States of Incarceration: Teaching and Talking about Immigration Detention and Mass Incarceration Hunter faculty, students and New York City community leaders join faculty-community teams from 6 other states to explore pedagogical and narrative strategies for how to address these issues and intersections in the classroom, through collaborations between campus and community partners. Hear case studies […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series States of Incarceration: Connecting Stories of Immigration Detention and Mass Incarceration and the Movements Against Them The systems of immigration detention and mass incarceration are intertwined: immigrants and citizens accused of crimes are often detained in the same buildings, controlled by the same personnel, managed by the same corporations. […]
States of Incarceration: Building Bridges: Connecting Stories of Immigration Detention and Mass Incarceration and the Movements Against Them In collaboration with CENTRO, teams of faculty and advocates from around the country will exchange experiences with Centro and Silberman scholars and East Harlem leaders on community-led strategies for addressing criminalization of both immigrant and Black communities, and how […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series The Future of Conversion Therapy Bans in the US Over the last several years, 23 states, including New York and New Jersey, have barred licensed mental health professionals from providing therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation and gender identity. These conversion therapy bans often had bipartisan support when […]
Dr. Tanika Chakraborty is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, specializing in Development Economics. Before joining IIM Calcutta, she worked at IIT Kanpur and DIW Berlin, after completing her PhD at Washington University in St. Louis. She is affiliated to IZA Bonn, CESifo Munich, and the Global Labor Organization. Dr. […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series Composing Jewish Music: Yiddish, Archives, and Memory This talk examines composer Alex Weiser’s evolving understanding of “Jewish music” and the role of the “Jewish composer,” shaped by his creative work, research in Yiddish language and archives, and his position at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Tracing his trajectory from […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series “It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo”: The Value of Political Pluralism in Academia Professor Philip Swan of Hunter College will be joined by Laura Beltz, Director of Policy Reform and Ryne Weiss, Director of Research, at the Foundation […]
A New York Times bestselling author, Libba Bray, discusses her latest novel, Under the Same Stars, her writing, and career with librarian Jennifer Hubert Swan.
Dr. Mahesh Karra is an Associate Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the Director of the Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER). Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen’s Center for Modern Indian Studies. His academic and research interests are […]
DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. In the next Roosevelt House event to mark the centennial of Black History Month, please join us—along with the Hunter College […]
