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Racial Categories in Machine Learning

03/27 Wednesday | 12pm
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  •  March 27, 2019
     12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Co-Opting AI series and Race and Public Space Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join for a discussion of Racial Categories in Machine Learning, with Sebastian Benthall and Bruce D. Haynes. Controversies around race and machine learning have sparked debate among computer scientists over how to design machine learning (more…)

Discussion

Valor y Cambio: Community Currency in Puerto Rico

04/05 Friday | 4pm
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  •  April 5, 2019
     4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The OIKOS working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion of Valor y Cambio with Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarah Muir. Valor y Cambio (#valorycambio) is a story-telling, community-building, and solidarity economy project started by the artists Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarabel Santos Negrón. The project emerges in response to the island’s more than decade-old debt crisis and the (more…)

Screening

Co-Opting AI: Work

04/23 Tuesday | 6pm
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  •  April 23, 2019
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a screening and discussion event in our series on “Co-Opting AI.” This event will feature a screening of the PBS documentary Cyberwork and the American Dream, followed by a discussion with Elizabeth Cobbs, James Shelley, Eduardo Porter, Madeleine Claire Elish, and Mona Sloane. The documentary looks at the impact of (more…)

Discussion

Co-Opting AI: Justice

05/13 Monday | 6pm
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  •  May 13, 2019
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

You can watch the event here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a discussion on justice in our series on “Co-Opting AI.” Featuring Sasha Costanza-Chock, Virginia Eubanks, Amanda Levendowski, Alondra Nelson, and Mona Sloane in conversation, this event examines the intersection of AI and (in)justice. What are the social implications of deploying AI across so many domains of society? Who benefits, who (more…)

Book Launch

Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy

04/10 Wednesday | 6pm
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  •  April 10, 2019
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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…)

Book Launch

Book Launch | Stone Men

04/18 Thursday | 6pm
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  •  April 18, 2019
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy

03/28 Thursday | 6pm
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  •  March 28, 2019
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | The Privileged Poor

03/25 Monday | 6pm
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  •  March 25, 2019
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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…)

Book Launch

Book Launch | The New Arab Urban

04/22 Monday | 6pm
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  •  April 22, 2019
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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…)

Discussion

Palaces for the People: Social Infrastructure and Civic Life

02/25 Monday | 6pm
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  • Palaces for the People: Social Infrastructure and Civic Life
     February 25, 2019
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and the GovLab at NYU invite you to a conversation between Eric Klinenberg and Beth Simone Noveck. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the (more…)

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