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Book Launch | Camilo Jose Vergara’s Detroit is No Dry Bones

12/05 Monday | 1pm
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  •  December 5, 2016
     1:00 PM - 6:55 PM

The Institute for Public Knowledge and the Collaborative on Global Urbanism at NYU invite you to join us for a discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Detroit is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City in the Industrial Age, from photographer and ethnographer Camilo Jose Vergara. The author will be in discussion with historian and urbanist Tom (more…)

Lecture

2016 NYU China-U.S. Forum: A Conversation with Madame Fu Ying

12/01 Thursday | 12pm
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  •  December 1, 2016
     12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

RSVP HERE The Institute for Public Knowledge, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities, and Diversity at NYU and the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, invite you to join us for the 2016 China-U.S. Forum at NYU, an evening with Madame Fu Ying, Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National (more…)

Discussion

Discussion | Rise of The Robots? Humans and Machines in the New Century

11/16 Wednesday | 7am
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  •  November 16, 2016
     7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

We are witnessing a surge of anxiety about robots: Will they displace humans in the workplace and condemn us to mass idleness; and worse still, guided by their own artificial intelligence, will they become our rivals or even enemies?  The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a lunchtime lecture and conversation on these themes (more…)

Symposium

Elemental Media

11/11 Friday | 4am
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  •  November 11, 2016
     4:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NYU’s Media Culture and Communication Department and the Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join us for a symposium on the influence of elemental phenomena on culture, politics and communication. The elements, from shifting geological substructures to atmospheric circulations, are lively forces that shape culture, politics, and communication. This symposium will explore the mediating (more…)

Colloquium

Decolonial Computing

11/04 Friday | 9:30am
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  •  November 4, 2016
     9:30 AM - 1:30 PM

NYU’s Media, Culture and Communication Department and the Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join us for a colloquium on decolonial computing. Calls to wrest the history and anthropology of computing, information technology, and digital media away from eurocentric analyses have been raised in the fields of STS and media studies over the last (more…)

Workshop

Workshop | “Architecture is for Everyone:” Politics, Value, and Architecture in Argentina

11/04 Friday | 2pm
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  •  November 4, 2016
     2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The Oikos working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a workshop on politics, value and architecture in Argentina with Nicholas D’Avella. In the aftermath of Argentina’s political and economic crisis in 2001, buildings became an important form of economic investment for middle class Argentines, resulting in a boom (more…)

Book Launch

Book Launch | Partisans and Partners: Politics of Post-Keynesian Society

11/07 Monday | 1pm
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  •  November 7, 2016
     1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Institute for Public Knowledge and the Department of Sociology at NYU invite you to join us for an election-eve conversation on the divided state of American politics for the launch of Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society by sociologist Joshua Pacewicz. The author will be in discussion with Delia Baldassarri and (more…)

Book Launch

Book Launch | Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies

11/18 Friday | 1pm
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  •  November 18, 2016
     1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Cultures of Finance working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for the launch event for Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies, out now from the University of Chicago Press. Editor Ben Lee and contributors contributors Robert Wosnitzer, Robert Meister, Emanuel Derman, and Edward LiPuma, will engage with discussants (more…)

Lecture

Public Lecture: Laurent Thévenot on Reconstructing Critique

10/05 Wednesday | 6pm
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  •  October 5, 2016
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a lecture by the sociologist Laurent Thévenot, Directeur d’études at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and a renowned theorist of the critical social sciences. Democratic nation-states are increasingly governed by non-democratic procedures. The rise of neo-liberalism, the celebration of the market as an arbiter of the (more…)

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