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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Helen Zia is a writer and activist. She is the daughter of immigrants from China and was born and raised in New Jersey. Her latest book, Last Boat out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese who Fled Mao’s Revolution, was one of NPR’s Best Books and a finalist for a 2020 PEN America prize. Helen’s first book, Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, about the civil rights struggles of Asian Americans, and it is still used as a foundational history text in colleges and high schools. She also wrote My Country Versus Me with nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee, who was falsely accused by the FBI of being a spy.
A selection of Helen Zia’s books will be available for sale following the discussion.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for a conversation with Hunter professor Manu Bhagavan, as he discusses his new, definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—India's first woman cabinet minister, pioneering diplomat, and global icon. The Remarkable Madame Pandit brings to life a trailblazing figure who shaped 20th-century India and the international stage, from challenging colonial rule to confronting authoritarianism. Drawing […]
