HOFSTRA VOTES
Event Attendance
We are pleased to welcome the community, including family members, local schoolchildren, alumni and friends, to athletic and cultural events on campus. All events are free and open to the public. Please register in advance at events.hofstra.edu. For more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/kalikow.
Fall 2025
Wednesday, October 1, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Appraising Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Future of the International System
Panelists:
Alexander Cooley
Vice Provost for Research and Academic Centers
Claire Tow Professor of Political Science
Barnard College
Daniel H. Nexon
Professor of Government and Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Moderators:
Paul Fritz
Associate Professor of Political Science and
Chair, Department of Political Science
Hofstra University
Meena Bose
Professor of Political Science and
Executive Dean of Hofstra University’s
Peter S. Kalikow School of Government,
Public Policy and International Affairs
Presented by the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs, Public Policy and Public Service (PPPS) Program and the Department of Political Science in conjunction with the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and the Hofstra Cultural Center.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
October 15-16
Race, Gender, and the Presidency Symposium
12-1 p.m. — Hofstra Law School panel
1-2 p.m. – Provost Faculty Lecture
2:40-4:05 p.m.
Keynote address by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
The Power to Change A Nation
Professor of Constitutional Law
John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
Professor. Writer. Activist. Playwright.
Author, A Protest History of the United States (2025)
Film: Your Democracy Emmy Award & ABA Silver Gavel Award. Produced by WHYY (PBS/NPR affiliate)
Author, She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power. Phillis Wheatley Award
Author, The Voting Rights War “With vivid descriptions of voter intimidation, murders, riots, and lynchings, this work emphasizes that ‘freedom is not free.’” Publishers Weekly.
Author, Race, Law, and American Society. (This book is a gem.” Dr. Cornel West)
C-Span. Videos and Interviews
Article. Africans of 1619: Making Black Lives Matter in the Virginia Colony. JAAH/Univ. of Chicago Press
Essay. We Must Demand Prosecutorial Reform.
Essay. Affirmative Action Must Be a Shared Burden.
Essay. Desegregation of Public Schools, Then and Now.
Moderator:
Jonathan D. Lightfoot, Ph.D.
Director, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice
Professor of Teaching, Learning and Technology
Hofstra University
About Keynote Speaker:
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a writer, professor of constitutional law, civil rights attorney and playwright. “Her voice continues to resonate globally.”
Herb Boyd, author of “Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self Determination.” Her most recent book is “She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969. She Took Justice traces the role of law in The Black Woman’s journey from Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm.
Gloria is a member of the National Press Club, Dramatist Guild, Mystery Writers of America, National Association of Black Journalists, and PEN American Center. She received the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Justice Award for her work with civil rights and women’s justice issues. She is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) who teaches about the role of law currently and historically.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the Founder/Director of The Law and Policy Group, Inc., a nonprofit organization. The Law and Policy Group, Inc. is a think tank for the community which produces the biennial “Report on the Status of Black Women and Girls(R),” the only ongoing national report on the state of Black females in America. Gloria speaks nationally and internationally about social justice issues.
4:05-4:30 p.m.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall book signing for
A Protest History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2025
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Hofstra University Museum of Art Reception
Love Is the Message
Photography by Jamel Shabazz
September 2 – December 16, 2025
featuring 50 years of artwork by photographer Jamel Shabazz.
Emily Lowe Gallery, Behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus
6 p.m.
Symposium Dinner
Hofstra University Club, North Campus
9:40-11:05 a.m.
Kalikow School/Center Panel
How Race and Gender Have Influenced Twenty-First Century Presidential Campaigns
Moderator: Meena Bose
Executive Dean for Public Policy and Public Service Programs at the Peter S. Kalikow School
Director of Hofstra’s Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency
Hofstra University
Julia Azari, Marquette University
Lilly Goren, Carroll University
Anne Pluta, Rowan University
1-2:25 p.m.
Lawrence Herbert School of Communication and School of Health Sciences (Pending)
2:40-4:05 p.m.
Through the Double Lens: Race, Gender, and the Presidency”
This panel examines Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign through the lens of media narratives on race
and gender, drawing comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s campaigns. Speakers will discuss how media coverage shapes public perceptions of presidential candidates whose identities challenge historic norms.
