Upcoming Events

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites to you to join for a conversation with Natasha Dow Schüll and Manoush Zomorodi on Zomorodi’s new book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self.  In 2015 Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC’s popular podcast and radio show Note to Self, led tens of thousands of listeners through (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for the launch of Robin Wagner-Pacifici’s latest book, What Is an Event? out now from the University of Chicago Press. The author will be present in conversation with Iddo Tavory and Bruce Grant. We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the OIKOS Working Group invite you to join us for a book launch of Kim Phillips-Fein’s new book Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, out now from Metropolitan Books. The author will be present in conversation with Ida Susser. When the news broke in (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Cradle to Kindergarten by Ajay Chaudry, Taryn Morrissey, Christina Weiland, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa. Chaudry and Yoshikawa will be in discussion with journalist Heather Long and public policy scholar Jane Waldfogel. Early care and education for many children in the U.S. is in crisis. (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for the launch event for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, with editors Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. The editors will be in conversation with contributors Garnette Cadogan and Jonathan Tarleton. The program will include readings and Q&A with the audience, followed by a reception, during which books will be available (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a book launch for Lily Chumley’s Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China. The author will be present in conversation with Zhijian Qian, Michele Matteini, Christina H. Moon, and Xudong Zhang. The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China’s visual culture industries, from (more…)

The Institute for Public Knowledge, in collaboration with NYU’s Department of Sociology, invites you to a book launch with Arlie Hochschild for her new work, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. In Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country – (more…)

The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us in celebrating the release of A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America by sociologist Michaela Soyer. The author will be in discussion with Ruth Horowitz and Jamie Fader. Young men of color are often portrayed in the media as victims of poverty and discrimination. In A Dream Denied, (more…)