Cultural Center

Featured Events

Spring 2024

Advance registration is required.
For more information and to RSVP, visit events.hofstra.edu, email hofculctr@hofstra.edu or call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669.

Isabel Wilkerson

Signature Speakers

Hear from Dr. Kathleen CreelAmanda SealesLinda VillarosaCorey Walker and more.

Kevin Vallier

Donald J. Sutherland Lecture

The annual lecture brings to the Hofstra’s campus an outstanding speaker in one of the fields of the liberal arts and sciences or an outstanding artist in one of the fine or performing arts. The goal will be to invite individuals with a diversity of perspectives whose presence on campus and whose participation in a lecture or performance will significantly enrich both our students and our faculty.

Science Night Live

Science Night Live

From Darwin Day to Earth Day, the SNL series features exciting science research presented by some of the top scientists and lecturers in their fields.

Italian-American Experience

Italian American Experience

A series of lectures centered on elements key to the lives of Italian and American heritage.

Issues in Judaism

Issues in Judaism

This lecture series focuses on issues of interest related to Jewish heritage, culture, history, and more.

African Ensemble

Joseph G. Astman Cultural Events

The Joseph G. Astman Cultural Events are presented in loving memory of Dr. Joseph G. Astman, founder of the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Past Events

Wednesday, February 8, 6-8 p.m.

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST
presents

THE NOBEL PRIZES EXPLAINED

Join us as we discuss the Nobel Prize and prize winners from the past year, highlighting the scholarly excellence of Hofstra’s faculty and the societal impact of the 2022 Nobel Laureates.

Literature Sabine Loucif, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Economics Constantine Alexandrakis, Associate Professor of Economics, Chair
Peace Linda A. Longmire, Professor of Global Studies and Geography
Medicine or Physiology Robert V. Hill, Associate Professor of Science Education
Chemistry Yalan Xing, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Physics Gregory C. Levine, Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Light refreshments to be served.

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Hofstra University Office of the President
and the
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education
in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center
present

The Real World of College:
What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be

with Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023
4:30 p.m.
The Helene Fortunoff Theater
Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

SUMMER OF SOUL
Film Screening and Discussion
In commemoration of Black History Month

Summer of Soul premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. It has since been named “Best Documentary” at the 2022 Academy Awards.

This powerful and transporting documentary — part music film, part historical record — was created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten — until now. Summer of Soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The film includes concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, Mavis Staples, The 5th Dimension, and more.

The screening will be followed by a discussion facilitated by

Rodney F. Hill, Chair and Associate Professor of Radio, Television, and Film and Executive Producer, Marie Therese Guirgis.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Presented by Hofstra Cultural Center, the Department of Radio, Television and Film and The Lawrence Herbert School Of Communication.

 

Civil Rights Day
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Presented annually by the Center for Civic Engagement, Civil Rights Day is an all-day event that examines some of the major civil rights issues of today that continue to challenge activists and policymakers, with a particular focus on contemporary movements working around an array of civil rights issues in the hopes of getting students involved in local campaigns.

9:40-11:05 a.m.
Global Justice Day: All Labor is Essential: Migrant Labor and Wage Theft on Long Island

Bias, language barriers, and distrust of law enforcement in an anti-immigrant political environment has created an ideal situation for the abuse of immigrant labor, throughout the country and on Long Island. Day laborers are sounding the alarm about the multiple crises confronting undocumented and excluded workers, including the real threats from ICE and employers that silence workers. The looming threat of deportation results in rampant abuse against workers, including restaurant workers, domestic workers, street vendors, factory and delivery workers, and many more. This panel discusses the problem broadly, while considering a specific instance of wage theft uncovered by Hofstra’s online news site The Long Island Advocate and experienced by Long Island-based workers, one of whom will share some of his story on the panel.

Global Justice Day is presented by the Center for Civic Engagement

Organizer: Mario Murillo, Vice Dean Lawrence Herbert School of Communication

Panelists:
Mario Murillo, Vice Dean Lawrence Herbert School of Communication
Miguel Alas, Lead Organizer of The Workplace Project – Centro de Trabajadores
Saul Asencio, restaurant worker, wage theft survivor.
Nadia Marin Molina, Co-Executive Director, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)

Moderator: Karla Alas Rivera, Long Island Immigrant Community Navigator, Central American Refugee Center, CARECEN”

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1-2:25 p.m.
The Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice Colloquia Series Presents: Meeting the Challenge of Reparative Scholarship

Tasseli McKay is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. For 10 years, she worked on the Multi-Site Family Study of Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering, a mixed-method longitudinal study of 2,000 families affected by incarceration. Her most recent book, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022), contends that the steep direct costs of mass-scale imprisonment are far overshadowed by its hidden costs and harms, many of which have been kept out of sight by women’s labor. Her current research focuses on the complicated relationship between the most common forms of violence—those that occur within families—and the government forces that we deploy in the name of public safety.

 

The vast edifice of racial atrocity, by its very nature, stretches our capacity for comprehending harm. We can be sure it will also stretch our capacity for repair. What is the role of scholars and social scientists in grappling with racial harm and envisioning possibilities for repair? This interdisciplinary workshop will consider the impetus for reparative scholarship, what it is and does, and how we might build the reparative methods that this moment demands. Students and researchers at any level are welcome to bring current and future project ideas for an interactive conversation on how we might mobilize and transform the methodologies we have to challenge the status quo of racial harm and contribute to its undoing.

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center, the Criminology Program, Department of Sociology, and The Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice.

Room 203 Roosevelt Hall, South Campus

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2:40-4:05 p.m.
The Time is (Never) Right for Reparations

The time for reparations, it seems, will never be right. But what if the time is now? Bringing together concepts of time and haunting from sociology, anthropology, and literature with a new and painstaking economic accounting of the damages of mass incarceration in Black communities, I propose reparations as an essential strategy for grappling with the simultaneity of past and present. Based on the massive, definite, and readily quantifiable burdens that mass captivity has imposed on contemporary Black Americans—often quietly shunted to mothers and partners of targeted men and kept from view by their invisible labor—I argue for a multitrillion-dollar federal reparations package.

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center, and the The Criminology Program, Department of Sociology.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus


4:30 p.m.
Banned Books: To Read or Not to Read

In commemoration of Black History Month and Civil Rights Day

Join in a panel discussion on whether to read or not to read. The panel will not only focus on how banning books is detrimental to students’ learning and identities, but is also a breach of the first amendment and one's overall concern for social justice.

Panelists include:
Theresa A. McGinnis, PhD, Professor, Literacy Studies; Director, MSED, MA & AC Programs in Literacy Studies, Hofstra University

Oddette Williams, PhD Candidate in Literacy Studies at Hofstra University; Director of Curriculum, Academy Charter School, Hempstead, NY

Susan Gottehrer, Executive Director of the NYCLU-Nassau Chapter

Jackson Gomes, YA Internship Coordinator, Brooklyn Public Library

Moderated by Alan Singer, PhD, Director, Secondary Education Social Studies, Teaching Learning Technology, Hofstra University

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of Specialized Programs in Education

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

 

6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Long Island Divided
A Newsday Investigation

Join us for a discussion and update regarding Newsday’s investigation on housing discrimination on Long Island. Our discussion will focus on the three-year investigation that uncovered widespread evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents on Long Island. We’ll address the impacts on communities and discuss what’s been done since.

Panelists include: Olivia Winslow, Newsday Reporter
Keith Herbert, Newsday Assistant Managing Editor for Investigations
Martine Hackett, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Professions, Hofstra University

Moderated by Dr. Christopher W. Niedt, Associate Professor of Applied Social Research, Department of Sociology, and
Academic Director of The National Center for Suburban Studies
at Hofstra University

Presented by the Center For Civic Engagement and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

The Helene Fortunoff Theater
Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus

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Thursday, February 23, 6:30 p.m.

When We All Stand: Artists’ Civic Responsibility

A  panel discussion examines the collective power of the arts to address complex issues in society, its ability to chart a path for social change, the role of the artist as activist and their impact on local communities and nationwide. The artists included in the panel are Molly Crabapple, For Freedoms, Miguel LucianoMichele Pred, and Sophia Victor. Each take a stand and call out injustices through their art and activism on issues such as immigration, gender, reproductive rights, mass incarceration, voting rights, racial bias, and gun violence. Using James Baldwin’s essay, The Creative Process as a talking point, artists will explain how their art and activism help “make the world a more human dwelling place.”

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Hofstra University Museum.

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Thursday, February 23, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME
Film Screening and Discussion
In commemoration of Black History Month

Facilitator: Dr. Linda A. Longmire, Professor of Global Studies and Geography

Slavery by Another Name "resets" our national clock with a singular astonishing fact: Slavery in America didn't end 150 years ago with Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, persisting until the onset of World War II.

• From the book jacket:
Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Slavery by Another Name unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude. It also reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the system's final demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II.

Slavery by Another Name is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Presented by Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department Of Global Studies and Geography.

 

Iran’s Protesting Women

In commemoration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.

Wednesday, March 8, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

In September 2022, the death in police custody of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young woman from Iranian Kurdistan who had been detained for inappropriate hejab, generated a tsunami of protests across Iran. Led by women and girls who publicly cut their hair in mourning and burned their headscarves in anger, the protests were joined by men of all ages and ethnicities. It is worth examining the structural and institutional frameworks in Iran, and in the world-system, that led to the women-led protests in September 2022 and into the new year.

Presenter: Valentine M. Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Affairs Program, Northeastern University, Boston. Former Director, Women’s Studies Programs, Purdue University and Illinois State University, Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development, UNU/WIDER, Helsinki (1990-95) and Section Chief, Gender Equality and Development, Human and Social Sciences Sector, UNESCO.

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Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

 

Documentary Film Screening and Discussion:
Iranian Women in Film
Moderated by Persheng Vaziri

The series looks at the struggles that women of different ages and professions face in Iran through the eyes of Iranian women filmmakers. One film’s subject is high school students, another follows the filmmakers themselves and, finally, an inspiring Afghani refugee in Iran who wants to be a singer. Virtual interviews with the filmmakers will follow each screening.

Wednesday, March 8, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Dream of Silk

A film screening and discussion of Dream of Silk. Twenty years later the director of the film, Nahid Rezaei, returns to her old high school. In her conversations with the young girls of the post revolution, she asks them to discuss their desires and ideals for their future. The dialogues not only reveal their personal feelings and desires, but are also a commentary to the social and political life in today’s Iranian society. 

 

Thursday, March 9, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Sonita

Sonita is an 18-year-old female, and an undocumented Afghan immigrant living in the poor suburbs of Tehran. She is a feisty, spirited, young woman who fights to live the way she wants – as an artist, singer, and musician, in spite of all the obstacles she confronts in Iran and her conservative patriarchal family. In harsh contrast to her goal is the plan of her family – strongly advanced by her mother – to make her a bride and sell her to a new family. The price right now is about $9 thousand U.S. dollars.

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Wednesday, March 15, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Profession Documentarist

“We Iranian documentary directors have movies that can only be made in our minds. Sometimes, we tell them to each other.” This is a statement narrated by one of the filmmakers. The intimate ensemble and reflexive film is comprised of seven personal stories that had to be left untold following the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In diary style, the women raise issues that deeply impact everyday life, but are nonetheless “prohibited” in the country. The contributors also reflect on their clandestine existence during a repressive time and the importance of film as a medium of expression.

 

Location for all events:
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Presented in commemoration of Center for Civic Engagement’s Global Justice Day.


Friday, March 10, 2023, 12:30-5:30 p.m.

Hofstra Cultural Center and the
Department of Philosophy Present:

A Symposium on Amy Karofsky, A Case for Necessitarianism

This symposium brings an international group of philosophers to Hofstra to discuss Professor Amy Karofsky's recent book A Case for Necessitarianism (2021). The book defends necessitarianism, the view that absolutely nothing about the world could have been otherwise in any way, whatsoever. Most philosophers believe that necessitarianism is open to question and presume that some things could have been otherwise than what they are. Professor Karofsky argues that necessitarianism is true and the view that some things in the world are contingent is false. Join us for an afternoon of discussion and thought-provoking responses to Professor Karofsky’s arguments as we celebrate the work of one of our colleagues.

Speakers:
Simone Gozzano, Università Degli Studi Dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Stephen Maitzen, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Antonella Mallozzi, Providence College, Rhode Island, United States.

Location for all Conference sessions is Room CV Starr 205.

 

Wednesday, March 15, 6-7:25 p.m.

Global Justice Day: The Discourse of the Veil: Beyond the Myths and Misunderstandings
In commemoration of World Hijab Day and Women’s History Month

We will discuss the meaning of hijab through personal and professional anecdotes and tackle widespread misconceptions/stereotypes surrounding Muslim women.
Organizer: Asma Azma
Moderator: Rowaida Abdelaziz

This event is part of Global Justice Day, presented by the Center for Civic Engagement.

Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center, Rabinowitz Honors College, Center for Civic Engagement, Center for “Race”, Culture and Social Justice, and the Department of Religion.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, South Campus

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Spring 2023 International Scene Lecture Series

Wednesday, March 15, 11:20 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.

How Might the War in Ukraine End?: Dangers and Opportunities

The Center for Civic Engagement's Institute for Peace Studies and LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives present a Spring 2023 International Scene Lecture Series event. Professors Eisenberg and Fritz will discuss the state of the war in Ukraine, the role of U.S. policy and possible ways the war might end.

Discussants:
Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, Department of History, Hofstra University
Professor Paul Fritz, Department of Political Science, Hofstra University

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Thursday, March 16, 1:00-2:25 p.m.

Spring 2023 International Scene Lecture Series: Israel/Palestine Conflict: What is the U.S. Role?

Phillis Bennis, Director, New Internationalism Project, Institute for Policy Studies. Her area of focus is on the Middle East, U.S. wars, and United Nations issues.

Commentator:
Professor Stephanie Nanes, Department of Political Science, Hofstra University

International Scene Series Co-Directors:
Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, Department of History,
Professor Linda Longmire, Global Studies Program,
Professor Martin Melkonian, Department of Economics,
Hofstra University

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Presented in commemoration of Center for Civic Engagement’s Global Justice Day.

 

Thursday, March 30, 1-2:25 p.m.

Book Launch and Conversation
A History of Silence by Cynthia J. Bogard
in Commemoration of Women's History Month

Four women, unknowingly bound together by one man's violent past.
A lost love, a secret life, a mother's longing ... and a murder.

Johnny Wharton is a history professor and descendant of a Texas "planter family" — a legacy that's followed him all the way to 1985. Tough-girl Jenny (Johnny's daughter) runs away to Madison, blotting out her past with distance, drugs, and sex. Her loner lifestyle is upended by her new roommate's scary insistence on friendship. Emotionally damaged Jane (Johnny's new graduate student) gives Johnny's offer of an affair a try, thinking she might manage if it's furtive and part-time. Maddie (his lesbian colleague) is grief-stricken; her longtime Black lady love Roz left her — inexplicably. Conservatively raised Liz (Johnny's wife) is desperate to reconnect with her estranged daughter. She's beginning to realize that Johnny's past has left unspeakable scars on her family's present.

As the lives of these four women intertwine in unexpected ways, each learns the past can't be conquered until it's confronted, and its secrets revealed — and shared.

About the Author:
Cynthia J. Bogard has reinvented herself as a novelist after a successful career as a professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Hofstra University in New York. Born and raised in rural Wisconsin, she has lived in Kuwait, Greece, Mexico, New York, and in Madison, Wisconsin, and Texas. World traveler, longtime feminist, and environmentalist, she holds Greece, mid-20th century jazz, and Mother Nature close to her heart. These days, Bogard lives with her spouse and two rescue dogs in Montpelier, Vermont. 

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Author's book will be available for purchased and book signing.

Presented by the Women's Studies Program, Department of Sociology and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

 

Tuesday, April 4, 3:30-5 p.m.

The Vietnam War: as a Generational Crisis
Book Launch and Conversation with Carolyn Eisenberg

While physically destroying large sections of North and South Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia, the Vietnam War was also a domestic crisis in the United States -rupturing relations between the generations, and affecting attitudes towards education, work and personal relationships. In this informal talk and conversation, Professor Eisenberg will discuss the generational rift and some long-term consequences.

Carolyn Eisenberg, professor of History, Hofstra University is the author of Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the wars in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press).

Sponsored by the Hofstra University Department Of History.

Hofstra Hall Parlor, South Campus

 

Wednesday, April 12, 11:20 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Earth Day: Nipi (Water): Advancements in Earth Law for Rights of Water

An emerging area of law known as Earth Law is growing rapidly around the world to protect the rights of Water – rivers, lakes, wetlands, Ocean and more. This talk explores these new advancements and also situates them within the larger movement for Climate and Water Justice being led by Indigenous Peoples.

Organizer: Philip Dalton, Director of Center for Civic Engagement

Speaker: Kelsey Leonard, PhD
School of Environment, Resources,
and Sustainability in the Faculty of Environment University of Waterloo, Canada

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement.

In collaboration with the National Center for Suburban Studies; Office of the Provost; Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Herbert School of Communication; Rabinowitz Honors College; Office of Equity and Inclusion; Center for”Race,” Culture and Social Justice; Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric; Department of Sociology and the Office of Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion.

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Wednesday, September 28, 4:30 p.m.

The Annual Critical Spiritualities Lecture
with
MARY ZIEGLER
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law
University of California, Davis

Canary In The Coalmine: What It Means To Lose A Constitutional Right

The reversal of Roe v. Wade was decades in the making, but the fight to undo abortion rights changed more than the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution. Mary Ziegler will discuss the ways that the battle to end the right to choose changed the way our democracy works and consider what comes next in struggles over reproduction in America.

Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of Religion.

Presented in collaboration with the Hofstra School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Health Professions and Human Services, Rabinowitz Honors College, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Peter S. Kalikow Public Policy and Public Service Program, Program in Jewish Studies, Program in LGBT Studies, Program in Women’s Studies, and the Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Scholar Fund for the Hofstra Cultural Center.

The Helene Fortunoff Theater
Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus

 

FALL PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM

Tuesday, September 20-Thursday, September 22, 2022

The second annual Presidential Symposium, Solutions for a Sustainable Tomorrow will take place this fall during the third week of classes . Over the symposium's three days, faculty and invited guests from all academic areas and disciplines at Hofstra University will explore the University's role in promoting sustainability both on and off campus. Panel discussions over three days will consider ways to make the Hofstra campus more sustainable, how Hofstra and Long Island can address and adapt to climate change, the role of government regulation in promoting sustainability, how Hofstra can support efforts to meet local housing, community health and mental health needs, and how education can better prepare people for the challenges of the climate crisis in classrooms on campus and in public schools, and through local media.

