Membership and Registration

Membership

The Spring 2025 Series of the Swarthmore Discussion Group membership fee is $190. This includes a catered dinner with each of the four lectures in the series. Each lecture is in person and on Wednesday evening. The evening begins at 5 p.m. with happy hour from 5 - 6 p.m., then dinner from 6 - 7 p.m., and then the lecture from 7 - 8:15 p.m.

Registration for the Spring 2025 Series membership is due by Jan. 10, 2025. When membership is paid, registration is confirmed via email. Membership is capped at 100 participants.

Membership includes a catered dinner at The Inn at Swarthmore Gathering Room, located at 10 S. Chester Road, Swarthmore, PA 19081. Please note no refunds are available.

For more information about registration, contact mbloome1@swarthmore.edu

Online Registration 

If registering online for a membership for yourself and a partner, spouse, or friend, please make sure to add that person as a guest.  

SPRING 2025 SERIES REGISTRATION 
 

Single Talk Registration:

Jan. 15, 2025
Highly Selective Admissions and Access: Mission Impossible?
Jim Bock '90, Vice President and Dean of Admissions, Swarthmore College
Registration for this event has closed.  

Feb. 19, 2025 
Murder in a Mill Town
Bruce Dorsey, Professor of History, Swarthmore College
Bruce Dorsey Single Talk Registration
 

March 19, 2025
Deciphering the alphabet of contemporary lipidology: what letters should I ask about at my next visit?
Dan Soffer, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Penn Medicine, President National Lipid Association
Dan Soffer Single Talk Registration


April 9, 2025
A Political Cartoonist Tells All
Signe Wilkinson, Political Cartoonist
Signe Wilkinson Single Talk Registration

Registration through the Mail 

Please make checks payable to “Swarthmore College” and note in the memo line that your check is for the "Swarthmore Discussion Group." Send the check with your name, address, phone number, and email to The Swarthmore Discussion Group, Attn: Meghan Bloome/Alumni and Family Programs, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081.