Hunter College Jazz & Pop Combos Virtual Event
The Hunter College Jazz & Pop Combos performs Hits from the 20th & 21st Century. This event will be held online via YouTube.
The Hunter College Jazz & Pop Combos performs Hits from the 20th & 21st Century. This event will be held online via YouTube.
Roosevelt House presents a live Zoom discussion of Eleanor: A Biography by David Michaelis. In it, Michaelis provides for the first time in six decades a single-volume cradle-to-grave breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The author will be in conversation with scholar, writer, and editor Allida Black. Drawing on exhaustive new research, Eleanor: A Biography offers a riveting account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s transformative […]
The 2020 Jack Newfield Lecture - Celebrating the publication of Wayne Barrett’s Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism that First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the American Epidemic of Corruption Welcoming Remarks by Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab Special Remarks by Governor Andrew Cuomo Introduction by Janie Eisenberg Audience Q&A Moderated by Mac Barrett Roosevelt […]
Robert Seltzer 2020-2021 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Shattered Homes: Jews in Hiding in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust Found in homes, objects are personal and familial. Some are “Jewish” by provenance used in daily lives or family celebrations, while others by virtue of “birth” as they performed religious functions. And if this was the case, […]
Roosevelt House presents a live Zoom discussion of the new book Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World by Charles A. Kupchan. In it, Kupchan traces for the first time the complete history of isolationism from its roots in a speech made by George Washington to its 21st century resurgence. The author will be […]
In the modern world, everything is connected, including how we kill. Join us for a thrilling evening as author and Hunter alumnus Phil Klay MFA‘11, discusses his debut novel Missionaries with author Matt Gallagher. In Missionaries, Klay, also an Iraq War veteran, examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and […]
Roosevelt House presents a live Zoom discussion of Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America by Senator Sherrod Brown. In a book only a “sitting senator” could write, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) explores the careers and legacies of some of the history-making progressives who sat at the same Senate floor desk he has occupied for the last 13 years. […]
This November marks the 59th presidential election in the United States. It has been, as commentators often say, “unprecedented.” Indeed, there have been—and surely will continue to be—newsworthy fireworks. Some are standard-variety; some are not. All have been contentious, and some raise serious questions about the American political order. The faculty of Hunter’s Political Science department […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Major Jackson discusses his book of poetry, The Absurd Man. Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His […]
Roosevelt House presents a live Zoom discussion on the timely new documentary The Perfect Weapon, which just premiered on HBO, featuring its executive producer (and author of the bestselling book on which the film is based) David E. Sanger together with executive producer and director John Maggio. Drawing on interviews with top military, intelligence, and political figures, The Perfect Weapon explores […]