| Date: | February 19, 2026 at 10 am (Meeting # 715 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | Making Room at the Table: Reflections on Food History and American History |
| Speaker: |
Paula Johnson, Curator at National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution |
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| Date: | February 5, 2026 at 10 am (Meeting # 714 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | Fables and Confabulations: The Stories We Tell About Our Bodies, and The Stories Our Bodies Tell Us |
| Speaker: |
Pria Anand, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine and attending physician at the Boston Medical Center |
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| Date: | January 22, 2026 at 10 am (Meeting # 713 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | Lessons we can learn today from the activists and organizers of the Women’s Liberation Movement |
| Speaker: |
Clara Bingham, Journalist and author |
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| Date: | January 8, 2026 at 10 am (Meeting # 712 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty? |
| Speaker: |
John Seabrook, staff writer at The New Yorker |
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| Date: | December 18, 2025 at 10 am (Meeting # 711 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | The Role of Local Government and Community in a Climate-Changing World |
| Speaker: |
Randall Solomon, Director of The Sustainability Institute at The College of New Jersey and the Executive Director of Sustainable Jersey |
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| Date: | December 4, 2025 at 10 am (Meeting # 710 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | The Everywhere Millionaire: Who is Really Rich in America and How They Got There |
| Speaker: |
Owen Zidar, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University |
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| Date: | November 20, 2025 at 10 am (Meeting # 709 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | Stratospheric Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks |
| Speaker: |
Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University |
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| Date: | November 7, 2025 at 10 am (Meeting # 708 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | Beauty, Inspiration, and Aspiration |
| Speaker: |
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Professor of Politics; Director, James Madison Program at Princeton University |
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| Date: | October 23, 2025 at 10 am (Meeting # 707 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | Governors: Chief Scientists in Our Laboratories of Democracy |
| Speaker: |
Kristoffer Shields |
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| Date: | October 9, 2025 at 10 am (Meeting # 706 since 02/13/1986) |
| Topic: | The Situation in Gaza: Briefing and Prospects for Peace |
| Speaker: |
Avital Leibovich, Director, American Jewish Committee, Jerusalem Office |
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| Date: | September 18, 2025 at 10 am; meeting # 705 |
| Topic: | Public Health in Crisis |
| Speaker: |
Peter Marks, American hematologist and oncologist; he served as the Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research within the Food and Drug Administration |
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| Date: | September 4, 2025 at 10 am; meeting # 704 |
| Topic: | Bugs and People: When Pandemics Change History (Turning Points in History: When Disease Hits People) |
| Speaker: |
Salvatore Mangione, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College , Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director History of Medicine Program |
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| Date: | June 19, 2025 at 10 am; meeting # 703 |
| Topic: | Long COVID |
| Speaker: |
Dr. William Hu is Director, Center for Healthy Aging Research, Associate Professor and Chief of Cognitive Neurology at Rutgers-RWJ Medical School and Institute for Health Policy and Aging Research |
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| Date: | June 5, 2025 at 10 am; meeting # 702 |
| Topic: | The House and Senate: The Non-Identical Twins |
| Speaker: |
Ross Baker, Distinguished professor (emeritus), Political Science Department at Rutgers University |
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