The OIKOS Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a lunch talk with Finn Brunton, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. This talk will provide a context for discussing utopian and speculative monetary projects through a prehistory of cryptocurrencies — the technologies, subcultures, schemes, and fantasies…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a talk for Carlo Rotella’s The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (University of Chicago Press, 2019), featuring the author in conversation with sociologist Eric Klinenberg. An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Urban Democracy Lab invite you to a discussion on climate change in Puerto Rico and New York, featuring Deepak Lamba-Nieves and Julia Nevarez in conversation, moderated by Diana Graizbord. What does it mean for a city or a nation to be “resilient” in an era of climate change…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a screening and discussion event in our series on “Co-Opting AI.” This event will feature a screening of the PBS documentary Cyberwork and the American Dream, followed by a discussion with Elizabeth Cobbs, James Shelley, Eduardo Porter, Madeleine Claire Elish, and Mona Sloane. The documentary looks at the impact of…
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…