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Movie Screening | Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit

02/12 Wednesday | 5:30pm
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  •  February 12, 2025
     5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the NYU History Department on Wednesday, February 12th at 5:30 PM for a screening of Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit, winner of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. After the screening, the film’s Senior Historical Advisor, Tom Sugrue, will sit down with Eric (more…)

Discussion

Book Talk | Niobe Way | Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture

05/07 Wednesday | 5:30pm
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  •  May 7, 2025
     5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Developmental psychologist Niobe Way’s timely new book offers an in-depth study of what boys and young men teach us about the culture we have created—one in which we value money over people, toys over human connection, and achievement over kindness. In conversation with Carol Gilligan and Shahrzad Sabet, Way will explore how this “boy” culture (more…)

Discussion

Book Talk | Cristiana Giordano & Greg Pierotti | Affect Ethnography: Exploring Performance and Narrative in the Creation of Unstories

04/30 Wednesday | 5:30pm
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  •  April 30, 2025
     5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, April 30th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti where they will discuss Affect Ethnography: Exploring Performance and Narrative in the Creation of Unstories. They will be in conversation with Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan and Joe Salvatore. Praise for Affect Ethnography “In (more…)

Discussion

Book Talk | Webb Keane | Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination

03/05 Wednesday | 5:30pm
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  •  March 5, 2025
     5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication on Wednesday, March 5th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Webb Keane. He will discuss his new book Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination with Gideon Lewis-Kraus and Natasha Schüll. Webb Keane is the George Herbert (more…)

Workshop

Working Group Meeting: The Past and Future of Work

05/02 Friday | 12pm
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  •  May 2, 2025
     12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Co-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work (more…)

Workshop

Working Group Meeting: The Past and Future of Work

04/11 Friday | 12pm
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  •  April 11, 2025
     12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Co-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work (more…)

Workshop

Working Group Meeting: The Past and Future of Work

02/28 Friday | 12pm
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  •  February 28, 2025
     12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Co-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work (more…)

Workshop

Working Group Meeting: The Past and Future of Work

01/24 Friday | 12pm
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  •  January 24, 2025
     12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Co-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work (more…)

Discussion

Book Talk | Alice Driver | Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company

04/09 Wednesday | 5:30pm
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  •  April 9, 2025
     5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Past and Future of Work Working Group on Wednesday, April 9th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Alice Driver. She will discuss her new book Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company with Roger Horowitz and Eyal Press. (more…)

Symposium

Symposium | Human Oneness

02/06 Thursday | 8am
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  •  February 6, 2025 - February 7, 2025
     8:00 AM - 7:00 PM

On February 6th and 7th, the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Center on Modernity in Transition will host a seminar-style Symposium on Human Oneness. The concepts that express our shared humanity are proving inadequate to the challenges we face. Terms such as cosmopolitanism, humanism, and universalism can trigger unease in academic and public discourse, (more…)

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