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 
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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
Irwin Redlener, M.D. – The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America
September 26, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome the renowned pediatrician and children’s... Read more
Learning from Finland: Bringing the Sitra Lifestyle Test to NYC
September 25, 2018
Finland leads the world in thinking how a truly sustainable future can be achieved. The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra is driving much of the new thinking in Finnish society, and we’re glad to have Aarne... Read more
Akhil Reed Amar – Filling the Court: From Midnight Judges to Court Packing to Garland, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh
September 20, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us for the inaugural event of Roosevelt House’s fall speaker series, “Filling the Court: From Midnight Judges to Court Packing to Garland, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh,” a talk by Akhil Reed Amar,... Read more
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome Stanley S. Litow... Read more
The Inaugural Jack Newfield Lecture — Reporting on Trump’s Washington: Investigative Journalism in the Jack Newfield Tradition
June 14, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House for the inaugural Jack Newfield Lecture – a discussion featuring New York Times White House... Read more
David Margolick – The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
May 29, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome noted journalist David Margolick to discuss his acclaimed book, The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, an... Read more
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome Craig L. Symonds... Read more
Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir
May 17, 2018
Dancer and choreographer Halifu Osumare presents Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir with Ntozake Shange, who will read from Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems. The event is part of the... Read more
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome acclaimed historian Patricia O’Toole and mark the publication of her already acclaimed new book, The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made.... Read more
In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble argues that search engines are not unbiased marketplaces of ideas. Rather, search engines reflect the underlying power structures of the societies in which they are... Read more
Roosevelt House welcomes Michael McFaul, who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, to mark the publication of his new book, From Cold War to Hot Peace, his inside account of U.S.-Russia... Read more
The last decade has seen a rapid increase in the number of South Asian Americans interested... Read more
The Eva Kastan Grove Fellowship Program at... Read more
1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation
April 30, 2018 VIDEO
Charles Kaiser, Associate Director of the LGBT Social Science and Public... Read more
Moral Transformation and War Conference
April 27, 2018
This one-day conference is a capstone event for a series sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities to discuss themes drawn from classic works of literature, history, and philosophy to illuminate moral transformation, injury, and... Read more
Campus ERA Day 2018 – Did you know that women are not guaranteed equality under the constitution?
April 26, 2018
The Eva Kastan Grove Fellowship Program at Hunter College presents Campus ERA Day 2018
Join us for a viewing of the short film 50/50 followed by a live Q&A session featuringCarol... Read more
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... Read more
Girls Doing Activism – An Interactive Panel
April 11, 2018
Join us for an interactive panel discussion with four young women who already have deep experience as... Read more
Benjamin Carter Hett – The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
April 10, 2018 VIDEO
Please join us at Roosevelt House as we welcome Benjamin C. Hett, professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, to mark the publication of his new book, The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to... Read more
As more and more couples seek to expand their families through surrogacy arrangements, there is growing support for a change to the 1992 New York state law that bans payments to surrogate mothers. At the end of last year, the New York... Read more
Please join us at Roosevelt House for a talk by historian David B. Woolner about his new book, The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and At Peace, an exploration of the drama– and enduring consequence – of the final... Read more
The Return of Cold War Nuclear Fears
March 28, 2018 VIDEO
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... Read more
Engaging #MeToo: Marginalized Voices in the Campaign to End Sexual Harassment and Violence
March 20, 2018 VIDEO
The #MeToo campaign, founded in 2006 by activist Tarana Burke, has recently reignited a global conversation about sexual harassment and violence against women. Yet despite this watershed moment, advocates contend that many perspectives continue... Read more
Legislating Better Health Through Food Policy
March 20, 2018 VIDEO
Why is it so Difficult to Get Seemingly Positive Food Legislation Passed in a Progressive NYC?
Introduction by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH
Welcome by Smita Narula, JD,... Read more
Friday Night Films: The Chinese Exclusion Act
March 16, 2018 VIDEO
The Chinese Exclusion Act tells the story about a little-known 1882 law that helped form ideas relevant to some of today’s conversations about American identity, democracy, and civil rights. For 61 years, Chinese were barred from... Read more
Please join us for the second of two special events commemorating Women’s History Month.
Elaine F. Weiss... Read more
Please join us at Roosevelt House for a very special evening: “A Conversation with New York State’s Transportation Leaders.” An extraordinary panel has been convened by Howard Glaser, 2018... 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.
