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As of September 2013, new archived lectures will appear on Princeton University's Media Central web site.

May 22, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
James Madison Program
Panel Discussion: "Benghazi: What Do We Know? What Don't We Know? What Do We Need to Know?"

May 10, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Richard Pare, author: "Ginzburg At Kislovodsk: The Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium And The End Of Modernism In Russia"

May 1, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
James Madison Program
Tim Groseclose, University of California, Los Angeles: "Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind"

April 30, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Public Lecture Series
Michéle Flournoy, Former Under Secretary of Defense: "Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership in a Time of Austerity: A Strong, Pragmatic and Principled Approach to U.S. National Security"

April 26, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Keynote speaker Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University: "Modernity and its Discontents: Early Career South Asian Studies Workshop"

April 25, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Center for African American Studies
Elizabeth Alexander: "DonŐt Forget to Feed the Loas: Near Ancestry in Contemporary Black Arts"

April 25, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
C. Raja Mohan, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi: "India and the U.S. Pivot to Asia: Strategic Autonomy or Geopolitical Opportunity?"

April 24, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Center for African American Studies
Elizabeth Alexander: "A Voice from the Nondead Past: Rethinking Lucille Clifton"

April 23, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
James Madison Program
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago: "Theology and Politics: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell? Everybody Wants to Be a Critic"

April 22, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Public Lecture Series
Ronald Graham, Mathematician and Juggler: "Juggling Mathematics and Magic"

April 9, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
President's Lecture Series
Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion: "Modern Politics in the Shadow of Augustine"

April 4, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Public Lecture Series
Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus Political Science at Yale University: "The Thinking Eye"

March 26, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Public Lecture Series
Claude Steele, author: "Stereotype Threat: How It Affects Us and What We Can Do About It"

March 14, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad: "Pakistan: Preventing State Failure"

March 14, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Public Lecture Series
John Grotzinger, Chief Scientist for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Mission: "Curiosity's Mission to Mars: Newest Discoveries from Gale Crater"

March 13, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Helen Milner, director of Center for Globalization and Governance: "Votes, Vetoes & International Trade Agreements"

March 12, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Rev. Dr. DeForest "Buster" Soaries, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens: "Breaking Free From Financial Slavery: Doll Lecture on Religion and Money"

March 10, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
James Madison Program
Steve Forbes '70, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media: "Why the Tax and Monetary Sins of the West Now Threaten Civilization"

March 4, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
James Madison Program
Michael J. Sandel, Harvard University: "Making a Killing: The Economics of Life and Death"

February 27, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Ellis Goldberg, University of Washington: "An American in Tahrir: Notes on Year Three of the Egyptian Revolution"

February 19, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
President's Lecture Series
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering: "Ubiquitous Electronics through Conducting Plastics"

January 17, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Antonio De Lecea, European Union Delegation to the United States: "EU Integration and the Euro Area Crisis"

December 11, 2012 - Click here to stream this event
David Spergel, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences: "Illuminating the History of the Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background"

December 6, 2012 - Click here to stream this event
Mahmood Mamdani, academic, author and political commentator: "Settler Colonialism: Then and Now"

November 26, 2012 - Click here to stream this event
David Brooks, Author and New York Times Columnist: "Politics and the Organization Kid"

October 20, 2012 - Click here to stream this event
Brandice Canes-Wrone '93, Todd S. Purdum '82, and Ramesh A. Ponnuru '95: Fall Football Lecture: "Obama or Romney: The First 100 Days"

October 18, 2012 - Click here to stream this event
Public Lecture Series
Patricia Churchland, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, and the Salk Institute: "The Brains Behind Morality"

October 11, 2012 - Click here to stream this event
James Madison Program
Roger Scruton: "Fake Culture and the Culture of Fakes"

September 28, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Joyce Lee Malcolm, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law: "Self Defense: Our Most Basic Right or a Danger to Public Safety? The Anglo-American Divide"

September 13, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Imani Perry, Robert P. George, Nell Painter: Reunions Seminar 2012: "The Belief in Things Unseen: Frederick Douglass and the Constitutional Imagination"

September 27, 2013 - Click here to stream this event
Daniel N. Robinson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Georgetown University; Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University: "Proposition 8 and the Distractions of Social"

June 2, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Victoria Baum Bjorklund '73, John A. Edie '66, Juanita T. James '74: Reunions Seminar 2012: "Smart Giving... Philanthropy That Works"

April 27, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Dava Sobel and Diane Ackerman: "A Conversation"

April 23, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Arthur Brooks, President, American Enterprise Institute: "Making the Moral Case for Free Enterprise"

April 23, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: The Enigma: "Alan Turing: An Atlantic Perspective"

April 5, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Josh Kornbluth, comic monologuist and filmmaker: "The Mathematics of Change: A Comic Monologue about Failure at Princeton"

March 1, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Susan Stewart, Professor of English: "The Ruins Lesson"

February 28, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Daniel M. Russell, Über Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google: Cyril Black International Book Forum: "What Does It Mean To Be Literate in the Age of Google?"

February 28, 2012 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Steven A. Cook, Bernard Haykel, Amaney Jamal, Daniel Kurtzer: Cyril Black International Book Forum: "The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square"

December 7, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Jenny Price and Janette Kim: "Rivers R Us: Reviving Rivers, Reinventing Cities"

December 6, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Tom Brokaw, journalist: "The Time of Our Lives"

December 1, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Sean Wilentz, Professor of History: "The Long and Tragical History of Post-Partisanship"

December 1, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Michael Barr, University of Michigan Law School: "The Financial Crisis and the Path of Reform"

November 29, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University: "Historian's Eye"

November 16, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Maurizio Viroli: "The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy"

November 11, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
McKay Jenkins *96: "What's Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World"

November 10, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Jonathan Safran Foer, Author: "Writing Life: A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates"

October 10, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in conversation with Provost Christopher Eisgruber: "The Court, the Constitution and the Justice from Illinois"

October 7, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Tim Hitchcock, Mark Hallet, Linda Colley, Claude Rawson and James Steward open the Firestone Library exhibiton "Sin and the City: William Hogarth's London": "A Midnight Modern Conversation"

September 19, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Writer and producer David Simon: "The End of the American Century and What's in It for You?"

