Upcoming Events

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the AI in Society Working Group on Monday, October 19 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Thomas Frank. He will discuss his book, The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America’s Biggest Racket, with Liza Featherstone. Thomas Frank is the bestselling author of What’s the Matter With Kansas?; Listen, (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, October 28 (5:30-7:00 PM) for a dual book talk with Michael Edison Hayden, author of Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town, and Christopher Mathias, author of To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. Jared Holt will (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the AI in Society Working Group on Monday, November 2 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Philipp Brandt. He will discuss his book, Inside Data Science: Hackers and the Making of a New Profession, with Alice E. Marwick. Philipp Brandt is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU’s History Department, and the Past and Future of Work Group on Wednesday, November 4 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with María E. Montoya. She will discuss her book, A Workplace of Their Own: Progressive Management of Workers and their Families in Colorado’s Coal Fields, with Eduardo Contreras and (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group for an event with Laura Field on November 9 at 5:30 PM. She will discuss her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, with Cristina Beltrán, Suzanne Schneider and George Schulman. Laura K. Field is an associate with (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice at New York University’s School of Law on Wednesday, November 11 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Anand Giridharadas. He will discuss his new book, Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City, with Suketu Mehta. (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, November 16 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Guillermina Altomonte. She will discuss her book, Chasing Independence: Growing Old in the Shadow of an American Ideal, with Premilla Nadasen and Tina Sadarangani. Guillermina Altomonte is an assistant professor of sociology at New York University who works on (more…)