Join assistant professor in Hunter College's Department of Psychology and the Animal Behavior and Conservation Program, Dr. Joshua Plotnik, as he discusses his research on Asian Elephants over the past 13 years, and how studying the behavior and cognition of an endangered species can aid in promoting coexistence rather than conflict with humans. The study […]
Award-Winning Scholar, Professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Hunter College, Leah Garrett, will discuss her new book project which tells the remarkable and unknown story of a group of Jewish Holocaust refugees who were trained by the British to be commandos, fighting on the front lines of many of the most crucial battles of […]
Author of Long Bright River and Hunter College MFA alumna, Liz Moore ’07 joins Beth Macy, award winning journalist and author of Dopesick for a conversation about the human face of addiction. Join us as Beth Macy chats with Liz Moore about her most recent novel , Long Bright River, which The Wall Street Journal calls “Powerful” and The New York Times Book Review, “A […]
Sylvia Weinstock ’51 in conversation with Cristina Alesci, CNN Business and Politics Correspondent Join us after work for a sweet treat with Hunter alumna Sylvia Weinstock! She has been one of the world's most sought-after confectioners: creating cakes as works of art for Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Joel, Mariah Carey and Sofía Vergara. […]
A conversation between Professor Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Professor, Hunter College Department of Psychology and Evelyn Behar, Associate Professor, Hunter College Department of Psychology During the COVID pandemic, it is impossible to ignore that our individual and collective anxieties are skyrocketing. Many of us will try to suppress our anxiety in an attempt to keep calm and […]
With Authors Michelle MacRoy-Higgins, PhD CCC-SLP, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at Hunter College, and Carlyn Kolker Join Dr. Michelle MacRoy-Higgins and Brooklyn-based writer, Carlyn Kolker, for a conversation about the mysteries of language acquisition in young children. The co-authors of Time to Talk will help parents understand […]
With Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries at Hunter College Join Joachim Pissarro, art historian and theoretician, as he discusses his relationship with the family of one of the principal members of the Impressionist movement: Camille Pissarro. Joachim Pissarro will explain how an accident of birth led […]
With Bill Goldstein, Author and Founding editor of the books site of The New York Times on the Web, and host of Bill’s Books on WNBC. And Charles Kaiser, Acting Director of Hunter College’s LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House. “The entire history of the LGBTQ movement is a story of the collaboration of culture […]
A FASCINATING LOOK AT THE ART OF THE ANCIENT WORLD With Robert B. Koehl, Professor of Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. Travel back in time with Professor Robert Koehl as he surveys animal-shaped vases from their earliest appearance in the Neolithic Near East to their […]
“Looking at Cubist Collage” with Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Art and Art History Department, Hunter College In 1912, Pablo Picasso pasted a piece of oilcloth printed with a faux-rattan weave onto an oval canvas: Still Life with Chair Caning ushered in the fertile period of Cubist experimentation with collage. The incorporation of everyday, found materials, […]