September 11, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Rachael DeLue, Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology: "Freshman Assembly: History, Collective Memory, and the Power of Images"

April 28, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Virginia Zakian, Professor of Molecular Biology: "Maintaining the End: Telomere Replication and Its Connections to Human Health"
 
April 27, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Stanislas Dehaene, neuroscientist, Steven Strogatz, mathematician: "How Math Comes to Mind: Intuition, Visualization, and Teaching"
 
April 20, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Dr. Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University, and Dr. Eric Gregory, Department of Religion: "Religion & the Problem of Oppression"
 
February 26, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Elaine Fuchs *77, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Rockefeller University: "Skin Stem Cells: Their Biology and Clinical Promise"
 
February 26, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Denny Chin '75, United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: "The Life of a Judge: From Megan's Law to Bernie Madoff"
 
February 26, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Evans Revere '76 *94, Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School: "After That Mountain, Yet Another: The Challenge of Denuclearizing North Korea"
 
February 26, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Yueh-Lin Loo *01, Chemical & Biological Engineering Department: "Electronic Plastics: Flexible Solutions for Today's Energy Challenges and Tomorrow's Wired World"
 
February 26, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Bridge Year Program: "A Conversation"
 
February 26, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Denis Feeney, Professor of Classics and Giger Professor of Latin: "Greek Tragedy and Us"
 
February 26, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Douglas S. Massey *78, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School: "The Political Economy of Illegal Migration"
 
February 26, 2011 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs: "Health, Wealth, and Happiness Around the World"
 
December 7, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Patti Smith, singer, songwriter, poet, and visual artist: "Picturing Robert: Remembering a friendship and artistic relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe"
 
December 2, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Nolan McCarty, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs: "The Polarization of American Politics"
 
November 30, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Chip Kidd, art director and graphic designer: "SIGNALS GraphicChipDesignKidd"
 
November 15, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Errol Morris, documentary filmmaker: "The Ashtray"
 
November 11 and 12, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Frank Wilczek, Nobel laureate and Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Fundamentals (Part I)"
Frank Wilczek, Nobel laureate and Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Fundamentals (Part II)"
 
November 11, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Marion Nestle and David Kessler, with Ruth Reichl: "The Politics of Food and Health Care"
 
October 26, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Denis Feeney, Professor of Classics: "Wormholes and Time Machines on the Site of Virgil's Rome"
 
October 20, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Novelist: "The Writer as Two Selves: Reflections on the Private Act of Writing and the Public Act of Citizenship"
 
October 14, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Robert J. Shiller, Professor of Economics, Yale University: "Finance and the Good Society"
 
April 28, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Matthew Taibbi and Gillian Tett: "The Current State of the Economy"
 
April 19, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Eric Lander: "Secrets of the Human Genome"
 
March 29, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Dr. Sherman Jackson & Dr. Cornel West: "Reflections\Problems of Black Suffering"
 
March 9, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
President Shirley M. Tilghman: "The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era"
 
March 8, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Noam Chomsky: "'I Am Kinda': Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism"
 
March 4, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs: "The Copenhagen Climate Summit, in Context: What Came Before, What Happens Next?"
 
February 20, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Honorable James A. Leach '64, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities: "Alumni Day: Woodrow Wilson Award Recipient"
 
February 20, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
General David H. Petraeus *85 *87 (Woodrow Wilson School), Commander, U.S. Central Command: "Alumni Day: James Madison Medalist"
 
February 18, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Andrew Sullivan, columnist and blogger: "The Politics of Homosexuality"
 
February 11, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Simon Winchester, author: "The Man Who Loved China"
 
January 28, 2010 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Martin Chalfie, Columbia University: "Green Fluorescent Protein: Lighting Up Life"
 
December 10, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Panel discussion: "Black Studies at 40"
 
December 10, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Douglas S. Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs: "America's War on Immigrants: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions"
 
December 2, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Shane Coen, RLA, ASLA, Coen + Partners, Minneapolis: "The New Landscape of Collaboration"
 
November 30, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University: "Is an Eclipse Described in Homer's Odyssey?"
 
November 18, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Romano Prodi: "The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World"
 
November 18, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Teresita Fernandez, Artist, New York: "Blind Landscape"
 
November 16, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Adriaan Geuze, Principal, West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture B.V., Rotterdam: "West 8"
 
November 11, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
James Corner, Field Operations, Philadelphia: "Field Work"
 
November 09, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
David Adjaye, Visiting Professor, Visiting Professor, Princeton School of Architecture; Principal, Adjaye Associates, London: "Small and Large Works"
 
October 26, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Allen Weiss, Departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies; Tisch School of the Arts at New York University: "Representation, Narration and Iconoclasm in the Zen Garden"
 
October 22, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Naomi E. Leonard, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: "Flocks and Fleets: Collective Motion in Nature and Robotics"
 
October 15, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
V. S. Ramachandran: "What Neurology Can Tell Us about Human Nature"
 
October 14, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Nina-Marie E. Lister, Associate Professor, School of Urban + Regional Planning, Ryerson University: "Is Landscape Ecology?"
 
October 12, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Tristram Carfrae, Chair, Global Building Practice, Arup: "A Box of Bubbles: The Water Cube, Beijing"
 
October 12, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Ross Douthat, David Frum, Daniel Larison, Virginia Postrel: "The Future of Conservatism"
 
October 7, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Sean Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin: "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species"
 
September 28, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Robert Pogue Harrison, Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature, Stanford University: "Various Affinities between Gardens and Narrative"
 
September 21, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Steven Johnson, Author, The Ghost Map: "The Myth of the Echo Chamber: Politics in the Age of the Participatory Web"
 
April 28, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Antonio J. Busalacchi, University of Maryland: "Impact of Climate Change on Global Viticulture"
 
April 27, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
John Conway, Free Will Lecture Series: "The Theorem's Implications for Science and Philosophy"
 
April 20, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
John Conway, Free Will Lecture Series: "Proof of the Free Will Theorem"
 
April 16, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
The Honorable Dorit Beinisch, President of the Supreme Court of Israel: "Defending Human Rights in Times of Terror"
 
April 14, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Leonard Barkan, Professor of Comparative Literature: "Did Eating Have a Renaissance? Mapping a Scholarly Itinerary from Past to Repast"
 
April 13, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Tom Ricks, Pentagon reporter, Washington Post: "Obama's War: Why We Are Stuck in Iraq"
 
April 13, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
John Conway, Free Will Lecture Series: "Quantum Mechanics and the Paradoxes of Entanglement"
 
April 6, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
John Conway, Free Will Lecture Series: "The Paradoxes of Relativity"
 
