2025 - 2026 Meetings
The Old Guard's 84th Year
The Old Guard's 84th Year
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Sept 10
A Poetry Reading with Professor Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Award winning American writer and Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at Princeton University
Sept 17
The Second Quantum Revolution
Andrew Houck
Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science and Anthony H.P. Lee '79 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; inaugural co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative.
Sept 24
ArtYard’s Creative Commons
Jill Kearney
Founder and Executive Director of ArtYard, a contemporary art center based in Frenchtown, NJ
Oct 1
Perceptions of Princeton University Among Policy and Political Audiences
Gadi Dechter
Princeton University’s Vice President for Communications and Government Affairs
Oct 8
In COVID’s wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
Steve Macedo
Professor of Politics and the University Center for human Values
Oct 15
The Art and Science of Motorcycle Design
Michael Littman
Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a 25-year Director of Undergraduate Studies in the MAE Department.
Oct 22
The Why, What, and How of Affordable Housing
Edward Truscelli
Executive Director of Princeton Community Housing
and
Merilyn Rovira
Managing Director of Impact Strategies and a Board Member of the Princeton Community Housing Development Corporation Board of Trustees
Oct 29
Looking Back to the Big Bang
Jo Dunkley
British Astrophysicist, member of the Royal Society and Professor Physics at Princeton University
Nov 5
From Haze to Hope: Tackling Air Pollution and Protecting Lung Health in a Changing Climate
Dr. Mary Rice
Director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Respiratory Health
Nov 12
Aspects of Arrogance
Thomas Kelly
Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University
Nov 19
Fitzgerald and Gatsby’s Editors and Publishers
Charles Scribner III
Art Historian, Editor, Lecturer, and a member of the family of publishers who worked closely with F. Scott Fitzgerald throughout his career.
Nov 26
No Meeting, Thanksgiving Week
Dec 3
Who Owns the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination
Ruha Benjamin
Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, 2024 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Award” winner
Dec 10
The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Governments
Kim Scheppele
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
A Poetry Reading with Professor Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Award winning American writer and Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at Princeton University
Sept 17
The Second Quantum Revolution
Andrew Houck
Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science and Anthony H.P. Lee '79 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; inaugural co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative.
Sept 24
ArtYard’s Creative Commons
Jill Kearney
Founder and Executive Director of ArtYard, a contemporary art center based in Frenchtown, NJ
Oct 1
Perceptions of Princeton University Among Policy and Political Audiences
Gadi Dechter
Princeton University’s Vice President for Communications and Government Affairs
Oct 8
In COVID’s wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
Steve Macedo
Professor of Politics and the University Center for human Values
Oct 15
The Art and Science of Motorcycle Design
Michael Littman
Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a 25-year Director of Undergraduate Studies in the MAE Department.
Oct 22
The Why, What, and How of Affordable Housing
Edward Truscelli
Executive Director of Princeton Community Housing
and
Merilyn Rovira
Managing Director of Impact Strategies and a Board Member of the Princeton Community Housing Development Corporation Board of Trustees
Oct 29
Looking Back to the Big Bang
Jo Dunkley
British Astrophysicist, member of the Royal Society and Professor Physics at Princeton University
Nov 5
From Haze to Hope: Tackling Air Pollution and Protecting Lung Health in a Changing Climate
Dr. Mary Rice
Director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Respiratory Health
Nov 12
Aspects of Arrogance
Thomas Kelly
Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University
Nov 19
Fitzgerald and Gatsby’s Editors and Publishers
Charles Scribner III
Art Historian, Editor, Lecturer, and a member of the family of publishers who worked closely with F. Scott Fitzgerald throughout his career.
Nov 26
No Meeting, Thanksgiving Week
Dec 3
Who Owns the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination
Ruha Benjamin
Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, 2024 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Award” winner
Dec 10
The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Governments
Kim Scheppele
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.