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…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America with the author Margot Canaday and an introduction by Caitlin Zaloom, on September 21 at 5:30 PM. Co-sponsored by the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and the NYU History Department. Margot Canaday is…
This event is Sold Out. A video recording of the event will be posted on the IPK YouTube page within the next week. Join Rebuild by Design and the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet with the author Jeff…
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World with the author Michèle Lamont in conversation with Eric Klinenberg. Michèle Lamont is a Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, where she is also the Robert I….
This series explores the historical foundations, contemporary patterns, and possible transformations of the modern research university. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition. Session 6, “Local Knowledge, Global Change,” will take place June 30 from 10:30am-12:00pm…