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Zoom Event: Awakening in Tomorrow’s Post-Pandemic World: Economic Policy in the Aftermath of COVID-19
The Public Policy Program and the Hunter College Economics Department present Awakening in Tomorrow’s Post-Pandemic World: Economic Policy in the Aftermath of COVID-19 Join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/156086215 Tuesday, April 7, 2020 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm For Hunter students and faculty: please note that Tuesday, April 7 is running on a Wednesday schedule As COVID-19 continues […]
Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times — Online
April 14 marks the 90th birthday of our beloved Roosevelt House advisory board member and generous supporter and advocate, Ambassador William vanden Heuvel. Though we remain in social isolation, all of us at this institution want to wish the Ambassador a very happy birthday and best wishes for many more. In celebration of his milestone, Roosevelt […]
Hunter@Home - The Reality of the Coronavirus Pandemic for the American Medical System
The Reality of the Coronavirus Pandemic for the American Medical System Program begins at 6 p.m. with Introductory Remarks by Jonathan F. Fanton Director of Roosevelt House Harold Holzer Glass of wine (supplied by you at home) to follow RSVP: Those who RSVP will receive the ZOOM number and a reminder to join shortly before […]
Hunter@Home - Lessons on Pandemic and Age
How do disasters affect different people? What have we learned from the past and what do we need to know about the challenges of COVID-19 for seniors? Ruth Finkelstein, Rose Dobrof Executive Director of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College and Christian Gonzalez Rivera, Director of Strategic Policy Initiatives, Brookdale Center for […]
Hunter@Home - Inland - A reading by Téa Obreht
Hunter College MFA Distinguished Lecturer and New York Times-bestselling author and Orange Prize winner, Tea Obreht, will read from Inland, her critically-acclaimed bestseller, which Barack Obama praised as one of his favorite books of 2019, and which Entertainment Weekly calls “a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West.” In the lawless, drought-ridden […]
Hunter College Earth Day #ClimateAction Presentations
Join us for an exciting day celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The Green Belt Society and the Hunter College Department of Geography and Environmental Science have assembled a great lineup of student, faculty and alumni speakers. Confirmed Speakers: "Dead Zones in the Gulf of Mexico" by Ms. Victoria Cagle, Environmental Studies undergraduate student […]
Hunter@Home - Inside Vincent’s Creative Process: Van Gogh and Popular Culture
Renowned and prize-winning art historian Michael Lobel, Professor, Art History at Hunter College, shares insights from his ground-breaking research exploring the influences from the period’s print popular culture on the thinking and art of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most beloved and enigmatic artists of all time. While we’ve all seen the work of […]
Hunter@Home - The Beatles’ Legacy: How Abbey Road Blazed the Trail for Progressive Rock
What is “progressive rock”? What makes it different from “progressive pop”? In this talk, distinguished music professor, rock historian and keyboardist/vocalist, Mark Spicer, will provide musical analysis and situate the late work of the Beatles—and how musical elements of their swansong album in particular, influenced emerging progressive rock acts of the time, including large-scale and […]