In honor of Black History Month, the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College presents a special workshop on "Global Black Experience Archiving" with Professor Benjamin Talton (Howard University) and Professor James Cantres (Hunter College). What constitutes a "Black" archive? How do the politics of Blackness animate collecting practicing, archival methods, and […]
In honor of Black History Month, the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College presents The Bresi Lecture Series with Professor Benjamin Talton, with a special topic "on nonviolence and its limits for the African Revolution." Dr. Talton is a historian, teacher, and award-winning author. His research and writing explore histories of […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the acclaimed new book Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty by Andrew Meier. Spanning four generations, Morgenthau offers a panoramic account of one exceptional family across more than 150 years of U.S. and world history. The sweeping portrait reveals their power and […]
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library dedicated to the collection and preservation of Black life in America and a partner of CENTRO. It's founder, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, was an Afro-Puerto Rican determined to uplift our stories. Nearly 100 years later, we have the Schomburg and CENTRO, who's collections ensure […]
Please join us in the Roosevelt House Auditorium Wednesday, February 8 at 2:30PM – 3:30PM for our event, “Memphis, Police Accountability, and How We Can Advocate for Change!” as we bring together our Hunter community with human rights and public policy experts for an open forum to discuss the tragic and senseless murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands […]
To mark Black history month, Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama by Rutgers University professor of political science Saladin Ambar. The first historical analysis of its kind, Stars and Shadows delivers a sweeping and comprehensive exploration of the significance of interracial friendships […]
A new in-person series in celebration of our 50th Anniversary! Join us once a month on Saturday afternoons at our Evelina Antonetty Reading Room in the CENTRO Library & Archives for La Meriendita, a story hour dedicated to children's books. This month's story hour book is Vicki and a Summer of Change! (¡Y un verano de cambio!) […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Moshiach, Moshiach! Differing Notions of Messiah in Second Temple Judaism Presented by Rachel Slutsky, Monsignor John Oesterreicher Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity, Seton Hall University What do we mean when we talk about the messiah? This was a question circulating throughout ancient Judaism during the […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series A Decade-Long Retrospective on US-Israel Relations Presented by Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a '22-'23 inaugural fellow at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Center for Antisemitism Research and an instructor in Jewish and Israel Studies, Rutgers University This program presents a decade-long retrospective of Diaspora-Israel relations, examining how American and Israeli realities […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Performing Jewish Identity in Russian Immigrant Narratives of the Third Wave 1970-1980s) Presented by Yasha Klots, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hunter College Was the Third Wave of the Russian Emigration to the United States in fact Jewish? This talk will focus on Russophone authors from the Soviet Union immigrating to the […]
