Upcoming Events

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on September 25th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Jessica Calarco. She will discuss her new book Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net with Kathleen Gerson and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. Jessica Calarco is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. An expert (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on September 4th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Sasha Abramsky. He will discuss his new book Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America with Jeff Sharlet. Sasha Abramsky is a long-time political journalist and book author who has spent the last thirty (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Past and Future of Work Working Group on October 16th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Allison Pugh. She will discuss her new book The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World with Gullermina Altomonte and Mona Sloane. Allison Pugh is (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on September 18th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Mirca Madianou. She will discuss her new book Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful with Erica Robles-Anderson and Simone Zhang. Mirca Madianou is Professor in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies and co-Director of the (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Children of a Modest Star with authors Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman, on October 23rd at 5:30 PM. In the groundbreaking Children of a Modest Star, Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman not only challenge dominant ways of thinking about humanity’s relationship to (more…)