March 31, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Nancy Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Mirages of Equality: Progress of Women in Science at MIT, 1971-2009"
 
March 30, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
John Conway, Free Will Lecture Series: "The Paradox of Kochen and Specker"
 
March 23, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
John Conway, Free Will Lecture Series: "Free Will and Determinism in Science and Philosophy"
 
March 10, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Public Panel Discussion: "Justice After Bush"
 
March 5, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Ernesto Zedillo: "Latin America: Two Hundred Years of Solitude"
 
March 4, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
João Biehl: "Social Innovation in Global Health: When People Come First"
 
March 4, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Barton Gellman '82: "Cheney Rules: What the Obama White House Can Learn from the 'Angler'"
 
A Short History of Freedom: The Origins and Institutionalization of Freedom - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
February 24, 2009 - Orlando Patterson: "A Short History of Freedom: The Origins and Institutionalization of Freedom, part 1"
February 25, 2009 - Orlando Patterson: "A Short History of Freedom: The Origins and Institutionalization of Freedom, part 2"
February 26, 2009 - Orlando Patterson: "A Short History of Freedom: The Origins and Institutionalization of Freedom, part 3"
 
February 5, 2009 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
George Packer: "The New Liberalism"
 
December 1, 2 and 3, 2008 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
December 1, 2008 - Part 1 - Andrew Delbanco: "Does College Really Matter? The History of Undergraduate Education, Why It's in Trouble, and What to Do About It"
December 2, 2008 - Part 2 - Andrew Delbanco: "Does College Really Matter? The History of Undergraduate Education, Why It's in Trouble, and What to Do About It"
December 3, 2008 - Part 3 - Andrew Delbanco: "Does College Really Matter? The History of Undergraduate Education, Why It's in Trouble, and What to Do About It"
 
November 18, 2008 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Walter Isaacson: "Einstein, Franklin, and the Role of Creativity in Today's World"
 
November 3, 10 and 17, 2008 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
November 3, 2008 - Ian Buruma: "No Divine Right: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents": Part 1: "Empty Churches and Full Tents"
November 10, 2008 - Ian Buruma: "No Divine Right: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents": Part 2: "Wisdom From the East"
November 17, 2008 - Ian Buruma: "No Divine Right: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents": Part 3: "Enlightenment Values"
 
October 23, 2008 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "The Lighter Side of Life at the U.S. Supreme Court: Customs and Habits that Promote Collegiality Among the Justices"
 
October 7 and 9, 2008 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
October 7, 2008 - James Flynn: "What Is intelligence?: Paradoxes Resolved"
October 9, 2008 - James Flynn: "Black IQ:Environmental Factors"
 
September 17, 2008 - Public Lecture Series
Marcia Angell: "Reforming Our Health System: Why Neither Candidate Has the Answer"
 
May 12 and 13, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions: Moral Conflict and the Free Society
May 12, 2008 - Part 1: "Keynote Address: Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America"
May 12, 2008 - Part 2: "Human Rights: Are They Universal? Where Do They Come From?"
May 12, 2008 - Part 3: "The American Republic and the Crisis of Slavery"
May 13, 2008 - Part 4: "How to Think About Humanitarian Intervention"
May 13, 2008 - Part 5: "Freedom of Choice and the Right to Life"
May 13, 2008 - Part 6: "The Quest for Racial Justice in Recent American History"
 
April 29, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Reclaiming Conservatism: "How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - And How It Can Find Its Way Back"
 
April 22, 2008 - Public Lecture Series
Mario Vargas Llosa: "Onetti and the Shadows of Faulkner and Borges"
 
April 22, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: "The Battle for Control of the Law"
 
April 8, 9 and 10, 2008 - Public Lecture Series: The Bible and American Fiction
April 8, 2008 - Robert Alter: "Moby-Dick: Polyphony"
April 9, 2008 - Robert Alter: "Absalom, Absalom!: Lexicon"
April 10, 2008 - Robert Alter: "Seize the Day: American Amalgam"
 
April 7, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Ellis Sandoz: "The Free Man and Free Government in Political Theory"
 
April 1, 2008 - Public Lecture Series
Josh Marshall: "Discussion of the Current Political Scene"
 
March 25, 2008 - Toni Morrison Lecture
Edwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work"
 
March 24, 25 and 26, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions: Tocqueville's New Liberalism
March 24, 2008 - Harvey C. Mansfield: "America's First Cause"
March 25, 2008 - Harvey C. Mansfield: "Forms of Greatness in Democracy"
March 26, 2008 - Harvey C. Mansfield: "The Mild Despotism of Rational Control"
 
March 10, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Rochelle Gurstein: "How Obscenity Became the Litmus Test for the First Amendment"
 
March 4, 2008 - President's Lecture Series
Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature: "'Because It Was He, Because It Was I' The Good of Friendship"
 
February 21, 2008 - Public Lecture Series
Robert Hass, Poet: "Poetry Reading"
 
February 11, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Diana Schaub: "Bioethics: What Would the Founders Say?"
 
February 8, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
The Contributions of William H. Rehnquist to American Constitutional Jurisprudence: "Part 1"
The Contributions of William H. Rehnquist to American Constitutional Jurisprudence: "Part 2"
The Contributions of William H. Rehnquist to American Constitutional Jurisprudence: "Part 3"
 
February 6, 2008 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Election 2008: "Where Do Things Go from Here? Conservative Perspectives"
 
February 5, 2008 - Public Lecture Series
Krista Tippett, Founder and host of American Public Media's "Speaking of Faith": "Reading from 'Speaking of Faith' Followed by Panel Discussion"
 
January 7, 2008 - Public Lecture Series
Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics: "The Economics of Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and a Global Deal"
 
December 11, 2007 - President's Lecture Series
Linda Colley, Professor of History: "Lives for our Times: Biography and Global History"
 
December 10, 2007 - The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago; Stephen Walt, Harvard University; Robert Keohane, Princeton University, discussant.: "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
 
December 4, 2007 - President's Lecture Series
Lyman Page, Professor of Physics: "Observing the Birth of the Universe"
 
November 20, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker, and Writer: "A Conversation with David Remnick, hosted by Professor Michael Wood"
 
November 19, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School: "Importing Legal Ideas"
 
November 13, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
Atul Gawande, M.D. Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Writer, The New Yorker: "Mediocrity and Its Causes: A Surgeon's Notes on Medical Performance"
 
