Book Launch

CANCELLED – OIKOS Book Launch | Divining Desire

03/07 Wednesday | 6pm
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  •  March 7, 2018
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

UPDATE: Due to the predicted snow accumulation, NYU’s New York campus will close early today. This event is cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date. The OIKOS Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Liza Featherstone’s Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation (OR (more…)

Workshop

RAPS Workshop | Black History Month Transcribe-A-Thon

02/27 Tuesday | 9am
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  •  February 27, 2018
     9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

In honor of Black History Month, join the Race and Public Space Working Group of the Institute for Public Knowledge for a 12 hour transcribing marathon to help the Boston Public Library turn their collection of handwritten correspondence between 19th century anti-slavery activists into texts that can be more easily read and researched. Can’t make it? (more…)

Lecture

RAPS Talk | Reparative Seizure in the Jamaican Lotto Scam

03/05 Monday | 12pm
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  • Reparative Seizure in the Jamaican Lotto Scam
     March 5, 2018
     12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Race and Public Space (RAPS) Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a lecture by Jovan Scott Lewis about how disadvantaged black youth in Jamaica engaged in the practice of international “lottery scamming” mobilize a reparative logic. This event is part of the working group’s Reparations Project, a project which explores the (more…)

Discussion

RAPS Talk | Reparations for All?

03/19 Monday | 12pm
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  •  March 19, 2018
     12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Race and Public Space (RAPS) Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a conversation between Michael Ralph and Haben Abraha about the prospect of reparations for all US taxpayers based on Robert Meister’s insight that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, or “2008 Bailout,” constitutes an act of extortion that demands (more…)

Discussion

CANCELLED: RAPS Talk | The Legal Case for Reparations

03/26 Monday | 12pm
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  • The Legal Case for Reparations
     March 26, 2018
     12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

EVENT CANCELLED The Race and Public Space (RAPS) Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion of Sir Hilary Beckles’ Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide, while discussing his role in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission’s lawsuit against European nations involved with colonial slavery. This event is (more…)

Discussion

RAPS Talk | The Color of Money

04/02 Monday | 12pm
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  •  April 2, 2018
     12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Race and Public Space (RAPS) Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion on Mehrsa Baradaran’s new book, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, which explores the material ramifications of racism and Jim Crow on financial practices amongst African Americans. This is the final event of the working (more…)

Lecture

RAPS Talk | The Price of Life

02/26 Monday | 12pm
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  •  February 26, 2018
     12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Race and Public Space (RAPS) Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a conversation with Michael Ralph about the financial institutions that made millions of dollars from insuring slaves during the antebellum period. This is the second event of the working group’s Reparations Project, a project which explores the prospect of reparations (more…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | Bit by Bit

02/21 Wednesday | 6pm
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  •  February 21, 2018
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk on Matthew Salganik’s new book Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, featuring the author in conversation with Duncan Watts and Beth Noveck. In just the past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile (more…)

Discussion

Discussion | The Case for Reparations

01/29 Monday | 12pm

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  • The Case for Reparations
     January 29, 2018
     12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Race and Public Space (RAPS) Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a conversation with Westenley Alcenat about his 2017 Jacobin article about the prospect of reparations for Haiti along with a discussion of the related argument Ta-Nehisi Coates makes in his influential 2014 Atlantic article. This is the inaugural (more…)

Book Launch

Book Talk | The Beneficiary

01/29 Monday | 6pm
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  •  January 29, 2018
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk on Bruce Robbin’s new book The Beneficiary, featuring the author in conversation with Daniel Aldana Cohen and Rachel Sherman. From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the (more…)