Sponsored by the Center for New Deal Studies Co-sponsored, 1992-2008 with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, Hyde Park, New York.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Carrying the Light: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Activism | Moderator: Linda Perkins, University Professor and Director, Applied Gender Studies, Claremont Graduate University; Panelists: Ashley Robertson Preston, Assistant Professor of History, Howard University; Nikki Brown, Associate Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky |
| 2022 | Punch 9 for Harold Washington (documentary film screening) | Raymond Lambert and Joe Winston, producers |
| 2021 | Living History: Documenting 2021 | James Grossman, Executive Director, American Historical Association; Panelists: Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian; Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress; Patricia Hswe, Program Officer, Public Knowledge, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Archivist of the United States (1993-1995) |
| 2020 | 21st Century New Deal Political Leadership | Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi |
| 2019 | Refugee Inclusion and the Future of Humanitarian Response | Kelly T. Clements, U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees |
| 2018 | The Roosevelts and the Holocaust | Daniel Greene, Northwestern University and Curator, Americans and the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| 2017 | The Hidden Rules of Race | Felicia Wong, President & CEO, Roosevelt Institute |
| 2016 | The Green Revolution is Here Today as Smart Green Cities | Woodrow W. Clark II , Clark Strategic Partners |
| 2015 | Genocide Gendered | Patricia Viseur Sellers, Special Advisor for Prosecution Strategies for Prosecutor, International Criminal Court and Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford University |
| 2014 | "Reinvention of Democracy: Reconciling demos and res publica" | Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil (1995-2003) |
| 2013 | "The Past, Present and Future of the American Labor Movement" | Dorian T. Warren, Associate Professor, Columbia University & Fellow, Roosevelt Institute |
| 2012 | "Rediscovering Government": A Roosevelt Institute Initiative | Jeff Madrick, Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute |
| 2011 | "The Great Recession: How We Got Here and Prospects for Recovery" | Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C. |
| 2010 | "Health Reform, Public Health and the Surgeon General's Priorities" | Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States |
| 2008 | "The FDR Coalition, 1936-2008" | William Leuchtenburg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina |
| 2007 | "Building a Constituency for Quality Public Education" | Wendy Puriefoy, President of the Public Education Network |
| 2006 | "What Makes a Good Neighbor? Upholding Values of Human Rights and Security in Latin American Immigration to the United States | Luis Alberto Cordero, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, Costa Rica |
| 2005 | "The FCC and the Media" A Fireside Chat and Four Freedoms Roundtable | Karen Gibbs, moderator; Panelists: Newton Minow, Sr. Counsel, Sidley Austin; Carol Marin, NBC5 News and Chicago Sun Times; Professor John C. Roberts, DePaul School of Law |
| 2004 | Working with Women and Children in Post-War Countries: The Liberian Situation | Krubo Kollie, University of Liberia |
| 2002 | Corporate Accountability in an Age of Doubt | Nell Minow, Editor, The Corporate Library |
| 2001 | World Hunger: A Human Rights Issue | Stephane Hessel, Ambassadeur de France |
| 2000 | Remembering Eleanor Roosevelt Through Music and History | Allida Black, ER Papers Project, and performance of cello concerto, “Eleanor’s Gift” |
| 1999 | Celebrating the Legacy of New Deal Housing Policy | Gail Radford, SUNY-Buffalo, & Julia Stasch (Chief of Staff to Mayor Daley) |
| 1998 | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Felice Gaer, Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights |
| 1997 | FDR & the Arts: The Federal Theater | Studs Terkel, after a student performance of “The Cradle Will Rock.” |
| 1996 | FDR & the Holocaust | Ambassador William vanden Heuvel |
| 1995 | Refugees: The Dilemmas of Global Dislocation | Ambassador Morton Abramowitz |
| 1994 | Preventing Family Violence | Esta Soler, Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| 1993 | Public v. Private Responsibility: Families & Children in the 21st Century | Panelists including Cong. Richard Durbin, Mary Davidson, Thomas Roeser, Delores Holmes,Michael Warder. Moderated by John Callaway |
| 1992 | Women in Politics | Cokie Roberts |