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Past Conferences and Symposia
| Conference | Date Held |
|---|---|
| George Sand | November 1976 |
| Heinrich von Kleist Bicentennial | November 1977 |
| The Chinese Woman | December 1977 |
| George Sand: Her Life, Her Works, Her Influence | April 1978 |
| William Cullen Bryant and His America | October 1978 |
| The Trotsky-Stalin Conflict in the 1920s | March 1979 |
| Albert Einstein Centennial | November 1979 |
| Renaissance Venice Symposium | March 1980 |
| Sean O'Casey | March 1980 |
| Walt Whitman | April 1980 |
| Nineteenth-Century Women Writers | November 1980 |
| Feodor Dostoevski | April 1981 |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | November 1981 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Man, The Myth, The Era | March 1982 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | October 1982 |
| James Joyce | October 1982 |
| Twentieth-Century Women Writers | November 1982 |
| Harry S. Truman: The Man From Independence | April 1983 |
| John Maynard Keynes | September 1983 |
| Romanticism in the Old and New World: Washington Irving, Stendahl and Zhukovskii | October 1983 |
| Espectador Universal: Jose Ortega y Gasset | November 1983 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier, President, Statesman | March 1984 |
| Victorian Studies | April 1984 |
| Symposium on Eighteenth-Century Venice | April 1984 |
| George Orwell | October 1984 |
| Friedrich von Schiller | November 1984 |
| John F. Kennedy: The Promise Revisited | March 1985 |
| Higher Education: Today and Tomorrow | April 1985 |
| Heritage: A Reappraisal of the Harlem Renaissance | May 1985 |
| New York State History Conference | October 1985 |
| Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts | October 1985 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | October 1985 |
| Sixteen Years of the Burger Court, 1969-1985 | November 1985 |
| Avant-Garde Art and Literature | November 1985 |
| Television 1985-1986: Issues for the Industry and the Audience | November 1985 |
| Artificial Intelligence | February 1986 |
| Evolution of Business Education | March 1986 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson: A Texan in Washington | April 1986 |
| Long Island Studies | May 1986 |
| Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities | June 1986 |
| The World of George Sand | October 1986 |
| Miguel de Unamuno/Ramon Valle-Inclan/ Federico Garcia-Lorca | November 1986 |
| C.G. Jung and the Humanities | November 1986 |
| The Bicentennial of the United States: A Celebration | April 1987 |
| Suburbia Re-examined | June 1987 |
| Shellfishing and Coastal Resource Management: A Global Perspective | August 1987 |
| American Immigration and Ethnicity | October 1987 |
| Richard Nixon: A Retrospective on His Presidency | November 1987 |
| Dream and Reality: The Modern Black Struggle For Freedom and Equality | February 1988 |
| Multinational Culture: Social Impacts of a Global Economy | March 1988 |
| Group Defamation and Freedom of Speech: The Relationship Between Language and Violence | April 1988 |
| Language and Violence | April 1988 |
| The Legacy of John von Neumann | June 1988 |
| Long Island Studies Conference: Robert Moses | June 1988 |
| Business Finance in Less-Developed Capital Markets | September 1988 |
| Byron and His Contemporaries | December 1988 |
| Chocolate: Food of the Gods | March 1989 |
| Minorities in Higher Education | March 1989 |
| Gerald R. Ford: Restoring the Presidency | April 1989 |
| East Coast Regional Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists | June 1989 |
| The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact | October 1989 |
| Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America | April 1990 |
| Vincent Van Gogh | May 1990 |
| The Environment: Global Problems - Local Solutions | June 1990 |
| Bamboo and Oak: The Impact of East Asia on American Society and Culture | October 1990 |
| Jimmy Carter: Keeping Faith | November 1990 |
| Mozart: 200 Years of Research and Analysis | February 1991 |
| Innovative Financial Instruments and Developments in Financial Services | March 1991 |
| Opera in the "Golden West" | April 1991 |
| Detective Fiction and Film in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Agatha Christie | October 1991 |
| Money: Lure, Lore and Liquidity | November 1991 |
| The United States and Japan in World War II | December 1991 |
| New Directions in Worker/Management Relations: U.S./U.S.S.R. | March 1992 |
| The Allocation of Power Between Central and Local Governments: The American and Soviet Perspectives | April 1992 |
| Games Children Play | April 1992 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | September 1992 |
| The Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender | October 1992 |
| The Next Long Island Hurricane!! Are We Ready for the "Big One?" | November 1992 |
