Friends Events: Spring 2024

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 below. 
Thank you!

JANUARY 

1/15 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day, IAS closed

1/19 Happy Hour with Live Music
Tom Trovas Trio
7:00 - 9:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

1/26 Happy Hour Trivia Night
7:00 - 9:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

1/30 Book Talk with Guido Alfani
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
5:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

FEBRUARY

2/2 ST Lee Panel Discussion
Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies  
Discussion on Perspectives on Democracy and Citizenship in Contemporary China
5:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

2/7 Lecture with Tadashi Tokeida
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

2/15 AMIAS Film Screening
Journey of Black Mathematicians
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

2/19 President's Day, IAS closed

2/21 International Pot Luck Supper
5:30pm / Simons Hall
Registration Required

2/22 The Principles of Hip Hop: Peace, Love, Unity, and Having Fun
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

2/23 Trivia Night
6:00 - 8:00pm / Rubenstein Commons Cafe
Registration Required

2/29 Friends Talk
Sarah Davis-Secord, Member in the School of Historical Studies
Commerce and Connection in the Global Middle Ages
5:30 / Rubenstein Room 1
Registration Required

March

3/1 History of Science Lecture
Marc Aidinoff, Research Associate, School of Social Science
5:30pm / Dilworth Room
Reservation Required

3/8 International Women's Day Film Screening: 
Four Daughters
12:15pm / West Lecture Hall
Reservations Required

3/8 Happy Hour Trivia Night
7:00 - 9:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

3/13 Book Talk with Celine Bessiere
The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality
5:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required 

3/14 From Text to Song: Schubert as Translator
A lecture demonstration with Brian Zeger and Jared Werlein
6:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

3/15 St. Patrick's Day Buffet Dinner
6:00pm / Simons Hall
Registration Required

3/20 Teatime Performance featuring Ensemble 132
3:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

3/21 Equinox Jukebox
Derek Bermel Retrospective Concert
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

3/22 History of Science Lecture
David Kaiser, Faculty, School of Natural Sciences
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required 

3/29 Egg Hunt
3:00pm / South Lawn
Registration Required 

April

4/3 Friends Talk 
Brad Bolman, Member in the School of Historical Studies
LAB DOG: What Global Science Owes American Beagles
5:30pm / Rubenstein Commons (Rm. 5)
Registration Required

4/5 History of Science Lecture
Chen-Pang Yeang, Past Member, School of Historical Studies
5:30pm / Dilworth Room
Registration Required

4/8 Solar Eclipse Viewing at Teatime
The eclipse is viewable from 2:09 - 4:35 p.m. with maximum coverage at 3:24 p.m.
(Viewing glasses available at 2pm)
Registration Required

4/9 2024 Public Policy Lecture
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age
9am / Wolfensohn Hall (Attend in-person or via livestream)
Registration Required

4/9 ST Lee Lecture
Professor Andrea Rinaldo, Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Reflected in Water: A Conversation on Development, Resilience and Inequalities
5:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

4/10 ST Lee Public Workshop
Historical and Society Perspectives on Climate and Society
9:00am - 6:00 pm / West Building Lecture Hall
Registration Required

4/10 Music Meditation
Jonathan Bliss; pianist, teacher, writer
3:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

4/12 History of Science Lecture  
Stephanie Dick
“Castles in the Sky”: Mathematics, Marxism, and the Mind In the Early Automation of Proof
5:30pm | Dilworth Room 
Registration Required

4/17 HS–SS Library Book Talk with George Kiraz
Senior Research Associate in the School of Historical Studies
Water the Willow Tree
4:00pm / White-Levy Room
Registration Required

4/19 Trivia Night
7:00 / Rubenstein Commons Cafe
Registration Required

4/19 Roger E. Covey Distinguished Lecture in Premodern China Studies 
Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University
5:30pm / Dilworth Room
Registration Required

4/26 Director's Conversation with Jennifer Homans and Tamara Rojo
The Place and Practice of Dance in the Past, Present, and Future of Arts and Culture
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

May

5/3 Director's Conversation and Masterclass
Joyce DiDonato, American lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano
The Power of Song: Creation, Embodiment, Effect
5:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required

5/10 Book Talk with Elizabeth Barry White
The Counterfeit Countess
5:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required

5/17 Founders Day 
5:30pm / Friends Annual Meeting 
Registration Required

5/27 Memorial Day: IAS Closed