Upcoming Events

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, November 30 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Danah Boyd. She will discuss her book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census with Meeta Anand, Joseph Salvo, and Thomas Wolf.  Danah Boyd is the Geri (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, December 2 (12:00 PM-1:30 PM) for an event with Lisa M. Stulberg. She will discuss her book, How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture, with Joe Salvatore.  Lisa M. Stulberg is associate professor of sociology of education at New York University’s Steinhardt (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge 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, Kim Phillips-Fein, and Maia (more…)

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 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 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…)

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 on Wednesday, November 18 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Michael Glass. He will discuss his book, Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America, with R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy and Andrew Needham. Michael Glass is an Associate Professor of History at Boston College. His work examines how financial systems (more…)