This edition: Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
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Original tape date: December 29, 2025. First aired: January 19, 2026.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile another three Guggenheim Fellows who graduated from the City University of New York. City College graduate and longtime professor Frederic Tuten uses written language and painting to achieve perfect form. Brooklyn College alum Roya Hakakian fled Iran as a teenager and uses her career in journalism to confront what it has become. And Hunter College graduate Frances Barth has been practicing art for over 55 years, creating original work as part of the 1960s vanguard of New York art.
Guest List
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Tuesday, September 15 - 5:00pm
- Friday, October 9 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, October 10 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, October 11 - 5:30pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Wednesday, September 16 - 5:00pm
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Thursday, September 17 - 5:00pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Friday, September 18 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Friday, September 18 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 19 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 20 - 5:30pm
- Tuesday, October 13 - 5:00pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Saturday, September 19 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Sunday, September 20 - 7:30am
- TBA
- Monday, September 21 - 5:00pm
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- Wednesday, September 23 - 5:00pm
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- Monday, September 28 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, September 29 - 5:00pm
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- Thursday, October 1 - 5:00pm
- Monday, October 5 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, October 6 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, October 7 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, October 8 - 5:00pm
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Friday, September 25 - 7:30am
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Friday, September 25 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 26 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 27 - 5:30pm
- Wednesday, October 14 - 5:00pm
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Saturday, September 26 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Sunday, September 27 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Friday, October 2 - 7:30am
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Friday, October 2 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, October 3 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, October 4 - 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Saturday, October 3 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Sunday, October 4 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Friday, October 9 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Saturday, October 10 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Sunday, October 11 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Monday, October 12 - 5:00pm
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Saturday, September 12 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Friday, September 11 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Sunday, September 6 - 7:30am
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Saturday, September 5 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, September 4 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 5 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 6 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Friday, September 4 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Sunday, August 30 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Saturday, August 29 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, August 28 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 29 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 30 - 5:30pm
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Friday, August 28 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Wednesday, August 26 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, September 8 - 5:00pm
- Friday, September 11 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 12 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 13 - 5:30pm
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Tuesday, August 25 - 5:00pm
- Monday, September 7 - 5:00pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Monday, August 24 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, September 3 - 5:00pm
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Sunday, August 23 - 7:30am
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Saturday, August 22 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, August 21 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 22 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 23 - 5:30pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Friday, August 21 - 7:30am
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Thursday, August 20 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, September 2 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Wednesday, August 19 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, September 1 - 5:00pm
- Monday, September 14 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Tuesday, August 18 - 5:00pm
- Monday, August 31 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, September 10 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Monday, August 17 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 27 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, September 9 - 5:00pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, August 16 - 5:30pm
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Sunday, August 16 - 7:30am
- Sunday, September 13 - 7:30am
