CULTURAL CENTER
PAST CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA
| Conference | Date Held |
|---|---|
| Symposium: Cesar Vallejo’s Trilce: One Hundred Years Later, 1922-2022 | April 14, 2022 |
| Conference: One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 @ 50 | April 2-3, 2019 |
| Symposium: Critical Sport Communities: New Directions in Sports Scholarship, Journalism, and Activism | March 8, 2019 |
| Conference: Artistic Expression and the Great War: A Hundred Years On | November 7-9, 2018 |
| Symposium: On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Hofstra University and the University of Amsterdam Exchange Program: New Netherland, New Amsterdam: A Celebration of Dutch Heritage and Transatlantic Exchange | October 24, 2018 |
| Symposium: Long Island Hurricanes on the 80th Anniversary of the 1938 Storm: Past, Present, and Future | October 3, 2018 |
| Conference: Shoot 4 Change New York: Shoot Local, Change Global | April 10, 2018 |
| Symposium: Culture and Identity Configurations: Reflections on the 21st Century | October 26-27, 2017 |
| Conference: National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing 2017: Reaching Out: Revising Writing Center Spaces and Identities | October 12-14, 2017 |
| Conference: 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities | June 1-4, 2017 |
| Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today | April 6-7, 2017 |
| Fall 2016 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference | October 21-22, 2016 |
| Can We Teach Creativity? Creativity Studies in 2016 | April 20, 2016 |
| Conference: Hofstra Celebrates Sinatra: A Centenary Tribute 1915-2015 | November 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 22, 2015 |
| 12th Presidential Conference: George Walker Bush 43rd President of the United States | March 24-26, 2015 |
| Asia Transforming: Old Values and New Presences | September 18-20, 2014 |
| Soccer As The Beautiful Game: Football’s Artistry, Identity and Politics | April 10-12, 2014 |
| Foucault 2014: Beyond Sexuality Sixth Annual LGBT Studies Symposium | March 27-28, 2014 |
| Digital Thinking / Critical Thinking: Building The Humanities At Hofstra | October 24-25, 2013 |
| Conference: From the Outside In: Sustainable Futures for Global Cities and SuburbsVideo: Hofstra Conference Studies – Sustainability in Cities and Suburbs | March 7-9, 2013 |
| Conference: E Pluribus: What is Italian American? | November 29-December 1, 2012 |
| Conference: The 50th Anniversary of the New York Mets | April 26-28, 2012 |
| Symposium: The Ethical Use of Internet Cloud-Based Apps and Social Media (ICASM) in Healthcare | April 24, 2012 |
| Symposium: Queer Rhetoric | March 16-18, 2012 |
| Conference: Delirious Naples: For a Cultural, Intellectual, and Urban History of the City of the Sun | November 16-19, 2011 |
| Conference: Innovative Communication Within and Across Communities | October 15, 2011 |
| Conference: Into Sunlight: The Impact of War on the Social Body From the Vietnam Era to the Present | April 14-16, 2011 |
| Conference: 1935: The Reality and the Promise | April 7-9, 2011 |
| Conference: Communication, Technology and Democracy: Promises, Prophecies and Projections: 1935-2011 | March 23, 2011 |
| Conference: Social Responsibility in Business in the 21st Century | December 1, 2010 |
| Symposium: 75 Years: the Transformation of Public Schools | November 12, 2010 |
| Conference: Public Health Challenges and Achievements: 1935-2010 | November 4-5, 2010 |
| Symposium: KAPOW! From Pulp Fiction to Google Books | October 22, 2010 |
| Symposium: U.S. Presidential Leadership at the United Nations: Evaluating the Past 65 Years and Looking Ahead to 21st-Century Governance | October 21, 2010 |
| Symposium: The Future of the Liberal Arts in the 21st Century | 2010 |
| Conference: For a Dangerous Pedagogy: A Manifesto for Italian and Italian American Studies | April 14-17, 2010 |
| Conference: Child’s Play, Children’s Pleasures: Interdisciplinary Exploration | March 19-20, 2010 |
| Conference: New Directions in American Health Care: Innovations From Home and Abroad | March 11-12, 2010 |
| Conference: Borges and Us: Then and Always | November 13-14, 2009 |
| Workshop: Medieval Iberia | November 6, 2009 |
| The Peter S. Kalikow Presidential Studies Symposium: President or King? Evaluating the Expansion of Executive Power from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush | November 4-5, 2009 |
| Celebration of Suburban Diversity 2009 | October 22, 2009 |
| The Diverse Suburb: History, Politics, and Prospects | October 22-24, 2009 |
| Identity, Civilization and Consciousness | October 15-17, 2009 |
| Perle Fine and Early Leaders of Abstract Expressionism | April 24-25, 2009 |
| Between Three Continents: Rethinking Equatorial Guinea | April 2-4, 2009 |
| Media and Social Change: Using Entertainment – Education to Improve the Outcomes of Health and Social Issues of Women and Children | March 26, 2009 |
| Darwin’s Reach Celebrating Darwin’s Legacy Across the Disciplines | March 12-14, 2009 |
