CULTURAL CENTER

ABOUT THE CENTER

The Hofstra Cultural Center (HCC) is an internationally renowned organization that includes a conference and symposium component, performance arts, and the publication of the proceedings of its conferences and symposia. The goal of the HCC is to augment the offerings of the academic departments of the University by developing educational programs related to the cultural and interdisciplinary experience of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and scholars.

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CENTER ADMINISTRATION

Athelene A. Collins
Executive Director
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Carol D. Mallison
Manager of Conferences and Events
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Jeannine Rinaldi
Senior Assistant to the Director
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Advisory Board

The HCC has engaged an Advisory Board who is responsible for advising and ensuring that the HCC continues to excel as a thriving center of the arts.

The Advisory Board is comprised of faculty, students, alumni, and administrators. Each Advisory Board member brings something unique to the Center and will advocate and network to expand HCC’s outreach in the community and meet its core values. In addition, the Board will review conference and speaker proposals, grant applications, and make suggestions for themes and University-wide programs.

Name	Department/School	Title
Judith Black	Maurice A. Deane School of Law	Senior Director, Event Management & Facilities
Meena Bose	Political Science	Professor, Kalikow Chair
Athelene Collins	Hofstra Cultural Center	Executive Director
Carolyn Eisenberg	History and Center for Civic Engagement	Professor
Anita Ellis	Commuter Student Affairs	Assistant Dean of Students
Warren G. Frisina	Honors College	Professor, Honors College Dean
Tammy Hensrud	Music	Adjunct Professor
Kari Jensen	Global Studies & Geography	Associate Professor
Ethna D. Lay	Writing Studies and Rhetoric	Associate Professor
Carol Mallison	Hofstra Cultural Center	Manager of Conferences and Events
Kelly McMasters	English	Assistant Professor
Mario Murillo	The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication	Vice Dean, LHSC
Elisabeth Ploran	Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Science	Associate Dean, HCLAS Student Success
Stan Pugliese	History	Professor
Benita Sampedro	Romance Languages & Literatures	Professor
Katrina Sims	History	Associate Professor
Santiago Slabodsky	Religion and Center for Civic Engagement	Professor

The Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholars

This award was established in 1985 in recognition of the outstanding role of the late founder of the Hofstra Cultural Center, Dr. Joseph G. Astman. Dr. Astman was a humanist, a cultural comparatist and an international scholar who had the vision to establish the Hofstra Cultural Center as a forum for international scholarly thought.

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CURIOUS ABOUT CULTURAL PROGRAMS?

The dedicated Cultural Center staff is ready to help you engage with diverse artistic and intellectual opportunities that spark new perspectives.

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About the Hofstra Cultural Center

The Hofstra Cultural Center (HCC) is an internationally renowned organization that includes a conference and symposium component, performance arts, and the publication of the proceedings of its conferences and symposia. The goal of the HCC is to augment the offerings of the academic departments of the University by developing educational programs related to the cultural and interdisciplinary experience of students, faculty, staff, alumni and scholars.

The HCC plans and coordinates conferences and symposia in the fields of the humanities, business, law and the sciences to promote the University as an international arena of scholarly thought and to foster Long Island as a cultural entity. It has sponsored more than 130 conferences/symposia and has won international recognition for its Women Writers’ Conferences and for its Presidential Conference Series, which started in 1982 with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Centennial Conference and continued thereafter. Conferences/symposia have also been held on popular culture personalities such as Babe Ruth, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, James Bond and the New York Mets, to name a few, in addition to conferences on George Sand, John Steinbeck, Don Quixote, Primo Levi, Jean Cocteau, Margaret Thatcher, Oscar Wilde and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In addition to the conference and symposium component, the Hofstra Cultural Center is dedicated to making Hofstra University a thriving center of the arts (music, theater, dance performances, lectures), by introducing the Joseph G. Astman Cultural Events – which offer opportunities for us to explore who we are as a diverse culture – and by producing cultural events and promoting the arts through grants, services, advocacy, and educational development programs.

Our core values state:

The HCC is dedicated to making itself a thriving center of arts activity with relevance to the Hofstra community, visitors and the larger arts community.
The HCC believes the arts play an important role in the educational development of our students and that it is not limited to the formal classroom.
The HCC serves the Hofstra faculty and student body through its grants and services, advocacy, and cultural programming.

Technical and Logistic Assistance:

The HCC staff is available to provide logistical and technical support and guide groups through the process of putting on an event. This includes working with the offices of Event Management, Creative Services, Public Relations, Compass, Public Safety, Finance and Legal, as well as event registration and outside vendors for hotels and transportation services to ensure that your event is successful.