On October 22, 2024, artist and author of "Saving Time: How to Discover a Life Beyond the Clock" and UC Boulder media studies professor Nathan Schneider joined Humanities New York in Poughkeepsie for a conversation on mindfulness and civic engagement in the current era.See the full program.

On April 11, 2024, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and IndigenousJustice in Early America Nicole Eustace and National Book Award-winning historian and writer of The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, Ned Blackhawk, joined Humanities New York in New York City to discuss their recent works, which throw into relief the role of Indigenous power players like the Iroquois Confederacy in the formation of the U.S. and their continuous influence on aspired-to models of governance, justice, and civility.Watch the full conversation.

Stony Brook University's Jennifer Anderson recently joined HNY for a Long Island-centric edition  of our Land, Liberty & Loss: Echoes of the American Revolution series. Watch the full conversation.

In contrast to the downbeat timbre of most climate change discourse, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Kelsey Leonard's conversation rang with positivity, impressing the importance of keeping our eyes opened to possibility rather than probability, and our ears attuned to the lessons that nature offers freely.Watch the full conversation here.

On March 30, 2023, Humanities New York hosted Merlin Chowkwanyun in conversation with Celina Su about public health and the experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City.

On October 18th, Humanities New York hosted its fourth annual “History and the American Imagination” event with poet and prison reform advocate Reginald Dwayne Betts and Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.