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 
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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
David Levering Lewis — The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
November 12, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome the distinguished historian David Levering Lewis, who will discuss his new book, The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country,... Read more
Film Screening: The Uncondemned
October 26, 2018
A gripping story of a group of young international lawyers and activists who is fighting to have rape recognized and prosecuted as a war crime, and the Rwandan women who courageously came forward to testify.
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Roosevelt House hosts a special screening of the new documentary, A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream. The film explores how eugenics—the belief that some groups and individuals are inherently superior to... Read more
Nadine Strossen – HATE: Why We should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
October 22, 2018 VIDEO
Roosevelt House welcomes Nadine Strossen, the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Constitutional Law at New York Law School, who will discuss her new book, HATE: Why We should Resist It with Free Speech, Not... Read more
Film Screening and Discussion – The Lavender Scare
October 19, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we continue our Friday night screening series with a special presentation of The Lavender Scare, a documentary film about a little-known chapter of American history — when, during the panic of the... Read more
The Inaugural McNickle Lecture on Integrity in Government
October 17, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we proudly present the inaugural McNickle Lecture on Integrity in Government, featuring Nicholas Confessore, political and investigative reporter at The New York... Read more
Business as Usual? A Wake-Up Call for The Human Services
October 11, 2018
The results are in! Join us for the community roll-out of the Human Service Workforce Study, sponsored by the Human Services Council, Silberman School of Social Work, and the Touro College Graduate School of Social Work.
The Report,... Read more
#MeToo and Epistemic Injustice
October 5, 2018
The CUNY Graduate Center Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC), the Center of the Humanities, and the Philosophy Program present and interdisciplinary conference on #MeToo and Epistemic Injustice. Over the past year, the #MeToo movement has... Read more
David A. Kaplan – The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court’s Assault on the Constitution
October 4, 2018 VIDEO
**This event is sold out. Please tune in to the program on Livestream.**
Roosevelt House presents another special evening devoted to the Supreme Court in American life, coinciding with the opening of the Court’s new... Read more
Film Screening: Screaming Silence
September 28, 2018
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program and the Women and Gender Studies Department at Hunter College along with Remember the Women Institute present a special screening of Screaming... Read more
The Inaugural David Dubinsky Labor Lecture – Randi Weingarten & Steven Greenhouse on The Future for Labor after the Supreme Court’s Janus Decision
September 27, 2018 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is delighted to host the inaugural David Dubinsky Labor Lecture, named in memory of the legendary American labor leader (1892-1982) who served for decades as president of the powerful International Ladies Garment Workers Union... 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.
