2024 - 2025 Meetings
The Old Guard's 83th Year
The Old Guard's 83th Year
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Sept 11
How to Restore Ancient Texts Using Human and Artificial Intelligence
Barbara Graziosi
Professor of Classics, Princeton University
Sept 18
My Career as a Journalist
Razia Iqbal
Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University, Chief Anchor BBC News
Sept 25
History of Jugtown
Clifford Zink
Historian and Preservationist specializing in architectural, industrial and landscape history
Oct 2
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Gary Bass
Boswell Professor of Politics and World Affairs at Princeton, author of Judgment at Tokyo
Oct 9
How We Age: The Science of Longevity: Can We Stay Young Longer?
Coleen T. Murphy
Princeton University Professor of Molecular Biology; Director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research
Oct 16
A Pivot Point for U.S. Democracy: 2024 and Beyond
Sam Wang
Princeton Professor of Neuroscience Electoral Innovation Lab
Oct 23
Economics of Higher Education
Zach Bleemer
Princeton University Professor of Economics
Oct 30
U.S. Women in the Great War: Nurses, Correspondents, Telephone Operators
James Hockenberry
American Journalist and Author
Nov 6
Election 2024:What Just Happened? And What Does it Mean?
Nolan McCarty
Susan Dodd Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Nov 13
What happened to our constitutional democracy on November 5th?
Stanley N. Katz
Lecturer with rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs; Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Nov 20
Immigration and American Exceptionalism
Robert P. George
Princeton University McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
Dec 4
Music and Healing in Science and Practice
Elizabeth Margulis, Princeton Professor and Director of the Music Cognition Lab
and
Dasha Koltunyuk, Outreach Manager, Princeton University Concerts
Dec 11
The Art of Discovery in Renaissance Europe:
How Scholars and Artists Learned to Dig into their Pasts
Anthony Grafton
Henry Putnam Princeton University Professor of History
Jan 8
The Education of the Ambitious Soul
Shilo Brooks
Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in the Department of Politics.
Jan 15
Lessons from the Edge
Marie Yovanovitch
Diplomat in residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, former Ambassador to Ukraine
Jan 22
AI Snake Oil
Arvind Narayanan
Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and Director of Its Center for Information Technology Policy
Jan 29
125 Years of the Princeton Alumni Weekly: Then, Now and the Future
Peter Barzilai, Editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly
and
Mark Bernstein, Senior Writer at the Princeton Alumni Weeklys
Feb 5
A Conversation about Climate Intervention Strategies: The Work Ahead
Emily Carter
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Feb 12
Meeting cancelled due to inclement weather
Feb 19
Research at Princeton: How It Is Run and How It Operates
Peter Schiffer
Princeton University Dean for Research and Innovation;
Class of 1909 Professor of Physics; and Vice President for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Feb 26
The Future Role of Conservation at the Princeton University Art Museum
Bart Devolder
Chief Conservator of the Princeton University Art Museum
Mar 5
Cuba: An American History
Ada Ferrer
Professor of History at Princeton University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cuba: An American History
Mar 12
Accountability in an Era of Impunity
Deborah Amos
Former international correspondent for ABC, PBS and NPR and Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence to Princeton University.
Mar 19
War and the American Worker
Ilyana Kuziemko
Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Mar 26
Can the US Metropolitan Regions Decarbonize by 2050? Strategies and Pathways
Anu Ramaswami
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Princeton University
Apr 2
Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth -Century Bestiary
Thomas Kennan
Princeton University Librarian for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies and
Deborah Schlein
Princeton University Librarian for Near Eastern Studies
Apr 9
Community-Centered Healthcare: Meeting Evolving Needs in Princeton
Jim Demetriades
CEO of Penn Medicine Princeton Health
Apr 16
The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson and the Extraordinary Collaboration that Won WWII
Edward Farley Aldrich
Author of “The Partnership: George Marshall and Henry Stimson and the Extraordinary Collaboration that Won WW II”
Apr 23
Guardians of Justice: The Evolving Reputation and Ethics of the United States Supreme Court
Phil Carchman
Retired Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, the Appellate Division, and the Administrative Director of Courts
Apr 30
Reflections on the Current Revolution Against Modernity
Stan Katz
Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.
