The Oikos working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a talk with Tamara Kneese on networked heirlooms. As fleeting interactions on social media are harnessed and collected, communications take on new logics of valuation. Data are tied to objects, possessions, and assets with market value such as houses, cars, and life insurance…
The Institute for Public Knowledge and the Marron Institute of Urban Management at NYU invite you to join us for an event to celebrate the release of Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan by Lynne B. Sagalyn. The author will be in discussion with New York policy and planning scholar Mitchell Moss. …
*Live video broadcast will be available here starting at 6:30PM (EST)* NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a roundtable discussion with leading thinkers and activists on the implications of the 2016 election for social movements. What do the realities of the next administration portend for community organizations, grassroots activists, liberal non-profits, and public institutions?…
The Institute for Public Knowledge and the Collaborative on Global Urbanism at NYU invite you to join us for a discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Detroit is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City in the Industrial Age, from photographer and ethnographer Camilo Jose Vergara. The author will be in discussion with historian and urbanist Tom…
The Oikos working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for an open discussion with James Ferguson about his recent book, Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (Duke University Press, 2015). The book explores the rise of cash-transfer programs in southern Africa and elsewhere in…
RSVP HERE The Institute for Public Knowledge, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities, and Diversity at NYU and the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, invite you to join us for the 2016 China-U.S. Forum at NYU, an evening with Madame Fu Ying, Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National…
The Cultures of Finance working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for the launch event for Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies, out now from the University of Chicago Press. Editor Ben Lee and contributors contributors Robert Wosnitzer, Robert Meister, Emanuel Derman, and Edward LiPuma, will engage with discussants…
We are witnessing a surge of anxiety about robots: Will they displace humans in the workplace and condemn us to mass idleness; and worse still, guided by their own artificial intelligence, will they become our rivals or even enemies? The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a lunchtime lecture and conversation on these themes…
The Oikos working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a workshop with Radha S. Hegde on the role of the Indian diaspora in the Indian state’s digital identity. The power of global capital and the utopian promise of technology have radically redefined the relationship between India and its…
NYU’s Media Culture and Communication Department and the Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join us for a symposium on the influence of elemental phenomena on culture, politics and communication. The elements, from shifting geological substructures to atmospheric circulations, are lively forces that shape culture, politics, and communication. This symposium will explore the mediating…