Bestselling author Jonathan Mahler (The Bronx is Burning) will discuss his sweeping new chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American novelist, memoirist, and essayist, celebrated for his sharp wit and satirical style. He graduated from Hunter College with an MFA in creative writing. He is the author of acclaimed works and his debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National […]
Carmina Burana will be performed with orchestra, alongside the New York City Children’s Chorus and shorter works by Haydn and Boulanger.
Roosevelt House—together with the Hunter College Department of Women and Gender Studies—are pleased to present a conversation with the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Notorious RBG, Irin Carmon, on her new book, Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America. Ambitious, insightful, and passionate, Unbearable explores “what’s gone wrong” with pregnancy in America, through the lens of history, politics, […]
Join us for an information session re: our DI Certificate Program (Standalone DI) and MS-DI Program (Combined MS and DI Program).
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Understanding the Rise of the Antidemocratic Right Political scientist Joe Lowndes will be in conversation with philosopher Linda Martin Alcoff about right-wing politics, the shift to authoritarianism in the US, and the limits of civil dialogue in this moment. Panelists: Joseph Lowndes: Joe Lowndes is a scholar of […]
Hunter College Opera The Hunter College Music Department and Hunter Opera Theater present a workshop reading of The Secret Melody, a new opera by Luc Baiwir and Susan Gonzalez. Admission is free.
Hunter College Opera The Hunter College Music Department and Hunter Opera Theater present a workshop reading of The Secret Melody, a new opera by Luc Baiwir and Susan Gonzalez. Admission is free.
Person Place Thing: Randy Cohen in Conversation with Richard Nelson Join us for a live podcast where Randy Cohen will interview acclaimed American playwright and director Richard Nelson. Richard Nelson is known for his intimate plays that foreground household conversations against historical events. His major works include the decade long project The Rhinebeck Panorama, a […]
Marking the 80th anniversary of the year of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Roosevelt House presents bestselling historian and journalist Garrett Graff on his new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb. Comprehensive and engrossing, the book delivers the remarkable—and terrifying—story of the atomic bomb’s creation and deployment, woven from the […]
