Join us for a conversation with Hunter professor Manu Bhagavan, as he discusses his new, definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—India's first woman cabinet minister, pioneering diplomat, and global icon. The Remarkable Madame Pandit brings to life a trailblazing figure who shaped 20th-century India and the international stage, from challenging colonial rule to confronting authoritarianism. Drawing […]
Introduction Marnia Lazreg was a pathbreaking sociologist who made important contributions to a wide variety of fields, including the study of women, torture, colonialism, Islam, Foucault, international development, and her native Algeria. Much of this work was informed by an abiding belief in the emancipatory potential of a universalistic conception of the human—an approach that […]
Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with Hunter College Professor of Public Policy Joseph P. Viteritti about his new book Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education (Oxford). An authoritative history of the school choice movement, as well as a heartfelt memoir from one of the country’s leading education scholars, Radical Dreamers chronicles school choice from […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and the Tenement Museum host a discussion to mark the 60th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 3, 1965. Lifting the restrictive 41-year-old national origins quotas, the law—also known as The Hart-Celler Act—ushered in a new era of […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Join us at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College for a panel discussion and reception on anti-racism in leadership. The conversation will feature What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions author Susan Sturm, CUNY chancellor […]
Helen Zia is a writer and activist. She is the daughter of immigrants from China and was born and raised in New Jersey. Her latest book, Last Boat out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese who Fled Mao’s Revolution, was one of NPR’s Best Books and a finalist for a 2020 PEN America prize. Helen’s first book, Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, about the civil rights struggles of Asian Americans, and it is still used as a foundational history text in colleges and high schools. She also wrote My Country Versus Me with nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee, who was falsely accused by the FBI of being a spy.
A selection of Helen Zia’s books will be available for sale following the discussion.
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute's David Dubinsky Labor Lecture Roosevelt House is pleased to present the David Dubinsky Labor Lecture at Roosevelt House, named in memory of the legendary American labor leader (1892-1982) who served for decades as president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)—and was a major political force from the New […]
Jonathan Capehart, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, editor, and TV host, recounts powerful stories from his life about embracing identity, picking battles, seizing opportunity, and finding his voice, at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Free Speech and Civil Dialogue Today on Campus and in Society This hybrid program will include a discussion about the importance of free speech, civil dialogue, academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in higher education and our society, including the contours of applicable protections. It will contextualize recent […]
Person Place Thing: Randy Cohen in Conversation with Ali Velshi Join us for a live podcast where Randy Cohen will interview MSNBC Senior Chief Correspondent and award-winning journalist Ali Velshi. […]
