This edition: Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
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Original tape date: February 1, 2024. First aired: February 19, 2024.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile three MacArthur Fellows who all graduated from the City College of New York. Stanley Nelson’s films dive into the Black American experience, from the early 20th century up to the present day. Irving Howe’s intellectual rigor informed a new generation of thinkers in America and helped pave the way for socialist dissent. And Lawrence Levine dedicated his career to putting ordinary people front and center in American history.
Guest List
Stanley Nelson Documentary Filmmaker
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Saturday, February 14 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, February 14 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 15 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, March 8 - 5:30pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Sunday, February 15 - 7:30am
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Monday, February 16 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 19 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 25 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, March 12 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, February 17 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 23 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, March 10 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Wednesday, February 18 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 24 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 26 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, March 11 - 5:00pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, February 20 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, February 20 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, February 21 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 22 - 5:30pm
- Friday, March 13 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, February 21 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, February 22 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, February 27 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Friday, February 27 - 5:30pm
- Friday, March 13 - 7:30am
- Saturday, March 14 - 5:30pm
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, February 28 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Saturday, February 28 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, March 14 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, March 1 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, March 1 - 5:30pm
- TBA
- Monday, March 2 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, March 3 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, March 4 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, March 5 - 5:00pm
- Monday, March 9 - 5:00pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, March 6 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Friday, March 6 - 5:30pm
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, March 7 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Saturday, March 7 - 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, March 8 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, February 13 - 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, February 8 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, February 7 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, February 6 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, February 7 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 8 - 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, February 6 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, February 1 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, January 31 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Friday, January 30 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 31 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 1 - 5:30pm
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, January 30 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, January 25 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, January 24 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, January 23 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 24 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 25 - 5:30pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, January 23 - 7:30am
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Thursday, January 22 - 5:00pm
- Monday, January 26 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 29 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 4 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 10 - 5:00pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Sunday, January 18 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Saturday, January 17 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, January 16 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 17 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 18 - 5:30pm
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Friday, January 16 - 7:30am
- Friday, February 13 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Thursday, January 15 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, January 27 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 2 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 5 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 11 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Wednesday, January 14 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, January 28 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 3 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 9 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 12 - 5:00pm

