Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an artist working with photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Leonard reframes the act of looking itself as a complex and consequential process and questions how photography shapes our perceptions. Taking a conceptual approach and engaging with materiality and formal composition, Leonard works across a range of themes such as gender […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Marking Pride Month at Roosevelt House, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to present a discussion of Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts – and America by award-winning journalist Mike De Socio. Weaving in his own experience as a boy scout and journalist, De Socio tells the story of the “accidental” activists who […]
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 […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series On Compromise: Can A New Approach to Pluralism and Persuasion Heal Divided Communities? A polarized society like ours forces us to take sides and retreat to camps on a wide set of complicated issues, and in such an environment it is harder and harder to constitute community across […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Migration Narratives in the U.S: 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 […]
