Upcoming Events

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU Tandon’s Department of Culture, Technology and Society and the 370 Jay Project invite you to a discussion on conflict as part of the “Co-Opting AI.” Series. Featuring Peter Asaro, Liz O’Sullivan, Meredith Whittaker, and Mona Sloane in conversation, this event examines the intersection of AI, politics, human rights and conflict. In what (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a conversation about student debt, meritocracy, and inequality among young Americans. With Daniel Markovits, author of The Meritocracy Trap, and Caitlin Zaloom, author of Indebted. The Meritocracy Trap places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion with Ramesh Srinivasan on his new book Beyond The Valley: How Innovators Around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow and Jen Schradie on her new book The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. In Beyond the (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a talk with Jesse Ribot on climate and migration from the Sahel. Senegalese farmers are crossing the Sahara toward Europe. They travel through Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Algeria and Libya, and across the Mediterranean to Italy. Along the way many are taken captive and robbed (more…)

The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and the GovLab at NYU invite you to join a conversation with Dr. Reuben Abraham, founding CEO of the IDFC Institute, a Mumbai-based think/do tank focused on state capacity and political economy. In this edition of the Future of Democracy Lecture Series, Dr. (more…)