Princeton Journeys Live Lectures

From 2020-2023, Princeton Journeys Live Lectures invited alumni and friends on a journey of the mind to join top faculty in virtual conversation. Browse below to enjoy past lectures. To register for upcoming online lectures, take a look at Alumni Education’s new series, TigerSide Chats.

Past Live Lectures

More — Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood

A conversation with Majka Burhardt ’98 professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker and Andrea DiGiorgio, Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program and Anthropology Department.

September 21, 2023

Japan’s Magna Carta: Property, Inheritance and Gender in Medieval Japan

Thomas Conlan, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
March 2, 2023

Reclaiming Your Community — Designing for Talent Retention in Low-Status Communities

Majora Carter, Visiting Lecturer, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton University
February 15, 2023

Discovery of the Secret Gospels, Nag Hammadi Egypt, 1945

Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University
January 11, 2023

Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry

JC de Swaan, Lecturer in Economics, Princeton University and Partner at Cornwall Capital
September 28, 2022

Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal

Hanna Garth, Assistant Director of Anthropology
May 11, 2022

The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America

Willard Sterne Randall *84, Emeritus Professor of History, Champlain College, Burlington VT
March 9, 2022

Forever Wild in the Adirondack Mountains

Emily Wild, Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian, Lewis Science Library, Princeton University
February 2, 2022

Second Revolutions: Thomas Jefferson and the Making of the Haitian Revolution

Alec Dun, Associate Dean of the College and Historian of Early America
November 17, 2021

The Surprising Birth of Latin Literature

Denis Feeney, Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University
October 20, 2021

Stories from the African Bush through the lens of the Mpala Research Center

Daniel Rubenstein, Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology
October 13, 2021

The Underbelly of the Dutch Golden Age: War and the Waterwolf

Emmanuel Kreike, Professor of History
May 5, 2021

Excavating an Ancient Cemetery: The North Abydos Expedition in Egypt

Deborah Vischak, Assistant Professor, Ancient Egyptian Art History and Archaeology
April 7, 2021

Evolution in the Galapagos

Peter Grant, Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology Emeritus, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emeritus Rosemary Grant, Senior Research Biologist, Emeritus; Senior Biologist, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
February 24, 2021

Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England (1979–2003)

Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and professor of history and international affairs
January 27, 2021

Battle Lab: The Battle of Princeton in the Past and Present

Rachael DeLue, Chair and Professor in American Art
December 2, 2020

Women Who Changed How We See the Universe

Jo Dunkley, Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences
November 18, 2020

Jazz: Unity Through Diversity

Rudresh Mahanthappa, Director of Jazz

Einstein in Bohemia

Michael Gordin, Professor of History; Director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
September 30, 2020

Syracuse as Spectacle: Images of Victory and Catastrophe in Ancient Sicily

Andrew Feldherr '85, Study Leader and Professor of Classics
June 10, 2020

Dunhuang: Buddhist Art and Explorers of the Silk Road

Dora C. Y. Ching *11, Associate Director of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
May 20, 2020

The Political History and Governance of New Zealand: Queen Victoria, Biculturalism as Founding Footprint, and Global Aspiration

David Huebner '82 S80, former United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa (2009-2014)
May 13, 2020

The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution

Kevin Weddle *03, Professor of Military Theory and Strategy at the United States Army War College and former William L. Garwood Visiting Professor (2019)
April 30, 2020

Art of the Invasion: Indigenous Australia and British Colonialism

Jason Rudy '97, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies
April 16, 2020