Upcoming Events

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Race and Public Space Working Group on Wednesday, April 22 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Kimberley S. Johnson. She will discuss her new book, Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis, with Christina Greer and Domingo Morel.  Kimberley S. Johnson is Professor of Social (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, April 29 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Schneur Zalman Newfield. He will discuss his new book, Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidim, with Steven Michael Lukes and Iddo Tavory. Schneur Zalman Newfield was raised in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn and attended Lubavitch yeshivahs in (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Tuesday, May 12 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Dimitry Leger. He will discuss his new book Death of the Soccer God with 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 was a retired (more…)