The Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival features staged readings of new full-length works by Hunter’s 2025 graduating class: Mo Alani, Brandon Bogle, Maddie Dennis-Yates, Morgan McGuire, and Levi J. Shrader. Readings will be held May 5-9 at 4pm daily in the Frederick Loewe Theatre at Hunter College (119 East 68th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues). […]
The Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival features staged readings of new full-length works by Hunter’s 2025 graduating class: Mo Alani, Brandon Bogle, Maddie Dennis-Yates, Morgan McGuire, and Levi J. Shrader. Readings will be held May 5-9 at 4pm daily in the Frederick Loewe Theatre at Hunter College (119 East 68th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues). […]
Dr. Emily Wilson, renowned translator of Homer's epic poems and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Translating the Iliad’s violence”. This talk will argue that there is a large gap between modern and Homeric approaches to physical violence and agency. This difference is legible, I suggest, in influential critical […]
In 1958, an emerging Puerto Rican community was displaced from the Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill neighborhoods to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Utilizing never before seen archival documents made available to CENTRO by the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts and other archival materials, this exhibit […]
The Diasporican Cultural Summit is designed to address the pressing need for gathering spaces that bring together diasporic cultural workers, fostering connections with the next generation of scholars, researchers, and artists. By creating a multidimensional learning environment, the DCS not only facilitates meaningful exchanges between cultural practitioners and emerging academics but also builds bridges to […]
The Diasporican Cultural Summit is designed to address the pressing need for gathering spaces that bring together diasporic cultural workers, fostering connections with the next generation of scholars, researchers, and artists. By creating a multidimensional learning environment, the DCS not only facilitates meaningful exchanges between cultural practitioners and emerging academics but also builds bridges to […]
To continue our observance of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the death of American Commander-in-Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt, please join us as Roosevelt House welcomes back one of our most popular speakers: the country’s foremost naval historian, Craig L. Symonds. In his seventh Roosevelt House appearance, Symonds will discuss […]
Marking Pride Month at Roosevelt House, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to present a discussion of Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts – and America by award-winning journalist Mike De Socio. Weaving in his own experience as a boy scout and journalist, De Socio tells the story of the “accidental” activists who […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a conversation with acclaimed historian Elaine Weiss about her new book Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement. Author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Weiss returns to Roosevelt House with the remarkable story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans […]
5:00 PM: Doors open 5:30 PM: Conversation with Dr. Ruth’s Co-Authors 6:15 PM-7:55 PM: Screening of Ask Dr. Ruth In the second “Little Aunt Dora” Public Lecture at Roosevelt House, named in honor of former, longtime Hunter College Professor Dora Askowith, we are pleased to present a unique, double-header program—exploring, and celebrating, the improbable life and career […]
