Upcoming Events

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. The Institute for Public Knowledge, in partnership with NYU’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Inequality, invites you to join a conversation on the fate of public goods in a post-pandemic world in the series on “COVID-19 and Inequality.” The event will be moderated by Eric (more…)

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. The Institute for Public Knowledge, in partnership with NYU’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Inequality, invites you to join a conversation on COVID-19 and Health Disparities in the series on “COVID-19 and Inequality.” The event will be moderated by Eric Klinenberg featuring Melody Goodman, Jacob William (more…)

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the NYU Center for Responsible AI, and the 370 Jay Project invite you to a discussion on games in the series “Co-Opting AI.” This event will explore the deep historical and cultural links between games and technology, (more…)

RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. An A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project Event. Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC), Nā ‘Ōiwi NYC, NYU Native Studies Forum, NYU Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, and Institute for Public Knowledge.  In the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic (more…)

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. Is “American Fascism” an oxymoron? Or, to paraphrase Malcom X, is Fascism as American as apple pie? Was the Capitol Insurrection the work of marginal extremists? Or the eruption of a neo-fascist movement? The answer depends on how one defines “fascism” and (more…)

RSVP is required. Please RSVP at the links below. Conditions worldwide form a triple crisis of unprecedented scope and fury: a crisis of economy, public health, and the natural environment.  Devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic and an outward migration of residents and work, cities–beginning with New York–face extraordinary risks, framed in 2021 by the inauguration (more…)

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the NYU Center for Responsible AI, and the 370 Jay Project invite you to a discussion on finance in the series “Co-Opting AI.” Narratives, policies, and innovations in AI are often tied up with notions of “security”. (more…)

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. In many corners, we’ve come to accept the notion that government can’t do new things or solve tough challenges, that it’s too big and slow and bureaucratic. It doesn’t have to be that way, says former public official, now Harvard Business School (more…)

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. We live in an age of social media and polarized broadcast media in which the loudest voices and most extreme opinions — often about issues that are distant from everyday concerns of most people — dominate. The Local Voices Network is an (more…)