Discussion

Understanding the Outcome of the Midterm Elections

11/16 Friday | 5pm
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  • Understanding the Outcome of the Midterm Elections
     November 16, 2018
     5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

You can watch the event here. The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and NYU’s “Conversations in the Social Sciences” invite you to a panel on Understanding the Outcome of the 2018 midterm elections. Election Day 2018 “defied a single takeaway,” FiveThirtyEight wrote in assessing this year’s results—a Republican hold on the U.S. Senate, a (more…)

Book Launch

Book Launch | We, the Sovereign

11/19 Monday | 6pm
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  •  November 19, 2018
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the launch event for Gianpaolo Baiocchi’s We, the Sovereign, featuring the author in conversation with Thea Riofrancos and Frances Fox Piven. What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claims to advance its anti-democratic (more…)

Discussion

Voter Turnout and the 2018 Midterm Elections

11/02 Friday | 5pm
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  • Voter Turnout and the 2018 Midterm Elections
     November 2, 2018
     5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

You can watch the event here. The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and NYU’s “Conversations in the Social Sciences” invite you to the first of two panels on the upcoming 2018 midterm elections, to be held on Tues., Nov. 6. Join us as we unpack the developments of this year’s cycle, centering on (more…)

Screening

Screening | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

11/14 Wednesday | 2:45pm
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  •  November 14, 2018
     2:45 PM - 4:45 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to DOC NYC’s world premiere of the film Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, featuring director Judith Helfand and author Eric Klinenberg, with two special screenings on Sunday, November 11, and Wednesday, November 14. In July 1995, Chicago was hit by a record heat wave that claimed the lives of (more…)

Screening

Screening | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

11/11 Sunday | 1:30pm
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  •  November 11, 2018
     1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to DOC NYC’s world premiere of the film Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, featuring director Judith Helfand and author Eric Klinenberg, with two special screenings on Sunday, November 11, and Wednesday, November 14. In July 1995, Chicago was hit by a record heat wave that claimed the lives of 739 residents, primarily among (more…)

Discussion

Hacking the American City: Grassroots City-Making from the Netherlands to the U.S.

10/30 Tuesday | 5pm
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  •  October 30, 2018
     5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and ONE Architecture & Urbanism invite you to a conversation with experts from a range of disciplines as they discuss “smart cities” and democratic processes for city-making in an American context. Since 2012, a Dutch research collaborative called The Hackable City has been exploring ways to democratize the process of city-making around (more…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy

11/05 Monday | 6pm
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  •  November 5, 2018
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a talk with William Janeway about his book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy. The author will be in conversation with Til Schuermann. The innovation economy begins with discovery and culminates in speculation. Over some 250 years, economic growth has been driven by successive processes (more…)

Book Launch

Book Launch | The Known Citizen

11/07 Wednesday | 6pm
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  •  November 7, 2018
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the launch event for Sarah Igo’s new book The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America, featuring the author in conversation with Bernard Harcourt and Melissa Murray. Every day, Americans make decisions about their privacy: what to share and when, how much to expose and to (more…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | Ghosts in the Schoolyard

11/12 Monday | 7pm
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  •  November 12, 2018
     7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

The Race and Public Space Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis invite you to join us for a conversation between Eve L. Ewing and Michael Ralph to discuss Ewing’s new book, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. “Failing schools. Underprivileged (more…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | Squeezed

10/10 Wednesday | 6pm
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  •  October 10, 2018
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a talk with Alissa Quart, executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, on her new book Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America. She will be in conversation with anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom. Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies (more…)