Upcoming Events

You can watch the event here. The Future of Democracy Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk on Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy (Cambridge, 2018) by Michael A. Neblo, Kevin M. Esterling, and David M. J. Lazer, featuring Professors Neblo and Lazer in conversation with Beth Simone (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch event of Andrew Ross’s Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel, forthcoming from Verso in March 2019, featuring the author in conversation with Paula Chakravartty, and Arun Kundnani. “They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Melissa Gregg’s new book Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy, out now from Duke University Press, featuring the author in conversation with Finn Brunton, Natasha Dow Schüll, and Caitlin Zaloom. As online distractions increasingly colonize our time, why has productivity become such a vital (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a talk on The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, out now from Harvard University Press, featuring the author Anthony Jack in conversation with Reshma Saujani and R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy. The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini’s new book The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress, featuring the editors in conversation with Arang Keshavarzian, Robert Beauregard, and Anne Rademacher. Shining special light on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha—where the dynamics (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute invite you to the launch event for Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet, featuring the author Will Hunt in conversation with Ted Conover. When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in (more…)