The Big Picture: What's at Stake with Trump's America Symposium Tuesday, November 7 | 9:45 AM - 8:00 PM NYU Law Tishman Auditorium 40 Washington Square South More information & RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/the-big-picture-whats-at-stake-in-trumps-america/ NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge and Public Books invite you to join for an all-day symposium investigating the rise of Trump and America's turn towards authoritarian rule. This symposium is the culminating event to a series of essays to be published on Public Books<http://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture/> in the weeks preceding, in which leading intellectuals address what's at stake in Trump's America for a wide range of topics. Several of these contributors, listed below, will be present in conversation with other prominent scholars. Full schedule to be announced in mid-October. The contributors and the topics they address: Eric Klinenberg on What's at Stake <http://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture/> <http://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture/> William Julius Wilson on race and inequality <http://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture-multiracial-cooperation/> <http://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture-multiracial-cooperation/> Wendy Brown on defending society <http://www.publicbooks.org/defending-society/> <http://www.publicbooks.org/defending-society/> Robert Shrum on denigrating the presidency <http://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture-the-office-of-the-presidency/> <http://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture-the-office-of-the-presidency/> Michelle Anderson on the Environmental Protection Agency <http://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-resource-extraction/> <http://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-resource-extraction/> Judith Butler on protest Fred Turner on Twitter and political communication Gretchen Bakke on infrastructure Pedro Noguera on education Patrick Sharkey on criminal justice Linda Gordon on the status of women Richard Sennett on soft fascism Alondra Nelson on science policy Steven Lukes on charisma and power Saskia Sassen on urban politics and security Michelle Lamont on recognition and respect Craig Calhoun on populism James Morone on health and healthcare David Henkin on Jews and Trump Hector Amaya on citizenship Jennifer Petersen on free speech Douglas Massey on race, history, and the confederacy Tanya Luhrmann on evangelicals David Grusky and Michelle Jacksonon inequality Shamus Khan on elites Victor Pickard on media policy Phil Gorski on religion Tom Sugrue on urban policy Lisa Wade on gender and sexual assault Jack Halberstam on transgender politics Scott Shapiro and Oona Hathawayon international law Robert Keohane on climate diplomacy Daniel Aldana Cohen on the politics of energy Harel Shapira on guns Margaret Levi on labor Geraldo Cadava on the Wall Kim Phillips-Fein on sanctuary cities Jefferson Cowie on working-class politics Ashley Farmer on activism Alina Das on immigration