Upcoming Events

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 (more…)

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 (more…)

Join NYU’s Climate Initiative and the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, September 23 (6:00-7:30 PM) for a special Climate Week event with Leah C. Stokes. She will discuss her new book, The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet, with Sonia Aggarwal, Jay Inslee, Bill McKibben, and (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, the Past and Future of Work Working Group, and NYU’s History Department on Thursday, September 24 (6:00-7:30 PM) for an event with Tejasvi Nagaraja. He will discuss his book, Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II, with Adrian De Leon and Ruth Milkman.  (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Friday, September 25 (12:00-1:30 PM) for an event with Thea Riofrancos. She will discuss her new book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, with Leah Aronowsky and Ashley Dawson. Thea Riofrancos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and NYU’s History Department on Wednesday, September 30 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Wendy Lesser. She will discuss her new book, Berlin Before and After: A Cautionary Mirror for Our Times, with Noah Isenberg and Rosanna Warren. Wendy Lesser is the founding and current editor of The Threepenny (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, October 5 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Sherry Turkle. She will discuss her new book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, with Manoush Zomorodi. Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the John Brademas Center on Wednesday, October 21 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Julia R. Azari. She will discuss her book, Backlash Presidents: Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History, with Kimberley Johnson and Joe Lowndes. Moderated by IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz. Julia R. Azari is (more…)