Friends Events for Winter and Spring 2025
Please check this calendar frequently, as changes do occur and events (including Friends talks and lectures) will be added. You will find the most up to date information about events below.
JANUARY
1/23 Happy Hour: Trivia Night
6:00 - 8:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
1/27 Film Screening: Partition
4:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
1/29 Friends Lunch with Gilles Bransbourg, Infosys Member in the School of Historical Studies
Coin or Not to Coin? Why did the Greeks create coinage?
12:15pm
Registration Required
1/31 History of Science Lecture with Alma Steingart
5:30pm / Simons Hall, Dilworth Room
Registration Required
February
2/11 Book Talk with Jérémie Koering
4:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
2/12 Book Talk with Richard Kagan
5:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
2/13 Happy Hour Trivia Night
6:00 - 8:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
2/14 S.T. Lee Film Screening: La Chimera
4:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
2/14 Valentine's Day Buffet Dinner
6:00 - 8:00pm / Simons Hall
Details and Registration
2/20 Happy Hour: Bingo Night
6:00 - 8:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
2/21 Stargazing with Lia Mederios
5:30 talk in Wolfensohn Hall
followed by Stargazing on the South Lawn
Details and Registration
2/26 Friends Table at Servery Dinner
Please make a reservation here and let Catherine Thomas know you will be attending.
([email protected])
2/28 Broadcasting Fidelity
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
MARCH
3/1 Edward T. Cone Concert: Jasper String Quartet
7:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
3/6 Trivia Night with Righteous Jolly
6:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
3/7 International Women's Day Film Screening
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
3:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
3/14 St. Patrick's Day Buffet Dinner
6:00pm / Simons Hall
Details and Registration
3/19 PSO Tea Time Concert: Black Oak Ensemble
3:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
3/21 Happy Hour with Live Music featuring John Beacher
7:00pm - 9:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
3/26 Friends Table at Servery Dinner
Please make a reservation here and let Catherine Thomas know you will be attending.
([email protected])
3/27 S.T. Lee Film Screening: Skammata
5:00pm / Dilworth Room
Details and Registration
3/27 International Pot Luck Supper
5:00 - 7:00 / Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
3/27 Open Mic Night
7:00 - 9:00pm / Simons Hall
Details and Registration
3/28 History of Science Lecture with Debbie Coen
5:30pm / Dilworth Room
Details and Registration
APRIL
4/2 Film Screening: Green Border
2:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
4/3 Trivia Night with Righteous Jolly
6:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
4/4 Monstrous Beauty and Time Machines
4:00pm / White Levy Room
Details and Registration
4/4 History of Science Lecture with Peter Pesic
Music of the Clocks and Spheres: Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert's Experiments with Time
5:30pm / Dilworth Room
Details and Registration
4/9 Historical Studies Book Talk with Sophia Rosenfeld
The Age of Choice
5:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
4/10 Wine Tasting
5:30 / Rubenstein Commons Meeting Room 5
Details and Registration
4/16 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert
Gershwin and Friends: Marimba and Piano
7:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
4/18 Egg Hunt
4:30pm / South Lawn
Details and Registration
4/22 In Conversation with Subhankar Banerjee
4:00pm / Rubenstein Commons Cafe
Details and Registration
4/24 ST Film Screening of Dahomey
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
4/25 S.T. Lee Lecture with Hermann Parzinger
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
4/25 Happy Hour Bingo Night
6:30 - 8:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
4/28 Film Screening: Three Seasons
4:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
4/30 Friends Table at Servery Dinner
This event is full: please contact Catherine Thomas if you would like to be placed on the waitlist.
([email protected])
MAY
5/2 Director's Conversation: Sir Demis Hassabis
5:30pm - 6:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
5/8 Friends Talk with Ellen Eischen
To Hel and Back: An Early IAS Mathematician and the Shaping of her Legacy
5:00pm. | Reception
5:30pm. | Talk
Rubenstein Commons, Meeting Room 5
Registration Required
5/9 Happy Hour: Live Music with Cara Cartney
6:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
5/10 and 5/11 Birdwatching in the Institute Woods
8:30am both days
Saturday 5/10: spaces remaining
Sunday 5/11: FULL
Registration Required
Please reach out to Catherine Thomas directly if you would like to be placed on the waitlist for Sunday, 5/11.
5/15 Friends Annual Meeting and reception
evening
5:30pm – 8:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
5/16 Founders Day: Celebrating Discovery
2:00pm start time: See registration for full schedule
Registration Required
5/16 Bending Time & Space in the Sistine Chapel
Founders Day Public Lecture by Maria Loh
5:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
JUNE
6/2 Group Lecture RARE/EARTH:
The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the AI Supply Chain
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required