October 20, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Paul Starr, Princeton University: "Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism -- Panel Discussion on a New Book by Paul Starr"
 
October 20, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Gordon S. Wood, Brown University: "Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founding Fathers Different"
 
October 17, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
James Piereson, Manhattan Institute in New York City: "Revisiting President John F. Kennedy and the 1960s"
 
October 15, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Anthony M. Esolen '81, Providence College: "Dante and Freedom: The Autonomy of Hell and The Liberty of Paradise"
 
October 8, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Dan Vittorio Segre, Italian University of Lugano: "The Rise and Fall of Italian Jewry From 1839-1939 and the Revival of Italian Judaism in Italy and Israel"
 
November 6, 7 and 8, 2007 - Public Lecture Series: "A Brusque History of Eternity"
November 6, 2007 - Carlos Eire, Yale University: "The Birth of Eternity"
November 7, 2007 - Carlos Eire, Yale University: "Protestantism and the Reformation of Eternity"
November 8, 2007 - Carlos Eire, Yale University: "From Eternity to Five-Year Plans"
 
October 4, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin: "The Great Debate: The Federalist Response to the Anti-Federalist Challenge"

October 9-11, 2007 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
Paula Fredriksen, Boston University: "Sin: The Early History of an Idea"
 
October 4, 2007 - The Council of Humanities
Ian McEwan, Belknap Visitor in the Humanities: "Ian McEwan: Talking and Reading from his work"
 
October 3, 2007 - Princeton Environmental Institute
Dr. Cristian Samper, acting secretary of The Smithsonian Institution: "Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Our Human Planet"
 
September 26, 2007 - Princeton University School of Architecture
Demitri Porphyrios, design architect of Whitman College: "Tradition and Modernity: The Making of Whitman College"
 
September 18, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Alan R. Gibson, California State University: "The American Founding and the Culture Wars (In Celebration of Constitution Day)"
 
May 17, 2007 - Princeton Environmental Institute
Carlo Petrini, founder and president of the Slow Food Movement: "Slow Food Nation"
 
April 26, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
Thom Mayne, Architect, Morphosis: "Work in Progress #131"
 
April 25, 2007 - President's Lecture Series
Elizabeth Gould, Professor of Psychology: "Structural Plasticity in the Adult Brain"
 
April 24, 2007 - Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University
Dick DeVos, President of the Windquest Group: "Philanthropy...It's Definitely Not for Wimps: Reflections on Faith and Finance"
 
April 24, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Charles T. Rubin, Duquesne University: "Why Be Human?"
 
April 19, 2007 - Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University
Harry S. Stout, Professor of American Religious History at Yale University: "Baptized in Blood: Moral Reflections on the American Civil War"
 
April 17, 2007 - Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University
Peter M. Ochs '65, Chairman of the Board, The Fieldstone Corporation: "A Life of Significance: The Integration of Faith and Character into the World of Work"
 
April 15, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
Pasquale Scaturro, Leader, First Nile Descent Expedition (2003-2004): "The Exploration of the Great Rivers of Africa"
 
April 12, 2007 - Princeton University Hamilton Lecture Series
N. David Mermin, Professor of Physics, Cornell University: "Spooky Actions at a Distance?"
 
April 10, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
Douglas Melton, Harvard University: "Stem Cell Challenges in Biology and Public Policy"
 
April 9, 2007 - Princeton University School of Architecture
Elizabeth Diller, Professor of Architecture, Princeton University: "Things That Keep Me Up at Night"
 
April 5, 2007 - President's Lecture Series
Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics, Princeton University: "Is there a Democratic Deficit in World Politics?"
 
April 3, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
Hendrik Lenstra, Professor of Mathematics, University of Leiden: "Escher and the Droste Effect"
 
March 29, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Alvin Felzenberg, University of Pennsylvania: "Assessing Presidential Legacies"
 
March 6, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
Ruth Reichl, Gourmet Magazine: "Watch What You Eat"
 
February 22, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Jeffrey K. Tulis, University of Texas at Austin: "On Constitutional Statesmanship"
 
February 13, 14 and 15, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
February 13, 2007 - Avi Wigderson, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study: "A Worldview through the Computational Lens - Part I: Algorithm: A common language for nature, man, and computer"
February 14, 2007 - Avi Wigderson, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study: "A Worldview through the Computational Lens - Part II: Time, space, and the cosmology of computational problems"
February 15, 2007 - Avi Wigderson, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study: "A Worldview through the Computational Lens - Part III: Cryptography: Secrets, lies, knowledge, and trust"
 
February 12, 2007 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
David Forte, Cleveland State University: "God, Nature, or Man: Whose Law for a Free People? The Experience of Islam"
 
February 8, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
Joan Breton Connelly, New York University: "Visual Space/Ritual Space and the Agency of the Greek Priestess"
 
January 9, 10 and 11, 2007 - Public Lecture Series
January 9, 2007 - Peter Ward, Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington: "The Undesigned Universe: Part 1: Designs on Life"
January 10, 2007 - Peter Ward, Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington: "The Undesigned Universe: Part 2: Designing a Habitable Solar System"
January 11, 2007 - Peter Ward, Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington: "The Undesigned Universe: Part 3: The Construction of the Cosmos"
 
November 28, 2006 - Woodrow Wilson School
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General: "Parting Policy Address"
 
November 20, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
James McPherson, Princeton University: "Abraham Lincoln's Invention of Presidential War Powers"
 
November 16, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Antonio Damasio, University of Southern California: "Advances on the Neurobiology of Emotion: Taking Stock"
 
November 15, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Jean M. Yarbrough, Bowdoin College: "Rewriting the Founding: Theodore Roosevelt as Historian"
 
November 11, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Kenneth Jackson, Columbia University: "If All the World Were New Jersey: The Past and Future of the Garden State"
 
November 6, 7 and 8, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
November 6, 2006 - Leon R. Kass, University of Chicago: "A More Perfect Human: The Promise and Peril of Modern Science"
November 7, 2006 - Leon R. Kass, University of Chicago: "The Dignity of Human Being: 'Death with Dignity' and the 'Sanctity of Life'"
November 8, 2006 - Leon R. Kass, University of Chicago: "The Dignity of Human Flourishing: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness"
 
October 20 and 21, 2006 - Inaugural Toni Morrison Lectures sponsored by The Center for African American Studies
October 20, 2006 - Cornel West, Princeton University: "The Gifts of Black Folk in the Age of Terrorism - Part I"
October 21, 2006 - Cornel West, Princeton University: "The Gifts of Black Folk in the Age of Terrorism - Part II"
 
