Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Talking About Israel & Palestine After October 7th Speaker: Ari L. Goldman Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Director, Scripps Howard Program in Religion, […]
Torres was a former businessman and president of the Metropolitan Spanish Merchants Association, also known as La Metro. After successfully running several bodegas, Torres became a food wholesaler and provided support to bodega owners. His work helped bring millions of dollars in revenue to Hispanic food retailers, and he provided practical advice to small business […]
Robert Seltzer Series Anna Sokolow and the Jewish Roots of her American Modern Dance American modern dance pioneer and Jewish cultural icon Anna Sokolow (1910-2000) was a dancer and choreographer […]
Marking Black History Month at Roosevelt House and Celebrating Legendary Writer and Hunter College Alumna Audre Lorde featuring Alexis Pauline Gumbs on her new book Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde in conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Roosevelt House, along with the Hunter College Department of Women and Gender Studies, is […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series The Intersection of Identity: Growing Up Palestinian-American Speaker: Susan Muaddi Darraj Ms. Muaddi Darraj a Palestinian-American author of books for adults and children, […]
BOOK TALK EXPLORING TAIWAN WITH MISS CHIZURU: THE FICTIONAL CRAFT OF TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE How can a Taiwanese novel incorporate historical materials from its decades under Japanese colonial rule? How does two women’s travelogue become a work of fiction? This talk explores Taiwan Travelogue’s use of a “Shōwa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour” as its storytelling framework, […]
The departments of Women and Gender Studies and Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College invite you to join author Tavia Nyong’o for a special discussion on his […]
This new book is an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together. Speaker: Loretta […]
Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Union Atlantic and Imagine Me Gone. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner of […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Leaving the Hasidic Community: Reality versus Popular Culture Speaker: Zalman Newfield, PhD Prof. Newfield is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology and the acting Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Hunter College Speaker: Heba Gowayed, PhD Prof. Gowayed is a faculty member in the Department […]
