Recipients of HNY grants put funds to good use year-round and across the state, with performances, workshops, exhibitions, and other types of events that are frequently free and open to the public. Read on for a selection of grantee goings-on.
WATCH: Nicole Eustace and Ned Blackhawk Live at CUNY Grad Center
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.
2024 PIHP Grants Awarded
Humanities New York is pleased to announce that 20 organizations across the state have received grants totaling $474,428 as part of the Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership (PIHP): a cohort-based program that supports organizations that incorporate the humanities into their work of serving formerly incarcerated individuals and their families.
Read the full list of new and returning grantees.
Iroquois Diplomacy and the Seeds for Justice Reform
“Indigenous histories invite new interpretations of American history,” Ned Blackhawk writes in The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.
In advance of HNY’s spring event featuring Blackhawk and Nicole Eustace in conversation, we’re diving into the authors’ work. Read on for excerpts and analysis on Blackhawk’s National Book Award-winning The Rediscovery of America and Eustace’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Covered with Night.
WATCH: Indigenous, Enslaved and Indentured Views on Long Island’s Colonization
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.
Reserve Your Spot Today for HNY’s Spring American Imagination Event
Democracy as it’s known at home and abroad has roots in ancient Indigenous beliefs and customs. Award-winning authors Ned Blackhawk and Nicole Eustace will meet onstage to discuss how Indigenous groups like the Iroquois Confederacy helped shape the society we live in today.
Read on for a full event description and to purchase tickets.
2024 Action Grant Awards
Humanities New York is delighted to announce Action Grant funding for 22 organizations across seven regions of New York State.
Action Grants award $6500 to $10,000 to non-profits to bring to life programs that promote the exchange of knowledge, skills, stories, and ideas on themes endemic—and important to—their local communities.
Read on to explore the full list of projects.
A Planting Method and a Metaphor For Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s 2013 best-selling book, Braiding Sweetgrass catalyzed a shift in climate change discourse among scientists, lawmakers, and laypeople. Acknowledging this at a recent discussion hosted by Humanities New York, Kelsey Leonard—a water scientist and fellow policy change-maker—nonetheless wondered if a fundamental tenet of the book had not been deliberately misinterpreted to the detriment of Indigenous wisdom?
Read the excerpt from this portion of the interview, and find the full video below.
WATCH: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Current Climate and Reasons to Remain Hopeful
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.
Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership Spotlight: August Edition
Humanities New York is excited to present our Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership (PIHP) grantees of 2023!
PIHP is an annual grant that provides support to New York State-based organizations that serve previously incarcerated individuals and their families. PIHP aims to recognize the importance of and support these organizations and their work; explore humanities-based techniques to programming through workshops and discussion; and convene grantees in order to share experiences and engage with new resources.