The acclaimed novelist, Susan Choi, will read from her latest book, Flashlight, a Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, and Literary Hub, as part of the Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College. Please note that this event has been postponed until March 2026. Author Megha Majumdar will now be reading on […]
Critically acclaimed author Megha Majumdar will read from her latest novel, A Guardian and a Thief, as part of the Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College. Megha Majumdar graduated from the Hunter MFA Creative Writing Program in 2011 and now teaches in it. Her book, A Guardian and a Thief, has just been long-listed for the National […]
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 […]
The struggle of labor and workers’ rights is directly intertwined with the struggle of undocumented laborers - Kathy Andrade knew this and made an everlasting impact on the lives of all laborers in NYC. Grab your lunch and join CENTRO archivists Herbert Duran & Grace McKenna virtually for a Library & Archives Lunch Hour as […]
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.
DISCOVERING DAILY LIFE IN ROMAN EGYPT A lecture by Dr. Anna Lucille Boozer, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History, Baruch College Egypt has served as a critical source of evidence for social history in the Roman world. Studies of everyday life within Roman Egypt, however, have been riven by disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical ruptures. In this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
These student dance performances will feature four works by Hunter College faculty, including classical modern dance by Alwin Nikolais, as well as Salsa, Afro-contemporary, and multimedia works.
