Faculty Lectures

• Some Perspectives on the National Economy: Enjoy the Party While it Lasts [PDF]
  Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School
  NOTE: This is not an audio file but a printed version of a presentation made to Princeton Alumni on May 31, 2008. Numerous slides containing text have been added to substitute for the oral commentary made during the presentation.

• The Myth of Columbus [MP3]
  John Fleming *63, Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus
  

• America before Columbus [MP3]
  John Murrin, Professor of History Emeritus
  

• The World's Columbian Exposition 1893: A Reprise [MP3]
  Benjamin M. Primer, Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections
  

• The Next 500 Years: Is There Any Hope? [MP3]
  Ellen Chances *72, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  

• The Nature of Scholars and International Thinkers and Doers [MP3]
  Robert F. Goheen '40, President Emeritus, Princeton University
  

• Probing the Mysteries of the Universe with the Space Telescope [MP3]
  Lyman Sptizer, Jr. *38, Recipient, 1989 Madison Medal
  

• A Conversation with Paul Volcker [MP3]
  Paul Volcker '49, Professor of International Economic Policy Emeritus
  

• Is the U.S. Economy Financially Fragile? [MP3]
  Ben S. Bernanke, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
  

• Factions and Republican Virtue: What Madison Would Say about Term Limits [MP3]
  George F. Will *68, Recipient, 1992 Madison Medal

• Russia , America and the 21st Century [MP3]
  James H. Billington '50, Recipient, 1992 Woodrow Wilson Award
  

• Teaching the Humanities Today in the ex-U.S.S.R.: Why the Russians are so Baffled by "Political Correctness"  [MP3]
  Caryl G. Emerson, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  

• Instruments for a Deep Democracy, Part 1 [MP3]
  Ralph Nader '55, 1991 Maclean Fellow
  

• Instruments for a Deep Democracy, Part 2  [MP3]
  Ralph Nader '55, 1991 Maclean Fellow
  

• Oncogenes, Recently Discovered Genes in Human Cancer [MP3]
  Thomas E Shenk, Professor of Molecular Biology
  

• Lucky Accidents, Great Discoveries and the Prepared Mind
  Hubert N. Alyea, Professor of Chemistry
  
  
• Homer
  Robert Fagles, Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparitive Literature
• Why did the South Lose the Civil War?
  James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History
  

• The Gnostic Gospels
  Elaine H. Pagels, Professor of Religion
  

• Receipt of the Woodrow Wilson Award
  In 1990, Princeton awarded Jimmy Stewart '32 its highest alumni honor, the Woodrow Wilson Award for outstanding public service.
  

• Faustus Anatonized
  Who was Dr. Faust? We all know of Faust's tragic bargain with the devil through the works of Marlowe, Goethe and Berlioz—three famous renditions of Faust's often-fictionalized tale. These stories of Faust's deeds have their sources in folklore and numerous written accounts of his adventures. But the legends of Faust were inspired by the life of a real person, one Georg—or perhaps Johannes—Faustus, who died around 1540.
  

• Russian Culture and Post-September 11 Life
  Professor Ellen Chances of Slavic Languages and Literatures delivered this lecture at the Alumni Association's Russian WinterFest in the winter of 2002.
  

• The Idea of Europe
  Professor Emeritus Lionel Gossman's interests focus on the relationship between history and literature in the 17th through 19th centery Europe—especially on problems of "humanistic education as it is and as it should be." Originally delivered during the Alumni Studies Program in 1997, this lecture is an audio-only update.