NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition of artwork by Suzanne C. Nagy. Entitled “Pulse,” the deeply environmentally engaged work is the third in a series by the artist called “Sustainable Nature Solutions,” and combines acrylic pieces, photo prints, and glowing mixed-media light boxes. Please join us…
The Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU invites you to join us for a book launch celebrating the release of Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza’s Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation. The authors will be in discussion with Daniel Aldana Cohen, Caroline Lee, and Sanjay Ruparelia. Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed…
Fast forward to the year 2100. New York, along with Phoenix, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Manila, and many more of the world’s most populated cities, is irrevocably changed. Much of the earth’s great middle swath is subject to droughts, wildfires, and desertification, while increasingly frequent super storms plague coastal areas, destroying precious agricultural lands by bringing…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Garnette Cadogan, and Ifeona Fulani to mark the release of Jelly-Schapiro’s Island People: The Caribbean and the World. A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers…
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…