Friends Events Winter and Spring 2026
Please check the calendar frequently, as changes do occur and events will be added. You will find the most up to date information about events below.
JANUARY
1/9 Lecture Demonstration with Composer Andreia Pinto-Correia
5:30pm in Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
1/23 Happy Hour with Live Music, The Alan Wilkins Trio
6:00pm in Rubenstein Commons
information and registration
1/29 Labyrinth Book Talk: Brian Soucek In Conversation With Joan Scott
6:00pm
note location: Labyrinth Books in Princeton
information and registration
1/30 Trivia Night with Righteous Jolly
6:00pm in Rubenstein Commons
information and registration
FEBRUARY
2/4 Film Screening: Coexistence, My Ass!
4:00pm Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
2/5 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert, Bergamot Quartet
7:00pm Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
2/6 Happy Hour Bingo Night
6:00pm Rubenstein Commons
information and registration
2/10 Historical Studies Book Talk with Lars Behrisch
Democracy's Double Helix: Participation, Equality, and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
5:00pm reception, 5:30pm talk
Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration
2/12 Concert and Conversation with clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and violinist Layale Chaker
5:30pm, Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
2/13 Valentine's Buffet Dinner
Live Music featuring Larry Tamanini Trio
6:00pm Simons Hall
information and registration
2/20 Happy Hour with Live Music featuring the Clark Abbott Trio
Friday, February 20, 2026
6:00pm, Rubenstein Commons
information and registration
2/26 Happy Hour Trivia Night
6:00pm Rubenstein Commons
information and registration
MARCH
3/4 Friends Talk with M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Willis F. Doney Member in the School of Historical Studies
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the Woman Who Discovered the Universe: Reflections from Two Generations Onward
- 12 noon – 12:20pm: Please get lunch in the Servery
- 12:20 – 1:00pm: FriendsTalk and Q&A
Dilworth Room in Simons Hall
information and registration
3/4 Historical Studies Book Talk with Sonia Tycko
Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
5:00pm Reception, 5:30pm Talk
Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration
3/5 Teatime Performance: Signum Quartet
3:30pm Rubenstein Commons Living Room
information and registration
3/6 Happy Hour Bingo Night
6:00pm Rubenstein Commons
information and registration
3/10 2026 Lecture on Public Policy: Rethinking Platform Labor
Juliet B. Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College
5:30pm Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
3/13 Lecture Demonstration with conductor Rob Kapilow
5:30pm Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
3/20 St. Patrick's Buffet Dinner
6:00pm Simons Hall
information and registration
3/24 Historical Studies Film Screening: The Secret Agent
4:00pm Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
3/25 Friends Talk and Servery Dinner with Dr. Chris Hamilton,
John N. Bahcall Fellow in Astrophysics in the School of Natural Sciences
Spiral structure in galaxies: still a problem after 160 years
6:00pm obtain dinner from the Servery, 6:20pm talk in Dilworth
information and registration
3/26 Trivia Night with Righteous Jolly
6:00pm Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration
3/27 Happy Hour with Live Music featuring Brad Hinton
6:00pm Rubenstein Commons
information and registration
3/31 Book Talk with Matthew L. Keegan
Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary
• Supported by the Friends of IAS
3:30pm - 5:00pm Rubenstein Commons Room 5
information and registration
APRIL
4/3 Egg Hunt
4:30pm South Lawn
information and registration
4/7 Film Screening: Paint Me a Road Out of Here
4:00pm Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
4/9 Roger E. Covey Distinguished Lecture in Premodern China Studies
5:30pm Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
4/10 S.T. Lee Public Lecture with John Cassidy
A.I. and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Historical Approach
5:30pm Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
4/14 Happy Hour with Live Music: Tamar Eisenman and Kaki King present SEI
5:30pm Rubenstein Commons
information and registration
4/15 Historical Studies Book Talk with Jonathan Sheehan
On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular
• Supported by the Friends of IAS
5:00 pm Reception, 5:30 pm Talk in Rubenstein Commons Cafe
information and Registration
4/17 Friends Lunch with a Member
Vera Gluscevic, IBM Einstein Fellow, School of Natural Sciences
Growing a Universe from Quantum Scales
12:00 p.m. | Please bring your lunch or purchase it in the servery
12:15 p.m. | Program begins
Simons Hall | Dilworth Room
information and registration
4/18 - 20 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday)
Critical Intent as a Form of Life
A Conference in Honor of Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at IAS
information and registration for all three days
4/24 Lecture Demonstration with guitarists Sérgio Assad and João Luiz Rezende
5:30pm, location TBA
information and registration link forthcoming
4/30 Public Lecture Honoring Jim Simons
Breaking the Bubble: From the Brachistochrone to the Simons Cone
Camillo De Lellis, IBM von Neumann Professor, IAS
5:00pm, Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration
MAY
5/6 Friends Talk and Servery Dinner with Govind Manon,
Erik Ellentuck Fellow in the School of Mathematics
Topic TBD
For IAS Friends who give at the Ambassador's Circle level and higher
6:00pm obtain dinner from the Servery, 6:20pm talk in Dilworth
5/14 Friends Annual Meeting
6:00pm, Simons Hall
additional information and registration link forthcoming
5/14 Concert and Conversation with The Renaissance String Quartet
7:30pm, Wolfensohn Hall
additional information and registration link forthcoming
5/15 Founders' Day
information and registration link forthcoming