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‘Comments From Campus’ features three fall talks
Princeton NJ — Comments From Campus,” a series of lectures by Princeton scholars held at the Princeton Public Library, includes three talks this fall.
• Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs, will deliver a lecture titled “When Liberals Were Hawks: National Security Politics in the 1950s” at noon Thursday, Oct. 4. Zelizer is a frequent commentator on political history and contemporary politics. His forthcoming book is titled “Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s,” and he currently is writing a book about the history of national security politics since the 1940s.
• Katherine Newman, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, will speak on “The Missing Class” at noon Wednesday, Nov. 7. Newman’s lecture shares the title of her new book, which examines the plight of workers who live in near-poverty. Newman has written several books on poverty, social mobility and school violence, including “No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City,” “Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market” and “Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.”
• Christopher Eisgruber, University provost and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values, will discuss “The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6. Eisgruber will offer a diagnosis of problems with the Supreme Court appointments process and recommend reforms that would improve the chances for a meaningful public dialogue about who should serve on the court. He is the author of “Constitutional Self-Government” and co-author (with Lawrence Sager) of “Religious Freedom and the Constitution.”
The lecture series is sponsored by the University’s Office of Community and Regional Affairs and the Princeton Public Library.
