Upcoming Events

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Environmental Humanities Initiative at NYU invite you to the launch event for Why Trust Science? featuring the author Naomi Oreskes in conversation with Andrew Needham. Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Environmental Humanities Initiative at NYU invite you to join us for a book talk for Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm, featuring the author Isabella Tree in conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using (more…)

The Future of Democracy Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave, featuring the author Dana R. Fisher in conversation with Jeff Goodwin. Since Donald Trump’s first day in office, a large and energetic grassroots “Resistance” has taken (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the launch event of The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton, 2019) by Sharon Marcus, featuring the author in conversation with Katie Lofton, Anne Cheng, and Joshua Gamson. Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the launch of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (Princeton, 2018) by Rob Reich, featuring the author in a conversation with Daniel Viehoff and Holly Fetter, moderated by Eric Klinenberg. Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the book launch of The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias (Stanford University Press, 2019). The event is part of our series on “Co-Opting AI” and will feature the authors Nick Couldry and (more…)