Before, during, and after the three days of panel discussions, we will also host local sustainability service projects, a hike to explore Long Island's ecology, a farmer's market, and a "taste of the neighborhood" dinner, all to encourage student and faculty participation in local projects and with local organizations.

For more information and to RSVP, visit hofstra.edu/ps22.

 

Monday, September 19, 11:20 a.m. -12:45 p.m.

Interrogating Hate: Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racisms in the European Union and at Home?

This event will kick-off a three-year grant to Hofstra University from the European Union that will examine the European Union's activities in the areas of anti-discrimination and hate crime policy. Areas of exploration will include gender, antisemitism, Islamophobia, LGBTQ rights, racism, and Roma exclusion. We will explore how these issues manifest themselves in Europe and in the U.S., what policy initiatives and abilities the European Union has in these areas and what lessons we may learn here in the U.S. Faculty members will share their expertise in these areas and future speakers will engage more deeply in these topics.

Speakers:
Sally Charnow, Professor and Chair of History
Carolyn Dudek, Professor and Chair of Political Science
Paul Fritz, Associate Professor of Political Science
Santiago Slabodsky, The Robert and Florence Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish and Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion Hofstra University

Advanced registration is required.

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Wednesday, October 12, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

The Challenge of Islamophobia in Europe

Farid Hafez, visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College, will examine how Islamophobia manifests itself in Europe, and how the European Union has addressed Muslim hate. This presentation is part of a three-year grant to Hofstra University from the European Union that will examine the European Union's activities in the areas of anti-discrimination and hate crime policy. Areas of exploration will include gender, antisemitism, Islamophobia, LGBTQ rights, racism, and Roma exclusion. We will explore how these issues manifest themselves in Europe and in the U.S., what policy initiatives and abilities the European Union has in these areas, and what lessons we may learn here in the U.S.

Speaker: Farid Hafez
Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College

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Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center, European Studies and the Erasmus + Jean Monnet Grant. Co-funded by the European Union.

 

Wednesday, September 28

STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT SUSAN POSER @ 1-1:45 p.m. (Common Hr.)
John Cranford Adams Playhouse

Advance registration is required. For more information and to RSVP, visit news.hofstra.edu/event/state-of-the-university-address-by-president-susan-poser/

PICNIC ON THE PLAYHOUSE QUAD @ 1-2:25 p.m. (Common Hr.)

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION @ 6:30 p.m.: YOUTH v GOV follows the story of American's youth taking on the world's most powerful government, filling a ground-breaking lawsuit against the U.S. government. They assert it has willful acted over six decades to create the climate crisis, thus endangering their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. The Juliana plaintiffs, represented by the legal nonprofit Our Children's Trust, presents the diversity of America's youth impacted by the climate crisis. Hailing from across the country, they encompass cultural, economic racial, and geographic diversity, with many from marginalized communities, and their stories are universal. Their diversity speaks not only to the impacts of climate change, but to the inclusion required if we are to build a better, more just future together. If these young people are successful, they will not only make history, they will change the future.

Facilitators:
E. Christa Farmer, Department of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability
Marrakech Cunliffe, Leaders in Environmental Activism and Fellowship (LEAF) Club

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor


Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Oro de indias: El arcano caudal del idioma quechua presented by Odi Gonzales

A dual presentation by Quechua scholar Odi Gonzales (New York University). Born in Cusco (Peru), Odi Gonzales is an award-winning poet, translator, researcher of Andean Oral Tradition, and professor in Peru and the United States. In 1992, he won the César Vallejo National Poetry Award, and the Poetry Prize from the National University of San Marcos (Lima). Gonzales is the author of seven poetry collections, several scholarly books, most recently Nación Anti. Ensayos de antropología lingüística andina (2022) and Quechua-Spanish-English Dictionary (2018). Since 2008, Gonzales teaches Quechua Language and Culture, and Andean Linguistic Anthropology at New York University.

Presenter: Odi Gonzales Award-winning Poet, Translator and Researcher of the Quechua and Andean Languages and Oral Tradition

2:40-4:05 – Oro de indias: El arcano caudal del idioma quechua El carácter oral de la lengua quechua ha preservado relevantes aspectos semántico-gramaticales que marcan gran diferencia con las lenguas escriturales como el español o el inglés. La lengua quechua fue configurada desde la perspectiva humana, no de la máquina; no es proclive a la retórica ni a los conceptos, prescinde de sinónimos; se caracteriza por locuciones precisas, únicas y con tendencia a las acciones concretas. 

4:20-5:45 – Language and Thought: The Binary Magnitude of the Quechua Language In the Andean thought, Andean cultural categories are not expressed through prepositions, premises, axioms, inferences, syllogisms, or conclusions (metalanguage) like in Western culture. Andean philosophy is rooted in the language itself (object-language, the language of every day) through concrete forms: the suffixes. In this presentation, I contend that empathy language-thought is the essence of the oral Quechua language.

Advanced registration is required.

 

October 26, 2022 @ 9:40 a.m.–7:25 p.m.
Day of Dialogue 2022: Our community. Our world. Our election.
Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement

In the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections, a lot is at stake. Midterm elections often see the party out of power in Congress reclaim seats. While the President's party has polled poorly, numbers have tightened in recent months following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that reversed a woman's federal right to an abortion recognized since the 1973 Roe w. Wade decision. Meanwhile, additional local and national issues are demanding our attention. Election denialism threatens faith in the integrity of U.S. elections. Russia's war against Ukraine threatens Europe's access to energy as winter months approach. Unions grow in popularity. Inflation and national action to abate it threaten the quality of life for millions, while pulling affordable housing further out of reach for many. Water resources are depleted in Western states as the northern hemisphere faces one of its warmest years in recorded history.

This program of discussions was developed by Hofstra undergraduates and faculty. Join us. Voice your opinions. Listen to others express theirs. Learn and get energized before the November 8th midterm elections!

Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement

Various locations on campus

Advance registration is required. For detailed information on the day's events and to RSVP, visit news.hofstra.edu/event/day-of-dialogue-2022/

 

Junk Science: A Conversation with Innocence Project Attorney M. Chris Fabricant

M. Chris Fabricant presents his book Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System (Akashic Books, 2022) – an insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo. As director of strategic litigation at the Innocence Project, Fabricant leads the Strategic Litigation Unit, whose attorneys use the courts to address the leading causes of wrongful conviction, including eyewitness misidentification and the misapplication of forensic sciences. He has over a decade of criminal defense experience at the state and federal, trial, and appellate levels with The Bronx Defenders and Appellate Advocates.

Advance registration is required

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November 2 and 3, 2022
ANTI-FASCISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Wednesday and Thursday

Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

Keynote Speakers:
Adolph Reed Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania 

Eric Gobetti
Independent Scholar, Turin, Italy

Advance registration is required. For more detailed information and to RSVP, visit hofstra.edu/cultural-center/anti-fascism-21st-century/

 

Monday, November 7, 9:40-11 a.m.
Examining the Intersections Between Migrant Precarity and Family Violence Among Women in Australia

This presentation draws on interviews with professional stakeholders and victim-survivors living in Victoria, Australia, and explores the specificity of domestic and family violence for women with insecure migration status. In doing so, it examines precarity in relation to migrant women's lives in Australia and focuses on the ways that their specific circumstances contribute to and are compounded by the experience of family violence. The presentation draws from a broader project that seeks to contribute to the growing body of intersectional feminist scholarship that examines how structural factors such as immigration or "migration status" affect the dynamics of migrant women's experiences of family violence and undermine their efforts to ensure their safety and survival.

"I came here, and it got worse day by day"
Dr. Stefani Vasil
Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Stefani Vasil is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Stefani completed her PhD at RMIT University in 2021. Her research focuses on the intersections between migration and family violence, including the complex ways the migration processes, policies, and practices affect women's lived experiences. She has a forthcoming publication on this research in the journal Violence Against Women. Stefani is interested in contributing to scholarship that takes an intersectional and transnational approach and advocates for migrant women's meaningful inclusion in responses to end gendered violence. 

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Criminology Program.

Advance registration is required.

For more information email Margaret.Abraham@hofstra.edu.

 

Wednesday, November 16, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Geography Awareness Week - International GIS Day
Beside and Slantwise: Trans-ing the Map with Jen Jack Gieseking

Infuriated by how much maps obscure and pointing to the power of everyday stories to reveal the realness and authenticity of everyday life, many scholars miss that the opposite may be true for some marginalized groups too. In my two decades of research into queer spaces, I've found that LGBTQ+ stories are often "cut up" in how this group is kept from their history and kept apart from another and, instead, it is maps of LGBTQ spaces and places that provide shared recognition and community denied to them otherwise. Poignantly, queer geographers pulled apart the intricacies and dilemmas--and, at times, feeling of impossibility!--of creating maps across differently able, racialized, classed, national, gendered, and sexual identities. Their insights reveal that as much can be gained as can be lost in the amalgamation of "queerness" on one map. Drawing on trans writers including Malatino, Awkward-Rich, and Snorton, what then can "trans-ing" the map offer critical GIS scholarship? How can the absent maps and partial records of trans spaces propel us to think "other"-wise in the way we produce, share, and read maps?

Speaker: Jen Jack Gieseking is the managing editor of ACME: International Journal of Critical Geography, the only fully open access journal in geography, as well as a board member of the Rainbow Heritage Network and contributor to the National Parks Service's LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History. Gieseking is also the author of A Queer New York Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

Presented by the Department of Global Studies and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, Political Science, and History the LGBTQ+ Studies and Women's Studies Programs, the National Center for Suburban Studies and the Center for Public Archeology, Mu Kappa, Hofstra's Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, and the International Geographic Honors Society

Advance registration is required.

For more detailed information and to RSVP, visit https://news.hofstra.edu/event/beside-and-slantwise-trans-ing-the-map-with-jen-jack-gieseking/.

 

Monday, November 28, 5:30 p.m.
Women's Diversity Network's Maternal Justice Coalition
in cooperation with the
Hofstra Cultural Center
presents a
Community Viewing & Panel Discussion:
AFTERSHOCK
featuring
Shawnee Benton Gibson and Bruce McIntyre

Gibson and McIntyre, who are featured in the film, will participate in a panel discussion about one of the most pressing American crises of our time – the U.S. maternal health crisis.

Moderated by: Dr. Martine Hackett, Chair, Department of Population Health, Hofstra University

A light dinner will be provided.

To register, visit www.tinyurl.com/aftershock1128

About the Film:  Aftershock premiered as part of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival's U.S. Documentary Competition.

Awards: Sundance Film Festival: U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change

Full Frame Film Festival: Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights

In October 2019, 30-year-old Shamony Gibson died 13 days after the birth of her son. Two months later, we began filming Shamony's mother, Shawnee Benton Gibson, and Shamony's bereaved partner, Omari Maynard, as they began to process what happened and figure out their new normal.

In April 2020, 26-year-old Amber Rose Isaac died following an emergency C-section. Within weeks of Amber's death, Omari reaches out to Amber's partner, Bruce McIntyre, and a lifelong bond is formed. Together, Omari and Bruce begin the fight for justice for their partners with their families and community by their side, while caring for their children as newly single parents.

Through the film, we witness these two families become ardent activists in the maternal health space, seeking justice through legislation, medical accountability, community, and the power of art. Their work introduces us to myriad people, including a growing brotherhood of surviving Black fathers, along with the work of midwives and physicians on the ground fighting for institutional reform. Through their collective journeys, we find ourselves on the front lines of the growing birth justice movement that is demanding systemic change within our medical system and government.

 

Wednesday, November 30
"News Deserts" and Community Engagement – Building Community Partnerships
A Report Back of Preliminary Findings from the Presidential Research Project on Media Coverage and the Local Community

6:15 p.m. Reception
2nd Floor Atrium, Breslin Hall 

7-8:30 p.m.  Presentation
Room 211 Breslin Hall

Introduced by Mark Lukasiewicz, Dean, The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication

Panelists:
Mario A. Murillo, Professor, Vice Dean, LHSC
Aashish Kumar, Professor, Radio, Television, Film
Scott Brinton, Assistant Professor, Journalism

Even though Hofstra University sits in one of the biggest media markets in the world, the surrounding community has become a "news desert" – where newspapers are in decline and local news coverage is shrinking – producing a measurable and consequential deterioration in the civic dialogue. The emergence of "news deserts" is a national phenomenon, and presents serious challenges to underrepresented communities and grassroots organizations. In some "news deserts," such as ours, universities and student journalists are stepping up to help fill the void with projects such as Hofstra's "LongIslandAdvocate.com." The panel will present the early results of its in-depth study of our local news desert – and continue a conversation and brainstorming with community leaders on how to rebuild and strengthen local news coverage.

For more information, email  Mario A. Murillo at avfmam@hofstra.edu or call 516-463-5214.

Presented by The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 2, 1-2 p.m.
Film Viewing and Discussion: Two Distant Strangers

Join us for a film viewing and discussion of Two Distant Strangers with the Africana Studies Program. Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe. The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death. Two Distant Strangers won the award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, marking distributor Netflix’s first win in the category.

 

Panel: Dr. Veronica A. Lippencott, Director, Africana Studies Program, Associate Director, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies and Geography

Dr. Joel Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling and Mental Health Professions, School of Health Professions and Human Services

Dr. Richard Hayes, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Frank G. Zarb School of Business

Dr. Jonathan Lightfoot, Associate Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning and Literacy, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Director, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice

Co-sponsored by Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion in collaboration with the Africana Studies Program, Hofstra Cultural Center, and the Student Government Association.

Monday, February 7, 2:40-4:05 p.m.
Is Demography Destiny? Diversity and its Discontents

Virtual Event

Presented by Marta Tienda, Maurice P. During ’22 Professor of Demographic Studies
and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Princeton University

The United States is the most demographically complex nation in the world, but does diversity undermine social cohesion? In its 2003 decision permitting narrowly tailored consideration of race in college admissions (Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 328-29), the U.S. Supreme Court opined that diversity is a compelling state interest. But what does that mean, exactly? This lecture will describe the changing ethno-racial composition of the U.S. population and discuss social, economic and political implications of these changes by focusing on higher education, where access has become contested terrain. I interrogate whether and how diversity undermines cohesion on college campuses. I also provide evidence about diversity and social cohesion by drawing on evidence about intermarriage, voting behavior and attitude surveys signaling acceptance of others.

 

Co-sponsored by Hofstra University Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Visiting Scholar Program, The Phi Beta Kappa Society. in collaboration with Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program 

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

Wednesday, February 9, 4:20-5:45 p.m.
The 2021 Election: Was It Really a Red Wave?

Following November’s election a Long Island Press headline read, “Red Wave Brings Political Sea Change to Long Island.” Democrats narrowly held the governorship in New Jersey while surprisingly losing that same office in Virginia. Here on Long Island Republicans swept nearly every election. Following recent elections, we’ve heard people talk of red waves and blue waves. Was this a red wave?

Join Hofstra Professors Philip Dalton (Rhetoric and Public Advocacy and Center for Civic Engagement); Mary Anne Trasciatti (Labor Studies and Rhetoric and Public Advocacy); and Rosanna Perotti (Political Science), as we discuss this election and its meaning as we look forward to next year’s midterms.

 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

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Tuesday, February 15, 11:20-12:45 p.m.
Book Discussion: Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy with William Howell

Virtual Event

William Howell will reflect upon the rise of populism in American politics and its implications for presidential power, the capacity of government to solve public problems, and the need for institutional reform.

William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago, where he holds appointments in the Harris School, Department of Political Science, and College. Currently, he is the chair of the Department of Political Science, director of the Center for Effective Government, and co-host of Not Another Politics Podcast. Dr. Howell has written widely on separation-of-powers issues and American political institutions, especially the presidency. He currently is working on research projects on separation of powers issues, the origins of political authority, and the normative foundations of executive power.

 

Sponsored by the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs  and the Hofstra Cultural Center in conjunction with the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and the Center for Civic Engagement.

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
CIVIL RIGHTS DAY
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Axinn Library, South Campus

1-2:25 p.m.
Center for “Race,” Cultural and Social Justice
The Colloquia Series

Hofstra faculty members present their recent and ongoing publications and engage critically and theoretically with new scholarship focused on “race,” culture, and social justice.

Dr. Jonathan Lightfoot
Co-Director, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice
Associate Professor of Teaching, Learning and Technology

Privileging “Race” at Centers and Institutes in Higher Education: A Study of the Landscape
Centers and institutes have become an increasingly important part of the higher education landscape. This research takes a closer look at centers and institutes in the United States of America that focus on issues of “race,” culture and social justice to determine the value they bring to their host institutions. They offer an opportunity to produce and share interdisciplinary research and bypass the restrictions often inherent within the traditional departmental design. Removing structural barriers that limit creativity and innovation can broaden ideological perspectives and address larger policy problems towards the greater public good. Qualitative determinations of value will hopefully inspire more colleges and universities to establish or increase support of centers and institutes that seek to challenge issues of “race” and racism and the intersectional social injustices they engender. 

Presented by the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, Center for Civic Engagement and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

 

6-8 p.m.
Keynote Panel
VIGILANTISM IN THE UNITED STATES: ‘A START … WITH NO FINISH?’

featuring

Frederick K. Brewington, Esq.
Civil Rights Attorney

Mark C. Niles
Professor of Law
Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law

The presentation will focus on the roots of the civil rights movement in the United States which began after the Civil War with the 13th Amendment, and the creation of Black Codes and the 1871 passage of the KKK Act. The KKK act is federal legislation enacted as an attempt to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution – an amendment aimed at protecting all citizens from state laws that enabled discrimination against people of color. Since that time, vigilantism against people of color has continued in various forms, from lynchings, to so-called “stand your ground laws,” to citizens arrests. Both Niles and Brewington, will discuss the history and local implications of the vigilante phenomenon in our society and its impact overall, particularly on people of color.

This article and video below features Frederick Brewington regarding desegregation in a Malverne school that he eventually attended.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2022/02/07/malverne-school-desegregation-black-history-month-fred-brewington-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/

Presented by the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, Center for Civic Engagement and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

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Wednesday, February 23, 7-8:30 p.m.
PATH TO ABOLITION:
Analyzing the Legacy of Malcolm

Professor Jamel Coy Hudson teaches courses on rhetoric and public advocacy at Hofstra University and Baruch College at City University of New York. He specializes in the study of social justice movements & gives lectures on Dr. King's and Minister Malcolm X's liberationist traditions. #BlackHistoryMonth

Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Axinn Library, South Campus

 

Wednesday, March 2, 11:20 am - 12:45 pm
International Scene Lecture: The End of American Adventurism Abroad:
A Discussion of Declining Public Support for U.S. Interventionism with Dr. Trita Parsi
Virtual Event

Trita Parsi is an award-winning author and the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He has authored three books on US foreign policy in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Iran and Israel. In 2021, he was named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 50 most influential voices on foreign policy in Washington DC, and preeminent public intellectual Noam Chomsky calls Parsi “one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran.”

