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The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

Posted on May 4th, 2025 · Posted in Public Programs
Marking Asian American Pacific Islander month at Roosevelt House, please join us, together with the Hunter College Asian American Studies Program, for a discussion of the new Penguin Classics anthology, The Literature of Japanese American Incarce... Read more

Death by Numbers — A Film Screening and Discussion

Posted on May 4th, 2025 · Posted in Film Screenings, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is proud to present a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary short Death by Numbers—written by and starring Hunter College senior Sam Fuentes, a survivor of the tragic 2018 shooting at Marjory Stonem... Read more

2025 Theodore W. Kheel Lecture on Transportation Policy with Janno Lieber & Sam Schwartz

Posted on May 4th, 2025 · Posted in Public Programs
We are pleased and proud to invite you to the annual Theodore Kheel Transportation Policy Lecture—one of the most important public policy events on the Roosevelt House calendar. Previous transportation policymakers to have appeared in the series h... Read more

Human Rights in the Trump Era

Posted on April 30th, 2025 · Posted in Human Rights Program Events, Public Programs
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program invites you to a discussion featuring: United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ilze Brands Kehris; Director of the ACLU Human Rights Program & Hunter Adjunct Profes... Read more

LGBTQIA+ Healthcare and the Fight Forward

Posted on April 24th, 2025 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program, Public Programs
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to announce an urgent discussion on LGBTQIA+ healthcare. After decades of sustained progress, the LGBTQIA+ community is facing unimaginable healthcare policy and legal setbacks—in a mounting cri... Read more

American Voices: An Evening with Richard Blanco — Reflections and Recitations from a Poet to the Presidents

Posted on April 21st, 2025 · Posted in Public Programs
“We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight / of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but always—home, / always under one sky, our sky.”Roosevelt House is proud to present a new event in our popular series, American Voices, this... Read more

H.W. Brands — America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

Posted on April 11th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is pleased to present bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands on his new book, America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War. In this gripping chronicle, Brands sheds ligh... Read more

William Gow — Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community

Posted on April 11th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House, along with the Asian American Studies Program, is pleased to present a discussion with Dr. William Gow about his new book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community... Read more

American Voices: An Encore Concert and Celebration of the Life and Music of Billie Holiday

Posted on April 2nd, 2025 · Posted in Public Programs
Following the immense success and popularity of last February’s American Voices Symposium on the legacy and artistry of Billie Holiday, Roosevelt House is pleased to present an encore concert—featuring some of the same majestic v... Read more

The Art of Diplomacy in the Trump Era Featuring Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat

Posted on March 23rd, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House invites you to The Inaugural “Little Aunt Dora” Public Lecture honoring the memory of former, longtime Hunter College Professor Dora Askowith, a professor of history, religion, culture, Jewish studies, and women's... Read more