| The Greatest: From Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali | November 13-14, 2008 |
| Queer Iconography: Third Annual LGBT Symposium | November 7-8, 2008 |
| I Am Going To Speak About Hope: International Poetry Symposium Celebrating the Work of Cesar Vallejo | October 30-31, 2008 |
| “Who Owns Writing?” Revisited | October 16-18, 2008 |
| At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Language Literatures | April 10-12, 2008 |
| College Student Mental Health: Psychological, Institutional and Legal Issues | December 6-7, 2007 |
| Bond, James Bond: The World of 007 | November 6-8, 2007 |
| The Politics of Religion-Making | October 4-6, 2007 |
| Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism After the Fall | April 26-27, 2007 |
| Defining Culture Through Dress Individual and Collective Identities | April 19-21, 2007 |
| Building a Scientifically Literate Population and Workforce for the 21st Century | March 15-16, 2007 |
| Rubén Darío: 90 Years Later | October 27-28, 2006 |
| Biomedical Research and the Law: Selected Issues – The Pharmaceutical Industry and Its Relationship With Government, Academia, Physicians and Consumers | October 4-6, 2006 |
| Managing Risk in Financial Institutions: From Theory to Practice | April 27-29, 2006 |
| Asian Merchant Cultures at the Crossroads | March 9-11, 2005 |
| William Jefferson Clinton: The “New Democrat” From Hope | November 10-12, 2005 |
| Youth Employment in the Global Economy | September 15-16, 2005 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald on Long Island and New York | April 14-16, 2005 |
| New Visions of Suburban Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | March 18-20, 2005 |
| Don Quixote: The First 400 Years | November 4-6, 2004 |
| The Africa Network | November 2004 |
| Applied Organizational Psychology | March 19 -20, 2004 |
| St. Petersburg: 300th Anniversary – The City as a Cradle of Modern Russia | November 7-8, 2003 |
| Mario Vargas Llosa Symposium | October 10, 2003 |
| A Pen of Light: The Films of Jean Cocteau | October 1-4, 2003 |
| Judging Judges’ Ethics | September 14-16, 2003 |
| The Broadway Musical: 1920-2020 | March 27-29, 2003 |
| Bing! Crosby and American Culture | November 14-16, 2002 |
| “If This Is a Man” The Life and Legacy of Primo Levi | October 23-24, 2002 |
| Celebrating Adventure: Charles A. Lindbergh, His Life and Legacy | May 18, 2002 |
| Spanish & Spanish-American Poetry: Transition 2000 and Beyond | April 25, 2002 |
| I Hear a Rhapsody: The Classical Music of George Gershwin | April 6, 2002 |
| John Steinbeck’s Americas | March 21-23, 2002 |
| Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong: A Celebration of Jazz | November 2001 |
| 2001: A Peace Odyssey: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Novel Peace Prize | November 2001 |
| Moby-Dick 2001 | October 2001 |
| The Child’s Right to Play: A Global Approach | May 2001 |
| Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for a New Paradigm | March 2001 |
| Contemporary Opera at the Millennium | November 2000 |
| A Robert Anderson Retrospective: Theater and Film | October 2000 |
| The Leadership Difference: Rating the Presidents | October 2000 |
| Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings and His World | April 2000 |
| The Thatcher Years: The Rebirth of Liberty | March 2000 |
| Millennial Shakespeare: Performance/Text/Scholarship | November 1999 |
| The Vision of Eleanor Roosevelt: World Citizen Ahead of Her Time | September 1999 |
| The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy | April 1999 |
| Nassau County Centennial: From Rural Hinterland to Suburban Metropolis | March 1999 |
| Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend | November 1998 |
| Financial Services in the Evolving Global Marketplace: The Next Millennium | October 1998 |
| The Native American Experience: Long Island, New York and Beyond | April 1998 |
| The Hispanic Connection: Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World | October 1997 |
| The World of Pope Innocent III | May 1997 |
| George Bush: The 41st President of the United States | April 1997 |
| History, Society and Politics: George Sand From the First Empire to the Third Republic | November 1996 |
| Irish Literatures: Old and New Worlds | July 1996 |
| Inscription as Art in the World of Islam | April 1996 |
| Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators | March 1996 |
| Eleventh International Conference on General Semantics | November 1995 |
| Africa 2000 | October 1995 |
| Baseball and the “Sultan of Swat”: Commemorating the 100th Birthday of Babe Ruth | April 1995 |
| United Nations at Fifty | March 1995 |
| Art, Glitter and Glitz: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity | November 1994 |
| Women in Theatre: On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) | October 1994 |
| First-Person Singular: Autobiography | March 1994 |
| Edvard Grieg: Exploration of Scandinavian Cultures | November 1993 |
| Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries | October 1993 |
| Ronald Reagan: Ninth Presidential Conference | April 1993 |
| Contested Terrain: Power, Politics and Participation in Suburbia | March 1993 |
| The Next Long Island Hurricane!! Are We Ready for the “Big One?” | November 1992 |
| The Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender | October 1992 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | September 1992 |
| Games Children Play | April 1992 |
| The Allocation of Power Between Central and Local Governments: The American and Soviet Perspectives | April 1992 |
| New Directions in Worker/Management Relations: U.S./U.S.S.R. | March 1992 |
| The United States and Japan in World War II | December 1991 |
| Money: Lure, Lore and Liquidity | November 1991 |
| Detective Fiction and Film in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Agatha Christie | October 1991 |
| Opera in the “Golden West” | April 1991 |
| Innovative Financial Instruments and Developments in Financial Services | March 1991 |
| Mozart: 200 Years of Research and Analysis | February 1991 |
| Jimmy Carter: Keeping Faith | November 1990 |
| Bamboo and Oak: The Impact of East Asia on American Society and Culture | October 1990 |
| The Environment: Global Problems – Local Solutions | June 1990 |
| Vincent Van Gogh | May 1990 |
| Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America | April 1990 |
| The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact | October 1989 |
| East Coast Regional Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists | June 1989 |
| Gerald R. Ford: Restoring the Presidency | April 1989 |
| Minorities in Higher Education | March 1989 |
| Chocolate: Food of the Gods | March 1989 |
| Byron and His Contemporaries | December 1988 |
| Business Finance in Less-Developed Capital Markets | September 1988 |
| Long Island Studies Conference: Robert Moses | June 1988 |
| The Legacy of John von Neumann | June 1988 |
| Language and Violence | April 1988 |
| Group Defamation and Freedom of Speech: The Relationship Between Language and Violence | April 1988 |
| Multinational Culture: Social Impacts of a Global Economy | March 1988 |
| Dream and Reality: The Modern Black Struggle For Freedom and Equality | February 1988 |
| Richard Nixon: A Retrospective on His Presidency | November 1987 |
| American Immigration and Ethnicity | October 1987 |
| Shellfishing and Coastal Resource Management: A Global Perspective | August 1987 |
| Suburbia Re-examined | June 1987 |
| The Bicentennial of the United States: A Celebration | April 1987 |
| C.G. Jung and the Humanities | November 1986 |
| Miguel de Unamuno/Ramon Valle-Inclan/ Federico Garcia-Lorca | November 1986 |
| The World of George Sand | October 1986 |
| Attitudes Towards Persons With Disabilities | June 1986 |
| Long Island Studies | May 1986 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson: A Texan in Washington | April 1986 |
| Evolution of Business Education | March 1986 |
| Artificial Intelligence | February 1986 |
| Television 1985-1986: Issues for the Industry and the Audience | November 1985 |
| Avant-Garde Art and Literature | November 1985 |
| Sixteen Years of the Burger Court, 1969-1985 | November 1985 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | October 1985 |
| Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts | October 1985 |
| New York State History Conference | October 1985 |
| Heritage: A Reappraisal of the Harlem Renaissance | May 1985 |
| Higher Education: Today and Tomorrow | April 1985 |
| John F. Kennedy: The Promise Revisited | March 1985 |
| Friedrich von Schiller | November 1984 |
| George Orwell | October 1984 |
| Symposium on Eighteenth-Century Venice | April 1984 |
| Victorian Studies | April 1984 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier, President, Statesman | March 1984 |
| Espectador Universal: Jose Ortega y Gasset | November 1983 |
| Romanticism in the Old and New World: Washington Irving, Stendahl and Zhukovskii | October 1983 |
| John Maynard Keynes | September 1983 |
| Harry S. Truman: The Man From Independence | April 1983 |
| Twentieth-Century Women Writers | November 1982 |
| James Joyce | October 1982 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | October 1982 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Man, The Myth, The Era | March 1982 |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | November 1981 |
| Feodor Dostoevski | April 1981 |
| Nineteenth-Century Women Writers | November 1980 |
| Walt Whitman | April 1980 |
| Sean O’Casey | March 1980 |
| Renaissance Venice Symposium | March 1980 |
| Albert Einstein Centennial | November 1979 |
| The Trotsky-Stalin Conflict in the 1920s | March 1979 |
| William Cullen Bryant and His America | October 1978 |
| George Sand: Her Life, Her Works, Her Influence | April 1978 |
| The Chinese Woman | December 1977 |
| Heinrich von Kleist Bicentennial | November 1977 |
| George Sand | November 1976 |
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