October 17, 18 and 19, 2006 - Princeton University Public Lecture Series
October 17, 2006 - Mark A. Noll, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame : "Race, Religion, and American Politics from Nat Turner to George W. Bush - Part 1: The Bible, Slavery, and the 'Irrepressible Conflict'"
October 18, 2006 - Mark A. Noll, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame: "Race, Religion, and American Politics from Nat Turner to George W. Bush - Part 2: The Churches, 'Redemption', and Jim Crow"
October 19, 2006 - Mark A. Noll, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame: "Race, Religion, and American Politics from Nat Turner to George W. Bush - Part 3: Civil Rights, the Republican-Evangelical Alliance, and the Endurance of Evil in the Land of the Free"
 
October 10, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Elaine Oran, Senior Scientist for Reactive Flow Physics, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory: "Matchsticks, Scramjets, and Black Holes: Numerical Simulation Faces Reality"
 
October 5, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Cass Sunstein, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School : "Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron"
 
October 3, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Matthew J. Franck, Radford University: "The Supreme Court and the Inversion of the Due Process Clauses: From a Judicial Rule against Arbitrary Power to the Power of Arbitrary Judicial Rule"
 
September 27, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Steven Levitt, University of Chicago: "Beyond Freakonomics: New Musings on the Economics of Everyday Life"
 
September 21, 2006 - Princeton University Akwaaba, the African students assocation at Princeton
Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda: "Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development in Africa: The Rwandan Experience"
 
September 19, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Walter Murphy, Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus: "The Constitution, Dead or Alive?"
 
May 4, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Marc Edwards, Virginia Polytechnic Institute: "Imminent Endangerment: 'Lead' Astray by the EPA"
 
April 30, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Stephen Breyer, United States Supreme Court Justice: "Active Liberty: A Conversation with United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Professor Robert P. George"
 
April 28, 2006 - Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State: "Promoting Democracy: Fourteen Points for the 21st Century"
 
April 25, 26 and 27, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
April 25, 2006 - David Gross, Professor, UC Santa Barbara: "The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality: I. The Theory of Elementary Particles"
April 26, 2006 - David Gross, Professor, UC Santa Barbara: "The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality: II. Questions and Speculation"
April 27, 2006 - David Gross, Professor, UC Santa Barbara: "The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality: III. The Coming Revolutions"
 
April 26, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Colleen Sheehan, Villanova University: "James Madison and the Spirit of Republicanism"
 
April 24, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
H. Jefferson Powell, Duke University: "Constitutional Virtues"
 
April 13, 2006 - Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
James A. Baker III, former U.S. Secretary of State: "A Conversation with James Baker"
 
April 10, 2006 - President's Lecture Series
Katherine Newman, Princeton University Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs: "School Shootings: Why Terrible Things Happen in 'Perfect' Places"
 
April 5, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The real inventor of the World Wide Web: "The Future of the Web"
 
March 30, 2006 - Department of Physics
Steven Chu, Director of Lawrence Berkeley Labs: "The energy problem: our current choices and future hopes"
 
March 29, 2006 - University Center for Human Values
Don Marquis, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas; Respondent: Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University: "Abortion and Infanticide: A Critique of Peter Singer's Views"
 
March 29, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Marina Mahathir, Malaysian AIDS Council: "Fatal Confluences: Islam, Gender, and HIV/AIDS in Malaysia"
 
March 9, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Alan Walker, Professor of Biological Anthropology, Penn State University: "The Human Body as an Evolutionary Patchwork"
 
March 8, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University; Georgetown Universitye: "Schiavo and the Shibboleth of Privacy"
 
March 1, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Gerald Galloway, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland: "In Search of a National Water Policy: Learning from Katrina, Dry Canals, and Pallid Sturgeon"
 
February 27, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Robert Lowry Clinton, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale: "John Marshall and the Myth of Marbury"
 
February 24, 2006 - Woodrow Wilson School's 75th Anniversary
Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve: "Social Science and Public Policy"
 
February 21, 22 and 23, 2006 - Public Lecture Series - Stafford Little Fund and Princeton University Press
February 21, 2006 - Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara: "God and War: The Odd Appeal of War"
February 22, 2006 - Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara: "God and War: Are We at War?"
February 23, 2006 - Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara: "God and War: What Does God Have to Do With It?"
 
February 16, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of Minnesota Law School: "The Emancipation Proclamation and the Commander-in-Chief Power: Lessons from the Lincoln Administration for the War on Terror"
 
February 13, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
William Saunders Jr., Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.: "The Doha Declaration: The World Affirms the Natural Family and Marriage"
 
February 9, 2006 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Robert Woodson Sr., Social Commentator: "The Underground Railroad of Self-Determination: Beyond Victimization"
 
January 18, 2006 - Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator (D-NY): "Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East"
 
December 8, 2005 - President's Lecture Series
Paul Muldoon, Princeton University Professor in the Humanities: "In the Horse Latitudes, A Reading of New Poems"
 
November 30, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writer for the New Yorker: "The War in Iraq: Bush's Democracy and the Real Thing"
 
November 15, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Ian Buruma, Professor, Bard College: "Is Democracy a Universal Value?"
 
November 9, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Joseph Bottum, Editor, First Things: "Death and Politics"
 
November 8, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Bob Herbert, Award-winning op-ed columnist, New York Times: "The Consequences of Incompetence: The All-Too-Human Costs of Bad Thinking and Poor Decision-making by People in High Places"
 
October 25, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: "The Playworld and the Empire: The Twenty-first Century and the American Playwright"
 
October 19, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Christine Rosen, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.: "Rehabilitating Eugenics"
 
October 19, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Robert Rubin, Former Secretary of the Treasury: "The Outlook for the Global Economy and the Challenges That Must Be Met"
 
October 17, 2005 - President's Lecture Series
Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University Professor of Molecular Biology: "How Bacteria TALK to Each Other"
 
October 10, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Bruce Cole, National Endowment for the Humanities: "American Ideals and National Memory"
 
October 6, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
James Ceaser, University of Virginia: "Nature and History in the Thought of the American Founders"
 
September 27, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
James Fallows, National correspondent, the Atlantic Monthly, and author: "After Iraq: What's Ahead for America"
 
May 10, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Matt Ridley, Founder of International Centre of Life: "Nature and Nurture"
 
