Upcoming Events

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 Petre, on October 25th at 5:30 PM. Karen Levy is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, and Associated Faculty at Cornell (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…)

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. In Energy and Power, Gross explains the deeper (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 Sylvie Tissot, in conversation with Christina B. Hanhardt, on October 18th at 12:00 PM. Sylvie Tissot is a Professor of Political Science at University of Paris 8. Her research focuses (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’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. The Zoom (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America with the author Margot Canaday and an introduction by Caitlin Zaloom, on September 21 at 5:30 PM. Co-sponsored by the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and the NYU History Department. Margot Canaday is (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World with the author Michèle Lamont in conversation with Eric Klinenberg. Michèle Lamont is a Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, where she is also the Robert I. (more…)