Democratic societies require roads, bridges, transit systems, and electrical grids. But they also require rooms where people can gather to reflect on what kind of society they are becoming.

Each conversation brings together Humanities New York with scholars, writers, and public thinkers whose work helps illuminate moments of cultural, political, and technological change.

The conversation centered on the Deer Hide Agreement of 1975, an object held at Skä•noñh that is also something more than an object.