May 4, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Lord Robert May, Oxford University: "Hard Questions About Tomorrow's World"
 
April 29, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Paul Taylor, The Paul Taylor Dance Company: "A Conversation with Paul Taylor, with Maura Keefe, dance historian"
 
April 29, 2005 - Department of Physics
David J. Gross, Kavli Institute For Theoretical Physics, UCSB: "30th Hamilton Lecture: The Future of Physics"
 
April 14, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Michael S. Gazzaniga, Dartmouth University: "Personal Identity, Neuroethics and the Human Brain"
 
April 7, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Hadley Arkes, Amherst College: "On the Reading of Cases: The Reasoning We Have Forgotten, the Law We Have Lost"
 
April 6, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Gary J. Jacobsohn, University of Texas at Austin: "By Way of Variation, Addition, or Repeal: Revisiting the Unconstitutional Amendment Puzzle"
 
March 24, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Randy E. Barnett, Boston University School of Law: "Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty"
 
March 22, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College: "Tocqueville, Compassionate Conservatism, and Biotechnology"
 
March 3, 2005 - President's Lecture Series
Claudia Johnson, Princeton University: "Jane Austen and War"
 
February 25, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley: "Einstein's Biggest Blunder? The Case for Cosmic 'Antigravity'"
 
February 24, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley: "Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts: Birth Cries of Black Holes"
 
February 23, 2005 - Public Lecture Series
Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley: "Catastrophic Stellar Explosions: Celestial Fireworks"
 
February 23, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Daniel N. Robinson, Georgetown University and Oxford University: "Citizenship and Leadership"
 
February 14, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Donald A. Downs, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Speech Codes, Censorship, and Undue Process: Politics and the Restoration of Free Speech and Liberty on Campus"
 
February 9, 2005 - President's Lecture Series
Kathleen Sullivan, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and former Dean of Stanford University: "The Constitution and EMERGENCY"
 
February 7, 2005 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Nelson Lund, George Mason University School of Law: "Lawrence v. Texas: The Worst Supreme Court Opinion in History?"
 
December 2, 2004 - President's Lecture Series
Alan Krueger, Princeton University: "Misunderestimating TERRORISM, Economics and the Roots of Terrorism"
 
November 22, 2004 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto: "Religious Liberty: The Theological Claim"
 
November 16, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Robert W. Lucky, Telecordia: "Broadbanding America: What, Why, and How"
 
November 11, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Alan Wolfe, Boston College: "The Liberal Retreat from Ambition"
 
November 10, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Alan Wolfe, Boston College: "How Conservatives Came to Think Small"
 
November 9, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Alan Wolfe, Boston College: "America's Two Visions: The Good and the Great"
 
November 8, 2004 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto: "Religious Liberty: The Philosophical Claim"
 
November 1, 2004 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto: "Religious Liberty: The Political Claim"
 
October 14, 2004 - American Whig-Cliosophic Society
Ralph Nader: "Princetonians in the Nation's Service: Breaking up the Two-Party"
 
October 12, 2004 - President's Lecture Series
Edward Felten, Princeton University: "Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics, and the Fight to Control Digital Media"
 
October 11, 2004 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Michael McConnell, U.S. Circuit Court Judge: "Virtue, Republicanism and Disestablishment of Religion at the Founding"
 
October 6, 2004 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Peter Berkowitz, associate professor at George Mason University's School of Law and a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution: "Liberalism, Morals and the Supreme Law of the Land"
 
October 5, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
George Dyson, Western Washington University: "Barricelli's Universe: Digital Computing in Princeton, 1945-1958"
 
September 29, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Hermione Lee, Oxford University: "Virginia Woolf's Nose"
 
September 28, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Hermione Lee, Oxford University: "Jane Austen Faints"
 
September 27, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Hermione Lee, Oxford University: "Shelley's Heart and Pepys's Lobsters"
 
May 28, 2004 - School of Engineering and Applied Science Reunion Event
Maria Klawe, Princeton University Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science: "Engineering for a Better World: The Princeton Vision"
 
April 28, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Noah Feldman, New York University: "The Ethics of Nation-Building: What We Owe Iraq"
 
April 27, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Noah Feldman, New York University: "The Ethics of Nation-Building: What We Owe Iraq"
 
April 26, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Noah Feldman, New York University: "The Ethics of Nation-Building: What We Owe Iraq"
 
April 26, 2004 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Lee Epstein, Washington University: "The Effect of War on the Supreme Court of the United States"
 
April 16, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Helen Vendler, Harvard University: "Lyric Intimacy: Speaking to Invisible Listeners: III. John Ashbery and the Artist of the Past: Intimacy with a Vanished Twin"
 
April 15, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Helen Vendler, Harvard University: "Lyric Intimacy: Speaking to Invisible Listeners: II. Walt Whitman and the Reader in Futurity: Intimacy with the Longed-for Camerado"
 
April 14, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Helen Vendler, Harvard University: "Lyric Intimacy: Speaking to Invisible Listeners: I. George Herbert and God: Intimacy with the Better Self"
 
April 12, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Abigail Thernstrom, The Manhattan Institute: "The Racial Gap in Academic Achievement"
 
March 24, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Cesar Pelli, Cesar Pelli and Associates: "The Public in Architecture"
 
March 22, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Eric Cohen, Resident Scholar and Director of Project on Biotechnology and American Democracy, Ethics and Public Policy: "America's Founding and Future"
 
March 9, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Michael Pack, Executive Director, Manifold Productions: "God and the Inner City [documentary screening]"
 
February 24, 2004 - Public Lecture Series
Daniel Libeskind, Studio Daniel Libeskind: "Building Places from Memories"
 
February 16, 2004 - Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
John P. Diggins, City University of New York: "The Legacy of John Adams"
 
February 9, 2004 - Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Michael Greve, American Enterprise Institute: "Real Federalism"
 
December 10, 2003 - President's Lecture Series
K. Anthony Appiah: "Ethics of Identity"
 
December 8, 2003 - Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Visitor Seminars
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities, Emory University: "Marriage on Trial"
 
December 4, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
Vera Rubin, Carnegie Institution of Washington: "Telling Stories about the Universe"
 
December 3, 2003 - Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Visitor Seminars
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities, Emory University: "Marriage 102: Different or Equal? The Compromise of Separate Spheres"
 
December 1, 2003 - Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Visitor Seminars
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities, Emory University: "Marriage 101: Male and Female, Created He Them"
 
November 18, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard University: "Who are the Leaders of the Iraqi Shi'ites?"
 
