Choral Performance by Hunter College faculty, students, and staff
Carmina Burana will be performed with orchestra, alongside the New York City Children’s Chorus and shorter works by Haydn and Boulanger.
Carmina Burana will be performed with orchestra, alongside the New York City Children’s Chorus and shorter works by Haydn and Boulanger.
Roosevelt House—together with the Hunter College Department of Women and Gender Studies—are pleased to present a conversation with the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Notorious RBG, Irin Carmon, on her new book, Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America. Ambitious, insightful, and passionate, Unbearable explores “what’s gone wrong” with pregnancy in America, through the lens of history, politics, […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Understanding the Rise of the Antidemocratic Right Political scientist Joe Lowndes will be in conversation with philosopher Linda Martin Alcoff about right-wing politics, the shift to authoritarianism in the US, and the limits of civil dialogue in this moment. Panelists: Joseph Lowndes: Joe Lowndes is a scholar of […]
Hunter College Opera The Hunter College Music Department and Hunter Opera Theater present a workshop reading of The Secret Melody, a new opera by Luc Baiwir and Susan Gonzalez. Admission is free.
Hunter College Opera The Hunter College Music Department and Hunter Opera Theater present a workshop reading of The Secret Melody, a new opera by Luc Baiwir and Susan Gonzalez. Admission is free.
Person Place Thing: Randy Cohen in Conversation with Richard Nelson Join us for a live podcast where Randy Cohen will interview acclaimed American playwright and director Richard Nelson. Richard Nelson is known for his intimate plays that foreground household conversations against historical events. His major works include the decade long project The Rhinebeck Panorama, a […]
Marking the 80th anniversary of the year of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Roosevelt House presents bestselling historian and journalist Garrett Graff on his new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb. Comprehensive and engrossing, the book delivers the remarkable—and terrifying—story of the atomic bomb’s creation and deployment, woven from the […]
Arts Outing: Madama Butterfly at the Met Opera Join Hunter students for a special outing at the Met Opera to experience Giacomo Puccini’s iconic opera Madama Butterfly. The Office of the Arts has purchased a limited number of tickets for students. Students with confirmed tickets will meet at 10:00 am, the performance begins […]
In an unexpected and exciting special addition to the Roosevelt House calendar, we are honored to present the revered veteran Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) in conversation about his new book, The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation. From one of the country’s most venerable and esteemed legislators, The First Eight delivers the […]
Roosevelt House is honored to present New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch in a timely and important conversation with former congresswoman, the Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Leader in Residence at Roosevelt House, Carolyn B. Maloney. Please join us for this special event as Commissioner Tisch discusses her work to improve public safety in New York—and the path forward to creating a […]