This event has been postponed.
All’s fair in love and war, the saying goes, but not necessarily in schools and sports.
That’s the topic of the third in Hunter College’s “Promoting Civil Discourse and Intellectual Dialogue” Series, on “A Fairer Playing Field: Trans Rights in School and Sports.”
The discussion, which will be led by a Hunter professor and two advocates, will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 2:30 pm at the Roosevelt House Public Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 E. 65th St.
The event will feature:
Speaker: Lex Horwitz, a Philadelphia-based queer, nonbinary, transgender, Jewish, award-winning LGBTQ+ educator, activist, consultant, public speaker, and researcher. As an undergraduate at Bowdoin College, Horwitz competed on the Varsity Men’s Squash Team and became the first out-transgender athlete in collegiate squash.
Speaker: Bobby Hodgson, assistant legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, works on statewide civil-rights and civil-liberties litigation. He joined the NYCLU in 2013 as a Skadden Fellow, litigating and advocating on behalf of LGBTQ students, and has worked on LGBTQ-related advocacy, immigrants’ rights, police misconduct, and transparency.
Moderator: Erin Mayo-Adam, an associate professor of political science at Hunter who directs the LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House.
The discussion aligns with a campaign to foster civil discourse and tolerance across CUNY’s 25 campuses, which was announced by CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez this past August during a visit to Hunter College.
The previous talk was a discussion led by Laura Quiros, a Hunter alum and an associate professor at Montclair State University, on effecting community healing by incorporating diversity and inclusion into trauma-informed care and anti-oppression work.
The first was a talk on interfaith cooperation and pluralism with internationally renowned scholar and civic leader Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith America. Patel spoke the week after the presidential election about the need to listen carefully and interact nonjudgmentally with persons of different views.
Other events in the series planned for the spring semester include:
“The Intersection of Identity: Growing up Palestinian American”
Speaker: Susan Muaddi Darraj, a Palestinian American author of books for adults and children, including the Farah Rocks series.
Date and Location: Thursday, February 13, 3 pm at Roosevelt House Auditorium
“Leaving the Hasidic Community: Reality Versus Popular Culture”
Speaker: Hunter Sociology Prof. Zalman Newfield, the acting Director of the Jewish Studies Program.
Speaker: Sociology Prof. Heba Gowayed.
Date and Location: Wednesday, March 5, 6-7 pm at Roosevelt House Auditorium
“Forum on Academic Freedom: What does it mean for Hunter College?”
Speaker: Prof. Risa Lieberwitz of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Lieberwitz is academic director of the Worker Institute at Cornell and a co-director of the Cornell University law and society minor.
Speaker: Frederick (Rick) Schaffer, former CUNY general counsel and vice chancellor for legal affairs.
Moderator: William Herbert, Hunter distinguished lecturer and executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College.
Date and Location: Tuesday, March 25, 2 pm at Roosevelt House Auditorium
“The Refugee Experience in the US: Building Community Capacity and Resilience”
Speaker: Marciana Popescu, PhD
Popescu is a professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and a member of the UN-NGO Committee on Migration. Her work focuses on global and local migration policies, particular areas of interest include forced migration and gender, forced migration and mental health, and violence against women.
Date and Location: Thursday, April 17, 3 pm at Roosevelt House.