Book Launch

Dual Book Talk | Algorithms out of control: new books in conversation

05/03 Wednesday | 5pm
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  • Book Talk | Connected in Isolation: Digital Privilege in Unsettled Times
     May 3, 2023
     5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a dual book event with authors David B. Auerbach and Meredith Broussard, in conversation with Natasha Schüll and Angela Wu. See more info on each book below. Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities Auerbach argues that there is no hand (more…)

Discussion

From Crisis to Horizon: Fighting for Social Housing

03/30 Thursday | 5:30pm
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  •  March 30, 2023 - March 31, 2023
     5:30 PM

Elected officials, organizers, scholars will discuss efforts toward social housing. Organized by the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study Thursday 3/30: Vanderbilt Hall Room 220, 40 Washington Square South (There will be an option to attend through Zoom, which you can select upon registration.) Friday 3/31: Jerry Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for (more…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | Connected in Isolation: Digital Privilege in Unsettled Times

04/24 Monday | 5pm
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  • Book Talk | Connected in Isolation: Digital Privilege in Unsettled Times
     April 24, 2023
     5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Connected in Isolation: Digital Privilege in Unsettled Times, with the author Eszter Hargittai in conversation with Paul DiMaggio and Eric Klinenberg. What life during lockdown reveals about digital inequality. The vast majority of people in wealthy, highly connected, or digitally privileged societies may have (more…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

04/28 Friday | 12pm
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  • Book Talk | Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
     April 28, 2023
     12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents, featuring the author Rogers Brubaker in conversation with Natasha Schüll and Angela Wu. Digital hyperconnectivity – a condition, to exaggerate only slightly, in which everyone and everything is connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – (more…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | Left Is Not Woke

03/30 Thursday | 6pm
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  • Book Talk | Left is not woke
     March 30, 2023
     6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Left Is Not Woke, with the author Susan Neiman in conversation with Stephen Holmes, moderated by Eric Klinenberg. If you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan (more…)

Discussion

Can Tech Ever be Good? On Public Interest, ESG and Other “Distractions”

04/19 Wednesday | 12pm
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  •  April 19, 2023
     12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Despite the common focus on Silicon Valley, New York has been a ‘tech hub’ for a long time. From IBM and Bell Labs to Squarespace and Hinge, New York has brought about many old and new tech companies. And with tech companies comes venture capital funding. In this panel conversation we will explore how today, (more…)

Virtual Discussion

Reimagining the University Series Session 6: Local Knowledge, Global Change

06/30 Friday | 10:30am
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  •  June 30, 2023
     10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

This series explores the historical foundations, contemporary patterns, and possible transformations of the modern research university. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition. Session 6, “Local Knowledge, Global Change,” will take place June 30 from 10:30am-12:00pm (more…)

Virtual Discussion

Reimagining the University Series Session 5: The University and Economic Forces

05/19 Friday | 3pm
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  •  May 19, 2023 - May 21, 2023
     3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

This series explores the historical foundations, contemporary patterns, and possible transformations of the modern research university. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition. Session 5, “The University and Economic Forces,” will take place Friday, May 19 (more…)

Virtual Discussion

Reimagining the University Series Session 4: Are Universities Too Liberal?

04/28 Friday | 10am
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  •  April 28, 2023 - April 30, 2023
     10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

This series explores the historical foundations, contemporary patterns, and possible transformations of the modern research university. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition. Session 4, “Are Universities Too Liberal?” will take place Friday, April 28 from (more…)

Virtual Discussion

Reimagining the University Series Session 3: Post-Colonial Knowledge

03/30 Thursday | 3pm
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  •  March 30, 2023
     3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

This series explores the historical foundations, contemporary patterns, and possible transformations of the modern research university. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition. Session 3 on Post-Colonial Knowledge will take place Thursday, March 30 from 3:00-4:30pm (more…)