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Princeton University Public Lectures Announced for Spring 2026

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY – This spring, Princeton Public Lectures continues its long tradition of bringing renowned artists and intellectuals to Princeton's campus for scholarly talks that are free and open to all.

Scheduled throughout the academic year, the lectures are held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall, Room 50. No tickets or reservations are required.  

The spring 2026 Princeton University Public Lectures are, as follows:

Kate Manne and Tressie McMillan Cottom In Conversation

Feb. 18, 2026

Stafford Little Lectures Series

Kate Manne is a professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University and specializes in moral, social and feminist philosophy. She is the recipient of the PROSE award in philosophy and in the humanities and APA's Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Macmillan Cottom is a writer and sociologist whose essays have been featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl and Chris Hayes. 

Percival Everett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

March 25, 2026

Spencer Trask Lectures Series

Percival Everett is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California. He achieved his most recent acclaim for his 2024 novel "James," a reinvented version of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" told from the perspective of Jim, the runaway slave. "James" won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The film "American Fiction," which won a 2024 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture, was based on Everett's 2001 novel, "Erasure."  

Gabriel Zucman, chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics

April 14, 2026

Uwe Reinhardt Distinguished Lecture

Gabriel Zucman is a Summer Research Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and founding director of the EU Tax Observatory. With research focused on the accumulation, distribution and taxation of global wealth, Zucman has renewed the analysis of the macroeconomic and distributional implications of globalization. Some of Zucman's honors include the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association, the Bernacer Prize, Sloan Research Fellowship, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and the Best Young French Economist Prize. 

For more information or scheduling updates, please consult the Princeton University Public Lectures website.