Speaker: Trita Parsi, Vice President, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Series Co-Directors: Dr. Carolyn Eisenberg, Dr. Linda Longmire and Adjunct Associate Professor Martin Melkonian, Hofstra University

Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement’s Institute for Peace Studies, Hofstra Cultural Center and Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternative.

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Monday, March 7, 1-2:25 p.m. (Common Hour)
A Campus Discussion:
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

On February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine and started what could be the largest war in Europe since World War II. Over half a million people have already fled for safety as fierce fighting continues to expand across Ukraine. What are the roots of this conflict? What role has the US and NATO played in the lead-up to the invasion?  And what response seems most humane and constructive going forward?

Panelists:
Carolyn Eisenberg, Professor of History
Paul Fritz, Associate Professor of Political Science
Igor Pustovoit, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics
Benjamin Rifkin, Professor of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics

Moderated by:
Philip Dalton, Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Composition

Sponsored by Center for Civic Engagement.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

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Monday, March 7, 6:30 p.m.
A Night of Poetry with King Yaw

Join us for a night of poetry with King Yaw. Yaw Osafo-Kantanka Kyeremateng is a Ghanaian artist residing in Accra, Ghana. Yaw is a writer, educator, and activist who connects to his audience through poetic story-telling on topics related to racial identity, family and immigration. Yaw finds joy in being a professional laugher and a rooted dancer with specialty in Afrobeats and West African tribal dance. On stage, Yaw becomes his stories, channels language through time and space to give the audience a cathartic experience. Reception to immediately follow in C.V. Starr Lobby.

The Helene Fortunoff Theater
Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus

Presented by The Rabinowitz Honors College in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, Africana Studies Program, Office of IEI and the African Students Association

 

Tuesday, March 8, 4:20-5:45 p.m.
A Childhood Experience of a Japanese Internment Camp: Tom Hasegawa’s Journeys to Tule Lake, Chicago and Long Island
Virtual Event

Tom Hasegawa was born in Los Angeles in 1938. The issuance of Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt after the onset of the Pacific War led to the loss of a thriving restaurant business in Little Tokyo that the Hasegawa family was running and the whole family was forcibly relocated in the Tule Lake internment camp in northern California. In this event, he will talk about his youthful days in the camp and the family’s journey to the mid-West and eventually to Long Island.

Tom Hasegawa received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, majoring in Biology. After graduating college, he took a teaching job at a high school on Long Island. He has given many talks on his days in the Tule Lake camp and his experiences in Chicago after the end of World War II for various organizations and schools.

Sponsored by the Department of History and the Asian Studies Program and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

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Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

 

Wednesday, March 9, 6 p.m.
Drawing Across Disciplines

A panel discussion from multiple perspectives about the importance and use of hand-drawing in numerous academic disciplines, particularly in this technological era. Focusing on topics such as observation and seeing, communication of ideas, visual problem solving, among others.

Moderator: Edward M. Segal, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Engineering, Hofstra University

Panelists:
Katherine Chan, MSFE/Senior Associate, Walter P. Moore
Mark Fiedler, Fiedler Marciano Architecture
Robert V. Hill, Associate Professor, Department of Science Education, Director, Anatomical Gift Program, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
James Lee, Chair and Professor, Fine Art, Design, Art History department, Hofstra University
Jason D. Williams, Donald E. Axinn Distinguished Professor in Ecology and Conservation, Department of Biology, Hofstra University

This is event is made possible with the support of the Hofstra University Museum of Art and the Hofstra Cultural Center in collaboration with The Alice Sawyer Award.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Monday, March 14, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
UKRAINE: Borderland in the Crosshairs
with Ronald H. Linden

Virtual Event

RONALD H. LINDEN is professor emeritus of Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh where he served as director of the European Studies Center and director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies. At the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in Europe, Dr. Linden was director of Research for Radio Free Europe in Munich. His publications focus on the international relations of Europe, Russia and Turkey and his most recent research has been on the impact of Chinese trade and investment in Europe.

Presented by European Studies Program in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center.

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Monday, March 14, 2:40-4:05 p.m.
Hoop Dreams on Wheels

Virtual Event

“How has wheelchair basketball impacted college campuses? Hofstra University fielded the second collegiate wheelchair basketball team in the U.S. and the first on the East Coast.  Players on the Rolling Dutchmen included a Paralympian, an education professor, a member of the student activist group PUSH (People United in Support of the Handicapped), and the Vietnam War activist Ron Kovic.  Wisconsin-Whitewater won multiple national championships, and Rolling Warhawks went on to coach leading collegiate programs.  This presentation will address the impact of disability sports on individual athletes and on a wider community.” 

Craig M. Rustici will briefly outline the history of wheelchair basketball at Hofstra, and Ronald J. Berger will present his sociological analysis of the elite wheelchair basketball program at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, an inquiry he has elaborated in two books: Hoop Dreams on Wheels: Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete (Sociology Re-Wired) and Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball

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Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Disability Studies Program.

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

 

GLOBAL JUSTICE DAY

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Guthart Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor

9:40 -11:05 am.
Trafficked to Survivorship: Unity in Social Change

Join us on for a panel discussion on human trafficking with Suffolk County Anti-Trafficking Initiative (SCATI) Task Force with members Detective Sergeant James P. Murphy, Coordinator Suffolk County Police Department's Human Trafficking Investigations Unit and Molly England, Task Force Coordinator, along with Laura Mullen, President and Shannon Jones, Vice President, co-founders Human Trafficking Survivor Advisory Board at ECLI-VIBE.

11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Unlearning Toxic Masculinity

Presenter: Sarah Stauffer/ Alex Attilli, Center for Civic Engagement Fellows

Join VIBES LI and CCE Fellows in an honest conversation about Toxic Masculinity and what tools we can utilize to unlearn this mindset. In this interactive lecture, Dr. Heather Parrott will lead a discussion of how traditional conceptions of masculinity are perpetuated through socialization and how they can be harmful to individuals, relationships, and society overall. We will explore ways in which toxic masculinity contributes to gendered violence, such as rape, domestic violence, and stalking. Heather Parrott and Diane Linares will discuss what ECLI-VIBES is doing to address these issues, and how you can help with these efforts.

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4:20-5:45 p.m.
Immigrant & Migrant Worker Rights: A Discussion

Presenter: Damali Ramirez, Center for Civic Engagement Fellow

Join migrant worker rights activists to discuss challenges migrant workers face in today's labor workforce. Angel Reyes Rivas of the Rural and Migrant Ministry, Nadia Marin-Molina of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), and Ani Halasz will lead a discussion about their activism to protect migrant workers. The discussion will explore the obstacles migrant workers face, such as language barriers, cultural differences, immigration status, and more to securing their labor conditions.

6-7:25 p.m.
Post-Prison Life: The Challenges of Re-entry

Presenter:  Joany Espinal, Civic Engagement Fellow

Traumatized and further destabilized, people are released into the vacuum of services and are expected to “rehabilitate” themselves and assume “normal” lives, as if various legal and social stigmas and prejudices against them did not exist, nor was their mental health status compromised. We are here to sensitize folks in the Hofstra community to these pervasive injustices and inhumanities through the lens of specialist’s who have experienced the prison system first hand. Moreover, to pose a question, can the prison system be reformed?

Speakers include: Sterling Green, Marcellus Morris, Laurence Gregory

Presented by the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, Center for Civic Engagement and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

For more information, email Johanna Lastor Montes at jlastormontes1@pride.hofstra.edu.

Wednesday, March 16, 1-2:30 p.m. (Common Hour)
The Secret Life of Sex Workers: A Dialogue About Financial Independence, Legality, Marginalization and Sexual Empowerment

Virtual Event

 

Panelists:

 

Sawyer Eason, Worker-Owner of Bluestockings Book Cooperative; Bassist of COP/OUT; Head of Brooklyn Transcore
Social Worker and Organizer; Sex Worker

 

Jared Trujillo
Policy Counselor for New York Civil Liberties Union; Steering committee member for Decrim, NY; Board Member of New York State Defenders Association; Former public defender

 

Jill McCracken, PhD
Co-Director & Co-Founder of Sex Worker Outreach Program (SWOP), Behind Bars; Professor of Women's & Gender Studies- University of South Florida; Founder & Project Director of Adolescent Sexual Health Education and Research (ASHER) Project

 

Al Mercedes
Worker-Owner of Bluestockings Book Cooperative; Educator for Harm Reduction; Activist and Business Owner
Sex Worker

Content warnings: Discussions of police brutality, sexual activity, sexual abuse, poverty, legal discrimination.

Confidential counselors will be on call!

#HofNoHate

Presented by he Hofstra Cultural Center, The Office of Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion, and The Rabinowitz Honors College.

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event. ASL Interpreters & Recorded for later viewing (with transcript).

Thursday, March 17, 1:25 p.m.
Applying Random Graph Models In Building Machine Learning Algorithms
with Dr. Pawel Pralat

Currently, we experience a rapid growth of research done in the intersection of mining and modelling of complex networks. In this talk I will present a few problems from this intersection and show how random graphs was used to design the tool. There are two main reasons to include random graph models in mining complex networks. One may use random graphs to produce synthetic graphs with known ground truth. Or, the null-models can be used to test whether a given object exhibits some “surprising” property that is not expected on the basis of chance alone. Applications include community detection, link prediction and anomaly detection, among others.

 

Dr. Pawel Pralat is a Full Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, and the Director of Fields-CQAM Lab on Computational Methods in Industrial Mathematics at The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.

Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of Math.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Monday, March 28, 2:40-3:35 p.m.
Ukraine at War: Ukrainian Perspectives
Virtual Event

In his talk Michael Naydan will contextualize why the Ukrainians are fighting so ferociously for their freedom based on a history of trauma caused by the Tsarist Russian, Soviet, and Putin regimes that all targeted the suppression and destruction of the Ukrainian language and culture. He will delve into support for Ukraine throughout the world through art and other clever strategies. He will also discuss the psychological role of visual satire and memes in helping to promote the Ukrainian war effort and as a counter to Putin’s aggressively expansionist policy of “russkii mir” (the Russian world), which constitutes a replay of the tsars’ sixteenth-century gathering of lands Putin perceives to be historically Russian in the twenty-first.   

Michael Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at The Pennsylvania State University and works primarily in the fields of Ukrainian and Russian literature and literary translation. He has published over 50 articles on literary topics, more than 80 translations in journals and anthologies, and more than 40 books of translations and edited volumes.

Presented by the Department of History in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

 

Tuesday, March 29, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Afro-Peruvian Music Workshop

Afro-Peruvian music dates back to colonial times, and later in the 19th century it reached its peak, expressing its uniqueness in typical dances such as the Marinera, festejo, landó, tondero, zamacueca, and contrapunto de zapateo. Araceli Poma, “Huevito” Lobatón, and Yuri Juarez offer us the best of the Afro-Peruvian heritage through a workshop with songs and dances alluding to the great black culture of Peru.

 

Araceli Poma
Araceli Poma is one of the most representative artists of the new generation of Peruvian musicians. Araceli was nominated for the 2020 Latin Grammy Awards, with the album and documentary “The Warrior Women of Afro-Peruvian Music”, produced by the North American label JUST PLAY. This production poses a defiant challenge to racism, sexism and marginalization, through the power of the music and culture of the African diaspora. Her work is defined by her interest in making visible the fundamental contribution of women, challenging racism and marginalization through her music—recovering popular genres of Peruvian music, disseminating the legacy of male and female cultivators of the musical tradition—and, due to her Afro-Andean heritage, betting for the unification and integration of cultures. For more information on Araceli Poma visit aracelipoma.com

Fredy ‘Huevito’ Lobatón
“Huevito” was born and raised in Lima, Peru, with a father who led a highly respected Afro-Peruvian music and dance troupe, Huevito learned the rhythms, and the Cajón, at a very young age. He is also a three-time winner of Peru’s national zapateo fancy footwork contest. Lobatón is considered one of the masters of Peruvian zapateo in the world, and one of the most virtuoso percussionists of his generation. His distinctive approach to the Cajón, Quijada (jawbone) and Cajita, in a jazz context has made him a pioneer among Afro-Peruvian percussionists.

Yuri Juárez
Yuri Martín Juárez Yllescas is a guitarist and composer, began his career in 1996 as guitarist for various groups of Afro-Peruvian music, folk and fusion. His musical training ranges from formal studies at New York University with Gil Goldstein, John Scofield and Peter Bernstein and with the Peruvian masters of the guitar such as Pepe Torres, Alvaro Lagos, Jorge Madueño and more “street” experience in Afro-Peruvian Peñas. He has shared the stage and recorded with musicians such as Eva Ayllón, Susana Baca, Arturo O’Farrill, Ron Carter, and iconic Peruvian composers such as Kiri Escobar and Javier Lazo, and trail blazing bands including the Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet, among others. For more information on Yuri Juárez at yurijuarez.pe

For more information call Honors College at 516-463-4842 or email Professor Miguel-Angel Zapata at rllmzz@hofstra.edu.

Wednesday, March 30, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Documentary Viewing and Discussion: 'They're Teaching Children to Hate America': The Culture War Dividing US Schools
by Amudalat Ajasa, Class of 2022

Join us in the close of Women’s History Month with a documentary viewing and discussion showing the fight in America's school boards by our own Hofstra student, Amudalat Ajasa. The documentary looks particularly at the town of Carmel, Indiana, and their struggle over the introduction of diversity, equity and inclusion in the classrooms. A battle has erupted over those that welcome the changes and others that view it as "leftist indoctrination of their children," or the introduction of critical race theory in schools.

Read The Hofstra Chronicle News Story

 

Discussion will be facilitated by: Amudalat Ajasa
Major: Journalism; Minors: Global Studies and Meteorology

and

Dr. Katrina Sims
Assistant Professor of History
Faculty-in-Residence
Hofstra University

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Office of Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion in collaboration with the NOAH Scholars' Program, The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, Black Student Union, Hofstra NAACP Chapter, and the African Students Association.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

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Wednesday, March 30, 4:15-5:45 pm
Carceral Straits and Sentimental Appeals:
Afro-Cuban Political Deportees in Chafarinas

In 1847, Spain occupied and incorporated the Chafarinas Islands, just off the Moroccan coast, into its carceral circuit in the Straits of Gibraltar; the tiny archipelago joined existing nodes of confinement in Cádiz, Melilla, Ceuta, and Vélez de la Gomera. In this talk, I will focus on one group of Cubans who were forcibly sent to Chafarinas at the end of the second of Cuba’s three independence wars, the “Little War”, in 1880. This deportee group was largely comprised of Afro-Cubans (many of them previously enslaved) and included significant numbers of women and children. I study the confluence of processes of racialization and discourses of family and sentimentality. The Afro-Cubans, I argue, sought to mobilize those discourses for their ends, a phenomenon that would ultimately pit the Spanish against the British empire, exemplifying the fraught interactions and intersections of diverse colonial spheres.

Presenter: Susan Martin-Márquez, Professor of Cinema Studies/Spanish and Portugese/Comparative Literature
Rutgers University, New Brunswick

105 Breslin Hall, South Campus

Presented by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.

For more information, email Professor Benita Sampedro Vizcaya at benita.sampedro@hofstra.edu.

 

Wednesday March 30, 6:30-8 p.m.
CELEBRATE: Women and Freedom Music with Vienna Carroll and The Folk

Vienna Carroll and The Folk will join us for a performance and talk back as she walks down memory lane inviting us all into forgotten history, weaving personal and found stories with rousing song and images. Ms. Carroll will be joined by band members Keith Johnston, guitar and backing vocals; Stanley Banks, bass; and Newman Taylor Baker on washboard.

Vienna Carroll’s rich soulful sound takes you back to her Black church roots. Her passion and masterful storytelling light a fire in your soul. She interweaves old songs and forgotten stories of Black heroes to serve up Black history with a Serious Groove. Vienna formalized her studies of early Black music at Yale University with a BA in African American Studies. Her influences are Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone and her early church experiences.

 

“Vienna Carroll...a unique story of America, sung by an incredible voice. Simply stunning. ” — Woody Lewis, Musician

In collaboration with the Department of English and the Africana Studies Program.

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center In collaboration with the Department of English and the Africana Studies Program.

Funding for this program has been provided by the Joseph G. Astman Family Fund for the Hofstra Cultural Center.

#HofNoHate

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Wednesday, March 30-April 13
National Public Health Week Event Series 2022

 
 

Join us for Hofstra University’s School of Health Professions and Human Services weeklong series of events in celebration of the American Public Health Association’s observation of National Public Health Week. This year’s events are offered either in-person or online. For in-person events, all Hofstra community members and guests must register in advance and adhere to Hofstra University’s COVID-19 policies regarding vaccination. All guests must be fully vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination. Please visit the Together Again webpage for more information. Join the conversation on Social Media #HofNPHW22

Tuesday, April 5, 6:30-8:20 p.m.
“What is Population Health and Why Does it Matter?”

An interactive panel discussion about population health, the different components (population health management, public health, health informatics), and how it relates to the future of healthcare. Attendees of this session will learn about population health, understand the direction that healthcare is moving in, and the skills needed for future health careers.

Panelists:
Rebecca Sanin, CEO and President of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island
David Nemiroff, President and CEO, Long Island Federally Qualified Health Centers
Dr. Zenobia Brown, Vice President, Population Health Care Management, Northwell Health Solutions

Moderator:
Dr. Martine Hackett, Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

For a detailed listing of events, more information and to RSVP visit Hofstra National Public Health Week 2022.

Wednesday, April 6, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Political Science Talks Politics: Populism, Illiberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Europe

European Union (EU) member states, like several countries across the globe including the US, have experienced a rise of populism and other forces to undermine democracy. The EU is an institution premised upon democracy, but what mechanisms can it employ to keep countries on the democratic path? This presentation will focus on democratic backsliding in Hungary and Poland and the role the EU has had to try to bring these countries back into the democratic fold.

