Please join us for a film screening of The Feminister which follows the career of former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, the first to institute “feminist foreign policy” which has since been adopted by a number of countries around the world. The film traces the secret talks she mediated between North Korea and the United States […]
A groundbreaking scholar, activist, and longtime professor of political science at Hunter College, the late Kenneth Sherrill (1942-2023) was the first out gay elected official in New York State. A former Democratic District Leader, and pioneer of the analysis of the LGBTQ vote, Sherrill laid “the foundation for the study of LGBTQ Politics in America,” […]
Join CENTRO on September 19th for a panel discussion on radical student movements and the screening of “The Five Demands”, a film documenting the student takeover of City College of New York in April 1969. Following the Vietnam war, protests like the one at City College, led by Puerto Rican and Black students, set the […]
Book Signing and Pizza to Follow By 2028, Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha will be the largest group of eligible voters in the country. But youth voter turnout in recent presidential elections has remained ominously low. Voters under 25 were half as likely to vote in 2020 as voters over the age of 65; and, in 2020, when voter […]
Lauri Kytomaa is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics and Policy at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business. Kytömaa earned his PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and his MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. His interests lie in improving the design of consumer debt markets and […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House—together with Hunter College’s Office of the President and MFA in Creative Writing Program—celebrate the artistry of the great Sandra Cisneros on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the The House on Mango Street. To mark the occasion, American Voices: The Sandra Cisneros Symposium at Hunter College will bring together leading authors, journalists, scholars, singers, […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust The Light of Learning, by Glenn Dynner, tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. Hasidic leaders reinvented themselves through an ensuing pedagogical revolution. Hasidic yeshivas soon overshadowed courts and […]
Meet Trevor Nunn at Hunter College - October 8 – 15, 2024 Meet one of the most influential figures in contemporary theater—a director and artistic leader who has shaped the way we experience Shakespeare, musicals, and modern drama. Sir Trevor Nunn’s career spans record-breaking Broadway musicals (including Cats and Les Misérables) and collaborations with some […]
Matthew Neidell is an economics professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He received his PhD in economics from UCLA, and was a post-doc at the University of Chicago prior to joining Columbia. Neidell specializes in environmental, health, and labor economics, with research primarily focused at the intersections of these. […]
Join CENTRO for a Cafecito con…Mónica Jiménez and Alvin Padilla-Babilonia as they discuss Jimenez’s new book Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico. This “brilliant study” (Latin American Review of Books) and “insightful analysis of Puerto Rico and how the U.S. government treats it” (Library Journal), examines a larger history […]
