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Rare Book Room at the Strand Bookstore
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Location
Address:828 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Events
Book Launch
Book Talk | Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town
04/13 Tuesday | 5pm
RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a book talk for Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town featuring the author Colin Jerolmack in conversation with Harvey Molotch and Rebecca Elliott. Shale gas extraction—commonly known as fracking—is often portrayed as an energy revolution that...
Discussion
Co-Opting AI: Ideology
04/15 Thursday | 5pm
RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the NYU Center for Responsible AI, and the 370 Jay Project invite you to a discussion on games in the series “Co-Opting AI.” Quests for innovation, particularly technological innovation, seem to always be closely tied to different systems of ideas and ideals. Artificial intelligence...
Discussion
Pre-existing Conditions: 2020 in Historical Perspective
04/16 Friday | 12:30pm
To understand the events of 2020- pandemic, police violence, political instability, precarity, and protest- requires grappling with the preexisting conditions that caused and worsened the crises. In an ongoing series, the NYU Cities Collaborative is hosting cutting-edge historians reflecting on the origins of the 2020 crises. Friday, March 26 from 12:30 – 2:00 PM ET-...