Upcoming Events

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…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Forensics of Capital by Michael Ralph. The author will be in discussion with Gustav Peebles and Fatoumata Seck. As one of Africa’s few democracies, Senegal has long been thought of as a leader of moral, political, and economic development on the (more…)

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Race and Public Space working group invites you to join for a conversation with Aldon Morris and Thomas Sugrue about Morris’s latest book The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. In this groundbreaking book, Morris’s ambition is truly monumental: to help (more…)

The Institute for Public Knowledge and the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU invite you to join us for the book launch of The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism, and Global Protest by Paolo Gerbaudo. The author will be present in a conversation with Michael Gould-Wartofsky and Marina Sitrin, moderated by Stephen Duncombe. From the Arab Spring to the Spanish (more…)