Past President's Lectures
2001-2002
Caryl Emerson, the A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures: “The Fall of the Russian Empire, the Rise of Slavic Studies and the Relevance of Both for the Hardcore Humanities”
Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs: “Inequality, Health and Wealth”
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Stewart Smith, the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics: “Imperfect Opposites: Matter vs. Antimatter at Accelerators and in the Universe”
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2002-2003
Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History: “Technica Curiosa: Technology and Magic in Early Modern Europe”
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Carol Armstrong, the Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies: “Manet and Cézanne: In the Margins of Their Modernism”
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Vincent Poor, the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering: “Anytime, Anywhere: The Wireless Revolution”
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2003-2004
Bess Ward, the William J. Sinclair Professor of Geosciences: “Strange Biogeochemistry of Permanently Ice-Covered Lakes in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica”
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Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values: “The Ethics of Identity”
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Marta Tienda, the Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies: “Equity and Access to Higher Education: Lessons from Texas”
2004-2005
Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science: “Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics and the Fight to Control Digital Media”
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Alan Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Policy: “Misunderestimating Terrorism: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism”
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Claudia Johnson, the Murray Professor of English Literature: “Jane Austen and War”
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2005-2006
Bonnie Bassler, Professor of Molecular Biology: “How Bacteria Talk to Each Other”
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Paul Muldoon, the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities: “In the Horse Latitudes”
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Katherine Newman, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs: “School Shootings: Why Terrible Things Happen in ‘Perfect’ Places”
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2006-2007
Simon Morrison, Associate Professor of Music: “The Unknown Prokofiev”
Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics: “Is there a Democratic Deficit in World Politics?”
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Elizabeth Gould, Professor of Psychology: “Structural Plasticity in the Adult Brain”
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2007-2008
Lyman Page, Professor of Physics: "Observing the Birth of the Universe"
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Linda Colley, Professor of History: "Lives for our Times: Biography and Global History"
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Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature: "Because It Was He, Because It Was I" The Good of Friendship
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2008-2009
João Biehl, Professor of Anthropology: "Social Innovation in Global Health: When People Come First"
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/flash/lectures/20090304_preslect_biehl.shtml
Leonard Barkan, Professor of Comparative Literature: "Did Eating Have a Renaissance?
Mapping a Scholarly Itinerary from Past to Repast" http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/flash/lectures/20090414_preslect_barkan.shtml