| Full Year Listings – Current Season: September 2025 — June 2026 |
This page contains a brief full year listing of all scheduled presentations of the current season. For detailed information on the presentations for the next two months click on Upcoming meetings on the Menu on the left.
All meetings are on Thursdays at 10:00 am, unless otherwise noted.
| Current Season: September 2025 — June 2026 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | Contact |
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(In-person & via Zoom) |
Salvatore Mangione | Thomas Jefferson University, Internal Medicine Residency | Bugs and People: When Pandemics Change History (Turning Points in History: When Disease Hits People) | Randy Krakauer |
(Via Zoom) |
Peter Marks | Former Director of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research | Public Health in Crisis | Randy Krakauer |
(Via Zoom) |
Avital Leibovich | Director, American Jewish Committee, Jerusalem Office | The Situation in Gaza: Briefing and Prospects for Peace | Randy Krakauer |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Kristoffer Shields | Rutgers University, Director of Eagleton Center on the American Governor | Governors: Chief Scientists in Our Laboratories of Democracy | Jeff Davis |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Robert George | Princeton University, Politics, Jurisprudence | Beauty, Inspiration, and Aspiration | Richard Meyer |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Alan Robock | Rutgers University, Environmental Sciences | Stratospheric Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks | Barbara Glasgow |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Owen Zidar | Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University | The Everywhere Millionaire: Who is Really Rich in America and How They Got There | Barbara Glasgow |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Randall Solomon | The College of New Jersey, Sustainability Institute | The Role of Local Government and Community in a Climate-Changing World | Jeff Davis |
(Via Zoom) |
John Seabrook | Staff writer at The New Yorker | The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty? | Kathryn Trenner |
10:00–12:00 |
55PLUS VOLUNTEERS MEETING – ALL ARE WELCOME!
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(Via Zoom) |
Clara Bingham | Journalist and author | Lessons we can learn today from the activists and organizers of the Women’s Liberation Movement | Barbara Glasgow |
(Via Zoom) |
Pria Anand | Boston University School of Medicine | Fables and Confabulations: The Stories We Tell About Our Bodies, and The Stories Our Bodies Tell Us | Barbara Glasgow |
(Via Zoom) |
Paula Johnson | Smithsonian National Museum of American History | Making Room at the Table: Reflections on Food History and American History | Barbara Glasgow |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Rachel Paster | Center for Anxiety, Princeton University | Walking with Wisdom and Anxiety: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of the Current World | Barbara Glasgow |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Gary Rendsburg | Chair in Jewish History, Rutgers University | The Ever Alive Dead Sea Scrolls | Randy Krakauer |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Gadi Dechter | VP for Communications and Government Affairs, Princeton | Higher Education, Free Speech, and the Intersection of University Life with Public Policy and Government Relations | Randy Krakauer |
(Via Zoom) |
Jorge Schement | School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University | New Jersey’s Changing Faces: Population, Community, and Higher Education | Jeff Davis |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Tom Griffiths | Psychology and Computer Science, Princeton University | Mapping the complexity of artificial intelligence using the tools of cognitive science | Randy Krakauer |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Barry Singer | Historical Society of Princeton, Princeton History Speaker | Princeton and the American Revolution: The 10 Crucial Days | Sanjay Sehgal |
(In-person & via Zoom) |
Bill Fernekes | Author and Educator | When Bipartisanship Mattered: Clifford Case and the US Senate, 1955-79 | Barry Fulmer |
10:00–12:00 |
55PLUS VOLUNTEERS MEETING – ALL ARE WELCOME!
To join this meeting on Zoom, please click HERE
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(In-person & via Zoom) |
Steve Knowlton | Librarian for History and African American Studies, Princeton University | Leni Lenape History and Culture | Randy Krakauer |