Organized by the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, Basic Income Canada, and Silberman School of Social Work (Hunter College) Associate Professor Michael A. Lewis, this year’s Congress will bring together researchers, activists,... Read more
Program 6:30 PM
Book signing to follow
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome one of the world’s champions of women’s rights, Manal al-Sharif, a devout woman from a modest... Read more
Judy Collins – Cravings: How I Conquered Food – a Fireside Chat with Harold Holzer
May 24, 2017 
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Please join us at Roosevelt House as we inaugurate a new series, Fireside Chats, with a very special guest, music legend Judy Collins, in conversation with Harold Holzer, the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of... Read more
Eleanor Roosevelt’s It’s Up to the Women – A Conversation with Jill Lepore, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and Amanda Foreman
May 23, 2017 VIDEO
Eleanor Roosevelt published her first book, It’s Up to the Women, in 1933, the year she became First Lady. Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome three special guests to mark the publication of a new edition of a book that... Read more
Please join us at Roosevelt House as for a panel discussion... Read more
The City University of New York (CUNY) Institute for Sustainable Cities and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College host the Promoting Resilience and Transformation in Cities: A Conference for a Public Policy of... Read more
The New Deal in New York Exhibition Opening
May 11, 2017 VIDEO
Roosevelt House’s latest exhibit celebrates the vast range of projects funded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. Whether through brick-and-mortar or jobs in the theater, arts or education, thousands were employed, the... Read more
Please join us at Roosevelt House for a special evening featuring Nancy Isenberg, author of the groundbreaking bestseller White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, in conversation with Frank... Read more
Lynne Olson – Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
May 3, 2017 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome historian Lynne Olson to mark the publication of her new book, Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War, a... Read more
Join us for our last in a series of public events to create dialogues among veterans, their families, and other members of the community. Exploring the themes of moral injury and moral identity, Professor Jesse Prinz and... Read more
America: Equity and Equality in Health
May 1, 2017 VIDEO
Please join us for a conference marking a special issue of the U.K. medical journal The Lancet, ‘America: Equity and Equality in Health’ (published 8 April 2017), curated by Hunter College Distinguished Professors,... Read more
Lewis E. Lehrman – Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft
April 27, 2017 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome a very special guest, Lewis E. Lehrman, Senior Partner of L. E. Lehrman & Co., and co-founder of the The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, who will discuss his new... Read more
The Trump Era: The First 100 Days
April 27, 2017
Donald Trump recently hit the 100-day mark of his Presidency. From healthcare to national security to tax reform, how has his time in office measured up to his campaign promises? Following the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s... Read more
Morality In Relief – Crossing the Divide: Homecoming as a Collective Responsibility
April 25, 2017 VIDEO
Join us for the third in a series of public events to create dialogues among veterans, their families, and other members of the community. Phil Klay will discuss his National Book Award-winning Redeployment in... Read more
Please join us at Roosevelt House for a special evening conference on the future of urban transportation, The Futurists: What City Transportation Will Look Like in 20 Years. This extraordinary panel has... Read more
How are the lives of refugees impacted as they migrate throughout the world? And how does their migration affect the global economy? Journalists Jeanne Carstensen, Robin Shulman, and Emily Kassie... Read more
Geoffrey R. Stone – Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century
April 6, 2017 VIDEO
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Chris Whipple – The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
April 4, 2017 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as welcome Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, who will be in conversation about his new book with... Read more
Drawing on her recent book, Afterwar, Nancy Sherman explores moral injury and PTSD through the lens of moral philosophy and soldiers’ stories, both ancient and from the current wars. She explains how the notion of... Read more
NY Women Lead Panel Discussion
March 27, 2017 VIDEO
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul hosts a panel discussion featuring Rossana Rosado, Secretary of State of New York State; Glennda Testone, Executive... Read more
Norman Ohler – Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
March 23, 2017 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome Norman Ohler... Read more
Criminal Justice Reform: Prospects for Change
March 20, 2017 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House for a special event focusing on criminal justice reform in America. ... Read more
Wendy Lesser – You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
March 16, 2017 VIDEO
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***This event has been canceled due to weather.***
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How Did Clinton Lose? How Do Women Win?
March 13, 2017
Contrary to the predictions of... Read more
This lecture is presented by the New York Area Political Theory Faculty Seminar and supported by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Hunter College.
You are invited to... Read more
Join us at Roosevelt House for a special event exploring how presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy and gain power.
Mary Graham, co-director of the Transparency Project at the Harvard Kennedy School... Read more
Joanne Witty in conversation with William Solecki – Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed
March 1, 2017 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House for a special evening exploring the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park, one of the largest and most significant public projects to be built in New York in a generation. Joanne... Read more
Public Programs at Roosevelt House are free to the public and open with advance registration, made possible through the support of the Charina Endowment Fund and other generous donors.
