Dr. Karna Basu is an associate professor of economics at Hunter College and CUNY's Graduate Center. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2009. Dr. Basu's research centers on the intersection of behavioral economics and development, with a particular focus on informal banking. His research has been published in […]
Dara Meyers-Kingsley has extensive experience as a contemporary art curator with an interdisciplinary curatorial practice. Her exhibitions, often including visual art, media, installation, and performance have been presented at LA MOCA, MCA Chicago, The New Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, Miami MOCA, the Brooklyn Museum and the Mattress Factory among others. Her most recent show […]
A film screening of Vishal Jugdeo's "Deo's Moon" and "Does Your House Have Lions" followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and Prof. Gayatri Gopinath. Vishal Jugdeo (b. 1979 Regina, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work across video, installation, performance, sculpture and text experiments with narrative, blurring fiction and truth. His recent films emerge […]
Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Glimmer Train, etc. A new poetry collection, Sugar, will be out in early 2026. Other books include The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024), Everything (Four Way, 2021), Nightshade (Four Way, 2019). Unfathoming (Four Way, 2017), Furs Not Mine (Four Way, 2015), Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry, 2011), Long Division (Salmon […]
Fall 2025 Igna Ritcher Seminar Series Presents: Advancing Cancer Immunotherapy by Harnessing NK Cell Functions. Presented by Dr. Katja Srpan, MSKCC
Fall 2025 Igna Ritcher Seminar Series Presents: Inter-Organ Crosstalk: The Role of Liver–Bone Marrow Signaling and Its Contribution to Systemic Inflammation in Chronic Liver Disease. Presented by Dr. Bilon Khambu, Tulane University School of Medicine
Bestselling author Jonathan Mahler (The Bronx is Burning) will discuss his sweeping new chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
Marta Castellini is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padova in Italy and a researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan, Italy, within the Modeling the Energy Transition (MET) research program. She holds a Ph.D. in Analytics for Economics and Management, a M.Sc. in […]
Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American novelist, memoirist, and essayist, celebrated for his sharp wit and satirical style. He graduated from Hunter College with an MFA in creative writing. He is the author of acclaimed works and his debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National […]
Fall 2025 Igna Ritcher Seminar Series Presents: Brain Transcriptomics in Experimental Cerebral Malaria: Characterize Disease and Adjunctive Therapy . Presented by Dr. Johanna Daily, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
