The following is the text of a lecture entitled “Challenges to Human Rights in 2015 and Beyond” – delivered by Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,…
As attendees settled in, filling into the former home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Jennifer R. Raab, President of Hunter College welcomed the crowd to…
The Speakers: Richard J. Jackson, M.D, M.P.H. Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Roosevelt House; Chris Adrian, M.D Columbia University Medical Center’s Program in Narrative Medicine; and…
As part of a two-part series looking back at the presidency of Richard Nixon, forty years after his resignation, Roosevelt House Interim Director Jack Rosenthal interviewed journalist and historian Rick…
Monday, May 19, 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She was only 62 when she died, and as her brother-in-law, the late Ted Kennedy, said…
For the first time in human history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. As more people populate urban centers, cities from Lagos to Detroit are rapidly changing– economically,…
Participants: Jeff Allred, associate professor of English, Hunter (moderator) Colum McCann, professor of creative writing, Hunter, and author of Let the Great World Spin and other books Jeff Sharlet Susan…
Now that the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 – otherwise known as “Obamacare” – is the law of the land, the appearance at Roosevelt House on March 23, 2014…
Speakers: Dawn Baker, Director of Corporate Strategy Development at Dow Chemical; Manoj Fenelon, Director of Foresight at Global Beverage Group – PepsiCo Inc; John Renehan, Strategic Initiatives Manager at GE…
The speakers: Jessica Lawrence, Executive Director, NY Tech Meetup; Michael Mandel, Chief Economic Strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute and author of Building a Digital City: The Growth and Impact of New…