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
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Wednesday, July 22 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 23 - 5:00pm
- Monday, July 27 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 28 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 29 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 30 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, August 12 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 14 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, July 24 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, July 25 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, July 26 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Friday, July 31 - 7:30am
- Monday, August 3 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 13 - 5:00pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Friday, July 31 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 1 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 2 - 5:30pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Saturday, August 1 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 4 - 5:00pm
- Monday, August 17 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Sunday, August 2 - 7:30am
- Wednesday, August 5 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, August 18 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Thursday, August 6 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 7 - 7:30am
- Wednesday, August 19 - 5:00pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, August 7 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 8 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 9 - 5:30pm
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Saturday, August 8 - 7:30am
- Monday, August 10 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 20 - 5:00pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Sunday, August 9 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 11 - 5:00pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, August 14 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 15 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 16 - 5:30pm
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Saturday, August 15 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Sunday, August 16 - 7:30am
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Monday, July 20 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 21 - 5:00pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, July 19 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Saturday, July 18 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Friday, July 17 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, July 12 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, July 11 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, July 10 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, July 11 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, July 12 - 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, July 10 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, July 5 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, July 4 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, July 3 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, July 4 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, July 5 - 5:30pm
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, July 3 - 7:30am
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Thursday, July 2 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 14 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Tuesday, June 30 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Monday, June 29 - 5:00pm
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, June 28 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, June 27 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, June 26 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, June 27 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, June 28 - 5:30pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, June 26 - 7:30am
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Wednesday, June 24 - 5:00pm
- Monday, July 6 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 8 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 15 - 5:00pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Tuesday, June 23 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, June 25 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 7 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 9 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 16 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Monday, June 22 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 1 - 5:00pm
- Monday, July 13 - 5:00pm