Tomeka Robinson, Senior Associate Dean, RHC
Scott A. Brinton, Graduate Director, MA in Journalism Program
Sekiya R. Dorsett, Assistant Professor of Radio, Television, Film
Vania Andre, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations
Moderator: Aisha Wilson-Carter, Ed.D.
Executive Director for Equity & Inclusion
Hofstra University
Presented by Hofstra University Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs, Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice and the Office of Equity & Inclusion.
Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions take place in the
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus.
Wednesday, November 12, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Assessing the First Year of the Trump II Presidency
PANELISTS:
Ari Fleischer
Media Consultant; White House Press Secretary,
George W. Bush Administration
Phil Schiliro
Policy Analyst; Director of Legislative Affairs,
Barack Obama Administration
MODERATOR:
Meena Bose
Professor of Political Science and
Executive Dean of Hofstra University’s Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs
Hofstra University Club
David S. Mack Hall, North Campus
#KalikowPanel #HofstraVotes
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Hofstra University Club
David S. Mack Hall, North Campus
Past Events
Monday, September 9, Noon-1 p.m.
Death by One Thousand Cuts:
The Continued Weakening of the Voting Rights Act
with Marcia Johnson, co-director of Lawyers’ Committee’s Voting Rights Project
Marcia Johnson is the Co-director of the Lawyers’ Committee’s Voting Rights Project. She manages the Project’s voter engagement programs and advocacy portfolios which include overseeing the work of Election Protection, the nation’s largest non-partisan voter protection coalition; promoting engagement in the census and the redistricting process; researching the history of discrimination in voting; advocating for the restoration of the full protections of the Voting Rights Act and promoting national and state-based electoral reform legislation that ensure access to the ballot; and advocating for the restoration of voting rights for those with felony convictions.
Presented by the Deane School of Law Freedman Institute
230 Hofstra Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law
View FlyerTuesday, September 17, 2:40-4:05 p.m
International Scene Lecture Series with Jeff Sacks (VIRTUAL)
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor and author of To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Peace. He is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Professor Sachs will speak on Russia/Ukraine, especially in light of NATO expansion and the dangers of a new Cold War.
International Scene Series Co-Directors:
Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, History
Professor Linda Longmire, Global Studies and Geography
Professor Martin Melkonian, Economics Hofstra University
Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement’s Institute for Peace Studies, Hofstra Cultural Center and Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.
Advanced registration required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.
View FlyerWednesday September 18, 2:40-4:05 p.m. (VIRTUAL)
The Paranoid States of America: Conspiracy Theories on Campus and in the Ballot Box with Dr. Colin Dickey
Conspiracy theories in political and popular discourse are nothing new, but recently it feels like they’ve been on the rise, and with changes in how we consume social media they are becoming more and more prevalent. The presidential election this year only promises that we will see a flood of misinformation, disinformation, and outright conspiracy theories–many of them targeted at college students around the country.
Colin Dickey is a professor at National University and the author five books, including Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (2016) and Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
Presented by Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of English.
Co-sponsored by Departments of History, Philosophy, Sociology and the Rabinowitz Honors College.
Tuesday, September 24, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Hofstra Network of Elementary Teachers (HNET)
Teaching the Hard Stuff in the 2024 Elections
Elections should be the feast of democracy instead of its junk food.
This session will help upper elementary and middle school teachers address crucial – and sometimes challenging – election year topics, including: assessing the reliability of sources; engaging in civil discourse about the candidates and issues; and assessing the process of electing a president. All of these topics matter before – and after – Election Day in our classrooms and our democracy.
Presenter: Andrea Libresco Leo A. Guthart Distinguished Professor in Teaching Excellence, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Technology and Director of the Minor in Civic Engagement Hofstra University
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Thursday-Friday, September 26-27, 2024
The Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics presents
FALL SYMPOSIUM
The Role of Lawyers in Defending Democracy
Lawyers have always played a crucial role in preserving democracy in the United States. In recent years, that role has been increasingly questioned, threatened, and manipulated. At this Fall’s Freedman Institute Symposium, leading practitioners and experts will convene to examine multiple aspects of lawyers’ responsibilities to preserve democracy. The program will include three panels, each exploring an aspect of the moral and ethical duties of lawyers when democracy is under attack, and what changes can or should be made to how the legal profession sees its obligation to defend democracy.
