America's award-winning musical presented by Hofstra Entertainment!
Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards; book by Peter Stone, based on a concept by Sherman Edwards
Directed by Sal Salerno
Musical direction by William W. Williams

A sparkling re-creation of those momentous days when John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, along with members of the Second Continental Congress, argued about, voted on and signed the Declaration of Independence.

Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse,South Campus
Admission/Tickets: Fee (All seats reserved)
For tickets and information, please call the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box office at (516) 463-6644, M-F, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m., or visit hofstra.edu/HofstraEntertainment
One free ticket for student with current Hofstra ID card. 

• Nancy Soderberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ('97-'01); 3rd ranking official of National Security Council at the White House ('93-'97); and Deputy Director of the Presidential Transition for National Security. She also held senior positions in the presidential campaigns of '96, '92, '88 and '84.

• Dr. Jay M. Parker, visiting associate professor in Georgetown University's Department of Government, adjunct associate professor in the graduate school faculties at Columbia University and George Washington University, and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency. In 2005, Dr. Parker retired from the United States Army in the rank of Colonel after 26 years of active duty service. He also served for more than a decade as professor of political and international affairs and director of International Relations and National Security Studies, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point.
• Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; columnist, Washington Post; contributor Time; editor-at-large, The New Republic

Diana Carlin, DebateWatch speaker

More information to come.

Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, south campus.

More information to come.

Autism Spectrum Disorder:  Current Policies and Best Practices for Promoting Socialization, Communication and Language

For more information, please contact Dr. Martin Blum, AssistantDean of the School Of Education and Allied Human Services: (516) 463-5389 or via email: Martin.Blum@hofstra.edu

Featuring Michael Cohen

Mr. Cohen is the author of Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the Twentieth Century and How They Shaped Modern America.  He was a speechwriter for the State Department in the Clinton administration, and he also has worked in corporate communications. He is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, and he has taught speechwriting and political rhetoric at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

More information is available through the following link: http://livefromthetrail.com

Location: Hofstra Cultural Center Theater, South Campus

Brian Lehrer Show: Forum on Youth Issues

Location: TBA

Third presidential debate

Location: Hofstra University

For more information, visit hofstra.edu/debate

More information to come.

Featuring Dee Dee Myers and Ari Fleischer, Former White House Press Secretaries

Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, south campus

More information to come.

Dr. Stuart Altman, Dean of The Heller School for Social Policy & Management and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University

This event is the first of a three-part Health Policy Breakfast Series to address critical issues in health care and reform.  The breakfast series was established to set the stage for a large-scale national conference, "American Health Care: New Directions in Coverage, Cost and Quality" to be hosted by Hofstra University in early 2010. Key players in the health care reform debate, including policymakers, providers, and analysts, will participate in both the  reakfast series and the conference events.

Location: The University Club at Hofstra University
Admission: Free and open to the public

This event is organized by the Hofstra University Health Policy Conference Planning Committee:
Janet Dolgin, PhD, JD (Law)
Rachel Kreier, PhD (Economics)
Corinne Kyriacou (Community Health)
David Weiss, PhD (Health Administration)

About Dr. Stuart Altman:
Stuart H. Altman is Dean of The Heller School for Social Policy & Management and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University.  He has an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Economics from UCLA and taught at Brown University and the Graduate School of Public Policy at University of California at Berkeley.

A Center for Civic Engagement event in celebration of Black History Month
Special guest speaker: Fred Brewington, Esq.
Attorney, community advocate, recipient of the King, Gandhi, Ikeda Award
Opening performance by Hofstra's political theater group In Touch Arts

Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater

For more information, call 463-5640

New York and 21 Other States Vote in the Most Important Primaries in Decades!

Hear Hofstra students share their firsthand observations of the New Hampshire primary campaigns Stay and watch the returns roll in with other interested citizens

- Multiple Screen Multiple Network TV Coverage
- Computer area: Bring Your Laptop To Get Up to the Minute Web Updates
- Mix with politicians and political science professors and get their views
- Talk politics in our politics conversation pit

Location: Studio A, Dempster Hall

History Will Be Made on February 5, 2008 - be a part of it!

