NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, featuring the author Jess Row in conversation with Fred Moten. White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for BROKE: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises, featuring the author Jodie Adams Kirshner in conversation with Tom Sugrue. In BROKE, which follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after the city’s 2013 bankruptcy, Jodie Adams Kirshner asks:…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a book talk for How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, featuring the author Colin Koopman in conversation with Dan Bouk, Lisa Gitelman, and Dennis Yi Tenen. The conversation will be moderated by Natasha Schull. We are now acutely aware, as…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU Tandon’s Department of Culture, Technology and Society and the 370 Jay Project invite you to a discussion on conflict as part of the “Co-Opting AI.” Series. Featuring Peter Asaro, Liz O’Sullivan, Meredith Whittaker, and Mona Sloane in conversation, this event examines the intersection of AI, politics, human rights and conflict. In what…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Cities Collaborative at NYU invite you to join us for a conversation with Andrew Sandoval-Strausz on his new book Barrio America, the compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight. Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a conversation about student debt, meritocracy, and inequality among young Americans. With Daniel Markovits, author of The Meritocracy Trap, and Caitlin Zaloom, author of Indebted. The Meritocracy Trap places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes…
The Future of Democracy Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave, featuring the author Dana R. Fisher in conversation with Jeff Goodwin. Since Donald Trump’s first day in office, a large and energetic grassroots “Resistance” has taken…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion with Ramesh Srinivasan on his new book Beyond The Valley: How Innovators Around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow and Jen Schradie on her new book The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. In Beyond the…
*Please note: This event is over-subscribed, and seating will be available on a first-come first-served basis. An RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Please arrive a few minutes early if you can. Doors open at 5:30PM. This event will be live-streamed via Twitter: @nyu_ipk. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the 370 Jay Project invite…
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…