Friday, September 26
Panel 1 – 6:30-8 p.m.
The first panel will look at recent threats to independent prosecutorial decision-making, particularly in the context of enforcement of post-Dobbs state laws regarding the right to an abortion.
Saturday, September 27
Panel 2 – 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Prosecutorial Independence
This panel will examine the role of the legal profession in holding lawyers responsible for actions undermining democracy, focusing on the ethical improprieties of the many lawyers who pursued false claims of election interference after the 2020 election, and the efforts to hold them responsible.
Panel 3 – 12:45-2 p.m.
The role of lawyers in exposing governmental abuses will be discussed in this panel, including commentary on the various recent Supreme Court decisions that have greatly expanded the power of the executive branch, and the responsibility of lawyers to contest government overreach.
This two-day program qualifies for 4.5 CLE credits in Ethics and Professionalism. For more information and to RSVP visit
Location for all events: Hofstra Law School, Room 308
Wednesday, October 2, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
The 2024 Election & Protecting Our Democracy with David Hogg and Rikki Schlott
Join us in a conversation about the 2024 Election with David Hogg, gun violence prevention activist and survivor of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL, and Rikki Schlott, New York Post columnist and co-author of The Canceling of the American Mind. As co-founder of March For Our Lives and Leaders We Deserve, David has challenged Americans to elect morally just leaders, increase civic engagement, and to “get over politics and get something done.” Rikki is a passionate free speech activist focusing on civil liberties and youth issues from a Generation Z perspective. Together, they will discuss how we can all use our voices to protect democracy.
David Hogg
Co-Founder of March For Our Lives Co-Founder of Leaders We Deserve
Co-Author, #NeverAgain
Rikki Schlott
New York Post Columnist
Co-Author, The Canceling of the American Mind
Moderated by:
Rosanna Perotti, Professor of Political Science
Lincoln Anniballi, Class of 2025, President, Hofstra University Student Government Association
Presented by Hofstra Cultural Center, Peter S. Kalikow Center School Of Government, Public Policy And International Affairs and the Hofstra University Student Government Association.
Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Student Center, North Campus
View FlyerOctober 9, 2024@ 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
2024 Meet the Candidates Forum
Hear this year’s candidates’ positions on important issues for Nassau and Suffolk counties, including:
- Local Government Services
- Community Development
- Racial Equity/MWBE
This event is FREE and open to the public. Advanced registration is required.
Directions to Venue: bit.ly/mlcdirections.
Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, please email ncbw100Ilipublicpolicyrsvp@gmail.com.
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Long Island Chapter and Hofstra University, in conjunction with the Hofstra Votes Campaign.
The Fortunoff Theater
Monroe Lecture Center, California Avenue, South Campus
Thursday, October 10, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
International Scene Lecture Series
U.S. Foreign Policy and the 2024 Election
with Aaron Maté
Journalist and Host, The Grayzone and Pushback
Aaron Maté has an extensive background as a journalist and producer for media outlets, including Democracy Now, The Real News Network, Al Jazeera and The Nation. He is an award-winning investigative reporter for The Greyzone and Useful Idiots. Maté will assess U.S. policy in Ukraine/Russia and the Middle East, in the context of the 2024 elections.
International Scene Series Co-Directors:
Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, History
Professor Linda Longmire, Global Studies and Geography
Professor Martin Melkonian, Economics Hofstra University
Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement’s Institute for Peace Studies, Hofstra Cultural Center and Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Wednesday, October 30, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
White House and Working America:
What the 2024 Election Means for Our Jobs & Democracy
Working people, labor unions and other labor organizations have an enormous stake in the 2024 Presidential and Congressional elections. This event will feature labor and academic experts and activists discussing the key issues.
Featured Speakers:
Onika Shepherd-Bernabe, Political Director, 1199 SEIU
Ray Zaccaro, Advisor to President, AFL-CIO
Michael Zweig, Economics Professor (Emeritus), Stony Brook University
Presented by Hofstra Labor Studies Program & Center for Labor & Democracy
Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center, Center for Civic Engagement and the Kalikow Public Policy and Public Service Program.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
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