Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, February 3rd at 5:30 PM for a book talk with historian and author Ray Suarez. He will discuss his new book We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century with Dalton Conley and Maria E. Montoya. Ray Suarez is a journalist and veteran broadcaster with decades…
Co-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work…
Co-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on December 4th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Debi Cornwall, author of Model Citizens. The last in a trilogy of books on the American condition, Model Citizens considers the United States as a case study into a global phenomenon: How have staging, performance, and roleplay come…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Sloane Lab, and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia invite you to a new discussion in the series “Co-Opting AI.” This will be a completely virtual event. Please register for the event here. This event will critically discuss the deep entanglement of AI systems with the perennial dream…
Join IPK for a discussion on the environmental costs of AI on November 21 at 5:30 PM, featuring Benedetta Brevini, Nicole Starosielski, Sanjana Paul, and Tamara Kneese. This event will be hybrid and the Zoom code will be sent out the day before the event. During the week of the much-anticipated Climate Summit (COP 29)…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on November 18th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Musa al-Gharbi. He will discuss his new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite with Liza Featherstone and Thomas Frank. Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist in the School of Communication and Journalism at…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Sloane Lab, and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia invite you to a new discussion in the series “Co-Opting AI.” This will be a completely virtual event. Please register for the event here. This event will excavate AI’s longstanding obsession with human anatomical features, from faces to fingerprints, and…
Co-coordinators: Jacob Remes, Maia Silber, and Caitlin Zaloom “The Past and Future of Work” group will situate ongoing conversations about the impact of technological change on the 21st-century workforce within histories and institutions of labor. Together, participants will examine the rise of artificial intelligence, the emergence of “gig” platforms, and the transition to remote work…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, October 30 (5:30-7:00 PM) for a book talk with Andrew Ross, Tommaso Bardelli, and Aiyuba Thomas. They will discuss their book Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery with Chenjerai Kumanyika and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. Andrew Ross is a social activist and Professor of Social…