Upcoming Events

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, September 9 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Stuart Schrader. He will discuss his book, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, with Andrew Ross and Jeanne Theoharis. Stuart Schrader is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, September 23 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an 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 Bill McKibben and David Wallace-Wells. Leah C. Stokes is Anton Vonk Associate Professor of (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 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 Review, and the author (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 on Thursday, September 24 (5:30-7:00 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.  Tejasvi Nagaraja is an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University in the (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 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…)