Working groups are collaboratories consisting of graduate students and professors from within NYU as well as members of business, non-profit and academic arenas beyond NYU. Working groups write papers together, host conferences together, and meet to discuss individual projects. Most groups formally cohere for one or two years though some are sustained over a longer period of time. Each working group has unique goals and praxis and new groups are being formed all the time.
One of the ways IPK reaches out to the academic and intellectually curious public in New York is by hosting lecture and dialogue series. We are able to bring academics and intellectuals from all over the world to the campus at Washington Square to present their research and share their perspective. Lectures are presentations given by an author or authors. Dialogues are moderated discussions between tow speakers. All lectures are free; many are open to the public.
Explorations are areas of research and outreach that have caught our attention but have not yet coalesced into a full working group. A few of these topics will grow up to become working groups, but not all. There may be one-off lectures or other events associated with a topic under exploration.
- Cosmopolitanism
- Secularism
- Disaster Imaginary