Introduction Marnia Lazreg was a pathbreaking sociologist who made important contributions to a wide variety of fields, including the study of women, torture, colonialism, Islam, Foucault, international development, and her native Algeria. Much of this work was informed by an abiding belief in the emancipatory potential of a universalistic conception of the human—an approach that […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series Reconstructing Identity: Music in Israel Modernity has produced several important chapters in Jewish history, including the advent of the State of Israel. This lunchtime talk explores […]
The PhD in Nursing Information Session is for prospective students who have an interest in urban health equity. Dr. Capezuti, Director of the PhD program, will give a program overview […]
Engage in a necessary reframing of the scripts that bolstered dispossession in the name of development across New York City in the mid-20th century. By delving into the lived experiences of the community’s residents, Afterlives of San Juan Hill highlights the individual stories of Lincoln Square residents during this pivotal time. If you’ve watched West Side Story, […]
Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with Hunter College Professor of Public Policy Joseph P. Viteritti about his new book Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education (Oxford). An authoritative history of the school choice movement, as well as a heartfelt memoir from one of the country’s leading education scholars, Radical Dreamers chronicles school choice from […]
On the occasion of the reopening of the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse and Robert Raben’s gift of Billie Holiday papers to the Jazz Archive at Hunter College American Voices Presents: Women in Jazz: A celebration of Jazz Legends A salute to jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne, and Billie Holiday. With music […]
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 […]
