Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series We Need to Build: Pluralism and Its Possibilities Join us at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College for a talk with internationally renowned scholar and civil leader on interfaith cooperation and pluralism, Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith America. The 21st-century American city on a hill has a […]
Roosevelt House presents an election reaction panel featuring New York journalists and former political leaders assessing the result of the 2024 presidential election, and where the nation goes from here. This event will provide an opportunity to the Hunter community and beyond to respond to, and ask questions about, the defeat of Democratic nominee Kamala […]
Hunter College will host legendary poet and alumna Sonia Sanchez ’55 on December 9 to celebrate her extraordinary career and recent 90th birthday. “An Evening with Sonia Sanchez” will feature a reading from the poet and tributes from renowned verse writers. A pioneering figure in the Black Arts Movement, Sanchez for decades has captivated audiences […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of historian Nigel Hamilton’s new book Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents. In this vivid and unique dual biography, Hamilton delivers the riveting Civil War tale of how two concurrent American “presidents” faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance—and how Abraham Lincoln came to […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America by Luis A. Miranda Jr.—father of Hamilton-creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, and longtime star in his own right of the New York political scene. In this deeply personal and inspiring memoir, Miranda articulates his profound understanding of how […]
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, Journalism and the Spiritual Life, Columbia University Speaker: Gregory Khalil President and Co-Founder of Telos; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Reception to […]
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 […]
To continue our observance of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the death of American Commander-in-Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt, please join us as Roosevelt House welcomes back one of our most popular speakers: the country’s foremost naval historian, Craig L. Symonds. In his seventh Roosevelt House appearance, Symonds will discuss […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a conversation with acclaimed historian Elaine Weiss about her new book Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement. Author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Weiss returns to Roosevelt House with the remarkable story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans […]
5:00 PM: Doors open 5:30 PM: Conversation with Dr. Ruth’s Co-Authors 6:15 PM-7:55 PM: Screening of Ask Dr. Ruth In the second “Little Aunt Dora” Public Lecture at Roosevelt House, named in honor of former, longtime Hunter College Professor Dora Askowith, we are pleased to present a unique, double-header program—exploring, and celebrating, the improbable life and career […]
