NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Environmental Humanities Initiative at NYU invite you to the launch event for Why Trust Science? featuring the author Naomi Oreskes in conversation with Andrew Needham. Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Environmental Humanities Initiative at NYU invite you to join us for a book talk for Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm, featuring the author Isabella Tree in conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a presentation and discussion of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Polity, 2019) by Ruha Benjamin, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (forthcoming from NYU Press, 2020) by André Brock, and Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter (forthcoming…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the launch event of The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton, 2019) by Sharon Marcus, featuring the author in conversation with Katie Lofton, Anne Cheng, and Joshua Gamson. Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a talk with Jesse Ribot on climate and migration from the Sahel. Senegalese farmers are crossing the Sahara toward Europe. They travel through Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Algeria and Libya, and across the Mediterranean to Italy. Along the way many are taken captive and robbed…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the launch of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (Princeton, 2018) by Rob Reich, featuring the author in a conversation with Daniel Viehoff and Holly Fetter, moderated by Eric Klinenberg. Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy?…
The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and the GovLab at NYU invite you to join a conversation with Dr. Reuben Abraham, founding CEO of the IDFC Institute, a Mumbai-based think/do tank focused on state capacity and political economy. In this edition of the Future of Democracy Lecture Series, Dr….
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the book launch of The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias (Stanford University Press, 2019). The event is part of our series on “Co-Opting AI” and will feature the authors Nick Couldry and…
Photo credit: Joey O’Loughlin NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the opening of an exhibit of photographs of the Seward Park Library by Joey O’Loughlin, inspired by Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg. Joey O’Loughlin is a photographer,…
Join an all-star team of leading soccer scholars, scribes, and experts as they discuss the 2019 Women’s World Cup which kicks off in France on June 7th! Fans from all over the globe will tune in to the month-long tournament to watch twenty-four teams comprised of some of the world’s finest players compete for the…