Friends Events Fall Term 2026

Please check this calendar frequently, as changes do occur and events will be added. You will find the most up to date information about events open to IAS Friends below.

SEPTEMBER

9/18 Happy Hour with Live Music featuring Cara McCartney
6:00pm in Rubenstein Café and Living Room
information and registration

OCTOBER

10/1 Happy Hour Trivia
6:00pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration details 

10/2 Friends Welcome Reception
5:30pm–7:30pm in Simons Hall
information and registration details

10/7 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert: The Ivalas Quartet
7:00pm in Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration details

10/8 Happy Hour with Live Music featuring the Clark Abbott Trio
6:00pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration details

10/9 Concert and Conversation with The Renaissance String Quartet
5:30pm in Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration details

10/13 Friends Talk: Matteo Bortolini, Director's Visitor
"Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Clifford Geertz between Culture, Craft, and Celebrity"
5:00pm Gallery Walk
5:30pm–6:30pm Friends Talk and Q&A
Gallery and Café in Rubenstein Commons 
information and registration details

10/14 Historical Studies Book Talk with Kim Bowes
"Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent"
• supported by the Friends of IAS
5:00–7:00pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration details

10/16 ST Lee Lecture
"Wampum, Governance, and the Lenape Tradition of Mediation: Reflections on Law-Making and Dispute Resolution" 
6:00pm in Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration details

10/21 Historical Studies Book Talk with Sergio Luzzatto
"The First Fascist: The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis De Morès"
• supported by the Friends of IAS
5:00–7:00pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration details

10/23 Pumpkin Painting
4:00–5:30pm in Rubenstein Commons 
information and registration details

10/23 Farm-to-Table Buffet Dinner with Live Music
(charge applies)
6:00–8:00pm in Simons Hall
information and registration details

10/29 Happy Hour Bingo
6:00pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration

10/30 Director's Conversation with Jill Lepore
"The Force of History"
5:30pm in Wolfensohn Hall
information and registration

10/31 (Saturday) Community Halloween Party
4:00pm in Fuld Hall Common Room
information and registration details

10/31 Halloween Event at 112 Mercer Street
5:00–7:00pm

NOVEMBER

11/6 Edward T. Cone Concert
5:30pm in Wolfensohn Hall
link to information and registration details forthcoming

11/12 Happy Hour Trivia
6:00pm in Rubenstein Café
link to information and registration details forthcoming

11/17 Historical Studies Book Talk with Yair Mintzker
• supported by the Friends of IAS
5:00–7:00pm Rubenstein Commons Café
link to information and registration details forthcoming

11/19 Wine Tasting
(charge applies)
5:30pm in Rubenstein Commons Room 5
link to information and registration details forthcoming

11/20 "Hawking: His Life and Work"—A Conversation with Graham Farmelo and Natalie Wolchover
5:00pm in Wolfensohn Hall 
information and registration

11/20 Happy Hour with Live Music featuring Noah Richardson
5:30pm in Rubenstein Café and Living Room
link to information and registration details forthcoming

DECEMBER

12/3 Happy Hour Trivia
6:00pm in Rubenstein Café and Living Room
link to information and registration details forthcoming

12/11 Friends Holiday Party
6:00–8:00pm in Rubenstein Commons
link to information and registration details forthcoming

12/16 Children's Holiday Party
4:30pm in Simons Hall
link to information and registration details forthcoming

MAY 
5/19 Friends Annual Meeting and Reception in Simons 
6:00–8:00pm