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

2/23 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
5:00pm Reception, 5:30pm Talk
Rubenstein Commons Café
information and registration

2/26 Happy Hour Trivia Night
6:00pm Rubenstein Commons
information and registration

MARCH

3/13 Lecture Demonstration with conductor Rob Kapilow
5:30pm, location TBA
information and registration link forthcoming

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 dinner, 6:20pm talk, location TBD
information and registration link forthcoming

 APRIL

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