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 […]
Please save the date. Roosevelt House Auditorium. Lunch will be served beginning at 1:15 pm in the Four Freedom’s Room. Annette Nielsen, former Executive Director of the Hunter College New […]
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 […]
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Program, together with the Hunter College Department of Political Science, is pleased to present a panel discussion on the key policy issues shaping the historic 2024 Presidential Election—featuring expert analysis from Hunter faculty members. As Election Day nears, this event will provide an opportunity to learn from some of our […]
Wednesday, October 9 5:00PM: Reception 5:30PM: Screening 7:00PM: Post-screening discussion Screening: The Laramie Project (1hr 37min) The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a screening of the award winning 2002 HBO film, The Laramie Project, followed by a conversation with esteemed writer-director Moisés Kaufman. The post-screening discussion will examine the connection between past and […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House—together with Hunter College’s Office of the President and MFA in Creative Writing Program—celebrate the artistry of the great Sandra Cisneros on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the The House on Mango Street. To mark the occasion, American Voices: The Sandra Cisneros Symposium at Hunter College will bring together leading authors, journalists, scholars, singers, […]
Book Signing and Pizza to Follow By 2028, Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha will be the largest group of eligible voters in the country. But youth voter turnout in recent presidential elections has remained ominously low. Voters under 25 were half as likely to vote in 2020 as voters over the age of 65; and, in 2020, when voter […]
A groundbreaking scholar, activist, and longtime professor of political science at Hunter College, the late Kenneth Sherrill (1942-2023) was the first out gay elected official in New York State. A former Democratic District Leader, and pioneer of the analysis of the LGBTQ vote, Sherrill laid “the foundation for the study of LGBTQ Politics in America,” […]
Please join us for a film screening of The Feminister which follows the career of former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, the first to institute “feminist foreign policy” which has since been adopted by a number of countries around the world. The film traces the secret talks she mediated between North Korea and the United States […]
5 pm: Reception 5:30 pm: Screening: Rustin (1hr 47min) 7:15 pm: Post-screening discussion The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a screening of the Netflix film Rustin, which tells the poignant and absorbing story of the largely overlooked civil rights leader Bayard Rustin—who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and others to organize the […]
