Spring Term Ends
End of Spring 2021 semester. Have a great summer!
End of Spring 2021 semester. Have a great summer!
As we mark Pride Month, Roosevelt House is pleased to present the third in a series of 2021 Zoom election events, designed to give young and first-time voters the opportunity to explore policy issues with those running for office in the June primaries (Primary Day is June 22). We continue with an event co-presented by […]
Co-presented with the Roosevelt House LGBTQ Policy Center, Candidates for City Council Take on LGBTQ+ Issues convenes candidates for City Council who are seeking to maintain its LGBTQ+ representation as current LGBTQ+ Council members reach the end of their respective terms. Participating candidates include: Erik Bottcher, New York City Council, District 3 Marti Cummings, New York City […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a live Zoom discussion of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America by Scott Borchert. In this enthralling history, Borchert provides an immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America in the midst of the Great Depression―and employed […]
Tune in Sunday, 7/4, to C-SPAN 2 for a television broadcast of a Roosevelt House presentation: Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America Scott Borchert and Gerald Howard on Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America will be featured this weekend on C-SPAN 2’s Book TV. In this […]
Classes begin today for Fall 2021.
Hunter alum and National Book Award Winner Phil Klay will be joining us virtually and in person for the Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College. The LA Times describes Phil Klay's latest book, Missionaries, as "beautiful, violent and almost perfect." The New York Times Book Review gave this praise: "Klay's understanding of Colombia, the main […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Tehran Children: How a Decade Long Search in My Father's Footsteps Became "One of the Greatest Untold Stories of the Second World War" Presented by: Mikhal Dekel It is a largely unknown fact most Polish Jews who escaped Nazi extermination - nearly a quarter-million - survived in Uzbekistan, […]
Guests: Author Sherina Feliciano-Santos Moderator: Yarimar Bonilla Host: Kimberly Roa Author Sherina Feliciano-Santos comes together with Yarimar Bonilla to discuss her latest book A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity: Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism. Felicianos’s A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico […]
Curated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber with associate curator Sofia Ramirez of KODA Organized by KODA and Hunter East Harlem Gallery Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature and the Feminine is a survey exhibition of the artist’s work spanning the last eighteen years and created mostly during her time as an East Harlem resident. The artworks in the […]