Events / Community

Roosevelt House is proud to present a discussion —on Zoom only—of Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus by Maia Weinstock. In this essential new biography, Weinstock chronicles the life of trailblazing physicist and alumna of Hunter College High School (’47) and Hunter College (’51), Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus (1930–2017). The author will be in conversation with Hunter College […]

Please join us as Roosevelt House welcomes back one of our most popular lecturers, America’s leading naval historian, Craig L. Symonds. He returns to discuss his new biography of the indispensable admiral who helped FDR launch the do-or-die sea battles of World War II—Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo ­Bay. Our program marks the […]

The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan. This acclaimed and singular history of a prison—and the queer women and trans people who were held there—provides a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in […]

Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion—on Zoom only—of the new book Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve it by Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog. In this important new analysis, authors Solove and Hartzog explore how the laws intended to protect our data may actually contribute to its insecurity—and offer a bold way of […]

Reception to Follow Welcome address by Consul Yasemin Pamuk from the German Consulate General New York. Co-presented with the University Alliance Ruhr (Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University and University of Duisburg-Essen), the Consulate General of Germany in New York, and the Hunter College Department of German, Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of Otto […]