Presenter: Dr. Carolyn Dudek, Professor and Chair, Political Science Department

 

Presented by the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs, Department of Political Science, the Public Policy and Public Service Program and the European Union’s Erasmus + Programme

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Monday, April 11, 2:40-3:35 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
The Ukraine Crisis: Jewish and Queer Perspectives
Virtual Event

featuring

Sophia Sobko (she/they) is a queer Soviet Jewish cultural organizer, scholar, educator and artist, born in Moscow and now based on Lisjan Ohlone land in Oakland, CA. Sophia is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, where she is completing her dissertation on Soviet Ashkenazi Jewish negotiations of racial assimilation in the U.S. She is the founder and a stewarding member of Kolektiv Goluboy Vagon, and a founding artist with Krivoy Kolektiv.

Santiago Slabodsky is a sociologist of global knowledge who holds the Florence and Robert Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and directs the JWST program in the Department of Religion. In addition he serves in the faculty of three area studies programs: Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, and European Studies. Dr. Slabodsky writes about intercultural encounters between Jewish and Global South social theories and political movements.

 

Moderated by Simon R. Doubleday, Professor of History, Hofstra University.

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center, Department of History, European Studies Program, LGBT+ Program, and the Department of Religion and Jewish Studies

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

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Monday, April 11, 7 pm
Film Screening and Discussion: Maïdan
A Film by Sergei Loznitsa
Virtual Event

In 2014 protests erupted in Kyiv against then-President Yanukovych.  These protests, focused on Maidan Square, led to the collapse of his government; Yanukhovych himself fled the country, going to Russia. During the protests and shortly after, the government of the Russian Federation sent unmarked vehicles with Russian troops not in uniform into Crimea and the Donbas region, beginning what would become an 8-year war, culminating in the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s extraordinary documentary film, Maidan, tells the story of the protests of the Ukrainian people against their own government because they wanted their country to be aligned with the west, not with Russia. 

 

Join us on for a digital screening of the documentary and a discussion and Q&A afterward with Hofstra University faculty:
Dr. Paul Fritz, Professor of Political Science (International Relations), Hofstra University
Dr. Igor Pustovoit*, Professor of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics (Russian), Hofstra University
Dr. Benjamin Rifkin, Professor of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics (Russian) and Russian History, Hofstra University

*Native of Kyiv

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

Presented by the European Studies Program and the Department of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics.

Thursday, March 31, 1-2:25 p.m.
International Scene Lecture:
Tomorrow the World A Discussion of U.S. Global Strategy with Stephen Wertheim
Virtual Event

Wertheim is a historian of the United States in the world and analyst of contemporary American grand strategy. He is a Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School. He specializes in U.S. foreign relations and international order from the late nineteenth century to the present. In his book, Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (2020), he reveals how U.S. leaders made a sudden decision to pursue global military dominance, which they had previously regarded as unnecessary at best and imperialistic at worst.

Speaker: Stephen Wertheim
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Series Co-Directors: Dr. Carolyn Eisenberg, Dr. Linda Longmire and Adjunct Associate Professor Martin Melkonian, Hofstra University

Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement’s Institute for Peace Studies, The Peter Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, Hofstra Cultural Center and Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.

 

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

Presented by Hofstra Labor Studies Program and the Center for Labor and Democracy, in collaboration with Hofstra Women’s Studies Program and Hofstra Honors College.

For more information, visit hofstra.edu/laborstudies or e-mail laborstudies@hofstra.edu.

March 31, 4:20-5:45 p.m.
Equal Pay Day 2022

Gender Inequality, Care Work and the Post-Covid Economy

The COVID crisis closed schools and childcare centers and posed enormous financial and mental health challenges to millions of working parents and the overworked, underpaid home health workers many depend on. Failure to resolve those challenges will threaten the prospects for closing the gender gap in jobs and pay and for building a fair and sustainable local and national economic recovery. Join the discussion on how best to rethink New York and national care policies for a more just and equitable future.

Panelists:

Pilar Gonalons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

 

Onika Shepherd-Bernabe, Political Director 1199 SEIU, Long Island

 

Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Presented by Hofstra Labor Studies Program and the Center for Labor and Democracy, in collaboration with Hofstra Women’s Studies Program and Hofstra Honors College.

For more information, visit hofstra.edu/laborstudies or e-mail laborstudies@hofstra.edu.

Monday, April 4, 2:10–4:05 p.m.
In Conversation with Hofstra LACS Faculty
What is Going on in the French-speaking Caribbean?
with Professor Sabine Loucif

In 1946, the Caribbean Islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique ceased to be colonies and became French overseas departments, with a representation in the national assembly comparable to that of any mainland department. While the change of status of the two islands was mostly perceived as a positive development, the people of Guadeloupe and Martinique have a specific history and identity that is distinct from that of the French metropolitan population. To this day, many feel misunderstood and discriminated against. The current sanitary crisis with Covid-19 has brought underlying conflicts to the surface and let to a movement for cultural validation in the French Caribbean that is worth exploring and discussing. #HofNoHate

Professor Sabine Loucif teaches French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and she is an active member of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Africana Studies Program and the Women’s Studies Program at Hofstra.

Presented by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.

Breslin Hall 209, South Campus

For more information, email the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Porgram at LACS@hofstra.edu.

 

Wednesday, April 13, 2:40-4:05 p.m.
Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador,where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world’s great coffee dynasties at the turn of the 20th century. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present. Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story ofone of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.

Presenter: Augustine Sedgewick, City University of New York

209 Breslin Hall, South Campus

Presented by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.

For more information, email Professor Benita Sampedro Vizcaya at benita.sampedro@hofstra.edu.

 

EARTH DAY

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Indigenous Leaders in the Climate Movement

Presenter: Alex Attilli, Center for Civic Engagement Fellow

Indigenous voices for decades have been some of the most vocal proponents for climate action. Join indigenous climate leaders in a conversation about legal and political challenges to the climate movement in both the U.S. and abroad.

Guthart Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor

1-3 p.m.
Unfolding The Possibilities In Sustainable Fashion

Presenter: Zahra Omairat and Elissa Cano, Center for Civic Engagement Fellows

The purpose of this event is to explore the complexity in maintaining sustainability in the fashion industry, and its applications in production, its impact socially and environmentally. The objective is to expose the audience to the speakers' different perspectives regarding the extent of sustainability in the fashion industry while also considering the impacts these progressive initiatives would have on business. Followed by a fashion event where there will be a runway with students modeling their own or another student's sustainable fashion pieces, this can include upcycled clothing, fully thrifted pieces, or pieces made out of recycled materials.

Guthart Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor

Presented by the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, Center for Civic Engagement and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

1-2:25 p.m.

The Importance of Landscaping with Native Plants on Long Island
Discover why planting native plants in gardens is so important for protecting the ecology of Long Island

Speaker: Anthony Marinello, Secretary of the Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI) and owner of the Dropseed Native Landscapes Native Plant Nursery

Moderated by Philip Dalton, Director, Hofstra Center for Civic Engagement and J Bret Bennington, Professor of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability, Chair, Hofstra University

Roosevelt Quad Tent, South Campus
Rain Location: Breslin Hall 216, South Campus

2:40-4:05 p.m

Help Plant a Native Pollinator Garden
Join us in planting Hofstra’s first native pollinator garden with species grown from seed by Hofstra students in our greenhouse.

Speaker: J  Bret Bennington

Student Garden at Stuyvesant Hall, North Campus

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For more information, email Johanna Lastor Montes at jlastormontes1@pride.hofstra.edu.

Monday, April 25, 4:20-5:45 p.m.
Postcolonial Citizenship in Hispanic Africa
The Case for Granting Nationality to Former Colonial Subjects

Presenter: Alicia Campos Serrano,  Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (Spain)

During the last years of Spanish rule over African colonies, from the late 1950s to the 1970s, new forms of colonial government and semi-colonial autonomy were deployed. They resulted into the brief and unequal incorporation of these territories into the Spanish nation, a project which did not prevent uneven decolonization processes in Spanish Africa, with dissimilar consequences: from the effective independence of Equatorial Guinea to the forced integration of Western Sahara into a neighbour state within the Maghreb. This presentation analyses the trajectory of postcolonial relations between Spanish and African rulers, and it inquires into the possibility of granting citizenship status to old colonial subjects and their descendants.

Presented by the Department of the Romance Languages and Literatures, the Africana Studies Program and the European Studies.

For more information visit https://www.hofstra.edu/latin-american-caribbean-studies/

 

Distinguished African Scholars and Writers Series
Featuring Imali J. Abala

Professor of English, Ohio Dominican University

Dr. Abala, is an African woman writer, Editor-in-Chief of Kenya Studies Review and author: The Dreamer (nominated for the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, 2017), Haughty Boys of NgorokeMoody Mood and Red Round BallDrum Bits of TerrorA Fallen Citadel (a poetry collection), Jahenda, the Teenage Mother, The Disinherited and Move on, Trufosa. Her poems have been translated into Russian,  and many have appeared in multiple anthologies—I Can’t Breathe, Musings During a Pandemic, Kistretch Journal, Out of Depths: Poetry of Poverty, Courage, and Resilience, Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories and Poems from East Africa, A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of African Poets, and Reflections: An Anthology by African Women Poets.

 

Dr. Abala reflects on the poignant issue of dreaming and ensuing challenges women face in society as she discusses her work, why she writes, and what she writes about. Contextualizing her talk within the mores of the Logooli culture, she weaves together multiple stories of women to illustrate how gender-constructed norms contribute to their marginalization, disempowerment and, consequently, denying them their individuality and voice, fulfilment of their dreams and humanity.

2:40-4:05 P.M.
“Herstory: Dreams, Voice and the Paradox of Gender”
Guthart Cultural Center Theater

“Debunking Common Myths And Misconceptions About Africa”
Roosevelt 213

This lecture centers around "lessons learned" after years of teaching an African literature course, which introduces students to Africa for the first time. 

Presented by The Center for "Race," Culture and Social Justice

Thursday, April 28, 2:40-4:05 p.m.
The History of the Anti-Nuclear Disarmament Movement and Its Significance in View of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
with Margaret Melkonian
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Virtual Event

Ms. Melkonian will discuss the role of the anti-nuclear and disarmament movement in moving the United States and Soviet Union back from the brink of nuclear war in the 1980’s. She will outline the lessons learned and their relevance to the current Ukraine and Russia crisis, given the risk of use of nuclear weapons.  

Margaret Melkonian is the Director and a co-founder of the LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives. She is Downstate Chair of Peace Action New York State (PANYS). She coordinated the Peace Fellows Program at Hofstra University, which began in the spring of 2013 to 2019.The LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives is a community partner of Hofstra’s Center for Civic Engagement.

Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required.

Registrants will be sent an email with zoom link prior to join event.

Presented by the Hofstra University Department of History And The Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center

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Thursday, April 28, 6 p.m.
An Exclusive Conversation with Kim Kelly

Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer based in Philadelphia, PA. She has been a labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in The New Republic, the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baffler, The Nation, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Esquire. She has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union, The Real News Network, and Means TV. Previously she was the heavy metal editor at VICE’s Noisey, and a leader in the VICE Union. She is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalist Union, an elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE).

Fight Like Hell is a definitive history of the labor movement and the people who risked everything to win necessities like fair wages and access to employment, a safe workplace, disability, and discrimination protections, and the eight-hour workday. Here, figures like “first lady of the coal mines” Ida Mae Stull, Latino farmworkers’ heroine Maria Moreno, queer Black civil rights icon Bayard Rustin, pioneering sex worker's rights activist Margo St. James, Ford whistleblower Suzette Wright, and the indomitable Mother Jones get their due. Kim Kelly’s publishing debut is both an inspiring read and a vital contribution to American history, offering a transportive look at the forgotten heroes who’ve sacrificed to make good on America’s promises.

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Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Presented by The Center for Study of Labor and Democracy and Labor Studies Program in collaboration with the Center for Civic Engagement and Long Island Jobs with Justice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 15, 1 -2:25 p.m.
How Racism in the Academy Impacts Students, Faculty and Learning

Presented by Kristal Brent Zook, Professor of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations, Hofstra University

This talk will look at several recent high-profile cases involving faculty members of color, as well as student protests documenting racial injustice on campuses nationwide. Professor Kristal Brent Zook has published work on race, women, culture, and social justice featured in dozens of magazines, newspapers, and digital outlets, including The New York Times and The New Yorker, where she recently wrote about #BlackintheIvory.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

For more information, call 516-463-6585 or email RaceCultureSocialJustice@hofstra.edu.

 

Monday, September 20, 2:40-4:05 p.m.
The (D)Evolution of the American Presidency with Dr. Stephen F. Knott

Stephen F. Knott is a professor in the National Security Affairs Department. Prior to accepting his position at the War College, Knott co-chaired the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. His books include Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America and Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics. His most recent book is The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal. He is currently at work on a book on the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

Read the Hofstra Chronicle News Story

 

Monday, September 27, 1-2:25 p.m. (Common Hour)
Hofstra University Presidential Inauguration Celebration Week Symposia - Building and Bridging our Future Together: Hofstra University and our Communities

Opening and Keynote Address
Charles M. Blow

New York Times Journalist, CNN commentator and Former Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale University.

Mr. Blow is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014. People magazine called it “searing and unforgettable.” His second book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, was named a “most anticipated book” by the San Francisco Chronicle, O, the Oprah Magazine, Time Out, Town and Country, and Literary Hub

Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater
John Crawford Adams Playhouse, South Campus

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Thursday, October 7, 4:20-5:45 p.m.

ANNUAL CRITICAL SPIRITUALITIES LECTURE AND CELEBRATION OF NEW B.A. IN RELIGION AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Banning Black Gods: Law, Race, and Religion in the Americas

Danielle N. Boaz, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte and  Practicing Attorney

Dr. Boaz will speak on the legal challenges faced by adherents of widely practiced religions of the African diaspora in the 21st century, including Santeria, Vodoun, Candomblé, Palo Mayombe, Umbanda, Islam, Rastafari, and Obeah. Examining laws, court cases, and human rights reports, Dr. Boaz argues that the historic persecution of these religions persists into the present day as restrictions on religious freedom, constituting a pervasive but under-acknowledged form of discrimination at the intersection of law, race, and religion.

In collaboration with the Rabinowitz Honors College; Departments of Anthropology; Comparative Literature, Languages and Linguistics; English; Global Studies and Geography; History; Philosophy; Political Science; Romance Languages and Literatures; and Writing Studies and Rhetoric. Programs in Africana Studies, Jewish Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

 

Tuesday, October 12, 1-2:25 p.m.

Getting Closer to Electing Madam President

Nichola D. Gutgold is a professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Lehigh Valley. An internationally recognized scholar on the rhetoric of women in non-traditional fields, her research has been featured in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, US News and World Report, the Los Angeles Times, as well as international press outlets. Dr. Gutgold’s newest book is  Electing Madam Vice President: When Women Run Women Win is available for purchase at http://tiny.cc/0fnjuz

Presented by the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs and The Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and the Department of Political Science.

Guthart Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Join the conversation on social media #HofstraVotes #KalikowPanel

Read the Hofstra Chronicle News Story

Wednesday, November 3, 4:20-6 p.m.
Rage Renegades: A Message to Allies

A lecture by Myisha Cherry, PhD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Riverside, in which she will discuss Rage Renegades: A Message to Allies from her new book The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle (Oxford University Press, November 2021).

Rage Renegades refers to allies with rage at racial injustice. They are rage renegades because although their privilege and place in a white-supremacist society is meant to guarantee that they will be complicit or engage in racism as a way to maintain racial domination, they instead show outrage at such a society. In doing so, they rebel against a racist system that was designed to benefit them exclusively. But rage renegading can also go wrong when it reinforces the same white supremacy that the rage aims to challenge. In this talk, I’ll describe four ways in which this misdirection can happen as well as provide some suggestions for how to steer clear of it. 

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of Philosophy.

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Thursday, November 4, 2:40-4:05 p.m.
Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood with Author Mark A. Torres
Virtual Event

Join us for the riveting story of the migrant labor camps in Suffolk County from their inception during World War II, through their heyday in 1960, and culminating with their steady decline towards the end of the 20th century. Author Mark A. Torres will discuss the history of the camps, the factors that led to their decline, and the heroic efforts of critics who fought to improve the lives of migrant workers on Long Island’s East End during this period.

Presented by Hofstra Labor Studies and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) program in collaboration with Long Island Jobs with Justice.

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Wednesday, November 10, 1-2:25 p.m. (Common Hour)
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

Michael Moss, an investigative journalist, talks about his reporting on the processed food industry that earned him a Pulitzer Prize and led to his writing a pair of New York Times bestselling books. His work has been likened to a detective story in the way that he crawls through the underbelly of this $1 trillion enterprise to reveal just how the food giants got us to become so dependent on their products, and stands as an urgent indictment of that same industry given the enormous hidden cost to our health. You may never look at potato chips or Cheetos or Hot Pockets the same way again.

Speaker: Michael Moss Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of Hooked, Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit our Addictions

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Hofstra Food Studies Program

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

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SCIENCE NIGHT LIVE Fall 2021
Wednesday November 10, 6:30 p.m.

Protecting Shinnecock Homelands

Shavonne F. Smith, Director of the Shinnecock Environmental Department, will discuss the effort to protect the Shinnecock shoreline on Long Island through collaboration with federal agencies, non-profits, and community volunteers.

The Helene Fortunoff Theater
Monroe Lecture Center, California Ave, South Campus

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JOSEPH G. ASTMAN CONCERT
Friday, December 10, 7 p.m.
Sweet Honey in the Rock®

Sweet Honey in the Rock® is a performance ensemble rooted in African American history and culture. The ensemble educates, entertains, and empowers its audience and community through the dynamic vehicles of a cappella singing and American Sign Language interpretation for members of the deaf and hard of hearing communities.

Co-sponsored by Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Hofstra University Honors College, the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, and the Noah Scholars program.

Funding for these programs has been provided, in part, by the Joseph G. Astman Family for the Hofstra Cultural Center

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Wednesday, February 17, 1 p.m.
A Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Racist Ideas in America/How to be an Antiracist

Join Dr. Katrina Sims, Department of History and faculty-in-residence, Division of Student Affairs, Hofstra University, and Sevion McLean, Hofstra engineering student, Hofstra resident assistant and president of Xi Psi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., for a moderated conversation.

Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor.

 

Kendi is the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is the author of many books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest ever winner of that award. He also authored three #1 New York Times bestsellers, How to Be an Antiracist; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. His newest books are Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action; and Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, co-edited with Keisha Blain, which will be out in February. In 2020, Time magazine named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center in collaboration with the Maurice A. Deane School of Law and the Center for Civic Engagement.

Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.
Civil Rights Day presents John Whittington Franklin on Tulsa’s 'Black Wall Street'

In recognition of the 100th commemoration of the Tulsa massacre, join John Whittington Franklin, senior manager emeritus for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as he speaks about the history of the Tulsa “Black Wall Street” massacre.

Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

 

Donald J. Sutherland Lecture:
Trust in a Polarized Age with Dr. Kevin Vallier 
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 1-2:25 p.m. 

Dr. Kevin Vallier will discuss how Americans today don't trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did. The collapse of social and political trust has arguably fueled our increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. But is today's decline in trust inevitable or avoidable? Are we caught in a downward spiral that must end in institutional decay or even civil war, or can we restore trust through our shared social institutions? Dr. Vallier will offer a powerful counter-narrative to the prevailing sense of hopelessness that dogs the American political landscape, synthesizing political philosophy and empirical trust research, restoring faith in our power to reduce polarization and rebuild social and political trust.  

Dr. Kevin Vallier is associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, where he directs the program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. 

The Donald J. Sutherland Lecture is named for the former Hofstra trustee who endowed this lecture series. 

Wednesday, March 17, 1-2:25 p.m.
Distinguished African Scholars and Writers Series: Hegemonies of Knowledge Production on African Women and Gender: Whose Histories Matter?

In Hegemonies of Knowledge Production on African Women and Gender, Nwando Achebe details her personal journey to becoming an Africanist and gender historian. Along the way she considers questions relating to the ownership and production of Africanist knowledge: “Whose histories matter?” “Whose histories are celebrated?” “Whose histories are published?” – while highlighting several influential interpretive voices which have shaped and produced a problematic and Eurocentric canon. These voices have variously worked to interrupt and/or disrupt true understanding and knowing of African women and gender. Nwando Achebe ends her lecture by offering up her own African and gender-centered intervention into existing discourse and production of history.

Nwando Achebe is the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the College of Social Science, and a multi-award-winning historian at Michigan State University. She is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of West African History, and co-director of the Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation. Achebe received her PhD from UCLA in 2000. In 1996 and 1998, she served as a Ford Foundation and Fulbright-Hays Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her research interests involve the use of oral history in the study of women, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria. Achebe is the author of six books.

 


HUMANITIES NEW YORK READINGS AND DISCUSSION SERIES:
PLACE AND STORY

Join in a series of readings and discussion as together we’ll explore the ways in which humans and the natural world co-exist within the context of American environmental myths past and present. Through a combination of fiction and memoir, we’ll consider the ways our relationship to landscape transcends borders, politics, race, and socio-economics—and the ways in which it brings inequities into sharp relief.

Facilitator:  Kelly McMasters, Assistant Professor of English + Director of Publishing Studies, Hofstra University

Tuesday, October 6, 6:30-8 p.m.
Speaking of Nature by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Potawatomi Indian and botany professor, discusses finding language that affirms our kinship with the natural world.

Tuesday, October 13, 6:30-8 p.m.
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Kincaid brings us to Antigua, where she grew up, reminding us that behind the benevolent Caribbean scenery are human lives, and makes palpable the impact of European colonialism and tourism. 

Tuesday, October 27, 6:30-8 p.m.
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
Growing up on his family’s land in South Carolina, the author fell in love with the subtle beauties of the natural world around him--and grew up to be one of the lone Black men in a predominantly white field.

Tuesday, November 10, 6:30-8 p.m.*
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
Focused on a paper mill in Arsenault’s hometown in Mexico, Maine, this memoir is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
*Special Guest Visit by the author

Tuesday, November 17, 6:30-8 p.m.
Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here by Akiko Busch
Focused on a paper mill in Arsenault’s hometown in Mexico, Maine, this memoir is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
*Special Guest Visit by the author

Tuesday, December 1, 6:30-8 p.m.
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

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In Conversation With Filmmaker Martha Pinson
Monday, October 5, 5 p.m.

The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication and the Hofstra Cultural Center present In Conversation with filmmaker Martha Pinson. Martha Pinson is an independent film producer and director, who also has worked as a script supervisor for such major filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Brian DePalma, Oliver Stone and others, as well as on a number of prominent TV series, including Law & OrderSex and the City, and Boardwalk Empire. Pinson will be discussing her own work as a producer-director, as well as her experiences as a script supervisor over the years.

Speaker: Martha Pinson, Independent Film Producer and Director

http://marthapinson.com

Moderator:  Rodney Hill, Chair and Associate Professor of Film
Department of Radio, Television, Film
The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication

This is a Virtual Event. Advance registration is required.

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Indigenous People's Day 2020:
Reclaiming the Past, Confronting the Present, Shaping the Future 
Monday, October 12, 2020
1:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
All Events via Zoom

Join students, faculty and the community for an all-day exposure to some of the global indigenous movements and their centuries-long struggle for the defense of territory, culture, and the environment within the context of the many crises facing the planet.

This annual event is co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement, the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social JusticeHofstra University Honors College; the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Office of Intercultural, Engagement and Inclusion, and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Shakespeare, Race, and Performance:
A Conversation with Dr. Erika T. Lin (CUNY Graduate Center, Theatre) and
Keith Hamilton Cobb (Actor/Playwright, American Moor)
Thursday, October 15 @ 4:30-6 p.m. (Virtual)

Join CUNY Professor Erika T. Lin and actor and playwright, Keith Hamilton Cobb, to discuss Shakespeare and the significance of producing and adapting his plays in our current moment. Shakespeare was crucial in making British and American theatre what they are today. Can the plays also support justice for people of color? What do we bring to these works, and how do we make them our own? And who counts as the “we” in industries whose gatekeepers have been (and remain) predominantly white? Our featured speakers, an award-winning scholar and the author of an award-winning play that sits at the intersection of Race, American Theater and Shakespeare, will engage the audience in tackling difficult subjects, including the limitations of academic and performance traditions that are underpinned by structural racism but also the power of the dramatic arts to shape our personal and political lives.

Facilitator:
Dr. Vimala C. Pasupathi
Associate Dean, Honors College
Associate Professor, Department of English
Hofstra University

Register for the event and receive a link for limited access to streaming video of  a very unique and rarely seen performance of American Moor (available October 10-15).The text of American Moor is now available from Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama Series and can be ordered here and at booksellers of your choice.

Sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center, Hofstra University Honors College and the Joseph G. Astman Family.

 

“The Tornadoed Atlantic of My Being”: Melville, Brazil, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Wednesday, October 21, 6:30 p.m.

A reading and Book discussion with Dr. John Bryant, Professor Emeritus of English,  Hofstra University. The reading will be from Bryant’s new biography, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life (Vol. 2, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020). The reading features an episode in the growth of his "black consciousness," this is, his evolving empathy for Black peoples and the dispossessed. Join the conversation on social media at #HofstraVotes.

Sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of English

This is a Virtual Event. Advance registration is required. 

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2020 Donald J. Sutherland Lecture: The Elusive Quest for Shared Prosperity
Thursday, October 29, 4:30 p.m.

The public has been chronically disenchanted with the U.S. economy, and the pandemic has only heightened social unrest. What can we do to address these concerns? N. Gregory Mankiw will discuss the many difficult tradeoffs policymakers face as they search for answers.

Speaker: N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Moderator: Professor Constantine Alexandrakis, Department of Economics, Hofstra University

N. Gregory Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behavior, financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. His published articles have appeared in academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and in more widely accessible forums, such as The New York TimesThe Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

The Donald J. Sutherland Lecture is named for the former Hofstra trustee who endowed the annual event.

Co-sponsored by Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Hofstra Cultural Center. 

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The Legacy 1619-2019

Join us as we recognize the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to North America and the ongoing experience of African Americans with a series of programming titled The Legacy 1619-2019. Programming reflects the journey of African Americans over four centuries and the hopes of a people, past and present, with historical reenactments, lectures, poetry readings, and panel discussions on a range of subjects. Each is a work in progress and is important in moving beyond the last 400 years. Join the #Hof1619 conversation on social media. For a full listing of #Hof1619 events, visit The Legacy 1619-2019.

 

Political Communication and Rhetoric In the 2020 Presidential Race
Wednesday, February 12

Immediately following the New Hampshire primary on February 11, Hofstra University will host two political communication experts to examine campaign rhetoric in the 2020 presidential election. Dr. David Birdsell will discuss public policy debates on the campaign trail and the implications of policy dialogue on matters of equity in the United States. Dr. Basil Smikle Jr. will offer observations about messaging strategy in the nominating contests and possible ramifications for the general election.

Speakers:
Dr. David Birdsell, Dean, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Baruch College, CUNY

Dr. Basil Smikle Jr., Distinguished Lecturer of Politics and Public Policy,
School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY; Political Strategist and Former Executive Director of the New York State Democratic Party
Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Transcending Disciplines: An Artist’s Journey to Cultural Sustainability
Wednesday, February 20

In this lecture, Cristina Pato shares her artistic journey, forging a multifaceted career as an internationally acclaimed Galician bagpiper master, classical pianist, producer and educator. She will also underscore how her multiple identities – teacher, performer, writer, producer– are a platform to probe social questions raised by the intersection of classical and folkloric music.

Speaker: Cristina Pato is a renowned artist and learning advisor for the project Silkroad 2019-2020 Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at the King Juan Carlos Center, New York University

(Presented in Spanish)
Room 202 Brower Hall, South Campus

(Presented in English)
Room 213, Monroe Lecture Center

Presented by the Department of Romance Languages and Languages.

 

With Great Power Comes Great Insanity:
Gendering Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Wednesday, March 4

This presentation will investigate the intersection between madness, power, excessive behavior, grief, and reputation in medieval and early modern Iberia. It will focus on three particular individuals and their social and cultural contexts: Isabel of Portugal (1428–96), queen-consort of Castile; Isabel of Aragon (1470–98) queen-consort of Portugal; and Juana of Castile (1479–1555) queen in-her-own-right of Castile. All were very closely related to Isabel I, the Catholic (born 1451, ruled 1474–1504), who ruled Castile as queen in-her-own-right and was lauded as a paragon of stability and rationality. Isabel of Portugal was Isabel the Catholic’s mother and the other were her eldest daughters. Each was described by their contemporaries as having gone mad, retreated into isolation, at least for a time, manifesting what might be described as extreme and self-destructive grief.

Speaker: Núria Silleras-Fernández, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Colorado at Boulder
Author, Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

In collaboration with the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; European Studies Program and
Center for "Race", Culture, and Social Justice.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Film Screening and Discussion: College Behind Bars
Wednesday, March 4

Out of the more than 50,000 men and 2,500 women incarcerated in New York state, only a tiny fraction have access to higher education. College Behind Bars explores the transformative power of education through the eyes of a dozen incarcerated men and women trying to earn college degrees – and a chance at new beginnings – through one of the country’s most rigorous prison education programs. It’s a program with wide-ranging benefits, including lower rates of recidivism, and it challenges our prioritization of punishment over education. A film by Lynn Novick.

In collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Criminology Program, and the Maurice A. Deane School of Law.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

 

Digital Nonfiction: Composing Identities In and Beyond the Classroom
Thursday, March 5

In this 70-minute workshop, participants will learn about the contemporary and larger historical context of nonfiction digital storytelling; recognize how concepts from cultural rhetorics, as well as feminist, queer, and disability studies, can inform digital storytelling practices and help us connect to issues of identity and community belonging; practice applying key concepts to the composition of their own short-form work of digital nonfiction; and brainstorm practical, rhetorical strategies for undertaking similar digital nonfiction projects and lessons in the classroom (face-to-face, online, or hybrid) or other community learning venues.

Speaker: Londie Martin, Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

In collaboration with the Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

From Coexistence to Shared Society: The Role of National Identity of Arab Citizens in Israel With Mohammad Darawshe - CANCELLED
Thursday, March 26

Mohammad Darawshe will discuss current affairs and analyze the results of the recent elections and their ramifications to Jewish-Arab relations with Israeli society. Mohammad Darawshe is the Director of Planning, Equality and Shared Society at Givat Haviva Educational Center and a Shalom Hartman Institute faculty member. Mohammad Darawshe is a leading expert on Jewish-Arab relations and has presented at the European Parliament, NATO Defense College, World Economic Forum, and Club de Madrid, US Congress, Herzliya Conference and Israel’s Presidential Conference.

Presented by the Muslim Students Association and the Hofstra Cultural Center, in collaboration with Office of Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion, Hofstra University Honors College, Department of Religion and the Program in Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, and the Department of Political Science. #HofNoHate

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


 

Long Island Divided
A Newsday Live Conversation - CANCELLED
Monday, March 30

Join us and lead Newsday investigative journalists for a discussion of housing discrimination on Long Island, its impact on would-be homeowners and communities, and what is being done to address the issue. This forum follows a three-year investigation by Newsday that revealed evidence of unequal treatment of minority homebuyers.

Panelists:

  • Olivia Winslow, Newsday Reporter
  • Keith Herbert, Newsday Reporter
  • Arthur Browne, Newsday Project Editor

Moderated by Lawrence Levy, Vice President for Economic Development & Professional Studies and Executive Dean, National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center


Uncertainty, Action and Politics: Negligibility and Climate Change - CANCELLED
Wednesday, April 1

Is the negligibility of one’s contribution to a problem such as climate change a reason for inaction?

This has been asserted for individuals, companies, and even countries, comparing their contribution to the problem to that of others. Here I diagnose this line of appeal to ‘negligibility’ as based on a tacit importation of the economic model of perfect competition into the domain of politics where there is no reason to believe that it should apply. I will argue that the application of the theory of negligibility to the domain of individual and political action outside an idealized competitive market has distorted our understanding of action and denuded our understanding of politics. In accordance with this diagnosis, this paper aims not to solve the problem of negligibility so much as to dissolve it.

Speaker: Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and
Director, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Author, Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living

In collaboration with the Department of Philosophy

 

Massive Agent-Based Simulations of Intelligent Transportation Systems - CANCELLED
Thursday, April 16

Have you ever thought of how one could optimize complex road and transportation systems where decision-making is not centralized? In this presentation you will learn how the team involving mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers from the Computational Methods in Industrial Mathematics Lab (Fields-CQAM and Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) developed a simulation system that modeled a real operation on the grid of roads in a large city such as Winnipeg or Toronto. The routes of cars were simulated based on the socio-economic profiles of drivers accessibly through the Canadian census data. The simulation software developed within the project is freely available as Open Source and uses Julia - the new programming for numerical computing. This approach allows to capture, analyze, and understand dependencies in a real world complex road system.

Speaker: Dr. Pawel Pralat, Associate Professor at Ryerson University and
Director of Fields-CQAM Lab on Computational Methods in Industrial Mathematics at The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

In collaboration with the Department of Mathematics.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Bespoke: Exploring Autism Poetics - CANCELLED
Thursday, April 23

Dr. Julia Miele Rodas is professor of English at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. Her book, Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe (University of Michigan Press, 2018) discusses how stigmatized characteristics of autistic language (such as "echolalia") are reflected in celebrated literary texts (such as repetition in Gertrude Stein). Rodas argues that autistic language is actually an essential part of mainstream literary aesthetics, visible in poetry by Walt Whitman, in novels by Charlotte Brontë and Daniel Defoe, in life writing by Andy Warhol, and even in writing by figures from popular culture. By affirming the aesthetic value of autistic language in literary texts, her book invites readers to reconsider the value of autistic language and autistic ways of being in everyday life.

In collaboration with the Disabilities Studies Program.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Social Justice Reporting: Perspectives From Lolly Bowean - CANCELLED
Thursday, April 23

Lolly Bowean, award-winning reporter for the Chicago Tribune, explores the process of telling the stories of her community dealing with race, poverty, and Chicago’s African American community. She discusses developing relationships and techniques for telling the stories of a city dealing with violence, diversity and disparities that is being led by its first black female mayor.

In collaboration with The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Monday, September 16, 7 p.m.
Film Screening and Discussion: Bag It
With George Povall

George Povall, director of the Long Island-based environmental advocacy group All Our Energy, will introduce the film and speak about new legislation that will ban single-use plastic bags in New York. Following the screening, Christa Farmer, professor of geology, environment, and sustainability at Hofstra University, will lead a discussion. Refreshments will be served.

For more information about the film, visit bagitmovie.com.

In collaboration with the Department of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Institute for Peace Studies at Hofstra University

Wednesday, September 25, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
Commemorating International Day of Non-Violence and the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Mahatma Gandhi
featuring Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha is the author of many books, including a two volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi Before India (2014) and Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018), both of which were chosen by the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle as notable books of the year. He is a historian, biographer, and scholar of history and has taught at Yale, Stanford, University of Oslo, and London School of Economics.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement, Institute for Peace Studies, Hofstra Cultural Center, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Office of the Provost, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, and the departments of History and Sociology.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

 

Maurice A. Deane School of Law presents

Thursday, October 3, 4:30-6 p.m.
Watching Bones With a Forensic Anthropologist
"Master in the Slop" (Season 9, Episode 14)

When the Jeffersonian team discovers the body of a renowned but disliked chess master amid pig slop, Sweets surprises the team with his chess skills and goes undercover in the world of professional chess to find the killer. Join us to watch this episode and delve into the show’s successes and failings with a real-life forensic anthropologist!

Speaker: Kristen Hartnett McCann
Department of Anthropology
Hofstra University

In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Tuesday, October 15, 12:45-2:10 p.m.
2019 DONALD J. SUTHERLAND LECTURE
Joel K. Goldstein

Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law (retired) Saint Louis University School of Law Joel K. Goldstein is a highly respected scholar of the vice presidency, presidency, and constitutional law, having written widely in all three areas. Perhaps best known for his work on the vice presidency, his doctoral dissertation grew into his first book, The Modern American Vice Presidency: The Transformation of a Political Institution. More recently, he has written a second book on the subject, The WhiteHouse Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden. He has written numerous scholarly articles and commentary pieces on the vice presidency and is frequently interviewed by national and international media on the subject.

The Donald J. Sutherland Lecture is named for the former Hofstra trustee who endowed the annual event.

Co-sponsored by Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

To register, please visit hofstra.edu/sutherland2019. 

Join the #HofstraVotes conversation on social media.

 

Tuesday, October 22, 9:25-11 a.m.
The Cultural Politics of Taste With Krishnendu Ray

Many food writers highlight the link between taste and territory (environmental factors) called "terroir." An argument has ensued mostly about roots and rootedness and slowing down change. This covers about half the human experience. The other half is about movement and dispersal. Billions of people are moving from country to city, from city to city, from nation to nation. Krishnendu Ray brings mobility to the center of the discussion on taste, focusing on South Asian immigrant foodways in the United States.

