Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Race and Public Space Working Group on Monday, March 23 (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…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Sloane Lab, and the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia invite you to a new discussion in the series “Co-Opting AI.” This will be a completely virtual event. This event will explore the entanglement of AI, the individualization of risk, and the insurance industry. Laurence Barry (CREST-ENSAE/PARI)…
Co-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…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, the NYU History Department, and the Race and Public Space Working Group on Monday, March 30, at 5:30 PM for an event with historian Heather Ann Thompson. She will discuss her new book, Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage,…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, April 6 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Kate Brown. She will discuss her book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, with Amy Bentley and Sophie Gonick. Kate Brown is a Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT and…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group for a seminar with David Klion on April 9th at 5:30 PM. David Klion will discuss a draft of the first section of an in-progress manuscript on the legacy of neoconservatism. “The Patriarchs” is an overview of the lives and careers of…
Co-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…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, April 13 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Benjamin Cornwell and Nan Feng. They will discuss their new book, Friends and Fortunes: Social Capital Inequality in America, with BK Lee. Benjamin Cornwell is a Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, where he recently served as Department chair….
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, the Global New Right working group, and the Past and Future of Work group on Wednesday, April 15 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Lorenza Antonucci. She will discuss her new book, Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist Support, with Sheri Berman and Daniel Laurison. Lorenza Antonucci…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, April 29 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Schneur Zalman Newfield. They 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…