Eric Klinenberg: We Were Wrong About What Happened in 2020: A Reckoning (ASL)
Room: Society, Sciences & Technology, 2nd Floor
Crises have a way of revealing things. Who we are. What we value. Whose lives matter. In this talk, NYU sociologist and bestselling author Eric Klinenberg draws on his new book, 2020, to shed light on what happened to New York City in a year when nothing was certain and everything was at stake. From school closures to essential workers, the movement for Black lives to the emergence of mutual aid networks, Klinenberg argues that 2020 changed us in ways we have not yet registered, and that its legacy shapes our lives and politics in 2024.
Eric Klinenberg is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Modern Romance and author of Palaces for the People, Going Solo, Heat Wave, and Fighting for Air. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, and This American Life. He lives in New York City.
Room: Society, Sciences & Technology, 2nd Floor
Crises have a way of revealing things. Who we are. What we value. Whose lives matter. In this talk, NYU sociologist and bestselling author Eric Klinenberg draws on his new book, 2020, to shed light on what happened to New York City in a year when nothing was certain and everything was at stake. From school closures to essential workers, the movement for Black lives to the emergence of mutual aid networks, Klinenberg argues that 2020 changed us in ways we have not yet registered, and that its legacy shapes our lives and politics in 2024.
Eric Klinenberg is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Modern Romance and author of Palaces for the People, Going Solo, Heat Wave, and Fighting for Air. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, and This American Life. He lives in New York City.
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