5:00 PM: Doors open 5:30 PM: Conversation with Dr. Ruth’s Co-Authors 6:15 PM-7:55 PM: Screening of Ask Dr. Ruth In the second “Little Aunt Dora” Public Lecture at Roosevelt House, named in honor of former, longtime Hunter College Professor Dora Askowith, we are pleased to present a unique, double-header program—exploring, and celebrating, the improbable life and career […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a conversation with acclaimed historian Elaine Weiss about her new book Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement. Author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Weiss returns to Roosevelt House with the remarkable story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans […]
Marking Pride Month at Roosevelt House, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to present a discussion of Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts – and America by award-winning journalist Mike De Socio. Weaving in his own experience as a boy scout and journalist, De Socio tells the story of the “accidental” activists who […]
To continue our observance of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the death of American Commander-in-Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt, please join us as Roosevelt House welcomes back one of our most popular speakers: the country’s foremost naval historian, Craig L. Symonds. In his seventh Roosevelt House appearance, Symonds will discuss […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series On Compromise: Can A New Approach to Pluralism and Persuasion Heal Divided Communities? A polarized society like ours forces us to take sides and retreat to camps on a wide set of complicated issues, and in such an environment it is harder and harder to constitute community across […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Migration Narratives in the U.S: Building Community Capacity and Resilience Speaker: Marciana Popescu, PhD Popescu is a professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and a member of the UN-NGO Committee on Migration. Her work focuses on global and local migration policies, particular areas of interest […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series A More Fair Playing Field: Trans Rights in School and Sports Speaker: Lex Horwitz Lex Horwitz (he/they) is a former transgender athlete who is a public speaker and consultant in the Northeast, focusing on transgender rights in sports. Speaker: Bobby Hodgson Bobby Hodgson is the assistant legal director […]
To mark Transgender Day of Visibility, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to announce a discussion on the policies impacting transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people in the criminal justice system—where they are disproportionately represented. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, they are arrested, incarcerated, and subjected to higher rates of community supervision than others […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Finding Our Voices Speaker: Aarti Namdev Shahani Ms. Shahani is a working journalist and the author of Here We Are, a memoir. She is the creator and host of the Art of Power podcast.
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Forum on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech: What Does it Mean for the Hunter Community? The panel discussion will cover two important and distinct subjects of interest to the Hunter community. The session will begin with a discussion of the purposes, source of rights, and contours of […]
