Co-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, February 3rd at 5:30 PM for a book talk with historian and author Ray Suarez. He will discuss his new book We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century with Dalton Conley and Maria E. Montoya. Ray Suarez is a journalist and veteran broadcaster with decades…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge and NYU Wagner on Wednesday, February 5th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with historian Julian Zelizer. He will discuss his new book In Defense of Partisanship with Jonathan Alter. This event is sponsored by IPK and the NYU John Brademas Center. In Defense of Partisanship imagines what…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Center on Modernity in Transition on February 6th and 7th for the Human Oneness Symposium. The concepts that express our shared humanity are proving inadequate to the challenges we face. Terms such as cosmopolitanism, humanism, and universalism can trigger unease in academic and public discourse, revealing that…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, February 12th at 5:30 PM for a screening of Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit, winner of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. After the screening, the film’s Senior Historical Advisor, Tom Sugrue, will sit down with Eric Klinenberg for a brief discussion…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge on Thursday, February 13 (5:30-7:00 PM) for a book talk with Danya Glabau and Laura Forlano. They will discuss their book Cyborg with Margaret Jack and David Parisi. Danya Glabau is a medical anthropologist and STS scholar researching health activism, the medical economy, and how human bodies become valuable…
RSVPCo-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, March 5th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Webb Keane. He will discuss his new book Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination with Gideon Lewis-Krause and Natasha Schüll. Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Anthropology…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Past and Future of Work Working Group on Wednesday, March 19th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Eric Blanc. He will discuss his new book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big with Antonio Rosario. Eric Blanc is Assistant…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Past and Future of Work Working Group on Wednesday, April 9th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Alice Driver. She will discuss her new book Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company with Roger Horowitz and Eyal Press….
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