Join CENTRO for a series exploring the significance of preserving and documenting the historical memory of diasporic and minority communities. As part of our 50th Anniversary, we aim to make our archival experience and knowledge accessible to empower our community and ensure our legacies are woven into the tapestry of global heritage. Collective memory shapes […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Hunter College Associate Professor of Sociology Calvin John Smiley. In this eye-opening and urgent analysis, Smiley delivers a powerful and deeply researched critique of the prison reentry system as well as a moving portrait of those most impacted by […]
Join Basil Smikle Jr. in conversation with Marc Morial, President and CEO of National Urban League, for a discussion of the challenges civic leaders and academics face in building political and social movements around the most pressing policy problems of today. Speakers: Marc H. Morial is the President and CEO of the National Urban League. His energetic and skilled leadership has […]
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a panel discussion with Paisley Currah, the author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, and Zein Murib, the author of Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. These acclaimed new books deliver vital and urgent accounts of queer and […]
Join CENTRO on November 14th at 6 PM at CUNY’s Baruch College Mishkin Gallery for a community viewing of their new exhibition, We didn’t ask permission, we just did it…, on display through December 8th, 2023. This vibrant and experimental exhibition revisits and honors the legacy of three historic exhibition series in Puerto Rico from 2000 […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Sounds of Mediterranean Jewry: Sephardi-Mizrahi Songlines Presented by: Dr. Samuel Torjman Thomas, Founder and Artistic Director of ASEFA and the New York Andalus Ensemble and […]
The Roosevelt House Human Rights and Public Policy Programs together with The Invisible Americans podcast invite you to the second of three 2023 events: Child Poverty is Personal: Do You Hear Us? A Live Invisible Americans Podcast with a recorded welcome from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and a keynote address from author & advocate David Ambroz. Millions of […]
Join photographers Maximo Colón & Mónica Félix as they explore their photographs on display as part of the exhibition, Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery. Explore how these artists have documented the migrations past and present and how their photographs help define […]
Hunter College President Ann Kirschner Invites you to the Roosevelt House series: Mapping the Future of Higher Ed Featuring: Ben Wildavsky author of The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials & Connections in conversation with Daphne Kis CEO of WorldQuant University. Reception and book signing will follow. Warm thanks to Anthony E. Meyer, […]
Special Series for CUNY Faculty: Disability & Accessibility Training Part 2: New York State IT Accessibility Policy and Your Class Friday, November 17, 2-3 pm New York policy on accessible Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Disability types and features of accessible content Tools and resources to make content accessible RSVP for Session 2: NY State […]