November 10, 2003 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute: "Implications of Under-Population in Europe and America"
 
November 10, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
Amos Oz, Ben Gurion University of the Negev: "Israel: Peace and War"
 
October 22, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
Roger Penrose, Oxford University: "Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, Lecture 3: FANTASY"
 
October 20, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
Roger Penrose, Oxford University: "Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, Lecture 2: FAITH"
 
October 17, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
Roger Penrose, Oxford University: "Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, Lecture 1: FASHION"
 
October 15, 2003 - Alpheus T. Mason Lecture
Michael J. Gerhardt, Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Constitutional Law, William & Mary Law School: "The Constitution Outside the Court"
 
October 15, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig: "Genomic Approaches to Human Origins"
 
October 14, 2003 - President's Lecture Series
Bess Ward, Professor of Geosciences: "Strange Biogeochemistry of Permanently Ice-Covered Lakes in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica"
 
October 9, 2003 - Council of the Humanities
Chuck Close, Eminent painter and printmaker: "The 2003-2004 Belknap Visitor in the Humanities"
 
October 8, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
Yi Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin: "Place, Art, and Self"
 
October 8, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
J. Rufus Fears, G.T. & Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma: "Freedom and the Superpower"
 
September 29, 2003 - America's Founding and Future
Harry Jaffa, professor emeritus of government at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate School: "Natural Law and American Political Thought"
 
September 26, 2003 - Woodrow Wilson School
Hamid Karzai, President of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan: "The Roots and Causes of Terrorism in Afghanistan and the Region"
 
September 25, 2003 - Public Lecture Series
William G. Bowen, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: "Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values"
 
September 22, 2003 - Alpheus T. Mason Lectures in Constitutional Law and Political Thought
Joseph H.H. Weiler, Jean Monnet Chaired Professor, New York University School of Law: "Governance without Governments: The Legitimacy Crisis of International Law"
 
April 22, 2003 - Center for the Study of Religion
Mark Noll, Wheaton College: "Lincoln's God"
 
April 22, 2003 - Donald Ross Hamilton Lecture
Lawrence M. Krauss: "Einstein's Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story"
 
April 15, 2003 - Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures
John Hennessy, Stanford University (Note: Poor audio quality until the wireless lapel microphone is turned on at 18 minutes and 15 seconds into the lecture): "Perspectives on High Performance Computer Architecture: History and Challenges"
 
March 24, 2003 - Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures
John Horner, Montana State University: "Dinosaur Research in the 21st Century"
 
March 13, 2003 - J. Edward Farnum Lectures
David Denby, The New Yorker: "Do Movies have a Future?"
 
March 11, 2003 - America's Founding and Future
William Kristol: "Under God? Is Religion at the Heart of America's Culture War?"
 
March 6, 2003 - Walter E. Edge Lectures
Ziba Mir Hosseini, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS: "Islamic Law and Feminism: Opening a Dialogue"
 
March 5, 2003 - President's Lecture Series
Vincent Poor: "Anytime, Anywhere: The Recent Revolution in Wireless Communications"
 
February 22, 2003 - Alumni Day
Peter D. Bell *64: "Where the End of Poverty Begins"
 
February 22, 2003 - Alumni Day
William H. Frist, MD *74: "The Floor of the US Senate as the Operating Theatre: Is Transplanting Ideas Any Different From Transplanting Hearts?"
 
February 20, 2003 - Walter E. Edge Lectures
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School: "The Creative Commons"
 
February 20, 2003 - Woodrow Wilson School
Peter Bell, MPA *64, President, CARE: "A Career in Public Service"
 
December 11, 2002 - President's Lecture Series
Carol Armstrong: "Manet and Cézanne: The 'Heroics' of Modernism"
 
December 4, 2002 - Public Lecture Series (a Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture)
Vincent Courtillot , Universite Paris 7: "Mass extinctions in the Phanerozoic: a single cause and if yes which?"
 
November 5, 2002 - Princeton Committee Against Terrorism (PCAT)
Steve Forbes '70: "What Happens After Iraq?"
 
October 24, 2002 - Alpheus Mason Lecture Series
Judge Robert H. Bork, former U.S. Court of Appeals circuit judge: "The Constitution: Past, Present and Future"
 
October 23, 2002 - President's Lecture Series
Anthony Grafton: "Technica Curiosa: Technology and Magic in Early Modern Europe"
 
October 15, 2002 - Walter E. Edge Lectures
Bernard Williams, Oxford University: "The Human Prejudice"
 
October 9, 2002 - Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures
Jared Diamond, UCLA: "Collapses of Ancient Societies and their Lessons for Today"
 
October 8, 2002 - Stafford Little Lectures
Ariel Dorfman, Duke University: "Who Are the Real Barbarians? A Latin-American Perspective"
 
September 13, 2002 - Alumni Studies
"Intro Message by Professors Robert Tignor, Stephen Kotkin and Jeremy Adelman"
 
May 8, 2002 - Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures
Charles M. Falco, Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona: "The Art and Science of the Motorcycle"
 
May 7, 2002 - Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures
Charles M. Falco, Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona: "Through a Looking Glass: The Art of the Science of Renaissance Painting"
 
May 4, 2002 - Alumni Studies
Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus: "Ottoman Thought and Practice Concerning War"
 
April 22, 2002 - Stafford Little Lectures
Michael Graves, Architect: "Telling Stories"
 
April 16, 2002 - Florovsky Memorial Lecture
Bishop Kallistos, Oxford University: "Orthodoxy and Western Christianity in the 21st Century"
 
April 4, 2002 - J. Edward Farnum Lectures
Tony Kushner, Playwright: "An Evening with Tony Kushner"
 
March 7, 2002 - President's Lecture Series
Stewart Smith, Princeton University: "The Disappearance of Anti-matter Following the Big Bang"
 
March 6, 2002 - Stafford Little Lectures
Frank O. Gehry, Frank O. Gehry Associates: "Current and Recent Work"
 
February 11, 2002 - Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures
Steven Pinker, MIT: "Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language"
 
December 5, 2001 - President's Lecture Series
Angus Deaton, Dwight Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs: "Inequality, Health and Wealth"
 
November 29, 2001 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Lynne Cheney: "Teaching for Freedom"
 
November 19, 2001 - The Third World Center
Arun Gandhi, Founder of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence: "Terrorism, Nonviolence, and Justice"
 