May 7
Albert Einstein: Defender for Racial Justice
Elizabeth Romanaux
Founder and Project Director, Princeton Einstein Museum of Science
May 14
Speculation Nation: Land Speculation in the American Revolutionary Era
Michael Blaakman
Associate Professor of History at Princeton University
May 21
Princeton University’s New Humanities Initiatives
Rachael DeLue
Chair of the Arts and Archeology Department at Princeton University
How to Restore Ancient Texts Using Human and Artificial Intelligence
Barbara Graziosi
Professor of Classics, Princeton University
Sept 18
My Career as a Journalist
Razia Iqbal
Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University, Chief Anchor BBC News
Sept 25
History of Jugtown
Clifford Zink
Historian and Preservationist specializing in architectural, industrial and landscape history
Oct 2
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Gary Bass
Boswell Professor of Politics and World Affairs at Princeton, author of Judgment at Tokyo
Oct 9
How We Age: The Science of Longevity: Can We Stay Young Longer?
Coleen T. Murphy
Princeton University Professor of Molecular Biology; Director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research
Oct 16
A Pivot Point for U.S. Democracy: 2024 and Beyond
Sam Wang
Princeton Professor of Neuroscience Electoral Innovation Lab
Oct 23
Economics of Higher Education
Zach Bleemer
Princeton University Professor of Economics
Oct 30
U.S. Women in the Great War: Nurses, Correspondents, Telephone Operators
James Hockenberry
American Journalist and Author
Nov 6
Election 2024:What Just Happened? And What Does it Mean?
Nolan McCarty
Susan Dodd Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Nov 13
What happened to our constitutional democracy on November 5th?
Stanley N. Katz
Lecturer with rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs; Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Nov 20
Immigration and American Exceptionalism
Robert P. George
Princeton University McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
Dec 4
Music and Healing in Science and Practice
Elizabeth Margulis, Princeton Professor and Director of the Music Cognition Lab
and
Dasha Koltunyuk, Outreach Manager, Princeton University Concerts
Dec 11
The Art of Discovery in Renaissance Europe:
How Scholars and Artists Learned to Dig into their Pasts
Anthony Grafton
Henry Putnam Princeton University Professor of History
Jan 8
The Education of the Ambitious Soul
Shilo Brooks
Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in the Department of Politics.
Jan 15
Lessons from the Edge
Marie Yovanovitch
Diplomat in residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, former Ambassador to Ukraine
Jan 22
AI Snake Oil
Arvind Narayanan
Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and Director of Its Center for Information Technology Policy
Jan 29
125 Years of the Princeton Alumni Weekly: Then, Now and the Future
Peter Barzilai, Editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly
and
Mark Bernstein, Senior Writer at the Princeton Alumni Weeklys
Feb 5
A Conversation about Climate Intervention Strategies: The Work Ahead
Emily Carter
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Feb 12
Meeting cancelled due to inclement weather
Feb 19
Research at Princeton: How It Is Run and How It Operates
Peter Schiffer
Princeton University Dean for Research and Innovation;
Class of 1909 Professor of Physics; and Vice President for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Feb 26
The Future Role of Conservation at the Princeton University Art Museum
Bart Devolder
Chief Conservator of the Princeton University Art Museum
Mar 5
Cuba: An American History
Ada Ferrer
Professor of History at Princeton University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cuba: An American History
Mar 12
Accountability in an Era of Impunity
Deborah Amos
Former international correspondent for ABC, PBS and NPR and Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence to Princeton University.
Mar 19
War and the American Worker
Ilyana Kuziemko
Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Mar 26
Can the US Metropolitan Regions Decarbonize by 2050? Strategies and Pathways
Anu Ramaswami
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Princeton University
Apr 2
Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth -Century Bestiary
Thomas Kennan
Princeton University Librarian for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies and
Deborah Schlein
Princeton University Librarian for Near Eastern Studies
Apr 9
Community-Centered Healthcare: Meeting Evolving Needs in Princeton
Jim Demetriades
CEO of Penn Medicine Princeton Health
Apr 16
The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson and the Extraordinary Collaboration that Won WWII
Edward Farley Aldrich
Author of “The Partnership: George Marshall and Henry Stimson and the Extraordinary Collaboration that Won WW II”
Apr 23
Guardians of Justice: The Evolving Reputation and Ethics of the United States Supreme Court
Phil Carchman
Retired Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, the Appellate Division, and the Administrative Director of Courts
Apr 30
Reflections on the Current Revolution Against Modernity
Stan Katz
Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.
May 7
Albert Einstein: Defender for Racial Justice
Elizabeth Romanaux
Founder and Project Director, Princeton Einstein Museum of Science
May 14
Speculation Nation: Land Speculation in the American Revolutionary Era
Michael Blaakman
Associate Professor of History at Princeton University
May 21
Princeton University’s New Humanities Initiatives
Rachael DeLue
Chair of the Arts and Archeology Department at Princeton University