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 Quartett
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, location TBA
information and registration link forthcoming
3/30 St. Patrick's Buffet Dinner
Live Music featuring The Jolly Tinkers
6:00pm Simons 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
information and registration
APRIL
4/17 Friends Lunch with a Member
Vera Gluscevic, IBM Einstein Fellow, School of Natural Sciences
Growing a Universe from Quantum Scales
Details 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
Various times and locations
information and registration
4/22 Friends Table at last Servery Dinner of the term
6:00pm in Simons Hall
Please rsvp to friends@ias.edu or 609.734.8008
4/24 Lecture Demonstration with guitarists Sérgio Assad and João Luiz Rezende
5:30pm, location TBA
information and registration link forthcoming
MAY
5/14 Concert and Conversation with The Renaissance String Quartet
7:30pm location TBA
information and registration link forthcoming