The Borough Presidents on NYC Food Policy
This panel will discuss New York City food politics with four borough presidents.
This panel will discuss New York City food politics with four borough presidents.
Passionate Politics follows Charlotte’s story, from idealistic young civil rights organizer to lesbian activist, to internationally-recognized leader of a campaign to put women’s rights on the global human rights agenda. Charlotte has been both a product and creator of her times: every chapter in her life is a chapter in the story of modern feminist […]
Deborah Eisenberg is the author of multiple short story collections, most recently Your Duck Is My Duck in 2018, and is the recipient of literary honors including the PEN/Faulkner Award (for The Collected Short Stories of Deborah Eisenberg), the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rea Award for the Short Story, a Whiting Award, a […]
Yiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction—Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and […]
Can engineers mitigate the effects of climate change? Solar geoengineering, an ambitious set of experiments that aim to reduce the amount of sun and heat that reaches the planet, has gained momentum in recent years. But just what are the risks – and possible rewards – of using techniques like injecting reflective particles into the […]
The history of torture is expansive, showing up as police violence in Chicago to torture of criminals during the War on Terror. Historically, authorities have paid torture survivors abroad multi-million dollar payouts; however, compensation for confinement does not exempt the law from answering basic ethical and moral questions. This talk will challenge the audience to […]
Please join us at Roosevelt House to welcome Peter Shinkle, a veteran journalist and the author of Ike’s Mystery Man. Shinkle’s book is a remarkable biography of Robert Cutler, Dwight Eisenhower’s right-hand man for national security at the White House–and a closeted gay man at the center of a gay love triangle. Cutler served […]
The Spring 2019 Distinguished Writers Series concludes with a special reading by Monica Youn. Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Blackacre, which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts […]
Dr. Zuzana Jurkova, Chair of Anthropology and Head of the Ethnomusicology at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic will present the lecture titled "Minorities' Musics Matter: Why Study Romani/Gypsy Music in the Czech Republic? (CR)" on Thursday, 9 May 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in HN405. This follows the concert of Romani music presented by Ensemble Via […]
The acclaimed, best-selling historian Robert A. Caro has written two of the most widely praised biographies of our time: The Power Broker, his exhaustive and essential 1974 study of New York’s long-reigning, so-called “Master Builder,” Robert Moses, still in print after 45 years; and the massive and groundbreaking The Years of Lyndon Johnson, four landmark […]