The Trump administration promises broad expansion of gun rights in the U.S. As candidates, Trump-Pence ran with the full endorsement of the NRA. They vowed to end gun-free zones in schools and airports, severely curtail gun-violence prevention efforts, and make it ever-easier for people to carry guns across state lines and into cities such as…
The Oikos working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a workshop with Antonieta Castro-Cosio on her paper about financial infrastructures for resilience in the South Bronx. RSVP to shari.wolk@nyu.edu for the paper. In her paper, Castro-Cosio explores the role of “informal” financial practices and institutions in the shaping of resilient urban…
The Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU invites you to join us for a book talk with Walter Scheidel on his acclaimed work The Great Leveler: Violence and Economic Inequality from the Stone Age to the Present, out now from Princeton University Press. Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by…
NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Gehl Institute invite you to join us for a discussion on the past, present, and future of Manhattan’s Astor Place and public plazas in New York City. This event will take a critical look at the neighborhood improvements and its benefits to society, with a panel including Andy…
This event is cancelled due to inclement weather, and will be rescheduled for a later date. The Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU invites you to join us for the book launch of John Ferejohn and Frances Rosenbluth’s Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain. The authors will be in discussion with Helen…
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…