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Book Launch

Book Talk | Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town

04/13 Tuesday | 5pm

To view the event, please click here. 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…

Discussion

Cities After COVID

04/08 Thursday | 5pm

Please view the event here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. The Institute for Public Knowledge, in partnership with the NYU’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Inequality, invites you to join a conversation on the post-pandemic future of cities. The event is moderated by Eric Klinenberg featuring Thomas J. Sugrue, Shlomo (Solly) Angel, Vanessa Léon, and Kimberly…

Discussion

We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems

03/31 Wednesday | 5pm

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. In many corners, we’ve come to accept the notion that government can’t do new things or solve tough challenges, that it’s too big and slow and bureaucratic. It doesn’t have to be that way, says former public official, now Harvard Business School…

Discussion

Brooklyn Resists, Act One: Suffrage, Abolition, and the Untold Stories of Black Women Leaders

03/23 Tuesday | 6pm

In the summer of 2020 protesters flooded the streets of Brooklyn in response to the brutal police killing of George Floyd, led by local activists who organized nightly marches throughout the borough. These leaders follow in the footsteps of centuries of Black activists in Brooklyn. This three-part series looks at the long history of Black-led…

Discussion

Protests and the Pandemic

03/18 Thursday | 5pm

To view the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. The Institute for Public Knowledge, in partnership with the NYU’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Inequality, invites you to join a conversation on protest and the pandemic. The event is moderated by Eric Klinenberg featuring Stephen Duncombe, Jeffrey Goodwin, Linda Gordon, and Olutoyin Demuren….

Discussion

Co-Opting AI: Intimacy

03/16 Tuesday | 5pm

To watch the event, please click here. 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.” This event will focus on how our intimate lives are mediated by technology, and…

Discussion

The Pandemic and Public Goods

03/11 Thursday | 5pm

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. The Institute for Public Knowledge, in partnership with NYU’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Inequality, invites you to join a conversation on the fate of public goods in a post-pandemic world in the series on “COVID-19 and Inequality.” The event will be moderated by Eric…

Discussion

Local Voices Network

03/02 Tuesday | 5pm

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. We live in an age of social media and polarized broadcast media in which the loudest voices and most extreme opinions — often about issues that are distant from everyday concerns of most people — dominate. The Local Voices Network is an…

Discussion

The Shift: Food

03/01 Monday | 5pm

To watch the event, please click here. RSVP is required. Please RSVP here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Civic Signals, The Social Science Research Council, and The Knight Foundation invite you to a discussion on Food in the series on “The Shift,” featuring Qiana Mickie, Rebecca Webster, Andrew Deener and moderated by Kara Alexis Young….

Discussion

Pandemic Panel Series

02/25 Thursday | 5pm

RSVP is required. Please register below. The impact of COVID-19 and our nation’s response to it have underscored the grave effects of climate change and the increasing necessity for action. The parallels between the pandemic and the climate crisis are growing in number as both continue to disproportionately harm the same communities. Is the…

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