MARCH 7-9

From the Outside Looking In: Sustainable Futures for Global Cities and Suburbs

Join academics, practitioners, and community leaders for an interdisciplinary discussion about sustainability that bridges the environmental, economic, and social spheres within complex urban regions.

From the Outside In: Sustainable Futures for Global Cities and Suburbs is a three-day conference focusing on the sustainable futures in global city-regions, taking the suburbs as its starting point and working its way inward to the city center. Keynote speakers include Dr. Robert Bullard, William Fulton, and Dr. Burrell Montz.

APRIL 3-5

National Public Health Week
School of Health Sciences & Human Services

Events include "Mental Health Policy and Practice Issues in The Wake of Sandy Hook: An Invitation to the Conversation" on April 3, "Immunizations: Why is Public Health's Greatest Achievement Also Our Greatest Challenge?" on April 4 and "Are We Ready for The Next Big One? Lessons From Hurricane Sandy" on April 5.

APRIL 18

Emancipation Proclamation Student Symposium

APRIL 29

Impact Investing: From Private Equity to Microfinance

October 16

What's the Prognosis? Supporting the Affordable Care Act with a National Prevention Strategy

November 7-8

"For Their Actual Freedom": 150th Anniversary of the  Emancipation Proclamation

NOVEMBER 15
School of Education 50th Anniversary Celebration

March 27-28

LGBT Conference
Foucault 2014: Beyond Sexuality
Michel Foucault is one of the foremost and most widely read French philosophers of the 20th century. 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of his death and the publication of the final two volumes of his profoundly influential History of Sexuality. This year's LGBT conference offers a significant opportunity to revisit Foucault's work, his influence, his legacy, and the future of Foucauldian studies.

APRIL 10-12

Soccer as the Beautiful Game: Football's Artistry, Identity and Politics
An international conference — in anticipation of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil — exploring the historical, social, political, economic, cultural and humanitarian aspects of the world’s most popular sport.

SEPTEMBER

Association of Asian Studies:
Asia Transforming: Old Values and New Presences 
The Hofstra Cultural Center, in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies (MAR-AAS) and the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), will host an international conference that reflects on the theme Asia Transforming: Old Values and New Presences to further our understanding of how ongoing economic, social and political transformations have challenged present day perceptions of Asian cultural identities.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: interrogation of notions of hybridity, Diaspora and migration; explorations of global Asian cosmopolitanisms/transnational culture; and the impact of globalization. Keynote speakers will include the President of the Association of Asian Studies and other distinguished Asianists. In addition, the conference will feature a Teaching Asia Workshop, art exhibitions and cultural events.

OCTOBER

Bioethics Center Symposium

MARCH 24-26

12th Presidential Conference
The George W. Bush Presidency
The Hofstra Cultural Center's Presidential Conferences bring together scholars from a wide variety of fields, journalists, former government officials, and in some cases, the former U.S. Presidents themselves, to discuss the policies and issues of the various administrations. 

FALL

Martin Luther King