PRINCETON RESEARCH FORUM

• Organization

• Membership

• Projects and Publications

• Activities and Events

 

Photo: Past Presidents Ann Morgan and Diane Krumrey checking the video camera at PRF's 25th anniversary party.

Activities

Members of the Princeton Research Forum enjoy many opportunities for professional and collegial interaction. Each           month we meet for lunch, occasions for lively discussions that keep us abreast of our colleagues’ activities. Special       study groups convene regularly for discussion, setting their own programs and schedules. Among them are:

History

Study of historical literature and historiography

Chair: Patricia Marks

Poetry Critical reading and analysis of works by selected poets Chair: Hildred Geertz
Presentation Seminars Discussion of members’ completed projects

Chairs: Shelley L. Frisch

and Suzanne Hyman

Science Contemporary and historical perspectives on science, medicine, and technology Chair: Evelyn Witkin
Work in Progress Discussion of members’ scholarly projects at any stage of development

Chairs: Shelley L. Frisch

and Suzanne Hyman

 

Events

PRF has sponsored many conferences and exhibits, most of them open to the public.

Conferences

Scholars without Borders, 2006. Photographs from the conference courtesy of David Sonenschein appear on our Home Page and on the Projects and Publications page.

a three- day conference of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS) held on the campus of Princeton University. Scholars from across the United States and Canada enjoyed a rich series of seminars, special exhibitions, and social events. Among many others, the program included sessions on writing biography and oral history, cultural identity in a multi-cultural world, social justice and revolution, and doing research on the internet. To see the program, click here.

Situating Scholarship, National Conference of NCIS, 1996


Publishing for Scholars and Writers, 1993


Matriarchal Moments, 1989


Editing for Scholars, 1989

 

Exhibition


Intellectual Emigres in Princeton in the 1930s, Historical Society of Princeton, 1987

 

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