Media
Podcasts
Listen to a conversation about heat through a sensorial and historical lens with UCLA’s Heat Lab:
Listen to a conversation about researching urban heat at the Hagley Museum and Library in “History Hangout: Conversation with Kara Schlichting”:
Listen to a conversation on New York City’s coastal history in “A Little Green Podcast S3 E2: An Estuary Transformed:”
Summary:: “What if the rebuilding of the city in the face of a climate crisis is a moment to build a more just and a more environmentally flexible city?” Before we can understand what the future of New York City could look like as our climate changes, we need to go back... way back. With the help of local historian and professor, Kara Schlichting, Christina learns about what the area was like before European colonization, how settlers changed New York’s waterfronts, and how the development of industrial port infrastructure set the city up for economic dominance -- and put New Yorkers on a collision course with environmental issues we’re contending with to this day. How can our past help us determine what an equitable future might look like?
Listen in on a 2022 conversation on “Revisiting Robert Moses” with Kara Schlichting, co-author Katie Uva, and Long Island History Project host Chris Kretz.
Listen to Kara Schlichting and co-author Katie Uva discuss “New Ways to Understand Robert Moses” with Manhattan Borough Historian Robert W. Snyder.
Listen to Kara Schlichting discuss her 2019 book New York Recentered with the New Books Network podcast.
Listen in on Episode 1 of the podcast ADRIFTNYC on Upper New York Bay’s environmental history.
Listen to Kara Schlichting interview Evan Friss about his 2019 book On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City with the New Books Network podcast.
Interviews
Read about Kara’s work on beach privatization in U.S. history in Michael Water’s 2023 piece for The Atlantic, “America has a Private Beach Problem.”
The Climate Crisis and Eroding Public Beach Access: A Q&A with Kara Murphy Schlichting, winner of the 2024 Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award
Read more about Kara’s work on beaches Los Angeles County, California, in the of privatization and climate change in “A Californian beach caught between erosion and appropriation: Questions for historian Kara Schlichting” (2024 interview in French with English translation)
Join Jessica Dewitt in a conversation with Kara Murphy Schlichting about heat waves and sensory history and how this history helps us understand our present-day.
September 2021 - NiCHE Conversations Season 2, Episode 3
Episode One: A conversation with Dr. Kara Murphy Schlichting of Queens College, City University of New York, about metropolis-makers on the periphery, the heroism of local libraries, the hubris of hipness, and her revisionist environmental history of the making of modern New York City, New York Recentered.
May 2021 Empire State Engagements
Research Talks
Public Talk: Flushing Meadows and the World of Tomorrow in Queens, June 2019 Skyscraper Museum
Public Talk: Hot Town: Summer’s Impact on the City, January 2020 Rachel Carson Center