Lectures & Talks in New York City

Find lectures, talks, and educational presentations in New York City.

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Thu, Mar 5, 2026
Tenement Museum
Guided public and group tours at the Tenement Museum exploring immigrant life and New York City history, with ESOL/ELL offerings and accessibility information available.
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Thu, Mar 5, 2026
Tenement Museum
Guided Tenement Museum tour exploring immigrant life and New York history — book tickets on the museum site for a focused historical experience.
This Program Will Be Online Only. Russian born and raised until she was 21 when her family moved to America in 1926, she was greatly influenced by the Russian Revolution, the ideas and reality as to what it meant for the human soul and person. Watch this short interview with Ayn Rand in 1959 as she explains her ideas and world view. How similar or dissimilar is she to author Mikhail Baglov? How does her philosophy fit into the modern era of relativism? Is she also a byproduct of the breaking o…
Thu, Mar 5, 2026
Huguenot Park Library
Online NYPL lecture exploring Ayn Rand's ideas via a 1959 interview and comparing her philosophy to modern relativism and author Mikhail Baglov.
Canceled: Nizar Touzi - Schrödinger & Bass for Generative Diffusion Modeling
Thu, Mar 5, 2026
140 W 62nd St
Canceled: IAQF & Thalesians seminar by Nizar Touzi on Schrödinger & Bass approaches to generative diffusion modeling, originally scheduled as a hybrid talk at Fordham University's McNally Amphitheater with free registration.
"The Big Picture" Strategy, Scale, and the Future of Cinema with IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond
Thu, Mar 5, 2026
The New School
IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond discusses strategy, scale, and the future of cinema in an exclusive New School session exploring partnerships and cutting‑edge theatrical technology.
The Lust Files Presents: How to Date a Porn Star
Thu, Mar 5, 2026
Rosewood Theater
The Lust Files presents a frank, adult-oriented live talk at Rosewood Theater about dating porn performers and navigating relationships within the industry on Mar 5, 2026.
Against Money
Thu, Mar 5, 2026
The New School
Economist J.W. Mason examines why money is widely misunderstood and the dangerous social consequences of that misunderstanding in a public lecture at The New School.
ONLINE | 10 Week Seminar: Voices and Resistance: Social Empowerment in the Face of the Discourse of Power in Latin America
Fri, Mar 6, 2026
The New School
10-week online seminar from The New School exploring political discourse and citizen responses across Latin America using Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate resistance and social empowerment.
Houdini Speaks to the Living
Fri, Mar 6, 2026
Lincoln Center
A historical talk exploring Harry Houdini's campaign against spiritualism and his efforts to expose mediums, presented at Lincoln Center in partnership with the NYPL.
Danielle Knafo presents “Artificial Intelligence on the Couch: Staying Human Post-AI
Fri, Mar 6, 2026
The New School
Danielle Knafo presents a psychoanalytic exploration of how AI reshapes human drives, arguing omnipotence and self-destructive impulses help explain why we create AI; reception to follow at The New School.
The Kreisler Impact
Sun, Mar 8, 2026
Lincoln Center
A lecture at Lincoln Center examining Fritz Kreisler’s impact on violin repertoire and performance practice within the chamber music tradition.
ONLINE | 10 Week Seminar: Functional Plant Ecology: Keys to the Conservation and Restoration of Global Ecosystems in a Changing World
Mon, Mar 9, 2026
The New School
A 10-week online seminar from The New School on functional plant ecology, focusing on conservation and restoration strategies to combat biodiversity loss and climate-driven ecosystem disruption.