NEWS
IPK – 5th Fl
Details
Venue Phone: 2129988466
Location
Address:20 Cooper Square, 5th floor, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Events
Screening
Movie Screening | Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit
02/12 Wednesday | 5:30pm
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the NYU History Department on Wednesday, February 12th at 5:30 PM for a screening of Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit, winner of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. After the screening, the film’s Senior Historical Advisor, Tom Sugrue, will sit down with Eric...
Book Launch
Book Talk | Danya Glabau & Laura Forlano | Cyborg
02/13 Thursday | 5:30pm
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Thursday, February 13 (5:30-7:00 PM) for a book talk with Danya Glabau and Laura Forlano. They will discuss their book Cyborg with Margaret Jack and David Parisi. Danya Glabau is a medical anthropologist and STS scholar researching health activism, the medical economy, and how human bodies become valuable...
Discussion
Discussion | Polycrisis and the Problem of Preparedness
02/19 Wednesday | 5:30pm
Today, at the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak, the threat of cascading crises looms large. Climate catastrophe. Infectious disease. Runaway artificial intelligence. New hazards that stretch our political imagination, and challenge our capacity to plan. In this conversation, Andrew Lakoff (author of Planning for the Wrong Pandemic), Eric Klinenberg (author of 2020), and moderator...