January 10, 2024, “The Slip: The NYC Street that Changed Art Forever” (with Prudence Pfeiffer), Housing Works, New York, NY
June 29, 2023 “Hilton Als: My Pinup” (with Hilton Als), Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
May 30, 2023 “3 Women, On Women: Susan Sontag Now” (with Merve Emre, Sigrid Nunez, Doreen St. Felix), Pioneer Works,
Brooklyn, NY
February 15, 2023 “Edward Hopper’s New York” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
October 6, 2022 “Pioneer Works Author Talks: Elif Batuman on Either/Or” (with Elif Batuman) Brooklyn, NY
April 21, 2022 “Names of New York: Mapping the Infinite City” The Brendan Gill Lecture, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
March 19, 2022 “PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince” (launch party) Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
January 13, 2022 “Open House NY: Names of New York,” New York, NY
May 13, 2021 “Names of New York” (with Ross Perlin & Garnette Cadogan) CUNY Gotham Center, New York, NY
May 6, 2021 “Names of New York” (with Margaret Talcott) American Inspiration Author Series, Boston, MA
April 28, 2021 “Names of New York” (with Molly Crabapple) The Tenement Museum, New York, NY
April 22, 2021 “Names of New York” (with Astra Taylor) Untapped NY and McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY
April 21, 2021 “Names of New York” (with Suketu Mehta) Live! From the NYPL, New York, NY
April 20, 2021 “Names of New York” (with Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura) Municipal Art Society, New York, NY
April 19, 2021 “Names of New York” (with Matt Weiland) Greenlight Books, Brooklyn, NY
April 15, 2021 “Names of New York” (Launch event with Jazmine Hughes and Will Butler) Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
March 4, 2020 “Counting New York: On the 2020 Census” (Thinking Out Loud at the NYPL) New York Public Library, New York, NY
February 6, 2020; “Writing on the Run” (with Yasmine El Rashidi, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Daniel Mendelsohn; New York Review Classics) NYU, New York, NY
November 21, 2019: Words and Music Festival (keynote with Leona Tate), New Orleans, LA
October 28, 2019: “Mapping the Infinite City”, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
October 16, 2019: Festival of the Future City, Bristol, UK
October 7, 2019: Wilding: Returning a Farm to Nature (with Isabella Tree), Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, New York, NY
September 19, 2019: City of Women 2.0 (with Julie Scelfo), New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY
September 13, 2019: Cultural Landscapes Symposium (keynote), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
July 13, 2019: “The Walker as Mappist” (with Garnette Cadogan), Governors Island, New York, NY
May 16, 2019: Women’s World Cup Symposium, Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, New York, NY
April 26, 2019 “Coordinates: On Maps and Art", David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
April 10, 2019 “Losing Earth: A Recent History” (in conversation with Nathaniel Rich), Institute for Public Knowledge, New York, NY
February 20, 2019 “Krewe du Kanaval: in context” (avec Arcade Fire & Pres Hall & DJ Jubilee et al.), New Orleans, LA
November 15, 2018 “Mapping the Infinite City”, The National Archives (NYC DOE), New York, NY
November 3, 2018 “The Walker as Mappist” (with Garnette Cadogan), Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
October 18, 2018 “Silicon City: San Francisco Now” (with Cary Mclelland), McNally Jackson Books, Brooklyn, NY
October 7, 2018 “Island People: After Windrush” (with Colin Grant), Ilkley Literature Festival, Ilkley, UK
September 7 - November 12, 2018 "PÒTOPRENS: the Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince" (in residence), Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
June 1-3, 2018, Calabash International Literary Festival, Treasure Beach, Jamaica
April 12, 2018 “Memories of Underdevelopment” (introducing the film), NYU, New York, NY
April 5, 2018 “Secrets We Kept: Writing the Indian Caribbean” (with Krystal Sital and Gaiutra Bahadur), NYU, New York, NY
April 2, 2018 “Cuba on the Verge” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
February 6, 2018 “A Perfect Storm: On Puerto Rico after Maria” Gallatin NYU, New York, NY
January 23, 2018 “Dear Reader, Live,” The Ace Hotel, New York, NY
January 11-13, 2018 Key West Literary Seminar (with Marlon James, et al.), Key West, FL
November 29, 2017 “Island People: A Storm Relief Benefit and Celebration,” The Ace Hotel, New York, NY
November 7, 2017 “Michelle Cliff: A Tribute” (with Tiphanie Yanique, et al.) The New School, New York, NY
September 17, 2017 “The Problems and Promise of Cities“ Brooklyn Book Fair, Brooklyn, NY
June 15-17, 2017 Dalkey Book Festival, Dalkey, Ireland
June 12, 2017 “Island People: The Caribbean and the World” Pages of Hackney, London, UK
June 11, 2017 Balham Literary Festival (with Kapka Kassabova), London, UK
June 5, 2017 “Augustown: In conversation with Kei Miller” Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, UK
June 4, 2017 “Cuba!” (with Rachel Kushner, Cristina Garcia, Achy Obejas), Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley, CA
June 3, 2017 “Beyond Travel Writing” (with Geoff Dyer, et al.), Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley, CA
April 25, 2017 “Island People: The Caribbean and the World” Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, VT
April 18, 2018 “Island People: The Global Impacts of the Caribbean” Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
March 1, 2017 “Island People: The Caribbean and the World” Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
March 1, 2017 “Mapping the Infinite City” Google Inc., Cambridge, MA
February 1, 2017 “The Caribbean and the World” Bristol Festival of Ideas, Bristol, UK
January 31, 2017 “Island People: Official UK Launch” (with Sharmaine Lovegrove) London, UK
November 21, 2016 “Island People: Official US Launch” (with Garnette Cadogan) Greenlight Books, Brooklyn, NY
November 20, 2016 “Tales of Travel: On Island People” Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL
November 17, 2016 “Nonstop Metropolis: Official SF Launch” (with Rebecca Solnit, et al.), San Francisco, CA
October 21, 2016 “The Writer as Mappist” (keynote lecture, NACIS annual conference), Colorado Springs, CO
October 18, 2016 “Nonstop Metropolis: Live! From the NYPL” (with Rebecca Solnit, Luc Sante, Suketu Mehta), New York, NY
October 2, 2016 “Nonstop Metropolis: Official Launch Party and Celebration“ The Queens Museum, Queens, NY
September 16, 2016 “Toward a Geography of Humanism” NEH 50th Anniversary, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
March 30, 2016 “Mapping the Infinite City” (keynote at Association of American Geographers, with Rebecca Solnit) San Francisco, CA