Krishnendu Ray is chair of nutrition and food studies at NYU, and former associate dean at Culinary Institute of America. He is the author of The Migrant’s Table (2004) and The Ethnic Restaurateur (2016), and co-editor of Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia (2012). Ray’s most recent work is on street vending in global cities.

In collaboration with the Food Studies Program in the Department of Anthropology.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Celebrating 80 Years of Francis Ford Coppola

A series of films showcasing Coppola’s work over the decades. To mark the 80th year of one of Hofstra’s distinguished alumni, Francis Ford Coppola (born April 1939), we present a series of film screenings, showcasing some of the director’s best work. From Coppola’s biggest hits of the 1970s, to his more independent productions and his recent, more personal approach to filmmaking, we are proud to present the following films.

Thursday, October 10, 7 p.m.
The Godfather (1972)

One of the true masterpieces of the American cinema, this sprawling family epic stars the incomparable Marlon Brando as the head of a New York crime family in the 1940s, with a supporting cast of future A-listers, including Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, James Caan, and Talia Shire. With stunning cinematography by one of the masters, the late Gordon Willis, this multiple-Oscar-winning film took Coppola’s career to a whole new level. Introduced by Professor Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University Department of History.

Monday, October 21, 7 p.m.
Apocalypse Now — Final Cut (1979/2019)

This mythic reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, set during the Vietnam War, won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Starring Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, and Marlon Brando, the film was recently restored and expanded by Coppola’s American Zoetrope. Introduced by Associate Professor Aaron Braun, Hofstra University Department of Radio, Television, Film.

Wednesday, October 30, 7 p.m.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Coppola’s version of the classic vampire tale takes some liberties in turning Stoker’s source novel into a stylish, gothic romance crossed with a good old-fashioned horror film. Starring Gary Oldman as Dracula, with Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Waits, and Cary Elwes. Introduced by Assistant Professor Russell Harbaugh, Hofstra University Department of Radio, Television, Film.

Monday, November 4, 7 p.m.
The Rain People (1969)

Shot partially on Hofstra’s campus and featuring Shirley Knight, James Caan, and Robert Duvall, this feminist road movie is emblematic of the sort of independent, highly personal filmmaking to which Coppola has returned time and again throughout his career. Introduced by Professor Paula Uruburu, Hofstra University Departments of English and Radio, Television, Film and Associate Professor Christine Noschese, Hofstra University Department of Radio, Television, Film.

Monday, November 11, 7 p.m.
Tetro (2009)

Coppola’s first original screenplay since 1974, starring Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdu, and Alden Ehrenreich in a semi-autobiographical family drama set in Buenos Aires. Tetro exemplifies Coppola’s return to a more independent mode of film production. Introduced by Assistant Professor Nicole Franklin, Hofstra University Department of Radio, Television, Film.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Radio, Television, Film in The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Location for all film screenings: Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

Tuesday, February 5, 7 p.m.
Making Safe Sex Sexy

Eileen Kelly is a sex educator and founder of the blog and Instagram account Killer and Sweet Thang. Kelly will talk about the importance of healthy relationships and open communications about safe and pleasurable sex. The event will be an open dialogue on how to improve our sexual health by ensuring that we know how to communicate our worries and desires as well as eradicate the stigma surrounding safe sex.

In collaboration with the Campus Feminist Collective.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

 

Thursday, February 7, 4:30 p.m.
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Public Lecture Building a Brain: Cells, Circuits, and Developmental Disorders

Susan Birren is dean of arts and sciences and professor of biology and neuroscience at Brandeis University. In Birren’s Developmental Neurobiology laboratory, undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers work together to gain a new understanding of how cellular interactions control the development of nerve cells and functional neural circuits. Her work has defined the reciprocal signaling between the nervous system and the heart that leads to neural control of cardiac function and to cardiovascular disease.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

View photos from Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Public Lecture Building Brain:
Cells, Circuits, and Developmental Disorder
 

Tuesday, February 12, 4:30-6 p.m.
Visual Culture and Human Rights in Latin America

Jessica Stites Mor will present on a recent volume she edited that explores artistic production in solidarity movements in Latin America. This multidisciplinary anthology reveals the tremendous role that art and performance have played in the quest for social justice in the Americas. Case studies include artistic solidarity in the aftermath of the Honduran coup, feminist photography in Mexico, and tapestries in Chile.

Speaker: Jessica Stites Mor, Associate Professor of History, University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Author of Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left Since 1968 (University of Pittsburgh, 2012) and Human Rights and Transnational

Solidarity in Cold War Latin America (University of Wisconsin, 2013)

Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) and African Studies Program.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Thursday, February 14, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Celebrate Douglass Day 2019!

This year, Hofstra will join universities and cultural organizations throughout the country in a live-streamed read-a-thon. Come by the Axinn Library to participate and have some cake!

Co-sponsored by EdTech, the Center for “Race,” Culture, and Social Justice, and the University Library. Commemorating Black History Month and the Hofstra University Museum of Art.

Main Lobby, Axinn Library

 

Wednesday, March 6, 11:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
Political Speechwriting With Terry Edmonds

Terry Edmonds is the first African American chief White House speechwriter under former President William Jefferson Clinton. In the age of shorthand social media, the 24-hour news cycle, and the explosion of fragmentary information, Edmonds will discuss the fundamentals of political speechwriting, and address challenges faced by public advocates in today’s political environment.

In collaboration with the Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND DANCE presents

Monday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Shakespeare Festival Distinguished Artist Lecture
Woodie King Jr.
Founding Director, New Federal Theatre

On Hofstra’s Globe stage, Hofstra’s Department of Drama and Dance, in conjunction with the 70th annual Hofstra Shakespeare Festival, presents legendary theater director and producer Woodie King Jr. as this year’s distinguished artist. King has been described as “the king of black theater producers” by the journal American Visions (2000). As a writer, producer, director, and activist, King has championed the work of important black writers, actors, and directors, including the first production of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Woodie King Jr. received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in 1997.

Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater, John Cranford Adams Playhouse

 

Monday, March 25, noon-6 p.m.
The U Turn
Film Screening and Discussion With
Filmmaker Luis Argueta

The U Turn, the third documentary in Luis Argueta’s immigration trilogy, narrates the transformational journey of immigrant workers who broke their silence about abuses endured at the Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The film showcases the U visa, which permits victims of certain crimes who have suffered substantial mental or physical abuse while in the United States to enter or remain when they might not otherwise be able to do so.

Luis Argueta is a Guatemalan-American film director and producer. His 1994 film, The Silence of Neto, a coming-of-age film set in Cold War-era Guatemala, was the first Guatemalan film to be internationally recognized. Since then, Argueta has produced a trilogy of documentaries (AbUSed: The Postville Raid [2010], Abrazos [2014], and The U Turn [2016]) that present the human face of immigration and aim to contribute to the national and international conversation on one of the most important topics of our time.

Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) and African Studies Program.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

MAURICE A. DEANE SCHOOL OF LAW presents

Wednesday, April 3, 12:10-1 p.m.
2019 HOWARD LICHTENSTEIN DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP IN LEGAL ETHICS LECTURE
presents
Prosecution Ethics in Current Times With
Angela J. Davis

Angela J. Davis is a professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law, and an expert in criminal law and procedure with a specific focus on prosecutorial power and racism in the criminal justice system. Davis previously served as director of the D.C. Public Defender Service, where she began as a staff attorney representing indigent juveniles and adults; as executive director of the National Rainbow Coalition; and as a former law clerk of the Honorable Theodore R. Newman, former chief judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals. Davis is the author of Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor (Oxford University Press, 2007. She has co-edited numerous books and published articles in the Michigan, Iowa, Fordham, and Hofstra Law Reviews.

The Sidney R. and Walter Siben Moot Courtroom, Room 308 Maurice A Deane School of Law, South Campus

For more information, please contact Debbie Grattan, legal ethics coordinator at the Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, at 516-463-5748 or email deborah.j.grattan@Hofstra.edu.

 

Tuesday, April 9, 11:10 a.m.
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Salt Sugar FatMichael Moss is a leading expert on the food industry, health and wellness, and marketing. Taking audiences on an eye-opening journey deep inside some of the world’s biggest and most successful companies, he offers audiences an illuminating and surprising look at the researchers, marketers, strategists, and CEOs who seduce us with their products. Moss brings to life the creative ways food manufacturers use the science of human behavior, biology and marketing. Using humor, case studies, and insight gleaned from investigative reporting that won him a Pulitzer Prize, he shows how companies get consumers to buy, often at the expense of their health.

In collaboration with the Food Studies Program and National Public Health Week.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Monday, April 15, 12:50-2:15 p.m.
Practicing Development in the Jim Crow South

Drawing on a range of works that extends from gendered historical analyses of colonialism to critical histories of development, and based on archival research in Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi, DrMona Domosh argues that what we now call international development – a form of hegemony different from but related to colonialism – needs to be understood not only as a geopolitical tool of the Cold War, but also as a technique of governance that took shape within the realm of the domestic and through a racialized gaze. She does this by tracing some of the key elements of U.S. international development practices in the postwar era to a different time and place: the American South, a region considered “undeveloped” in the first decades of the 20th century, and the agricultural extension practices that targeted the rural farm home and farm women, particularly African- American women.

Speaker: Dr. Mona Domosh, Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College

In collaboration with the the Mu Kappa chapter of the international geographical honor society Gamma Theta Upsilon, and the Department of Global Studies and Geography.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

 

Thursday, April 18, 9:35 a.m.
Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability

Elizabeth Donaldson juxtaposes the linkage of psychosis and violence in the superhero comics tradition with representations of mental illness in contemporary graphic memoirs. This new tradition of illness memoirs in comics helps to make a maligned disability experience (psychosis) publicly legible in innovative and potentially liberating ways.

Speaker: Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Associate Professor of English, Director, Medical Humanities Program, New York Institute of Technology

Editor, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health; Co-editor, The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability

In collaboration with the Disability Studies Program.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Thursday, April 18, 11:10 a.m.
Scholar-Athletes and Embodied Learning: Writing Themselves In

Dr. J. Michael Rifenburg’s recent book The Embodied Playbook offers groundbreaking insight into the teaching of scholar-athletes. He offers a new approach to understanding student literacy in a surprising place: the university athletics department. Through analysis of a yearlong case study of the men’s basketball team at the University of North Georgia, Rifenburg shows that a deeper and more refined understanding of how humans learn through physical action can help writing instructors reach a greater range of students.

Speaker: J. Michael Rifenburg, Associate Professor of Writing, University of North Georgia

In collaboration with the Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Monday, April 29, 7 p.m.
Navigating Our Intersections:
A Conversation About Race, Ability, and Queerness With Lydia X. Z. Brown

In celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month and in an effort to promote inclusive and intersectional dialogue about social justice, Lydia X. Z. Brown will deliver a lecture about their experiences as an autistic, trans-racial adoptee. Through their lecture, Brown will challenge us to speak about transracial and transnational adoption as a reproductive justice, disability justice, decolonization, and racial justice issue. They will also tackle how the fame of individuals emulating Rachel Dolezal and her blackface have affected their ability to navigate American society as a real transracial person.

Speaker: Lydia X. Z. Brown, Disability Justice Advocate, Organizer, and Writer

Co-sponsored by the Queer and Trans People of Color Coalition, The Gender Identity Federation, The Pride Network, Hofstra’s Asian American Pacific Islander Alliance, Collegiate Women of Color, Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion, and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Thursday, March 1, 9:35 a.m.

THE 2018 DONALD J. SUTHERLAND LECTURE presents Ilya Somin
Professor of Law
George Mason University of Law

Author, Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Many people believe that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. Ilya Somin writes regularly for the Volokh Conspiracy law and politics blog at The Washington Post. He is also the author of The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain (2015) and coauthor of A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (2013).

The Donald J. Sutherland Lecture is named for the former Hofstra trustee who endowed the annual event.

Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Thursday, April 5, 11 a.m.-12:40 p.m.

Signature Event: A Conversation with David Frum
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Author, Trumpocracy, The Corruption of the American Republic
Speechwriter for President George W. Bush, 2001-2002

Former White House speechwriter, Atlantic senior editor, andmedia commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed. This thoughtful and hard-hitting book is a warning for democracy and America's future.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

 

Monday, April 9, 4:30 p.m.

Joseph G. Astman Signature Lecture Twyla Tharp: The Creative Habit

All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. Creativity is the product of preparation and effort, and it is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, join us as world-renowned choreographer and dance artist Twyla Tharp speaks about her book The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, based on the lessons she learned in her remarkable 35-year career. #HofCreativity

The Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center, California Avenue

 

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment In Black America

James Forman Jr., former public defender, professor, and criminal justice reformer, Yale Law School

Based on his critically acclaimed book by the same name, this talk builds on Forman’s work as a public defender, a founder of a charter school for incarcerated teens, and a law professor to outline the criminal justice crisis with both data and human stories. He leaves the audience with hope for what can be done to make a difference, and how they themselves can contribute to change.

Co-sponsored by the Monroe Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, Criminal Justice Clinic and the Black Law Students Association, Maurice A. Deane School of Law.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center (11/07/17)

 

THE DEFAMATION EXPERIENCE: When Race, Class, Religion and Gender Collide – A Conversation Begins

A Play by Todd Logan

Presented by Canamac Productions, the nationally acclaimed play Defamation is a riveting courtroom drama that explores the highly charged issues of race, religion, gender, class and the law with a twist: the audience is the jury. More than a play, Defamation is a unique opportunity for the community to engage in civil discourse about the most pressing social issues of our day. Through deliberations and post-show discussions, audiences engage in civil discourse that may challenge preconceived notions. Playwright

Todd Logan says, “Whether we like it or not, we still have major divides in this country. Most of us still go to bed at night in cities, communities and neighborhoods that are segregated by race, religion, ethnicity and/or class. I wanted to write a play that encourages open, honest conversation that leads to greater understanding and empathy to combat today’s prevailing trends.”

Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center; Office of Student Leadership; Hofstra Student Government Association; Maurice A. Deane School of Law; Center for Civic Engagement; NOAH Program; and the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center (10/25/17)

 

An Evening With Naomi Klein

From the bestselling author of No is Not Enough and This Changes Everything, award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist Naomi Klein in her most recent book, No Is Not Enough, attempts to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover of shocks and crises, it could get a lot worse, and it’s a plan for how, if we keep our heads, we might just be able to flip the script and arrive at a radically better future. Ms. Klein will also address from her book, This Changes Everything, what we think you know about global warming and the real inconvenient truth that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center (10/09/17)

 

A Conversation With Masha Gessen

Join Masha Gessen, Russian-American journalist and the author of several books, among them The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, as she discusses U.S. and Russian Affairs. Ms. Gessen is an expert on Vladimir Putin and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Slate, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. Forthcoming, is Ms. Gessen’s new book, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. For more information on this speaker, please visit prhspeakers.com

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center (09/27/17)

 

Monday, October 9, 2:55-4:20 p.m.
Global Judaisms Lecture III
Jews, Gender and Race in Latin America

Dr. Ariana Brodsky, president of the Latin American Studies Association and associate professor of history at St. Mary's College of Maryland, explores the paths taken by young Argentine Jewish women and men as they navigate these politically charged times. Youths who were active in Jewish communal institutions debated whether or not to participate in Argentine political youth groups. Most of them were training to eventually move to Israel, and many of these young Jews chose not to be apathetic to an existing political climate that increasingly viewed young people as agents of change.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

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Jews, Gender and Race in Latin America
 

Tuesday, October 10, 4:30-9 p.m.
The Business Culture of the Mohegan Tribe

 

Representatives from the Mohegan Tribe Council discuss an array of interesting topics related to business and Native American culture. The first session, led by Kevin Brown, chairman of the Mohegan Tribe, expounds on the importance and difficulties of cultural awareness when marketing and conducting business overseas. The second session will be an interactive discussion led by Charlie Strickland, vice chairman of the Council of Elders, who will sing, drum, and tell stories of the Mohegan Tribe.

Presented in collaboration with the Hofstra American Marketing Association (HAMA).

Multipurpose Room, Mack Student Center

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Wednesday, October 11, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
Ada Lovelace Day
Thinking like an Attacker: An Introduction to Red Team Security

Named for the 19th century scientist who pioneered computational programming, Ada Lovelace Day is part of an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Our speaker, Cassia Martin is a Senior Security Consultant with ten years of professional experience in systems, security, and programming. She uses automated tools in combination with manual testing techniques to identify vulnerabilities in web and mobile software. #AdaLovelaceDay
Speaker:  Cassia Martin
Senior Security Engineer
Amazon

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Wednesday, October 11, 3-4 p.m.
What Mathematics Can Tell Us About Cancer

 

J.B. Nation, a leading specialist in universal algebra, has been involved over the last 10 years in interdisciplinary study of genetic data on cancer patients, with the bio-informatics group at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu.

Multiple factors determine the progress of a tumor. Some of these factors are the same across different types of cancer, while others are associated with only one or a few types of cancer. How can we identify those factors? The NIH has made available mRNA expression and other variables, along with clinical data for about 30 different cancers. New computer algorithms for analyzing expression data have allowed Dr. Nation to compare the genetic profiles of 15 different types of cancer from NIH data and identify the most significant factors in each one. This is done from the mathematical properties of the expression table. Only afterwards are the biological processes interpreted. Moreover, one can also gain information about possible treatments.

This project involved collaboration among mathematicians, statisticians, physicians, pathologists, and computer scientists. As with the study of many other complex problems, progress in the treatment of cancer depends increasingly on interdisciplinary communication.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

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Wednesday, November 8, 12:50 -2:15 p.m.
Newsday - Go Inside

Meet the senior leadership of Newsday, one of the nation’s most dynamic media organizations, serving Long Island and New York City. In a changing media landscape, how has a 77-year-old, traditional print business transformed itself into a multimedia operation? How has digital delivery and interactivity changed how news is covered? Learn how publishing decisions are made and how the pieces of a daily news operation come together. Moderator: Cliff Jernigan, Chairperson, Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Wednesday, November 8
Hofstra Design-a-thon
Create, Collaborate, Compete

Student teams are invited to participate in a speed challenge to design creative works for a local nonprofit client. Featuring a lecture by Troy Griggs, graphics editor at The New York Times, and including faculty mentors and judges from The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication and the Department of Fine Arts, Design, and Art History, the challenge is an opportunity for students to show off their design chops to win prizes and get published. No prior preparation is required. The client and the design challenge will be revealed at the event. Space is limited. Visit bit.ly/hofstradesignathon to register for the competition; registration for the lecture is not required.

11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
Lecture by Troy Griggs

12:40-6:30 p.m.
Competition

Calkins Lab, South Campus

For more information, please email Russell.Chun@hofstra.edu.