| Contested Terrain: Power, Politics and Participation in Suburbia | March 1993 |
| Ronald Reagan: Ninth Presidential Conference | April 1993 |
| Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries | October 1993 |
| Edvard Grieg: Exploration of Scandinavian Cultures | November 1993 |
| First-Person Singular: Autobiography | March 1994 |
| Women in Theatre: On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) | October 1994 |
| Art, Glitter and Glitz: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity | November 1994 |
| United Nations at Fifty | March 1995 |
| Baseball and the "Sultan of Swat": Commemorating the 100th Birthday of Babe Ruth | April 1995 |
| Africa 2000 | October 1995 |
| Eleventh International Conference on General Semantics | November 1995 |
| Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators | March 1996 |
| Inscription as Art in the World of Islam | April 1996 |
| Irish Literatures: Old and New Worlds | July 1996 |
| History, Society and Politics: George Sand From the First Empire to the Third Republic | November 1996 |
| George Bush: The 41st President of the United States | April 1997 |
| The World of Pope Innocent III | May 1997 |
| The Hispanic Connection: Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World | October 1997 |
| Legal Ethics: Access to Justice | April 1998 |
| The Native American Experience: Long Island, New York and Beyond | April 1998 |
| Financial Services in the Evolving Global Marketplace: The Next Millennium | October 1998 |
| Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend | November 1998 |
| Nassau County Centennial: From Rural Hinterland to Suburban Metropolis | March 1999 |
| The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy | April 1999 |
| The Eighth East Coast Regional Meeting of Protozoologists | June 1999 |
| The Vision of Eleanor Roosevelt: World Citizen Ahead of Her Time | September 1999 |
| Millennial Shakespeare: Performance/Text/Scholarship | November 1999 |
| The Thatcher Years: The Rebirth of Liberty | March 2000 |
| Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings and His World | April 2000 |
| The Leadership Difference: Rating the Presidents | October 2000 |
| A Robert Anderson Retrospective: Theater and Film | October 2000 |
| Contemporary Opera at the Millennium | November 2000 |
| Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for a New Paradigm | March 2001 |
| The Child's Right to Play: A Global Approach | May 2001 |
| Moby-Dick 2001 | October 2001 |
| 2001: A Peace Odyssey: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Novel Peace Prize | November 2001 |
| Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong: A Celebration of Jazz | November 2001 |
| John Steinbeck's Americas | March 21-23, 2002 |
| I Hear a Rhapsody: The Classical Music of George Gershwin | April 6, 2002 |
| Spanish & Spanish-American Poetry: Transition 2000 and Beyond | April 25, 2002 |
| Celebrating Adventure: Charles A. Lindbergh, His Life and Legacy | May 18, 2002 |
| Representing Sacco and Vanzetti | October 4, 2002 |
| "If This Is a Man" The Life and Legacy of Primo Levi | October 23-24, 2002 |
| Bing! Crosby and American Culture | November 14-16, 2002 |
| The Broadway Musical: 1920-2020 | March 27-29, 2003 |
| From Autogiro to Gyroplane: The Past, Present and Future of an Aviation Industry | April 25-26, 2003 |
| Judging Judges' Ethics | September 14-16, 2003 |
| Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Ten Years Later | September 18-20, 2003 |
| A Pen of Light: The Films of Jean Cocteau | October 1-4, 2003 |
| Mario Vargas Llosa Symposium | October 10, 2003 |
| St. Petersburg: 300th Anniversary - The City as a Cradle of Modern Russia | November 7-8, 2003 |
| Applied Organizational Psychology | March 19 -20, 2004 |
| The Africa Network | November 2004 |
| Don Quixote: The First 400 Years | November 4-6, 2004 |
| New Visions of Suburban Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | March 18-20, 2005 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald on Long Island and New York | April 14-16, 2005 |
| Youth Employment in the Global Economy | September 15-16, 2005 |
| William Jefferson Clinton: The "New Democrat" From Hope | November 10-12, 2005 |
| Asian Merchant Cultures at the Crossroads | March 9-11, 2005 |
| Managing Risk in Financial Institutions: From Theory to Practice | April 27-29, 2006 |
| Biomedical Research and the Law: Selected Issues - The Pharmaceutical Industry and Its Relationship With Government, Academia, Physicians and Consumers | October 4-6, 2006 |
| Rubén Darío: 90 Years Later | October 27-28, 2006 |
| Building a Scientifically Literate Population and Workforce for the 21st Century | March 15-16, 2007 |
| Defining Culture Through Dress Individual and Collective Identities | April 19-21, 2007 |
| Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism After the Fall | April 26-27, 2007 |
| The Politics of Religion-Making | October 4-6, 2007 |