Join the Institute for Public Knowledge’s Global New Right Working Group for a book talk on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy with the author Quinn Slobodian, and an introduction by Maya Vinokour, on October 13th at 12:00 PM. This event will be in a hybrid format. A Zoom (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic with the author Melina Sherman, in conversation with Natasha Schüll and Emily Martin, on October 16th at 5:30 PM. Melina Sherman is a critical health communication scholar and researcher at Knology, a New (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Gayfriendly: Acceptance and Control of Homosexuality in New York and Paris with the author Sylvia Tissot, in conversation with Christina B. Hanhardt, on October 18th at 12:00 PM. Sylvie Tissot is Professor of Political Science at University of Paris 8. Her research focuses on (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance with the author Karen Levy, in conversation with Caitlin Zaloom and Caitlin Petre, on October 25th at 5:30 PM. Karen Levy is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, and Associated (more…)

Join NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change with the author Stephen Gross, in conversation with Andrew Needham, on October 30th at 5:30 PM. Stephen G. Gross is jointly appointed in (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart with the author Astra Taylor, in conversation with Sarah Leonard, on November 1st at 5:30 PM. Cosponsored by Lux magazine. Astra Taylor is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and political organizer. She is the director, (more…)