Upcoming Events

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, April 13 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Benjamin Cornwell and Nan Feng. They will discuss their new book, Friends and Fortunes: Social Capital Inequality in America, with BK Lee. Benjamin Cornwell is a Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, where he recently served as Department chair. (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, April 29 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Schneur Zalman Newfield. They 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, the Global New Right working group, and the Past and Future of Work group on Wednesday, April 15  (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Lorenza Antonucci. She will discuss her new book, Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist Support, with Sheri Berman and Daniel Laurison. Lorenza Antonucci (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, April 6 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Kate Brown. She will discuss her book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, with Amy Bentley and Sophie Gonick. Kate Brown is a Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT and (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, the NYU History Department, and the Race and Public Space Working Group on Monday, March 30, at 5:30 PM for an event with historian Heather Ann Thompson. She will discuss her new book, Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage, (more…)

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…)

IPK will host a dual book talk with David Garland, author of Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment, and Robert J. Sampson, author of Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans, on Monday, March 9 (5:30 PM). Patrick Sharkey will moderate (more…)