Join us for the first-FOREX symposium sponsored by the Journal of International Business and Law at the Hofstra University School of Law. Now in our 7th year of production, the Journal seeks to bring its interdisciplinary focus of business and law to a day full of panel discussions on the current issues regarding the Foreign Exchange Market (FOREX)

More information and registration available at http://law.hofstra.edu/Academics/Journals/JIBL/FOREXSymposium/index.html

Discussion topics include:

• Healthcare
• Economic stimulus
• Education
• Environment
• Iraq
• Iran
• Immigration
• Taxes

Location: Plaza Rooms, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
For more information, please contact Malcolm Malone via e-mail.

Ann Wright, Author, “Dissent: Voices of Conscience,” former distinguished career diplomat and Colonel, U.S. Army

Question-and-answer period to follow.

Location: Room 246, Scott Skodnek Business Development Center, South Campus
Admission: Free
For more information and locations, please call Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, Department of History, at (516) 463-3321, or Professor Martin Melkonian, Department of Economics, at (516) 463-5595.

Bring: Classes, friends, family, guests, the sick, the well, the uninsured.

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center Theater, North Campus
Admission: Free

For more information, or to RSVP please call 516.463.2888.

Refreshments will be served.

Steven Kinzer, N.Y. Times correspondent author, All the Shah’s Men, Overthrow: Americans' Century of Regime Change

Question-and-answer period to follow.

Location: Leo A. Guthart Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission: Free
For more information and locations, please call Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, Department of History, at (516) 463-3321, or Professor Martin Melkonian, Department of Economics, at (516) 463-5595.

Location: Plaza Room East, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

Televisions will be on-hand to watch and discuss the next Presidential primaries. 

Refreshments will be served.

Location: Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor, South Campus

Admission: Fee; Hofstra faculty, students and staff: Free except for formal conference meals.

Schedule of events and more information available at: http://law.hofstra.edu/NewsAndEvents/Conferences/StemCellConf/index.html 

Community/Alumni current events discussion group led by Dr. Herbert D. Rosenbaum, Professor Emeritus, Political Science.  Recommended reading will be shared with all those who RSVP.

Location: Libby and Joseph G. Shapiro Alumni House (South Campus)

RSVP: 516-463-6636 or via email to Sandra.J.Lombino@hofstra.edu

Jonathan Schell, Correspondent, The Nation magazine, author, The Fate of the Earth, The Seventh Decade

Question-and-answer period to follow.

Location: Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor, South Campus
Admission: Free

Ellen McLaughlin (award winning playwright, director, actor) directs a staged reading with Hofstra students of the classic anti-war play, Lysistrata

Location: Plaza Rooms, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Admission: Free

Join Hofstra journalism professors Peter Goodman and Mo Krochmal, Newsday political reporter Rick Brand, and  political reporter and blogger Azi Paybarah of Politicker.com, the daily blog of the New York Observer, for a lively discussion about the real and potential impact of new information technologies—blogs, social networking, YouTube, fact-checking websites, and CNN’s I-Report, among others—on the election process.

The panel will be moderated by Hofstra media studies professor Mary Ann Allison, PhD.

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Admission: Free; to register for the event or for more information, call (516) 463-7200 or click here.

Long Island Congressman Steve Israel joins county executives from Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties to discuss how to forge political and social consensus within suburbia for allying with cities - as equal partners - to create powerful metro areas that would allow the nation to better compete globally.

Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, Suffolk County Executiev Steve Levy and Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano will be among those participating in a daylong conference co-sponsored by Hofstra's National Center for Suburban Studies and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., one of the world's most respected academic institutes. Bruce Katz, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, will deliver an address on “MetroNation: Blueprint for American Prosperity.”

Following the morning session, Mr. Katz will recap his presentation at the afternoon session from 12:45 to 2:10 p.m. Participating in that session are Gerald E. Frug,  Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and author, City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls; Juliet Gainsborough, assistant professor, International Studies, Bentley College, author, Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics; Michael Kruglik, national director of MetroEquity for the Gamaliel Foundation; and Todd Swanstrom, professor of Public Policy Studies, Saint Louis University, co-author, Place Matters: Metropolitics in the Twenty-first Century and editor, The St. Louis Metropolitan Research Exchange; and Lisa Tyson, director, Long Island Progressive Coalition.

Location: Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus.

Admission is free but registration is required.
To register, contact Ina Katz at (516) 463-9939 or via E-mail.

Adam Nagourney, Chief Political Correspondent, The New York Times

Reception begins at 6 p.m. with discussion and Q&A to follow at 6:30 p.m.
Admission: Free and open to the public

Paul Krugman, Economist, Op Ed Writer N.Y. Times, author, Conscience of a Liberal

Question-and-answer period to follow.

Location: Monroe Lecture Hall, California Avenue, South Campus
Admission: Free 

Panels include:

• Running for President in the 21st Century
• Political Communication in Presidential Campaigns
• Governing in the White House

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "Winning and Governing the White House in the 21st Century" by Charlie Cook, publisher, The Cook Political Report; political analyst, National Journal Group and NBC News; columnist, National Journal Magazine, CongressDailyAM and the Washington Quarterly

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center Theater, North Campus

Admission: Fee; scholarships are available for high school groups.

For a detailed program or for registration information, please visit the symposium's website

Annette Grevious and Shakirah DeMesier, with members of IN TOUCH ARTS performing excerpts of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf

Location: TBA

Featuring James Klurfeld, Newsday columnist and former editor of Newsday's editorial pages; Lawrence Levy, director of Hofstra's National Center for Suburban Studies and former Newsday political columnist; and Herbert Rosenbaum, professor emeritus of political science.

Mr. Klurfeld and Mr. Levy will discuss the elections from the journalist's perspective.
Dr. Rosenbaum will focus his remarks on the Congressional elections.

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, Plaza Room West, North Campus
Admission: Free and open to the public

For more information: kleinhaklein@aol.com

• Washington Post reporter and William J. Clinton biographer, David Maraniss
• Professor Emeritus of Princeton University and presidential expert, Fred Greenstein
• New York Times reporter and Condoleezza Rice biographer, Elisabeth Bumiller

Location: Room 246, Scott Skodnek Business Development Center, South Campus
Admission: Free and open to public

• Free 21st Century Buffet – brought to you by Lackmann
• Music by Antler
• Green Ideas Contest
• Earth Friendly Products and Books for Sale
• Clothing Exchange
• Dramatic Presentation on Rachel Carson
• Smart Car

• "How Climate Change will Change Long Island" with Prof. E. Christa Farmer, Hofstra University
• "The Future of 'Green' Engineering on Suburban Living" with Prof. Margaret Hunter, Hofstra University
• "Is it Possible to Live 'Green' in the Suburbs?" with Prof. Eric Strauss, Director, Urban Ecology Institute, Boston College
• "New York’s Legal Battle against Global Warming" with Peter Washburn, NYS Attorney General’s Environmental Protection Bureau

The seventh annual festival of new and classic movies on work and working people around the world organized by Hofstra University's Labor Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy. Each film is scheduled during a class period and introduced by a Hofstra professor, who leads a discussion period following each showing.

Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission: Free; seating is limited (first-come, first-seated)

For film schedule and further information, please call the Labor Studies Office at (516) 463-5040 or visit hofstra.edu/laborstudies.

Hofstra's second annual Day of Peace will include performances by:

• Hofstra’s Percussion Ensemble
• Students in the department of dance
• Sigma'Cappella, the only co-ed vocal acapella group at Hofstra
• Hofstra Jazz Nonet 

Flags will be displayed representing every international student at Hofstra, along with the American flag. 
Free vegetarian food will be available.

Location: Calkins Quad, South Campus
For more information, please call (516) 463-6816.

"Israel: The Next 60 Years"
Michael Tuchfeld, Editor, chief anchor and commentator, TV2, The Knesset Channel, Jerusalem, Israel

Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Ticket information: On sale beginning April 22, 2008