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Photos and Video from Define '09
| "National Health Reform and Protecting the Region's Health"- 20-NOV-09 | |
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The third Hofstra Health Policy Breakfast lecture titled "National Health Reform and Protecting the Region's Health," was be held on Friday, November 20, 2009 featuring representatives from New York City, Nassau and Suffolk county health departments. | photos | |
| "President or King? Evaluating the Expansion of Executive Power from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush"- 04-NOV-09 and 05-NOV-09 | |
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Keynote address: Wednesday, November 4, featuring The New York Times Columnist David Brooks Closing Panel address: Howard B. Dean III: Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 2005-2009; Senior Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and Edward J. Rollins: Political Strategist, CNN Commentator; Senior Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency | photos | |
| Day of Dialogue VII: A New Direction for the U.S. and the World?- 28-OCT-09 | |
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A day devoted to dialogue, debate and discussion of the issues that face our nation and world. | photos | |
| International Scene Lecture Series: The Challenge of a Changing Iran- 21-OCT-09 | |
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Featuring Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of History, Baruch College, CUNY | photos | |
| International Scene Lecture Series: Rethinking Afghanistan- 14-OCT-09 | |
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Featuring David Wildman, Executive Secretary, Human Rights and Racial Justics | photos | |
| The Inner Workings Of The Supreme Court- 8-OCT-09 | |
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Featuring National Public Radio (NPR) Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg and NBC News and MSNBC Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams. | photos | |
| International Scene Lecture Series: Demilitarizing U.S. Foreign Policy - 30-SEP-09 | |
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Featuring David McReynolds, Former Chair, War Resisters International. | photos | |
| Sustainable South Bronx and Environment Advocacy - 29-SEP-09 | |
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Featuring Majora Carter, founder and former executive director of the non-profit Sustainable South Bronx. She is a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, president of her own economic consulting firm, a co-host on Sundance Channel's The Green, and host of the public radio series, The Promised Land. | photos | |
| Race, Diversity and a New America - 24-SEP-09 | |
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Featuring CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien, discussing her critically acclaimed documentary series Black in America, and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in recognition of his columns during the 2008 presidential campaign. | video | | photos | |
| International Scene Lecture Series: Has The Recession Bottomed Out?-23-SEP-09 | |
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Robert Guttmann of the Department of Economics at Hofstra University, discusses the economy. |
| Does Conservatism Have a Future? - 16-SEP-09 | |
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Featuring The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, an American conservative author and blogger, who, in April 2009, became the conservative voice on The New York Times editorial page. Douthat is the youngest regular op-ed writer in the paper's history. | photos | |
| Half The Sky - Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - 8-SEP-09 | |
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Featuring The New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof discussing their new book about women in the developing world. | photos | | video | |
| Obama’s Options - 28-APR-09 | |
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Featured speaker: New York Times White House Correspondent, David Sanger | photos | |
| A 360-Degree Look at World Events - 19-MAR-09 | |
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Featuring Anderson Cooper, Anchor, CNN, Anderson Cooper 360. | photos | |
| The 2009 Donald J. Sutherland Lecture - 5-MAR-09 | |
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Featuring Michael Barone, senior writer, U.S. News & World Report and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. | photos | |
| The Obama Phenomenon: What's Next? - 26-FEB-09 | |
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After winning the election on November 4, 2008, President Obama called his campaign manager, David Plouffe, “the unsung hero” who built the best political campaign in the history of the United States. | photos | |
| Annual Arnold A. Saltzman Lecture on the State of the Union - 12-FEB-09 | |
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Political strategist and CNN commentator Donna Brazile gave the annual Arnold A. Saltzman lecture on the State of the Union. | photos | |
| Student Lobby Day in Albany - 9-FEB-09 | |
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Hofstra students joined hundreds of students from across New York State at the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities' Annual Student Lobby Day in Albany, New York. | photos | |
| Viewing the Inauguration - 20-JAN-09 | |
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On January 20, 2009, students, faculty and community members gathered at Hofstra University, host of the third Presidential Debate of the 2008 election season, to watch a simulcast of the inauguration of President Barack Obama. | video | |