf Club
Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall and Rise
Dame Linda Colley (OBE)
Shelby M.C. Davis Professor of History, Princeton University
Introducer: George Bustin
Minutes: Jane Silverman
10:15 a.m. – Apr 12
Springdale Golf Club
Celebrity and Its Discontents
Landon Jones
Author, Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers (forthcoming)
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Patti Daley
10:15 a.m. – Apr 19
Springdale Golf Club
Espionage and the Archives: Diaries of Count Ciano
Tilar Mazzeo
Faculty, University of Montreal; New York Times Best-Selling Cultural Historian
Introducer: Sandra Shapiro
Minutes: Peter Epstein
10:15 a.m. – Apr 26
Springdale Golf Club
Frankenstein: The Opera
Gregg Kallor
Composer; Pianist
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Anne Seltzer
10:15 a.m. – May 3
Springdale Golf Club
A Paris for Our Time
Esther DaCosta Meyer
Professor of Art and Architecture, Emerita, Princeton University
Introducer: Nancy Beck
Minutes: Kathryn Trenner
10:15 a.m. – May 10
Springdale Golf Club
The Legacy of Pete Carril
Mitch Henderson
Head Coach, Princeton Men’s Varsity Basketball
Introducer: Stephen Schreiber
Minutes: Lee Gladden
9:30 a.m. – May 17
Hospitality Time
Springdale Golf Club
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Leah Boustan
Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Introducer: Micky Weyeneth
Minutes: Keith Wheelock