Princeton Public Lectures offers both in-person and virtual participation to ensure that events are accessible to all who would like to attend. Please note, all events are free and open to the public.
Most events take place in McCosh 50, unless otherwise listed.
If you are unable to attend in-person, you may participate virtually for many of the lectures by either registering for the event via Zoom webinar, or by watching the event live via our Live Stream feed to Media Central. Closed captioning is provided for viewers participating via Zoom or Media Central.
Please see individual event listings for specific details on virtual availability and how to register.
Upcoming Lectures
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Past Lectures
How did we move from a world in which discrimination against women was not recognized as an issue, in which women were routinely and legally fired when they were married or when they became pregnant, and in which they could not always get a credit card in their name or pick their own name legally, to the world we now live in, however imperfect?…
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed 2312, Shaman, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future. He…
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author who explores the science of motivation, generosity, rethinking, and potential. He has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for 7 straight years. As an organizational psychologist, he is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, rethink assumptions, and live more…
As the very notion of what it means to be employed by the Federal government becomes a moving target, the new edited volume Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service stakes a claim to must-read of the moment. Celebrated author Michael Lewis ’82, who curated and edited the volume, will talk about this timely…
In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan shares her efforts to understand the African woman painted holding a clock in Bologna in 1585.
The talk engages both with material culture, scholarship on Art History, the Early Modern Black Atlantic world, and the provocation of critical fabulation.
Free and open to the public.…
Jodi Kantor, investigative reporter for The New York Times, and Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer for The New Yorker, will examine strategies for “black box” reporting inside seemingly impenetrable organizations, governments, and corporations. Moderated by Eliza…