The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and the GovLab at NYU invite you to a conversation between Eric Klinenberg and Beth Simone Noveck. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a NYU Center for the Humanities discussion on Publishing the Avant-Garde: International Perspectives on Art and Magazines. Bringing together a group of scholars working at the intersection of printed matter and visual culture this panel will ask, how does the periodical help us tell cultural histories across…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute invite you to the launch event for Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet, featuring the author Will Hunt in conversation with Ted Conover. When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a discussion with Eitan Wilf on business innovation. Although business innovation is widely associated with a notion of organizational creativity that entails free information flow, flexibility, and minimalism that enable cross-fertilization between different departments and skills, in practice many of the physical spaces in which innovation takes place…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for the launch event of Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s new book The Circuit, out now from FSG, featuring the author in conversation with Eyal Press. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet—and Paris Review sports columnist—Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its…
The Oikos and Race and Public Space working groups at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join for a discussion with Kali Akuno, co-founder and executive director of Cooperation Jackson. This discussion will focus on how Cooperation Jackson is advancing the Jackson-Kush Plan to transform Jackson, Mississippi into a center of radical municipalism…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a reading by Washington State Poet Laureate, Claudia Castro Luna, of her Pushcart-nominated new book, Killing Marías: A Poem for Multiple Voices. Writer and poet Claudia Castro Luna will read from her book and weave through the reading a discussion of the forces that since 1993 have collided…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a talk with David Wachsmuth, Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance at McGill University, on short-term rentals (STRs), an increasingly urgent topic of concern for urban policymakers and community groups in cities around the world. Every night millions of travelers stay in accommodations booked through Airbnb or HomeAway, the…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to the launch event for Gianpaolo Baiocchi’s We, the Sovereign, featuring the author in conversation with Thea Riofrancos and Frances Fox Piven. What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claims to advance its anti-democratic…
You can watch the event here. The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and NYU’s “Conversations in the Social Sciences” invite you to a panel on Understanding the Outcome of the 2018 midterm elections. Election Day 2018 “defied a single takeaway,” FiveThirtyEight wrote in assessing this year’s results—a Republican hold on the U.S. Senate, a…