The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House invites you to a special conversation with Former Congressman Barney Frank.
For nearly two decades, Barney Frank was... Read more
On the eve of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, which marked the beginning of the modern gay liberation movement, LGBTQ Americans enjoy unprecedented freedom and acceptance. LGBTQ people have the right to marry, the right to... Read more
Campus ERA Day 2019
April 15, 2019
179 Countries in the world have a gender equality provision in their constitutions. The United States is not one of them.
Join Carol Jenkins, CEO & C0-President of the ERA Coalition; Patricia Arquette,... Read more
Conversation with Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
April 15, 2019 
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It is our pleasure and honor to welcome back an important member of the House of Representatives: New York’s own Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10), who will visit Roosevelt House on Monday, April 15, to discuss his new leadership role... Read more
Working Longer: Prospects and Problems
April 11, 2019
President Jennifer J. Raab, the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College, and the Brookdale Advisory Board invite you to the first in a Series on Aging Policy: Working Longer: Prospects and... Read more
Please join us for a film screening about outspoken lesbian feminist trailblazer, charismatic builder of bridges, and founding mother of a whole generation of transnational feminist activists, Charlotte Bunch. Passionate Politics follows... Read more
“Thirty years ago, we had a chance to save the planet. The science of climate change was settled. The world was ready to act. Almost nothing stood in our way – except ourselves.” Nathaniel Rich, Losing Earth: A Recent... Read more
In his new book, From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future (Brookings 2019) former Federal Communications Commission Chairman and communications entrepreneur Thomas Wheeler looks back at Johannes... Read more
Phenomenal Women Series – Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Art as Activism
March 27, 2019
On March 25, 1911, fire engulfed at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington Square Park, killing 146 garment workers, mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women, in the space of 15 minutes. Their deaths energized labor struggles for... Read more
Film Screening — Paris to Pittsburgh
March 26, 2019
Please join us at Roosevelt House for a film screening of Paris to Pittsburgh, produced by RadicalMedia in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies. The documentary brings to light the impassioned efforts of individuals who are battling... Read more
During the bubble economy of the mid 1980s through... Read more
Film Screening – The Trials of Constance Baker Motley
March 21, 2019
The Trials of Constance Baker Motley tells the story of the prominent civil rights lawyer who became the first African-American woman federal judge.
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First: Sandra Day O’Connor
March 19, 2019 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome Evan Thomas, one of the most respected historians and journalists writing today. He will discuss his new book, First: Sandra Day O’Connor, an intimate,... Read more
The New York City Commission on Human Rights and the LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House invite you to mark the 33rd anniversary of the passage of the New York City gay civil rights law, in 1986, and to hear a distinguished panel discuss the... Read more
An Evening with Judith Friedlander and Jonathan Fanton
March 12, 2019 VIDEO
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Deborah Lipstadt – Anti-Semitism: Here and Now
March 7, 2019 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome the renowned historian Deborah Lipstadt, who will discuss her new book Anti-Semitism: Here and Now, her acclaimed analysis of an intractable and resurgent anti-Jewish... Read more
Please join us as we welcome bestselling historian Lynne Olson to mark the publication of her latest book, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest... Read more
RESCHEDULED: Phenomenal Women Series – Hope Juxtaposed with Despair: Risk and Resilience among Women and Girls in the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
February 28, 2019
*** This event has been rescheduled for February 28, 2019 ***
The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority who have lived in Myanmar for centuries. The Rohingya have been targeted... Read more
“I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing:” Remembering Audre Lorde (Hunter ’59) – Activist, Feminist, Poet Laureate
February 26, 2019 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we commemorate the life and legacy of the late Audre Lorde, marking what would have been her 85th birthday this month. Lorde was the first African American and first woman poet laureate of New York, appointed... Read more
New York Academy of Sciences, Anthropology Section 2018-2019 Distinguished Lecture Series: Whatever Happened to Equality? Considerations of Why Inequalitites Come to Seem Global and Inevitable.
The current crisis in Europe creates new... Read more
Robert Mnookin — The Jewish American Paradox
February 21, 2019 VIDEO
Roosevelt House welcomes Robert H. Mnookin, the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, who will discuss his acclaimed new book The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing... Read more
Thomas Mallon — Landfall: A Novel
February 19, 2019 VIDEO
Roosevelt House welcomes Thomas Mallon, one of America’s preeminent historical novelists, to mark the publication of his new book, Landfall: A Novel, set during the tumultuous midpoint of the George W. Bush years... Read more
Ensuring Poverty? Poverty, Politics, and Modern Feminism
February 11, 2019 VIDEO
Public conversations about poverty and welfare, even today, rarely acknowledge the nexus between racialized gender inequality and the economic vulnerability of single-mother families. Felicia Kornbluh will gather with panelists... Read more
2019 SSRC Fellow Lecture: Lorraine Daston
February 5, 2019
2019 SSRC Fellow Lecture featuring Lorraine Daston, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Lorraine Daston will speak on Mechanical Rules before Machines: Rules and Paradigms with responses... Read more
Film Screening – They Call Us Monsters
December 17, 2018
Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab and Roosevelt House Director Harold Holzer cordially invite you to join Matilda Raffa Cuomo, Founding Chair of The New York State Mentoring Program, First Lady of New York (1982-1995);... Read more
In 2017, we commemorated the U.S. entry into the First War and the role of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and other Americans in that conflict. Now in 2018, just a few weeks after the centennial of the Armistice ending the war, please join us for... Read more
The Right to Remain Silent: Self-Monitoring and the Experience of Inequality During Traffic Stops in the U.S. South
December 3, 2018
New York Academy of Sciences, Anthropology Section
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When the best-selling author and journalist Ruta Vanagaite (born in Šiauliai, Lithuania) discovered that her own relatives were complicit in the murder of Lithuanian Jews during the World War II era, she became determined to... Read more
Terry Golway — Frank & Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party
November 14, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome Terry Golway, to mark the publication of Frank & Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party, the story of the unlikely... Read more
8th Annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize Ceremony
November 13, 2018
The Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize honors individuals and not-for-profit organizations for distinguished accomplishment in the... Read more
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