Upcoming Events

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, featuring the author Margaret O’Mara in conversation with Meredith Broussard.  The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America.Long before Margaret O’Mara became one of (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, featuring the author Jess Row in conversation with Fred Moten. White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for BROKE: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises, featuring the author Jodie Adams Kirshner in conversation with Tom Sugrue. In BROKE, which follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after the city’s 2013 bankruptcy, Jodie Adams Kirshner asks: (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, featuring the author Colin Koopman in conversation with Dan Bouk, Lisa Gitelman, and Dennis Yi Tenen.  The conversation will be moderated by Natasha Schull. We are now acutely aware, as (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Cities Collaborative at NYU invite you to join us for a conversation with Andrew Sandoval-Strausz on his new book Barrio America, the compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight. Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give (more…)