Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Race and Public Space Working Group on Wednesday, April 22 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Kimberley S. Johnson. She will discuss her new book, Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis, with Christina Greer and Domingo Morel. Kimberley S. Johnson is Professor of Social…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, April 29 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Schneur Zalman Newfield. He will discuss his new book, Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidim, with Steven Michael Lukes and Iddo Tavory. Schneur Zalman Newfield was raised in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn and attended Lubavitch yeshivahs in…
RSVPCo-coordinators: Danya Glabau, 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…
RSVPSocial Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible. Social infrastructure—the physical places that shape our capacity to connect – is essential for the health and vitality of democratic societies. But in recent decades cities and communities across the United States have failed to build or maintain great gathering places…
RSVPJoin the Institute for Public Knowledge on Tuesday, May 12 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Dimitry Léger. He will discuss his new book Death of the Soccer God with Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Dimitry Elias Léger was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1971 and raised between Haiti and Brooklyn, N.Y. His father was a retired…
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