Events

Student Affairs' Office of Multicultural and International Students Program
Through this office, Hofstra sponsors programs designed to ensure that the University remains a diverse campus and embraces its multicultural identity:

• The Multicultural Film Series
• Hispanic Heritage Month
• The Diversity-Dialogue-Desserts Series

The President's Define '09 Series: New Challenges, New Solutions
presents
CNN Special Correspondent Soledad O’Brien and Washington Post Columnist Eugene H. Robinson as they discuss "Race, Diversity and a New America" at Hofstra University on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 3 p.m. in John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus.

Conference:
The Diverse Suburbs: History, Politics, and Prospects
October 22-24, 2009
The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra invites academics, activists, and policymakers to an international and interdisciplinary conference that will consider the challenging and emergent phenomenon of suburban diversity. What are the implications of this growing diversity? To what extent is this apparent growth simply a rediscovery of differences long written out of suburban history? How is suburban diversity linked to processes, such as globalization, that operate above and cut across the local scale? Do the changing suburbs present new opportunities for creating a more just and equitable society? The Diverse Suburb conference will include invited speakers, organized sessions, and panels that address these questions from a variety of approaches.

Metropolitan Area Teens Investigate Diversity While Perfecting Their Journalism Skills
Innovative Free Summer Program Funded by The Rauch Foundation
July 6-17, 2009
Hofstra University invites metropolitan area high school students to investigate and report on some of the important issues facing their hometowns and Long Island as part of a free two-week summer camp called J-DIV. J-DIV, which stands for Journalism Diversity. The program funded by The Rauch Foundation allows 10 high school students who represent diverse populations to experience what it is like to be professional investigative reporters. The students will report on their communities using the Long Island Index’s interactive map and its reports to help focus their story angle. Guided by Hofstra’s journalism faculty, the teens will learn basic research and reporting techniques, as well as how to use some of Hofstra’s School of Communication state-of-the-art equipment to produce multimedia stories. | more |

Hofstra Team Returns to Lloyd Manor in June to Continue Slave Quarters Dig
June 24-July 31, 2009
For the third consecutive summer, students will have the opportunity to work on an excavation of a Lloyd Harbor site believed to contain the remains of an 18th century slave quarter as part of a Hofstra summer course on archeological field methods.

Anthropology Professors Chris Matthews, Ph.D., and Jenna Coplin, will supervise a team that from June 24-July 31, 2009 will continue to excavate the Joseph Lloyd Manor site, begun in 2007. Students from Hofstra and other colleges uncovered the foundations of what is believed to be the slave quarter along with 18th century artifacts such as dishes, bottles, and animal bones.

Center for Civic Engagement Returns to Togo to Continue Sustainable Ecology Effort
May 19-28, 2009
A team of Hofstra students and faculty will continue their "Green Future Alliance" in the West African nation of Togo May 19-28, 2009, meeting with their Togolese student and faculty partners and working together on human rights and sustainable ecology projects.

Sociology Professor Cynthia Bogard, Ph.D., director of the Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) and Anthropology Professor Cheryl Mwaria, Ph.D. will return with four Hofstra students to work with their counterparts at the University of Lomé, Togo. Facilitated by the non-governmental organization PLAN International, they will continue an innovative program that has university students in both nations develop joint community projects, run them in their own nations and meet twice a year to evaluate their projects and plan for the future.

Diversity Lecture:
Susan Mboya of the Zawadi Africa Educational Fund
Wednesday, April 15, at 11:15 a.m.
Student Center Theater
Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

Conference:
Between Three Continents: Rethinking Equatorial Guinea on the 40th Anniversary of its Independence from Spain
April 2-4, 2009
Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony (1778-1968) and the only Spanish-speaking nation-state in Africa, has recently marked the 40th anniversary of its independence. This conference, Between Three Continents-the fulcrum of an initiative designed to reshape the place of Africa in debates on the Spanish-speaking and Atlantic worlds-will address historical and cultural connections between Equatorial Guinea, Spain, and the Americas.