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View Events ListWorking Group Meeting: The Past and Future of Work
Co-coordinators: Spencer Kaplan, Maggie Jack, and Maia Silber “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…
Book Talk | Matthew Wolfe | Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Literary Reportage Program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute on Wednesday, September 16 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Matthew Wolfe. He will discuss his new book, Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage with Colin Jerolmack…
Book Talk | Mona Sloane | Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the AI in Society Working Group on Monday, September 14 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Mona Sloane. She will discuss her new book, Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life, with Allison Pugh and Charlton McIlwain. Mona Sloane, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and…
Book Talk | Stuart Schrader | Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, the Global New Right Working Group, and NYU’s History Department on Wednesday, September 9 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Stuart Schrader. He will discuss his book, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, with Andrew Ross and Jeanne Theoharis. This event will be hybrid, with Zoom…
Book Talk | Max Holleran & Samuel Holleran | Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, September 2 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Max Holleran and Samuel Holleran. They will discuss their new book Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center with Erica Robles-Anderson and Marita Sturken. Max Holleran is Senior Lecturer of Social Policy at University of Melbourne and…
Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: Community Report Back in Poughkeepsie
The Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) and Gehl Studios recently released our report, Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible. The study consisted of a survey of more than 1,100 people, more than 100 interviews, and numerous field visits to better understand how ordinary New Yorkers engaged with their public spaces….
Book Talk | Dimitry Léger | Death of the Soccer God
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Tuesday, May 12 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Dimitry Léger. He will discuss his new book Death of the Soccer God with Laurent Dubois and Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Dimitry Elias Léger was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1971 and raised between Haiti and Brooklyn, N.Y. His father…
Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible
We have reached event capacity. Please email us at ipk.info@nyu.edu if you would like to be added to the waitlist. Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible. Social infrastructure—the physical places that shape our capacity to connect – is essential for the health and vitality of democratic societies….
Working Group Meeting: The Past and Future of Work
Co-coordinators: Danya Glabau, 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…