Upcoming Events

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the John Brademas Center on Monday, February 23 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Julia R. Azari. She will discuss her book, Backlash Presidents: Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History, with Kimberley Johnson and Joe Lowndes.  Julia R. Azari is professor of political science at Marquette University. (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, February 25 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Bruno Carvalho. He will discuss his new book, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World, with Andrew Needham.  Bruno Carvalho specializes in urban life and how cities change. He is the author of (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, March 4 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Bench Ansfield. They will discuss their book, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City, with Johanna Fernandez and Tom Sugrue. Bench Ansfield is a historian of racial capitalism, the carceral state, and (more…)

IPK will host a dual book talk with David Garland, author of Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment, and Robert J. Sampson, author of Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans, on Monday, March 9 (5:30 PM). Patrick Sharkey will moderate (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group on Wednesday, March 11, at 5:30 PM for an event with A.J. Bauer. He will discuss his new book Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press, with Paula Chakravartty and Reece Peck.  A.J. Bauer is an assistant (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Race and Public Space Working Group on Monday, March 23 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Kimberley S. Johnson. She will discuss her new book, Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis, with Christina Greer and Domingo Morel.  Kimberley S. Johnson is Professor of Social (more…)

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Race and Public Space Working Group on Monday, March 30, at 5:30 PM for an event with historian Heather Ann Thompson. She will discuss her new book, Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage, with Nicole R. Fleetwood (more…)