Friends Events for Fall 2024
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.
SEPTEMBER
9/20 Live music with Larry Tamanini
6:00 - 8:30 pm
Registration Required
9/20 Zoe Sarnak Happy Hour Talk
5:00 - 5:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
9/27 Friends Welcome Reception
6:00 - 8:00pm / Simons Hall
Registration Required
9/27 Outdoor Movie Night
Outdoor Movie Night has been postponed due to weather.
An alternative date is yet to be determined... stay tuned!
9/30 Director's Conversation
From Poetry to Song: Joyce DiDonato and Kevin Puts on Musical Creation
5:30pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
OCTOBER
10/4 Happy Hour with Live Music
Tom Trovas Trio
6:00 - 8:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
10/5 (Saturday) Birdwatching in the Institute Woods
Led by Peter Reczek, former National Audubon Society instructor.
9:00 - 10:30am / Meet in Parking Lot B
This event is at capacity.
Please write to friends@ias.edu if you would like to be on the waitlist.
10/6 (Sunday) Birdwatching in the Institute Woods
Led by Peter Reczek, former National Audubon Society instructor.
9:00 - 10:30am / Meet in Parking Lot B
This event is at capacity.
Please write to friends@ias.edu if you would like to be on the waitlist.
10/10 Lunch with a Member
Sihao Chang, School of Natural Sciences
12 noon - 1:00pm / Dilworth Room in Simons Hall
Registration Required
10/10 Happy Hour Trivia Night with Righteous Jolly
6:00pm - 8pm | Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
10/16 IAS Community Pumpkin Painting
4:00 - 5:30pm / Fuld Hall
Registration Required
10/17 Happy Hour Bingo Night
6:00 - 7:30pm / location TBD
Registration Required
10/18 Teatime with SHABAKA
3:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
10/18 S.T. Lee Film Screening: My Architect
directed by Nathaniel Kahn
4:00 – 7:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
10/18 Buffet Dinner: Fall Fest
6:00 - 8:30 / Simons Hall
Registration Required: Associated cost
10/22 Digital Scholarship Conversations @IAS
1-:00am / White-Levy Room
To attend, email ds@ias.edu
10/25 Director's Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah
5:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration required
10/31 Halloween Party
4:00 - 5:30pm / Fuld Hall
Registration Required
10/31 Trick or Treating at 112 Mercer
6:00pm
10/31 (and November 1 & 2) Munsee Language and History Symposium
• 9:30am all three days. Virtual or in-person.
• Sessions take place at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Library, and Princeton Public Library
Registration required
NOVEMBER
11/1 Film: a.k.a Mr. Chow
ST Lee Film Screening
5:00pm / location TBD
Registration Required
11/8 Live Music with John Beacher
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled in January.
11/11 2024 Public Policy Lecture
Multilateralism Under Attack: What Will Be the Human and Political Cost of Efforts to Dismantle UNRWA?
Lecture on Public Policy with Philippe Lazzarini
5:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
11/13 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert
7:00 - 8:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
11/14 Public Lecture with James Green
NASA Chief Scientists (retired)
5:30 - 6:30pm Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
11/15 Film: The Hunt for Planet B
ST Lee Screening with director Nathaniel Kahn
5:00pm
Registration Required
11/15 Happy Hour with Live Music, featuring the Alan Wilkins Trio
6:00 - 8:30pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
11/20 A Lecture Demonstration with Randall Goosby and The Renaissance Quartet
6pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
11/22 Trivia Night
7:00 - 9:00pm Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
11/28 and 11/29 Institute closed for Thanksgiving break
DECEMBER
12/4 IAS Film Series: Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail)
By Iffat Fatima
4:00pm / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
12/5 Trivia Night
6:00 - 8:00pm Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
12/10 Family Friendly History Talk
Brian Rose, Member in the School of Historical Studies
6:00pm / Rubenstein Commons Room 5
Registration Required
Did the Trojan War really happen, and what have recent excavations at Troy revealed to us about the events that occurred before, during, and after the war? Brian Rose co-directed excavations at the site for 25 years, and will provide a broad overview about what we've learned.
12/13 Friends Holiday Party
6:00 - 8:00pm / Rubenstein Commons
Registration Required
12/15 Edward T. Cone Concert Series: Time For Three
5:00 p.m. / Wolfensohn Hall
Registration Required
12/18 Children's Holiday Party
4:00pm - 6:00pm / Fuld Hall
Registration Required
12/23 - 1/25 Institute closed for winter holiday break
MAY
5/13/25 Friends Annual Meeting
evening (time TBD)
Registration Required, link forthcoming