This page contains a brief full year listing of all currently scheduled presentations.  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.

September 2018 – June 2019
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Contact
September 13, 2018	Steve Kornacki	MSNBC	The 2018 Election and Beyond	Ed Beenstock
October 4, 2018	Joanne Lipman	Author and former Editor-in-Chief of USA Today	After #MeToo, What's Next?	Al Friedes
October 18, 2018	Elie Bou-Zeid	Princeton University, Civil & Envi- ronmental Engineering	Urbanization in the 21st century: how to build resilient, sustainable, equitable and livable cities	Boris Katz
November 1, 2018	Paul J. Steinhardt	Princeton University, Physics	What happened 13.8 billion years ago?	Bob Robinson
November 15, 2018 (Postponed due to speaker's illness)	Linda Colley	Princeton University, History	Brexit and the British Constitution	Vince Peloso
December 6, 2018	Gideon Rosen	Princeton University, Philosopy	Managing Moral Outrage, or How Philosophy Can Change Your (Emotional) Life	Al Friedes
December 13, 2018 10:00–12:00	55Plus Volunteers Meeting – All are welcome! (In the Youth Lounge on the second floor of The Jewish Center)
December 20, 2018	Vera Goodkin	Mercer County CC, emerita	Saved by Raoul Wallenberg, the Angel of Budapest	Brenda Cohen
January 3, 2019	Cary Cherniss	Rutgers University, Psychology, emeritus	The Emotionally Intelligent Leader	Ed Beenstock
January 17, 2019	Sam Daley-Harris	Founder & Principal of Civic Courage	Are Shouting and Silence Our Only Two Options: Bringing Bipartisanship and Transformation to Citizen Activism	Bob Pollack
February 7, 2019	Jacob Sage	RWJ Medical Group	Medical education is in trouble	Dan Lister
January 17, 2019 10:00–12:00	55Plus Volunteers Meeting – All are welcome! (In the Library of The Jewish Center)
February 21, 2019	Lisa Miller	Rutgers University, Political Science	American Exceptionalism: Race, Crime, & Democracy	Al Friedes
March 7, 2019	David Fogelsong	Rutgers University, History	Vladimir Putin and the United States: Russian-American Relations in the Twenty-First Century	Ed Beenstock
March 28, 2019	Maurice Elias	Rutgers University, Psychology	How Do We Prepare Our Students from Preschool-College with Social-Emotional Competence for Civil Discourse and Civic Engagement?	Cary Cherniss
April 4, 2019	Ross Baker	Rutgers University, Political Science	Suddenly, it’s 1976 All Over Again: Reflections on an election two generations ago that may foretell 2020	Jeff Davis
April 11, 2019	James Steward	Princeton University Art Museum	Why Art (and Museums) Matter in the Digital Age: A Meditation	Elaine Jaskol
May 2, 2019	Ed Stern	Retired NJ Judge	A Memorable Legal Career	Vivian Beenstock
May 16, 2019	Farrin Anello	ACLU of NJ	Immigrants' Rights in NJ in 2019	Al Friedes
June 6, 2019	Lee Jussim	Rutgers University, Psychology	Is Science Going Off the Rails?	Cary Cherniss
June 6, 2019	Yearly luncheon at 12:00 (after the above lecture)
June 13, 2019 10:00–12:00	55Plus Volunteers (Honchos) Meeting – All are welcome! (In the Youth Lounge on the second floor of The Jewish Center)
June 20, 2019	Dr. Jonathan Prenner	Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology	The Aging Eye	Al Friedes
September 2019 – June 2020
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Contact
September 12, 2019	Nancy Weiss Malkiel	Princeton University, History	TBA	Richard Meyer
September 19, 2019	Marina Rustow	Princeton University, Near East Studies	TBA	Sam Goldfarb
October 17, 2019	Timothy Boyce		Odd Nansen	Al Friedes
October 31, 2019	Keith Whittington	Princeton University, Politics	TBA	Al Friedes
November 7, 2019	Bary Seldes	Rider University, Politics	TBA	Marian & Paul Wiener
November 21, 2019	Rory Truex	Princeton University, Politics & Int'l Affairs	Xi Jinping(?)	Vince Peloso
December 5, 2019	Scott Burnham	Princeton University (emeritus) & CUNY Graduate Center, Music	TBA	Boris Katz
December 19, 2019	Christina Gutowski		Hips & Knees	Elaine Jaskol
January 9, 2020	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
January 16, 2020	Kim Scheppele	Princeton University, Sociology & Int'l Affairs	TBA	Mike Midler
January 23, 2020 10:00–12:00	55Plus Volunteers (Honchos) Meeting – All are welcome! (In the Library of The Jewish Center)
February 6, 2020	Elke Weber	Princeton University, Psychology & Public Affairs	Energy & the Environment
February 20, 2020	Gene Grossman (subject to confirmation)	Princeton University, Economics	TBA
March 5, 2020	Paul Frymer (subject to confirmation)	Princeton University, Politics	TBA	Ed Beenstock
March 20, 2020	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
April 2, 2020	Saladin Ambar (subject to confirmation)	Rutgers University, Political Science	TBA
April 23, 2020	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
May 7, 2020	David Bell	Princeton University, History	TBA	Marcia Midler
May 21, 2020	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
June 4, 2020	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
June 11, 2020 10:00–12:00	55Plus Volunteers (Honchos) Meeting – All are welcome! (In the Library of The Jewish Center)
June 18, 2020	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA