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Events
Year in Review: 2008
January | February | March | April | May | June/July | August | September | October | November | December
The Department of Drama and Dance presented Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth at the new Black Box Theater.
April
April 1: 2008 Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman presented a lecture titled "Can American Democracy Survive the Growing Wealth Gap?" at Monroe Lecture Center Theater. His talk was sponsored by the Departments of Economics, History, and Sociology and the Center for Civic Engagement, in conjunction with the Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.
April 1: Best-selling author and religion scholar Dr. Stephen Prothero discussed "Religious Literacy and Higher Education" at a lecture that was part of Hofstra's 2008 Visiting Presidential Scholar program. Dr. Prothero is chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and author of American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon and The New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- And Doesn't.
April 2: Lifelines, large works on paper by artist Claudia McNulty, opened at the Rosenberg Gallery in Calkins Hall. The show, presented by Hofstra's Department of Fine Arts, portrayed a parallel between the losses in Ms. McNulty's life and the decay of the environment.
April 3: Charlie Cook, publisher of The Cook Political Report and one of the nation's best-known political analysts, delivered the keynote address at a daylong presidential symposium sponsored by Hofstra's Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency. The symposium examined issues surrounding the 2008 presidential campaign, including the candidates' political messages on issues of race and gender, the war in Iraq, and 24-hour campaign coverage by the news media.
April 3: Joan Zaleski, associate professor of literacy studies, and a group of her students were guests at the West Elementary School in Long Beach, New York, to hear a presentation by civil rights icon Ruby Bridges. Ms. Bridges' appearance at the school was made possible by a grant Dr. Zaleski received from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to study issues of social justice and author studies in the classroom. As a 6-year-old child, Ruby Bridges made history in 1960 when her family volunteered her to participate in the integration of an elementary school in New Orleans.
April 5 and 11 and May 16 to 18: Hofstra Entertainment presented several unique programs. First on April 5 was Sinatra Dances: A Musical Dance Fantasy presented by the Metropolitan Repertory Ballet Company with guest narration by Bob Spiotto. April 11 saw the Long Island premiere of Moliere Than Thou, a one-man show written and performed by Timothy Mooney. May 16 to 18 was a production of Harry & Eddie: The Birth of Israel, directed by Bob Spiotto. This fascinating and unique play explored the relationship between former U.S. President Harry S. Truman and fellow World War I veteran Eddie Jacobson, whose friendship was key in the founding of the State of Israel.
April 8: David Gergen, an adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton and a television commentator, editor, teacher and best-selling author, delivered the annual Arnold A. Saltzman Lecture on the State of the Union.
April 8 to June 6: The Hofstra University Museum presented Stan Brodsky, The Figure: 1951-2006 at Emily Lowe Gallery. The exhibit, curated by Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Collections Karen Albert, included 28 works that began with the artist's self-examination during his days of study at the Academie Julien in Paris in the 1950s.
April 9: Lynn Nottage, playwright of Intimate Apparel and winner of the 2004 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play, was the final guest of the 2007-2008 "Great Writers, Great Readings" series.
April 9: Students responded to social injustices through art at the Art of Healing -- Healing Through Art concert at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse. The performance was a multimedia concert using the spoken word, painting, sculpture, photography, film, dance and acting. Money raised was donated to the charity Doctors Without Borders.
April 9: Hundreds of Hofstra students gathered at Hofstra USA to record the chorus of an original song written by Songs of Love for a seriously ill child from Long Island. Songs of Love is a not-for-profit organization that provides personalized songs for chronically and terminally ill children and young adults.
April 9 to 26: Hofstra observed Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, devoted to celebrating the cultural traditions, ancestry, native languages, and unique experiences representing more than 47 ethnic groups from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Events included lectures, films, and a walking tour and scavenger hunt through Chinatown in New York City.
April 10: Hofstra mourned the passing of Bob Greene, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Newsday reporter and editor, whose work on the faculty at Hofstra contributed to the development of both the School of Communication and the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations.
April 10: The 34th Annual Hempstead for Hofstra/Hofstra for Hempstead Scholarship Ball was held at the Main Dining Room of the Mack Student Center. Scholarship money raised from this annual event helps Hempstead students pursue their higher education goals at Hofstra. Each year, the Unispan Award is presented at the ball to local community leaders. This year's Unispan Award recipients were Ted Adams '76, Mary Burns, Scott Clark, Paul Conte and Jacqueline Jones-Ford.
April 10: Donna Freitas, whose book Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses provides insight into today's youth culture, spoke to students at Hofstra USA at an event sponsored by Hofstra University Honors College, the Lecture Series in Catholic Studies, and First-Year Connections.
April 10 to 12: What is the history of humor? How has it played out in different languages and cultures throughout our world, from medieval times to the present? These were some of the questions addressed at the conference At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Language Literatures, presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center. The event featured the participation of more than 90 authors, scholars, performers and historians from Australia, Belgium, the Canary Islands, Italy, Latin America, Mexico, Spain, England, France, Moldova and across the United States.
April 11 to 20 and 24 to 27: The Department of Drama and Dance followed up March's Shakespeare Festival with Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth and the annual Spring Dance Concert.
April 17: Meena Bose, Hofstra's Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies, moderated a panel discussion titled "What Lessons Do Past Presidents Have for 2008? A Biographer's Round-Table," featuring Washington Post reporter and William J. Clinton biographer David Maraniss; Princeton University Professor Emeritus and presidential expert Fred Greenstein; and New York Times reporter and Condoleezza Rice biographer Elisabeth Bumiller.
April 19: A team of Hofstra graduate students from the Frank G. Zarb School of Business took second place in the national New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) Commodities Challenge after competing against 25 teams from 20 colleges. Hofstra's electronic trading team consisted of finance M.B.A. students Tansel Alan (team leader), Jessie Chen, Kay Hung, Steven Monti, Ronak Shah, and Swapnil Shah, who were all taking the graduate Futures Markets course taught by Dr. Ahmet Karagozoglu, associate professor of finance and faculty supervisor for the Hofstra team.
April 22: General Barry McCaffrey (Ret.) delivered the Donald J. Sutherland University Lecture in the Liberal Arts at Monroe Lecture Center Theater, where he spoke about Iraq, foreign policy and the 2008 presidential election. General McCaffrey serves as a national security and terrorism analyst for NBC News and is an adjunct professor of international affairs at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
April 23: Susan Frelich Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at the Washington University School of Law, delivered the 2007-2008 Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture. She was introduced by Hofstra Law School Professor John DeWitt Gregory, the Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law.
April 23: Hofstra's Center for Civic Engagement, along with the School of Education, Health and Human Services and First-Year Connections, sponsored a series of events in celebration of Earth Day at Adams Quad. The festival for Hofstra students began with free food, activities, contests, vendors and music, and continued through the evening with a discussion of Long Island's environmental future.
April 24: Maureen Dowd, 1999 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary and New York Times columnist, and William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and New York Times columnist, participated in an Educate '08 event titled Issues, Parties and the Media: The 2008 Election Landscape at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse.
April 29: The National Center for Suburban Studies (NCSS) at Hofstra UniversitySM announced receipt of a $25,000 grant from the state of New York to create a Sustainable Suburban Neighborhoods Initiative, a joint project of the NCSS and Boston College's renowned Urban Ecology Institute.
April 30: All's Fair: Love, War and Politics at John Cranford Adams Playhouse featured a talk by power couple Mary Matalin, celebrated conservative voice and presidential adviser, and James Carville, media personality and political icon.
April 30: The Fine Arts Student Art Show opened at Calkins Hall, featuring more than 300 works in painting, drawing, ceramics, 3-D, photography, design and new media. Noted graphic artist Jennifer Magee, senior associate and project director for Architecture Grid2 and co-founder and CEO of UPworld.com (a professional online networking site for design, architecture and building), served as a judge for this year's show.
