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Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey, will open his national tour for his new book, "We Can All Do Better," with a public lecture on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall, Room 50, on the Princeton University campus. The address, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School, is free and open to the public. A book sale and signing will immediately follow the talk.

Ehud Olmert, who served as the 12th prime minister of Israel from April 2006 – March 2009, will present a public lecture on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall, Room 50, on the Princeton University campus. The address, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School, is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for entry.

Princeton alumnus Jonathan Safran Foer, the best-selling author of "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," will participate in a public discussion with novelist and Princeton faculty member Joyce Carol Oates at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, McCosh Hall, Room 50. Their conversation, titled "Writing Life," will address writing as a profession as well as autobiographical elements and questions of Jewish identity in Foer's work.

There is nothing like a film festival on the Princeton University campus! Join the faculty, students, and the local community for this campus favorite featuring the best high-adrenaline films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival RADICAL REELS WORLD TOUR. Hold onto your seats for action-packed extreme sport films including climbing, paddling, mountain biking, BASE jumping, skiing, and snowboarding. Intermission mingling is encouraged and Princeton students will run prizes for the free gear raffle to lucky winners. Sponsored by Princeton’s Outdoor Action Program.

New Jersey Governer Chris Christie will deliver a policy address at Princeton University. 

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This annual festival features spectacular action-packed films on a range of mountain and adventure sports, including rock climbing, mountaineering, kayaking, mountain biking, extreme skiing and explorations of the natural world. Free gear giveaways! There will be shows Friday, 4/22 & Saturday, 4/23 with different films shown each night. For details, visit: www.princeton.edu/~oa/special. Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_Lipjc1Gc.

Sheila Bair, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

This event will be a discussion between Chairman Bair and Alan Blinder, Gordon S.  Rentschler Memorial Professor in the Department of  Economics at Princeton University and formerly a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers and vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Award-winning author Toni Morrison, Princeton's Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, will present a lecture titled "Invisible Ink: Reading the Writing and Writing the Reading" at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in McCosh Hall, Room 50.

Princeton political scholar Nolan McCarty will speak on "The Polarization of American Politics" in the next installment of the President's Lecture Series at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, in McCosh Hall, Room 10.

Visiting professor Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, will talk with professor Paul Muldoon about "Roger Casement, the Congo, Ireland and Latin America," the subject of Vargas Llosa's latest novel, at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22, at McCosh Hall, Room 50.

A conversation with U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin, a 1975 Princeton graduate, and a student re-enactment titled "The Constitution in a Time of War: The Trial of Minoru Yasui" will be featured in this year's Constitution Day program at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, in McCosh Hall, Room 10.