Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the AI in Society Working Group on Monday, September 14 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Mona Sloane. She will discuss her new book, Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life, with Allison Pugh and Charlton McIlwain. Mona Sloane, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, the Global New Right Working Group, and NYU’s History Department on Wednesday, September 9 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Stuart Schrader. He will discuss his book, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, with Andrew Ross and Jeanne Theoharis. This event will be hybrid, with Zoom…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, September 2 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Max Holleran and Samuel Holleran. They will discuss their new book Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center with Erica Robles-Anderson and Marita Sturken. Max Holleran is Senior Lecturer of Social Policy at University of Melbourne and…
The Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) and Gehl Studios recently released our report, Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible. The study consisted of a survey of more than 1,100 people, more than 100 interviews, and numerous field visits to better understand how ordinary New Yorkers engaged with their public spaces….
Join 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 Laurent Dubois and 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…
We have reached event capacity. Please email us at ipk.info@nyu.edu if you would like to be added to the waitlist. Social 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….
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 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…
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…
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. In Insecurity…