Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart with the author Astra Taylor, in conversation with Sarah Leonard, on November 1st at 5:30 PM. Cosponsored by Lux magazine. Astra Taylor is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and political organizer. She is the director,…
Join NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change with the author Stephen Gross, in conversation with Andrew Needham, on October 30th at 5:30 PM. In Energy and Power, Gross explains the deeper…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance with the author Karen Levy, in conversation with Caitlin Petre, on October 25th at 5:30 PM. Karen Levy is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, and Associated Faculty at Cornell…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Gayfriendly: Acceptance and Control of Homosexuality in New York and Paris with the author Sylvie Tissot, in conversation with Christina B. Hanhardt, on October 18th at 12:00 PM. Sylvie Tissot is a Professor of Political Science at University of Paris 8. Her research focuses…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic with the author Melina Sherman, in conversation with Natasha Schüll and Emily Martin, on October 16th at 5:30 PM. Melina Sherman is a critical health communication scholar and researcher at Knology, a New…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic with the author Melina Sherman, in conversation with Natasha Schüll and Emily Martin, on October 16th at 5:30 PM. Melina Sherman is a critical health communication scholar and researcher at Knology, a New…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge’s Global New Right Working Group for a book talk on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy with the author Quinn Slobodian, and an introduction by Maya Vinokour, on October 13th at 12:00 PM. This event will be in a hybrid format. The Zoom…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a conversation with Alondra Nelson, featuring Eric Klinenberg, on October 11th at 5:30 pm. The two will discuss policymaking and Nelson’s work in the Biden Administration. Alondra Nelson is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a distinguished senior fellow at the Center…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty with the author Nikhil Goyal in conversation with Andrea Elliott and Thomas J. Sugrue on October 5th at 5:30 PM. Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist who has taught for the NYU Prison Education…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty with the author Nikhil Goyal in conversation with Andrea Elliott and Thomas J. Sugrue on October 5th at 5:30 PM. Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist who has taught for the NYU Prison Education…