NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini’s new book The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress, featuring the editors in conversation with Arang Keshavarzian, Robert Beauregard, and Anne Rademacher. Shining special light on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha—where the dynamics…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch event of Andrew Ross’s Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel, forthcoming from Verso in March 2019, featuring the author in conversation with Paula Chakravartty, and Arun Kundnani. “They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a…
You can watch the event here. Rebuild by Design and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join for a discussion about New York City’s flood protection plan. Mayor Bill de Blasio proposes extending the waterfront from the Seaport to Battery Park up to 500 feet into the East River at a cost of up to…
You can watch the event here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a discussion of the Green New Deal, with Daniel Aldana Cohen, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and Pavlina R. Tcherneva. The Green New Deal is a congressional resolution that lays out a plan for tackling climate change. Introduced by Democratic Representatives…
You can watch the event here. The Future of Democracy Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk on Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy (Cambridge, 2018) by Michael A. Neblo, Kevin M. Esterling, and David M. J. Lazer, featuring Professors Neblo and Lazer in conversation with Beth Simone…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion of Nathaniel Rich’s new book Losing Earth: A Recent History, featuring the author in conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and…
The Collaborative on Global Urbanism and Race and Public Space working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join for a talk with Alex Schafran on his new book The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics (UC Press, 2018). Alex will be introduced by Thomas J. Sugrue, Professor of…
The OIKOS working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion of Valor y Cambio with Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarah Muir. Valor y Cambio (#valorycambio) is a story-telling, community-building, and solidarity economy project started by the artists Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarabel Santos Negrón. The project emerges in response to the island’s more than decade-old debt crisis and the…
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NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Melissa Gregg’s new book Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy, out now from Duke University Press, featuring the author in conversation with Finn Brunton, Natasha Dow Schüll, and Caitlin Zaloom. As online distractions increasingly colonize our time, why has productivity become such a vital…