NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Trump and the Media, edited by Pablo J. Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi. Contributing authors Rodney Benson, Andrew Mendelson and Julia Sonnevend will be present in conversation with Geneva Overholser. Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise—to many…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Social Science Research Council invite you to a discussion of Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era, with authors Mitchell L. Stevens, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, and Seteney Shami. The event will be moderated by Ann Morning with critical remarks from George Steinmetz. U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together, by Amy Bass. The author will be present in conversation with Eric Klinenberg, Director of NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and Professor of Sociology. Lewiston, Maine, was an economically struggling, overwhelmingly…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Joseph E. B. Elliott, Nathaniel Popkin, and Peter Woodall’s Philadelphia – Finding the Hidden City. Authors Nathaniel Popkin and Peter Woodall will be present in conversation with Michelle Young and David Grazian. In Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City, urban observers Nathaniel Popkin and Peter Woodall uncover the contemporary essence of one…
Since the birth of a self-consciously “Caribbean literature” in the mid-twentieth century, an apt preponderance of Caribbean writers—novelists and historians and poets alike—have focused on the historical experience and legacies of the millions of Africans brought to the Caribbean as slaves, in colonial days, to grow sugar for Europeans. Far less visible have been the…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Berggruen Institute invites you to join for the launch of Yael Berda‘s Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank. Author Yael Berda will be present in conversation with Karin Loevy and Malkit Shoshan. In 1991, the Israeli government introduced emergency legislation canceling the general exit permit that allowed Palestinians to enter…
The Race and Public Space (RAPS) Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion on Mehrsa Baradaran’s new book, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, which explores the material ramifications of racism and Jim Crow on financial practices amongst African Americans. This is the final event of the working…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Tales of Two Americas: Story of Inequalities in a Divided Nation, a new anthology of essays edited by John Freeman. The editor will be in conversation with contributing authors Jess Ruliffson and Rickey Laurentiis, moderated by Sewell Chan. America is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a talk with Anna Badkhen and Garnette Cadogan on the occasion of the release of Badkhen’s new work Fisherman’s Blues: A West African Community at Sea, out now from Riverhead Books. ABOUT FISHERMAN’S BLUES For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Gordon Douglas’s The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism. The author will be present in conversation with Caroline Lee and Harvey Molotch. When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people…