Movie Screening | Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit

Join 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 and a Q&A.

Thomas J. Sugrue is Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History and the founding Director of Cities Collaborative at New York University.  He is author of four books, including Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, and editor of five others. He has contributed to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the London Review of Books, The Nation, and Salon. He is a frequent commentator on modern American history, politics, civil rights, and urban policy. Sugrue has given over 450 public lectures throughout the United States and in Argentina, Canada, England, France, Germany, and Japan.

Eric Klinenberg is Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed (Knopf, 2024), Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Crown, 2018), Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (The Penguin Press, 2012), Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and co-author, with Aziz Ansari, of the New York Times #1 bestseller Modern Romance (The Penguin Press, 2015). His scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Ethnography, and he has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and This American Life.