The Right to Remain Silent: Self-Monitoring and the Experience of Inequality During Traffic Stops in the U.S. South
New York Academy of Sciences, Anthropology Section
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Faculty Seminars
Reimagining the Good Life: Sustainability Ethics in Theory and Practice
Please join us for a half-day conference on sustainability ethics and resilience. The conference, scheduled Wednesday, April 18, 2018, brings together philosophers and other environmental theorists to address questions at the intersection of sustaina... Read more
The Return of Cold War Nuclear Fears
While the world is transfixed by the nuclear weapons crisis in North Korea, potential trouble is brewing to the south. For decades, South Korea has relied on the U.S. nuclear umbrella as protection against North Korea. But as dictator Kim Jong Un... Read more
Legislating Better Health Through Food Policy
Why is it so Difficult to Get Seemingly Positive Food Legislation Passed in a Progressive NYC?Introduction by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPHWelcome by Smita Narula, JD, MAPanelists:Ale... Read more
Gender, Humiliation and Radical Islamist Rhetoric: Orientalist Lineage, Neoconservative Conceit, Islamist Trope – Navigating the Nexus
You are invited to attend a special lecture featuring Professor Roxanne Euben (Wellesley College)
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A Forum on “Human Rights in the USA,” Co-Presented by U.S. Human Rights Network
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College is pleased to host "Human Rights in the USA," a forum in advance of the May 11 review of the US Human Rights Record at the UN Human Rights Council. The forum is co-pre... Read more
Ceilings of Success: Asian Americans in Elite Professions
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
3:30-5:30pm
Second Floor Conference Room
Join us for a lively discussion from a diverse panel c... Read more
The Politics of Gentrification: Investment, Displacement and the Fight for the Future in Chinatown and Greenpoint/Williamsburg
Roosevelt House will host a panel discussion, “Politics of Gentrification: Investment, Displacement and the Fight for the Future in Greenpoint and Chinatown,” which picks up on a recent series of Issue Briefs on affordable housing in New York C... Read more
The Color of Citizenship: Tracing the Legacies of Japanese Internment from WWII to Stop & Frisk
The mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II is a powerful but often occluded illustration of the fragility of US cit... Read more
Democratic Emerging Powers and International Human Rights
A forum and working group organized by Professor Rob Jenkins (Roosevelt House Faculty Associate, Hunter College Department of Political Science), with support from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.The immediate purpose of this forum... Read more
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