November 14, 2001 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Wesley J. Smith: "Bioethics and Euthanasia"
 
November 13, 2001 - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Fred I. Greenstein, Woodrow Wilson School: "The Political Leadership of George W. Bush: What a Difference September 11th Made"
 
November 5, 2001 - PU Public Lecture Series
Robert Moses, Civil Rights Movement Organizer: "The Presumption of Innocence, Sharecropper Education and America's Ideals"
 
October 25, 2001 - James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago, Divinity School: "Just War and Military Intervention"
 
October 16, 2001 - PU Public Lecture Series
James Randi, Founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation: "The Search for the Chimera"
 
October 8, 2001 - PU Public Lecture Series
Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University: "Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect"
 
April 27, 2001 - John Olin Foundation Lectures on the Moral Foundations of American Democracy
John DiIulio Jr.: "Compassionate Conservatism"
 
April 24, 2001 - Spencer Trask Lecture
Edward Witten: "Quest For Unification"
 
April 22, 2001 - Centennial Public Lecture Series
Lester K. Little *62: "Monasticism in Western Society: From Marginality to the Establishment and Back"
 
April 17, 2001
Craig Venter: "Sequencing the Human Genome"
 
April 12, 2001 - PU Public Lecture Series
Bill T. Jones: "The Body: A Gateway and Two Doors"
 
March 11, 2001 - Centennial Public Lecture Series
Elizabeth E. Bailey *72: "A Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century"
 
March 8, 2001 - Stafford Little Lecture
Claude Steele: "How Stereotypes Can Shape Intellectual Performance and Identity"
 
February 15, 2001 - Spencer Trask Lecture
Robert Full: "Bipedal bugs, galloping ghosts and gripping geckos: BioInspiration for Rapid Running Robots"
 
February 11, 2001 - Centennial Public Lecture Series
Peter D. Bell *64: "Affirming Dignity and Ending Poverty: The Search for a Better World"
 
October 20, 2000 - The Gordon Y.S.Wu '58 Lecture for 2000
Jeffrey Bezos '86: "Amazon.com: Customer Experience Matters"
 
October 18, 2000
Maurice Sendak: "Author, illustrator discusses his work"
 
October 16, 2000 - Centennial Public Lecture Series
Russell Baker: "The Age of the Superstory"
 
October 15, 2000 - Nader 2000 Green Party
Ralph Nader *55: "Campaign Speech"
 
October 15, 2000 - Centennial Public Lecture Series
Juan M. Maldacena *96: "Gravity, Black Holes, and Strings"
 
September 17, 2000 - Centennial Public Lecture Series
Paula Fredriksen *79: "Jesus, Paul, and the Origins of Christianity"
 
April 27, 2000 - Stafford Little Lecture
George Fredrickson: "Climax and Retreat: Racism in the Twentieth Century"
 
April 26, 2000 - Stafford Little Lecture
George Fredrickson: "The Rise of Modern Racism(s): White Supremacy and Antisemitism"
 
April 25, 2000 - Stafford Little Lecture
George Fredrickson: "Religion and the Invention of Racism"
 
April 17, 2000 - The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Ambassador Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Ambassador Yehuda Lancry: "Light at the End of the Tunnel? Costs and Benefits of Mideast Peace for the International Community""
 
April 11, 2000 - The Inaugural Lectures of The Scribner Series
Sir Martin Rees: "Our Cosmic Habitat - Recipes for an Interesting Universe: Intimations of a Multiuniverse"
 
April 10, 2000 - Program in African Studies
His Excellency Isaias Afworki, President of Eritrea: "Conflict and Challenge of Development in Africa: The Case of the Horn of Africa"
 
April 4, 2000 - The Inaugural Lectures of The Scribner Series
Sir Martin Rees,: "Our Cosmic Habitat - Understanding the Beginning and the End"
 
March 3, 2000 - The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
James Baker III: "U.S. Relations with Russia"
 
March 2, 2000 - PU Public Lecture Series
Eric Lander: "Human Genetics and Human Society in the 21st Century"
 
February 22, 2000 - PU Public Lecture Series
Carl Djerassi: "Noble Science and Nobel Lust: Disclosing Tribal Secrets"
 
February 21, 2000 - PU Public Lecture Series
Sarah B. Hrdy: "Mother Nature"
 
February 8, 2000 - Millennium Lecture Series
Doris Kearns Goodwin: "A Journey through the Century: Reflections of a Biographer and Historian"
 
November 9, 1999
Sidney Blumenthal: "Presidents and Democracy: An American History"
 
October 8, 1999 - Millennium Lecture Series
Lech Walesa: "Inaugural lecture of the Millennium Lecture Series"
 
October 4 through 6, 1999 - Andrew Knoll - In The Beginning: The Early Evolution of Life on Earth
"Reconstructing the Early History of Life on Earth"
"The Maturation of Earth and Life"
 
May 4, 1999 - Priscilla Glickman/Ivy Club Speaker Series
Martin Scorsese: "Discusses Film-Making"
 
April 6, 1999 - J Edward Farnum Lecture
Thomas Eisner, Cornell University: "Better Living (and Loving) Through Chemistry? Insect Style"
 
March 4, 1999 - Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture
Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University: "Surfing with Wavelets"
 
February 25, 1999 - Walter E. Edge Lecture in Public and International Affairs
Itamar Rabinovich, Tel Aviv University: "Beyond the Siege: Arab Israeli Relations at Century's End"
 
December 2, 1998 - PU Public Lecture Series
Marcus Raichle, Washington University School of Medicine : "Searching for Images of the Mind"
 
November 19, 1998 - PU Public Lecture Series
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University: "On Coincidences"
 
October 26, 2001 through October 27, 1998 - Cloning Series
Jon W. Gordon, Mount Sinai Medical Center: "Scientific and Ethical Aspects of Cloning in Animals and Humans"
Lori B. Andrews, Chicago-Kent College of Law: "Mom, Dad, Clone: Why We Shouldn't Create Children Through Cloning"
Harold Shapiro, Jon W. Gordon, Anne McLaren, Lee Silver, John A. Robertson, Bonnie Steinbock: "Cloning Panel Discussion "
 
September 13, 1998
Froma Zeitlin, Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature: "Remembering the Holocaust: Perspectives at the Millennium"
 
February 2, 1990 - Click here to stream using Adobe Flash
James Stewart: "What Princeton has meant to me in my life: Reminiscence of Princeton, my early days on the stage, and the world of Hollywood"

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