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 […]
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 by renowned novelist and critic Thomas Mallon. An exquisite collection of journal entries from the 1980s and ’90s, The Very Heart of It tracks a young, gay author’s literary coming-of-age—and brush with death—during the AIDS crisis in New […]
Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Growing up in the Bronx among communists and socialists, Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, and a respected literary […]
Little is published in both the academic and lay literature about the ties between Spiritism, women, and colonialism. However, Puerto Rican women as practitioners of Spiritism, helped transform Puerto Rican society during its disruptive colonial transition from Spain to the United States. Join Rooted + Relational faculty presider, Jillian Baez, and author Dr. Clara Román […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and the Tenement Museum host a discussion to mark the 60th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 3, 1965. Lifting the restrictive 41-year-old national origins quotas, the law—also known as The Hart-Celler Act—ushered in a new era of […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Join us at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College for a panel discussion and reception on anti-racism in leadership. The conversation will feature What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions author Susan Sturm, CUNY chancellor […]
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6-8pm Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery On view October 16 - December 13, 2025 ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Gathering artists whose work appeared in the influential magazine published by Mexico’s Museo de Arte Moderno and directed by Carla Stellweg from 1973 to 1981, the exhibition calls attention to an international […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a special event to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II—exploring the complexities of how, and when, the war actually ended. Convening preeminent naval historian Craig Symonds, international affairs expert Stephen Schlesinger, and Hunter’s own WWII scholar Benjamin Carter Hett, this panel will consider the trickle of events—following VE Day on May 8 […]
Celebrate the work and legacy of photographer Frank Espada with his son & Poet Martin Espada alongside a multi-generational cohort of acclaimed Nuyorican photographers including Máximo Colon, David Rodriguez, and Erika P. Rodriguez! Nuyorican photographers have long sought to document and preserve Puerto Rican history in the city and beyond. Their talents have gifted us […]
Hunter College, a proud Hispanic-Serving Institution, joins in the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with a vibrant and heartfelt Día de los Muertos Celebration organized by the Mexican Student Union (MEXSU) in collaboration with the Department of Romance Languages and the Undergraduate Student Government (USG). This traditional Mexican holiday honors the lives of loved ones […]