 

Tuesday, November 14, 11:10 a.m.-12:35 p.m.
Climate Change and Globalization in Coastal Regions:
Opportunities and Challenges for Building Resilience

 

Dr. Robin Leichenko's research intersects the fields of economic geography and human dimensions of global environmental change. Her work examines how and why processes of global economic and environmental change differentially affect cities, regions and sectors, and the implications of these processes for questions of vulnerability, equity, resilience and sustainability.  Her book, Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures (with Karen O'Brien, Oxford University Press, 2008) was awarded the 2009 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography from the Association of American Geographers. Leichenko's talk will examine interactions between climate change and globalization in coastal regions of the United States.
Speaker: Dr. Robin Leichenko, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Rutgers University

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

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Opportunities and Challenges for Building Resilience

Wednesday, November 15, 2:55-4:20 p.m.
Book Presentation: A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth and Justice in Mexico

Pablo Piccato presents his new book, A History of Infamy, which explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-20th century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. As Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times.
Speaker: Pablo Piccato, Columbia University

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Thursday, November 30, 4:30-9 p.m. (NAACP Grant)
BLACK REFLECTION

Hofstra's chapter of NAACP will hold a series of workshops and a culminating "keynote conversation" to speak to the men and women of the Hofstra community separately about the difficulties each gender faces in the current racial climate. In our workshops, two speakers will give their unique perspectives on the gender divide in the black community and how to overcome and be successful through the different adversities each gender experiences. The culminating discussion will discuss the self-image of the black community and how we can come together to support one another to build a framework for change.
Speakers include Amanda Seales, comedian, actress, recording artist, and radio personality; and Sawandi Wilson, Hofstra graduate ‘09 and actor.

Multipurpose Room, Mack Student Center

THE GREAT WAR – A HUNDRED YEARS ON

Join us for a continuation of events commemorating the anniversary of American engagement in World War I.


Thursday, September 28, 4:30 p.m.
Film Screening:
Hearts of the World (1918)

This film sets out to tell the story of World War I with the greatest realism possible through the melding of warfare and melodrama, a narrative strategy D.W. Griffith had perfected in his extraordinary and controversial film work prior to this film. Yet Griffith’s unprecedented access to the battlefield did not ensure the film’s success, and considering the reasons for this may help us understand something of the nature of what was a new and terrifying form of war—and the inability of contemporaries, from politicians to soldiers, to grasp its true nature.

Presenter:
Dr. Isabelle Freda
Assistant Professor of Radio, Television, Film
The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication
Hofstra University

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Wednesday, October 18, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
Feminizing Farming
World War I and Female Agricultural Resilience in France

Speaker:
Dr. Nicole Dombrowski-Risser
Professor of History
Towson University

Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th Floor

 

Friday, November 10, 8 p.m.
Hofstra Symphony Orchestra
Music and the Great War

Adam Glaser, director

Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater, John Cranford Adams Playhouse


Tuesday, November 28, 2:10 p.m.
Film Screening
J’accuse (1919)

J’accuse, a French silent film directed by Abel Gance, juxtaposes a romantic drama with the background of the horrors of World War I. Work on the film began in 1918, and some scenes were filmed on actual battlefields. The film’s powerful depiction of wartime suffering, and particularly its climactic sequence of the “return of the dead,” made it an international success and confirmed Gance as one of the  most important directors in Europe.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Tuesday, October 31

Just in time for some Halloween fun, join us for an evening full of “spooktacular” interactive fun – learn about Long Island’s very own witchcraft trial, listen to stories about Hofstra ghosts and apparitions while on a guided tour of the South Campus, and then settle back for a trick or treat film screening with a live performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. #HofHalloween

THE DEVIL IN NEW YORK —
THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF GOODY GARLICK, 4:30-6 p.m.

Celebrate Halloween as Tara Rider sheds light on the most famous American witch hunt, which began in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Yet, more than three decades before that notorious event, Long Island had its very own witchcraft trial — the trial of Goody Garlick. Accusations of flying on poles and cavorting with the devil ran rampant in the colonies during the 17th century and led to hundreds of accusations of witchcraft. To understand what happened during these trials, we must first understand the stresses of ordinary 17th century life in New York and why the fear of witches existed. The trial of Goody Garlick acts as a lens to help us understand the hysteria associated with these accusations.
Speaker: Dr. Tara Rider
Lecturer and Director of the International Academic Program to Ireland and England
Stony Brook University

Sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

WALKING TOUR: HOFSTRA GHOSTS, 6:15 p.m.

Join us after the lecture for a ghost tour of Hofstra’s South Campus. The walking tour will feature stories and surprises, and will highlight Hofstra’s own ghosts and stories of nearby apparitions. Cider and doughnuts will be served.
Facilitated by Geri Solomon, University Archivist and Debra Willett, Educational Coordinator,Long Island Studies Institute.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Long Island Studies Institute.
Meet in front of Hofstra Hall, South Campus.

TRICK OR TREAT FILM SCREENING – THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: LIVE, 8 p.m.

“Don’t dream it. BE IT!” Join us to celebrate the original cult classic film with live performances by students and community members. Full of “spooktacular” interactive fun – door prize for best Halloween costume, trick or treat, and free popcorn.

Co-sponsored by Intercultural Engagement & Inclusion (IEI)

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

Thursday, February 23, 7:30 p.m.
The Crisis of Black Education by Dr. Christopher Emdin

From the moment that black people set foot on the shores of theUnited States, the most powerful tool for their oppression has been the denial of an education. Dr. Emdin explores the ways that this practice has evolved over time, and the ways that we can resist the denial of an education. Drawing from the words and work of civil rights icons throughout history, the talk emphasizes the role of resistance to oppression through formal engagement in education. In a merging of theory, practice, science, and story, this address explores a way forward for those destined to lead the charge for social justice. Christopher Emdin is an associate professor of mathematics, science, and technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, and associe also serves as Minorities in Energy ambassador for the U.S. Depate director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education. Hartment of Energy and the STEAM ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Emdin will sign copies of his book For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, available for purchase after the lecture.
Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and Black Student Union (BSU)

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

 

Monday, March 6, 7 p.m.
Shakespeare Signature Speaker: Joseph T. Morton*

Joseph T. Morton, former Hofstra University student. The noted American actor speaks about his experiences at Hofstra and beyond, including his work in classical theater, contemporary drama, film and television. Current work includes ABC's hit show Scandal and the critically acclaimed Turn Me Loose off-Broadway.

*Mr. Morton's appearance is subject to his professional schedule.

Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater, John Cranford Adams Playhouse

Hofstra Shakespeare Festival

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68th Annual Hofstra Shakespeare Festival – Debut of Globe Stage
We are proud to announce a very special all-Shakespeare semester to celebrate of the opening of the new Hofstra Globe Stage. The new Hofstra Globe Stage was researched and designed by David Henderson, associate professor and head of scenic design in the Department of Drama and Dance. This adds an exciting new chapter to Hofstra's long history of Globe scholarship that began with Hofstra President John Cranford Adams in 1945. The festival begins with a full-length production of Hamlet in full Elizabethan dress on the new Globe stage and continues with a one-hour adaptation of Romeo and JulietThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and special performances of Elizabethan works by the Music Department and the Dance Program.

For more information on Shakespeare related events visit Hofstra Shakespeare Festival.

 

Wednesday, March 8, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
CENTER FOR "RACE," CULTURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE presents
Forging a More Inclusive Campus in a Conflicted Country:
Navigating "Race," Diversity and Social Justice

Renowned attorney Gloria Browne-Marshall, JD, MA, delivers the inaugural address as Hofstra launches its new Center for "Race," Culture and Social Justice. Her talk encourages the University community to support the new center in its efforts to move Hofstra forward in embracing the principles and policies of diversity in everyday practice. Browne-Marshall is associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is the author of several books, including her most recent, The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Presented by the Department of Drama and Dance, and the Hofstra Cultural Center
.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

For more information, please email the Center for "Race," Culture and Social Justice at RaceCultureSocialJustice[at]hofstra.edu

 
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Monday, March 27, 4:30 p.m.
Hofstra Cultural Center and Jewish Studies Program present
GLOBAL JUDAISMS LECTURE
Sephardim In Network: Arab-Jewish Worlds

Join us for this lecture delivered by two experts in the field who explore the networks of Sephardim of Arab-Jews through the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The speakers unveil hidden stories of intercultural encounters, struggles for identity, and religious creativity.
Speakers: Ronnie Perelis, Rabbi Alcalay Chair in Sephardic Studies, Yeshiva University
Francesca Bergoli, Director of Jewish Studies, City University of New York

Presented in collaboration with the Hofstra Department of Religion and Hofstra Hillel: The Center for Jewish Life on Campus.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Wednesday, April 5, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
THE GREAT WAR – A HUNDRED YEARS ON

Join us for a series of readings commemorating the anniversary of American engagement in World War I, including the reading of President Woodrow Wilson's speech "Making the World Safe for Democracy" and other works focused on democracy.

Main Lobby, Axinn Library
 

Related Event:
Wednesday, April 5, 7 p.m.
Film Screening and Discussion
All Quiet on the Western Front

The 1930 American film starring Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander and based on the book by the same name, shows the physical and mental toll that World War I took on the soldiers. Rodney Hill, Hofstra assistant professor of radio, television, film, leads a discussion following the film

Room 211 Breslin Hall, South Campus

 

Presented by the Department of History


Hofstra Cultural Center presents
Film Screenings and Discussion:
The Anthropologist

Directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger, The Anthropologist is a documentary about the work of anthropologist Susie Crate, who travels the world studying cultures already affected by climate change. It is also a film about mothers and daughters who are anthropologists – Crate's relationship with her teenage daughter is juxtaposed with an interview with Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropologist and daughter of American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead.

Monday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.
Screening: The Anthropologist

Tuesday, April 18
9:30 a.m. Screening: The Anthropologist
11 a.m. Discussion with director Seth Kramer

 
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Film Screenings and Discussion: The Anthropologist

Wednesday, April 26, 11:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
Second Annual Digital Research Exchange (DREx):
Designing Digital Archives for Research and Pedagogy

The symposium begins with a keynote address by Raymond Siemens, Canada research chair in humanities computing and distinguished professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, a leader of collaborative, transformative, interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogy.

Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th Floor

2-4 p.m.
Panel Discussion

The afternoon panel discussion is moderated by John Bryant, professor emeritus, Hofstra University. Panelists include Thomas Augst, New York University; Jeffrey Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Elizabeth Dillon, Northeastern University.

Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and Hofstra's Digital Research Center (DRC)

Wednesday, September 28, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)

What Is Latinx Queer History?

How do you translate queer into Spanish? How do you create culturally sensitive, bilingual, age-appropriate materials about Latinx gender and sexuality or LGBT experience?

Dr. Larry La Fountain-Stokes discusses his recent toy theater Enciclopedia Deiknumena publication titled A Brief and Transformative Account of Queer History/Un Breve y Transformador Relato de la Historia Queer, illustrated by Dave Buchen and published in Puerto Rico, in the context of other books on lesbian, gay, and transgender topics for young readers.

Dr. La Fountain-Stokes was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora, and of the short story collections Abolición del pato and Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails. Dr. La Fountain-Stokes’ creative work also includes performances and a series of You Tube videos as Lola von Miramar, a Puerto Rican drag queen with a PhD who loves poetry and cooking.

Presented by Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) and African Studies Program in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center.

 

 

Tuesday, October 11, 11:10 a.m.
Theater of War

Theater of War is an innovative public health project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the challenges faced by service members, veterans, and their caregivers and families today. Using Sophocles’ plays to forge a common vocabulary for openly discussing the impact of war on individuals, families, and communities, these readings are aimed at generating compassion and understanding between diverse audiences.

Each performance is followed by community panelist remarks and a facilitated town hall discussion.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

 

 

Wednesday, October 12, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
Ada Lovelace Day

Named for the 19th-century scientist who pioneered computational programming, this event is part of an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Speaker: To be announced.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

 

Monday, October 31, 2:55 p.m.
MICHAEL KIMMEL: Angry White Men: Masculinity at the End of an Era

Michael Kimmel is one of the world's leading experts on men and masculinities. He is the SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University. With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, he founded the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook in 2013.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

 

Wednesday, November 9, 7 p.m.
The Aesthetic Brain With Dr. Anjan Chatterjee

This event brings Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, to Hofstra to talk about his recent book The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art. Dr. Chatterjee discusses findings from cognitive neuroscience that reveal neural structures and networks engaged in our response to beauty and in other aesthetic encounters.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Monday, November 14, 7 p.m.
Jennifer Teege
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me:
A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me is a book born of a shocking discovery for speaker Jennifer Teege. She picked up a book by chance at Hamburg's main library and discovered that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp, portrayed so memorably by Ralph Fiennes in the film Schindler's List. Ms. Teege's mother was German; her father was Nigerian. Raised in a loving home by her adopted German family, Ms. Teege struggled with depression as she coped with the trauma of rejection by her birth mother. She went to college in Israel, where she learned fluent Hebrew and earned degrees in Middle Eastern and African Studies. She later returned to Germany and now had to learn about her biological family's secret from a book; and that a monstrous man, Amon Goeth, reviled for decades as "the butcher of Plaszow," was her biological grandfather. After her emotional pilgrimage, Ms. Teege says, "I'm no longer a prisoner of the past. I know now that I am not to blame, and the guilt no longer weighs heavily on my shoulders. There is no Nazi gene: We can decide for ourselves who and what we want to be."

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Wednesday, November 16, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
The Emergent National Security Landscape: The New Strategic Polarization of the World President

Obama’s national security strategy suggests that environmental factors represent a core foreign policy challenge, and indeed, the ongoing discourse regarding the potential security implications of climate change has promoted environmental security to the forefront of the global security agenda. As the president suggests, national security affairs may no longer be limited to traditional politico-military dynamics; but instead, climate, resources, and demographics may now be viewed as being equally important as traditional elements of national power. Nevertheless, linkages between violent conflict and environmental degradation are a matter of some controversy and continue to inspire a great deal of debate in academic and professional circles.

Speaker: Frank Galgano, Chair, Department of Geography and Environment, Villanova University

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Studies and Geography

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Thursday, December 1, 4:30 p.m.
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Philip Kitcher:
Six Problems of Climate Change

Debates concerning what to do about climate change – and whether to do anything at all – turn on six major questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Does it matter? (3) How much should we care about the future? (4) What can be done? (5) Who will pay? (6) Do we need new politics? Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, will explain these questions, and suggest answers to them. The lecture is drawn from a forthcoming book, co-authored with Evelyn Fox Keller, The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts (W.W. Norton, 2017).

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 

Wednesday, February 24, 11:15 a.m.
Acting Shakespeare Lecture Series
The Robben Island Bible

A staged reading of the verbatim theater piece The Robben Island Bible, followed by a talkback with the playwright, Matthew Hahn. The Robben Island Bible centers around South African Sonny Venkatrathnam, a political prisoner on Robben Island from 1972 to 1978. Venkatrathnam asked his wife to send him The Complete Works of William Shakespeare during a time when prisoners were briefly allowed to have one book other than a religious text. The book's "fame" resides in the fact that Venkatrathnam passed the book to a number of his fellow political prisoners in the single cells. Each prisoner marked his favorite passage in the book and signed it with the date. It contains 32 signatures, including those of Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada and Mac Maharaj, all luminaries in the struggle for a democratic South Africa. The selection of text provides fascinating insight into the minds, thinking and soul of those political prisoners who fought for the transformation of South Africa. It also speaks to the impact of Shakespeare on the human spirit regardless of place or time.

Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center

 
View photos from: Acting shakespeare Lecture Series: The Robben Island Bible

Wednesday, March 2, 11:15 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
The 2016 Donald J. Sutherland Lecture with Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens writes "Global View," the The Wall Street Journal's foreign affairs column,
for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013. He is the paper's deputy
editorial page editor, responsible for the international opinion pages, and a member of
the paper's editorial board. He is also a regular panelist on the Journal Editorial Report, a
weekly political talk show broadcast on Fox News Channel..

Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

View photos from: The 2016 Donald J. Sutherland Lecture with Bret Stephens


For a printable pdf, please visit Sutherland 2016 pdf.


Tuesday, March 8, 11 a.m.
Remember the Triangle Fire

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory located one block east of Washington Square Park. Beginning on the eighth floor, the fire burned through three floors of the Asch Building, now NYU’s Brown Building. There were over 500 employees – mostly young women and recent immigrants. Because the owners had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits – a then-common practice to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks – many of the workers could not escape and jumped from the high windows. Fire trucks arrived, but their ladders reached only the sixth floor. The elevators ran as long as they could as workers pressed into the cars; some tumbled down the elevator shaft. In the end, 146 people died. There was a trial, but the owners – long known for their anti-union activities – were acquitted. The fire became a rallying cry for the international labor movement. Many of our fire safety laws were created in response to this tragic event and improved safety standards.

Multipurpose Room, Mack Student Center

 
View photos from: Remember the Triangle Fire

Friday, March 11, 2:55 p.m.
The Music Business, Broadway, Belting, and Crossing Over From the Classical Side

Steven Gross presents a Master Class illumining many of the things he has learned in his more than 20 years of musical experience, including what to expect during a Broadway audition, the best way to present your materials and how to select your personal repertoire. Mr. Gross has worked on Broadway and the West End as a music director, conductor and pianist. Mr. Gross has appeared with many national and international opera companies, symphony orchestras and festivals. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in conducting from Yale University and is a Fulbright and Rotary Scholar. He has extensive experience working in academia as a clinician, guest artist and professor and is the founder and CEO of the musical theater database MusicalTheaterSongs.com.

Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of Music

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

View photos from: The Music Business, Broadway, Belting, and Crossing Over From the Classical Side
 

Tuesday, March 15, 2:20 p.m.
Mariposa & the Saint

Longtime friends and current collaborators Sara (Mariposa) Fonseca and Julia Steele Allen have written a play through the prison wall. Over the course of three years, crafted only by letters, they smuggled out a story that is urgent, emotional and profound. From inside the isolation of solitary confinement, Mariposa speaks directly to the audience. Her words will change you. The performance is followed by opportunities for the audience to engage in a dialogue regarding the issue of solitary confinement and take action. Directed by Noelle Ghoussaini with performances by Ray Huth and Julia Steele Allen.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

 

Monday, March 21, 2:55 p.m.
Walt Whitman’s Musical Voice

Hofstra Writing Studies and Composition faculty member and noted spoken word Entertainer Paul Kirpal Gordon teams up with pianist/composer Steve Elmer to present iconic poems from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass – read aloud to musical compositions by Ellington, Debussy, Chopin, Gershwin, and Rodgers and Hart, among others. Hofstra students and special guests present readings and a PowerPoint presentation on the Long Islandborn poet.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

View photos from: Walt Whitman's Musical Voice
 

SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND HUMAN SERVICES

Thursday, April 7, 9:30 a.m.
The Politics of Big Food and Big Soda:
A Conversation with Dr. Marion Nestle

Junk food and soda have long been known to be leading contributors to obesity, diabetes, dental disease, and other health problems that plague Americans, yet they remain multibillion-dollar industries with global reach. Dr. Marion Nestle, world renowned for her research examining scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and the impact of the immense lobbying power in the food industry, outlines both the challenges and winning strategies (including imposing taxes on sodas, removing sodas from schools and restricting marketing to children, excluding the purchase of sodas using food stamps, and limiting the sizes of drinks sold) and calls for a greater investment by companies and communities in promoting sports and outdoor entertainment, healthy alternatives to sugary drinks, and more nutrition research. Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

 

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM
Tuesday, April  12, 2:20 p.m.

Equal Pay Day: CHORE WARS! Gender Equality Comes Home
As women moved into the formal labor force in large numbers over the last 40 years, essential care work has increasingly shifted from the family domain to the market. On this national Equal Pay Day, join us as a forum of experts and activists discuss why essential child care and elder care work remain low-paid in this country even as demand grows for high-quality care. How can public policies help improve the equity and effectiveness of care work? Speakers include Silvia Federici, Hofstra professor emerita and author of Revolution at Point Zero; Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor, editor and author of For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States; and Jocelyn Gill-Campbell, coordinator of Domestic Workers United NYC. Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and African Studies Program


Thursday, April 14, 7 p.m.
The Blooming Garden of Beauty

Experience a full immersion into the world of classical Japanese dance and music, with a Kabuki performance by Sachiyo Ito and Dancejapan. The performance will be followed by a Q&A on women in Japanese arts, with participants Francesca Cassio, PhD, Hofstra University, and Patricia Welch, PhD, Hofstra University.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

View photos from: The Blooming Garden of Beauty
 

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Friday, February, 6, 8 p.m.
Black Angels Over Tuskegee

by Layon Gray
featuring Hofstra Alumnus Lamark D. Cheston

Winner of the 2009 NAACP Award, 2009 ADA Award and 2010 NYC Audelco Special Achievement Award. Incredible! Vibrantly energetic and emotionally captivating, Black Angels Over Tuskegee is a historical docudrama narrative of six men embarking Upon a journey to become the first aviators in the United States Army Air Forces during a tumultuous era of racial segregation and Jim Crow idealism in twentieth century American history.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

Photo credit: Aidan Cole


Sunday, February 8, 5 p.m.
African Diaspora: Music and Dance in the Old and New Worlds

Join Hofstra’s Department of Music and the Hofstra Cultural Center as we go on a musical journey of the African Diaspora celebrating music and dance in the Old and New Worlds. The audience will experience West African drumming and dancing; South African choral music; concert music by African, Latin American and African-American composers; and Cubop (Cuban bebop) and Calypso dances for Big Band choreographed by Mickey Davidson. Highlights include performances by Hofstra student dancers and musicians, ensembles from Hempstead and Uniondale High Schools, and invited guest artists, including the internationally acclaimed Imani Winds.

John Cranford Adams Playhouse

 


Wednesday, February 11, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
Black History Month Reception

Join the Hofstra community as we celebrate Black History Month. The reception will feature keynote speaker Gloria Browne-Marshall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the Multicultural & International StudentPrograms Office, Zarb Black & Hispanic MBA/MS Associationand the Hofstra Cultural Center.

 


Monday, February 23, 4:30 p.m.
Invisible Wars: Indigenous Religion, Resistance, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico

Dr. David Tavárez, associate professor and chair of anthropology at Vassar College, discusses his research on transatlantic/global colonial intellectual exchanges. He also explores evangelization and language policies, writing, and power in the public sphere, as well as in Nahua and Zapotec societies. He is the author of The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

View photos from:
Invisible Wars: Indigenous Religion, Resistance, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico

 


Tuesday, March 3, 7 p.m.
I Hear America Singing: Walt Whitman and the Great American Songbook

Spoken word entertainer Kirpal Gordon and his Speak-Spake-Spoke Septet present an evening of Walt Whitman’s poetry performed to musical compositions from the Great American Songbook. Gordon and his band weave familiar and timeless standards that fit Whitman’s King James rhythms and expand their meaning Musicians include Arthur Kell, bass; Todd Bashore, alto saxophone; Claire Daly, baritone saxophone; Carlton Holmes, piano; Amanda Monaco, guitar; and Warren Smith, percussion. Hofstra students and other special guests present readings of Whitman’s poetry.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

View photos from:
I Hear America Singing: Walt Whitman and the Great American Songbook

 


Wednesday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Religion Evolves: A Rap Guide to Religion

Canadian bornhip-hop artist Baba Brinkman performs faith-illuminating songs inspired by the best of evolutionary and cognitive science. This event – part hip-hop concert, part stand-up comedy, and part TED Talk – explores one of the most heated questions of our age: What is the point of religion?  This groundbreaking work, fresh from a five-star run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and an extended off-Broadway engagement, explores the evolution of religion, leaving audiences with a new appreciation for religion itself, as well as for its critics.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

View photos from: Religion Evolves: A Rap Guide to Religion

 


Wednesday, March 11, 7 p.m.
A Former Skinhead’s Fight Against Prejudice

A violent childhood made our speaker easy prey for skinhead gang recruiters. At an early age he was a leader in the neo-Nazi movement hosting a cable access show used for Skinhead recruitment. While serving a prison term, he began questioning his hatred after meeting inmates that made him questions his racist beliefs . After leaving prison, he met others who made him question his hatred. He evenutally defected from the white supremacy movement. Hear our speaker as he tells his inspirational true story of going from a leader in the white supremacy movement to becoming a speaker in the movement against hate and for tolerance.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center


Wednesday and Thursday, April 1 and 2
Cambridge Union Society Debate
View photos from: A Former Skinhead's Fight Against Prejudice

Hofstra University hosts the Cambridge Union Society from the University of Cambridge, England, one of the oldest and most prestigious debating societies in the world. A series of debating workshops for students will be followed by two debates featuring mixed Hofstra-Cambridge teams. Debate topics will be announced.

Wednesday, April 1, 11:15 a.m.-12:10 p.m. - First Debate
"This House believes that police shootings of African-Americans are not about racism"

Thursday, April 2, 11:10 a.m.-12:05 p.m. - Second Debate
"This House believes preparing for global warming is preferable to efforts to stop global change."

Location for both debates: Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

 


Equal Pay Day
Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 2:55 p.m.

In celebration of Equal Pay Day 2015 Hofstra University presents a forum on the employment challenges of working women. Join the discussion in this free annual event presented by Hofstra's Labor Studies.
Panel participants to be announced.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

View photos from: Equal Pay Day


Thursday, April 16, 7 p.m.
National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day
HIV: Isn’t There a Vaccine for That?

Youth ages 13 to 24 account for an estimated 26 percent of all new HIV infections diagnosed in the United States, yet only 23 percent of sexually active high school students have ever been tested for HIV. Most new HIV infections are among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). Panelists from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Pride for Youth, the Health and Education Alternatives for Teens Program and local YMSM Living with HIV lead interactive discussions focusing on the latest trends, behavioral and biomedical prevention strategies, and methods to engage suburban YMSM. Other topics include key measures that every young person needs to take to protect themselves and their partners, and issues surrounding dating, disclosure and discrimination among YMSM. This event is held in conjunction with Hofstra’s School of Health Sciences and Human Services National Public Health Week.

View photos from
"National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day
HIV: Isn't There a Vaccine for That?"

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 


Monday, April 20, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
Conversations on Colonial Mexico:
The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley

Caterina Pizzigoni, associate professor of Latin American history at Columbia University,
discusses her research on indigenous societies in central Mexico. Analyzing testamentary
documents, Pizzigoni chronicles Nahua homes, daily life, and how a region held onto its
Nahua traditions while incorporating aspects of Spanish imperialism.

View photos from
"Conversations on Colonial Mexico:
The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley"

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Wednesday, April 22, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
47TH HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE
Can Pharmaceuticals Be Replaced With Bioelectronics?

Kevin Tracey, MD
President and CEO, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
President and Professor, Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine
Senior Vice President of Research, North Shore-LIJ Health System
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Molecular Medicine and Neurosurgery,
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 


Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m.
Guest Performance of The Well Reds

The Well Reds, an alternative/pop/punk/rock band with a captivating musical style similar to The Fray, The Muse, and One Republic, perform original music from their newly released album Volume (November 2014) and teach about the songwriting process. Guitar-playing techniques are demonstrated during this interactive event, featuring raw and synthesized sounds.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

View photos from "Guest Performance of The Well Reds"

 


Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m.
Are We Ready for the Next Hurricane? A Symposium on Superstorm Sandy and Preparedness

Two expert panels discuss the local impact of Superstorm Sandy in 2012, as well as our efforts to prepare for the next huge storm. Panelists include Adam Sobel, professor, Columbia University, and author of Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future; Amy Simonson, United States Geological Survey, Coram, NY;  Nelly A. Romero, program director, Long Beach Latino Civic Association; Anthony Eramo, member, Long Beach City Council; John McNally, co-chair, Long Beach Community Reconstruction Program, and associate director, regional action, The Energeia Partnership at Molloy College; and Erika Schaub, assistant director of public safety and emergency management officer, Hofstra University.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

View photos from "Are We Ready for the Next Hurricane? A Symposium on Superstorm Sandy and Preparedness"

Monday, September 15, 7 p.m.
1989 Revisited: Tiananmen and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
25 Years Later

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at UC Irvine, editor of the Journal of Asian Studies and author of Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know revisits 1989. How similar or different were the nearly contemporaneous protests that broke out in Beijing, Budapest and Bucharest in 1989? Do the interpretations of the events that circulated at the time still make sense, and why did the struggles in China – as opposed to places like Czechoslovakia – end so differently? And does 1989 hold the same significance today as it did in the immediate wake of the toppling of the Berlin Wall?

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Libary

 


Wednesday, October 1, 3 p.m.
Why the Digital Is/Isn’t Important:
A Measured Approach to Using New Media Remarkably

Digital technologies bring with them a bounty of new processes, practices, and products that find their way into academic life. We are faced with the challenge of determining how best to incorporate them into faculty research, pedagogical practice and student projects, though we may be tempted to take this challenge on with breathless enthusiasm.

Kimon Keramidas, assistant professor and director, Digital Media Lab, Bard Graduate Center, focuses on a more measured approach, one that puts this digital era in historical perspective and better empowers us to create remarkable things with these new media.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

 


Designing the Movies: John Muto and the Art of Production Design

John Muto is a member of the Design Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. During his long career as a production designer (one of the key creative roles in the film production process), he has been responsible for the overall "look" of such films as Night of the Comet (1984), Species (1985) and the two films that we will be screening: River's Edge and Home Alone.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center

 

Wednesday, October 1, 5 p.m.
River's Edge (1986)
Directed by Tim Hunter and starring Keanu Reeves in one of his best (and earliest) screen roles. In this shocking drama, a high-school slacker kills his girlfriend and shows off her dead body to his friends. His friends' reaction is almost as perplexing as the crime itself. The film also features performances from Crispin Glover, Ione Skye and Dennis Hopper. The film's stark, gritty realism is largely the result of the production design by John Muto.

Wednesday, October 8, 5 p.m.
Home Alone (1990)
Production designer John Muto will introduce this classic film starring Macauley Culkin and directed by Chris Columbus who plays an 8-year-old boy who is accidentally left home alone while his family flies to France for Christmas. He must defend his home against idiotic burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern). The screening will be followed by a discussion with John Muto about his strategies in designing the overall "look" of the film. A light reception will follow.

Co-sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, the Herbert Lawrence School of Communication


Wednesday, October, 8, 2:55-6 p.m.
Si Se Puede !
Cesar Chavez and Immigrant Rights Today

 

The Civil Rights Act became law fifty years ago and that same year Cesar Chavez founded the United Farmworkers Union as a popular movement for expanding immigrants' labor and human rights. As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, join us for a viewing of the new film Cesar Chavez (2014), followed by a discussion on the film and current immigration policy debates with Lori Flores, Professor of History, Stony Brook University and Emma Kreyche, Organizing Director, Worker Justice Center.

112 Breslin Hall or Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Sunday, February 8, 2015, 5 p.m.
Hofstra Celebrates Black History Month

A concert exploring the African Diaspora — the spread of music and dance from Mother Africa throughout the world. Join us to experience West African drumming and dancing, South African choral music, concert music by African and Afro-Cuban composers, and Cubop and Calypso dances for Big Band. Hofstra student dancers and musicians, ensembles from Uniondale and Hempstead High Schools, and invited guest artists and alumni will perform.
John Cranford Adams Playhouse


Thursday, October 9, 6 p.m.
Inclusion and Exclusion Through Interfaith Dialogue:
Lessons From Crown Heights and the Interfaith Center of New York

Dr. Henry Goldschmidt, scholar and director of education programs at the Interfaith
Center of New York, draws on his extensive experience to describe what interfaith work
really looks like “on the ground.” He also explores how the category of “interfaith” can
include but also exclude potential participants in interreligious conversation and conflict
resolution. This 40-minute talk concludes with a question-and-answer dialogue with the
audience.

246 East Library Wing, Axinn Library


Friday, October 10, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Media and Migration from Africa to Spain

This daylong event features film screenings and a round-table discussion on the intersections of media, migration, Africa, and Spain organized by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Hofstra University, and H. Rosi Song, Bryn Mawr College. The film curator is
María Teresa Cabo, director of the Galician Film Festival of New York, and the event features scholars from the tristate area and Pennsylvania researching topics such as media and migration, labor studies, borders, Afro-European relations, the Maghreb and West Africa, Mediterranean studies, Spain, Galicia and Cataluña.

Films include Sahara Chronicle (2007), El espectáculo (2012),Tann Sa Yoon (2013), and Todos vos sodes capitáns (You Are All Captains) (2011).

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Tuesday, October 14, 3 p.m.
Ada Lovelace Day

 

Named for the 19th-century scientist who pioneered computational programming, the event is part of an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Dr. Rebecca Wright, director, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University, and a professor in the Rutgers Computer Science Department, is the guest speaker for Hofstra’s Ada Lovelace Day celebration.

Dr. Wright’s research focuses on information security, including cryptography, privacy, foundations of computer security, and faulttolerant distributed computing, as well as foundations of networking.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Saturday, October 18, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Managing New York Ocean Resources: Connecting Science and Policy

The 2014 New York Marine Sciences Consortium meeting is focused on the future of New York ocean policy and implementation. Input from the scientific community, policy makers, other stakeholders and the general public will be used to develop recommendations and identify critical knowledge gaps regarding ocean-related human uses, natural resources, and cultural factors. Responses from the meeting will be presented to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Oceans and New York state to guide development of regional and New York ocean action plans and ocean assessments, and help maximize the benefits of our ocean resources and protect the health of the ecosystem.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center


Tuesday, October 21, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Domestic Violence: Dare to Speak Its Name
(Communities Respond to Intimate Partner Abuse)

The Criminology Program of Hofstra’s Sociology Department, in association with the Herstory Writers Workshop, presents a conference that brings together memoir writers and experts on the social, economic and political causes of domestic violence and introduces the most recent changes to the legal system in dealing with this offense, which has only recently been defined as a crime. Social and political movements and academic research (particularly feminist research) have made immense contributions to understanding the nature and causes of intimate partner abuse.

 

This conference will explore how community response, legal innovations and the raising
of public consciousness through a story-based strategy can change hearts, minds and
policies around domestic violence, while giving a voice to those who have too often been
silenced in the arenas that affect their lives the most.

246 East Library Wing, Axinn Library


Wednesday, October 22, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
46TH HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE

Dilemmas of Shared Parenting in the the 21st Century:
How Law and Culture Shape Child Custody
J. Herbie DiFonzo, Professor of Law
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Wednesday, October 29
Day of Dialogue 2014: Social Responsibility and Human Security

A day of workshops, panels and performances devoted to deliberation and reflection
on some of the major issues that face our community, our nation and the world, from
the crises in the Middle East to the midterm elections and racism in professional sports,
to the state of the economy. This all-day annual event presented by Hofstra’s Center
for Civic Engagement serves as an important forum for community engagement and
participation. Students, faculty and community members are welcome. All events are free
and open to the public.

Various campus locations


Wednesday, November 5, 11:15 a.m.
I Was Born a Baby: The Dynamic Development of Gender Variability

Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita, Brown University, is a leading expert in biology and gender development and a frequent commentator for media outlets such as The New York Times and PBS. Dr. Fausto-Sterling’s current research on parent-infant interactions and the embodiment of gender uses dynamic systems theory to demonstrate how cultural difference becomes bodily difference.

This groundbreaking new approach to the study of gender differences exposes the flawed premise of the nature vs. nurture debate.

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center


Friday, November 7, 2:20-5 p.m.
Singing on Stage: A Master Class with Jane Streeton of the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London

Jane Streeton presents a master class with Hofstra drama and music students featuring techniques from her book Singing on Stage: An Actor’s Guide (June 2014). Ms. Streeton is an international soprano soloist in opera and concert and has worked as a singing coach and vocal advisor for film; with the BBC; in West End musicals; and at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe.

She is the coordinator of the singing team and course leader for the Musical Theatre Short Courses at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

The master class is open to the public.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center


Thursday, November 13, 7 p.m.
Bridging Community and Academic Research:
What’s in It for Us?

Academics do research to understand the world better and to make sense of complex and interesting phenomena, but how can they connect that research to the problems of the “real world”? Communities that are the focus of academic study often have little say in the research process, though their input and experiences make valuable contributions to improving the very issues being researched. Join us in a conversation with sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman, professor, CUNY Graduate Center, that highlights the benefits of and barriers (for both researchers and community members) to working together to solve problems, with practical tips on how to bridge the participation gap.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Thursday, November 20, 4:30-6 p.m.
Pride and Purpose Debate: Does Nuclear Energy Have
a Role in Our Sustainable Energy Future?

In recent years, many concerned with the role of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming have advocated that we quickly increase the amount of nuclear energy produced around the world in order to replace carbon-based energy to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, many others have raised concerns about nuclear waste and safety and disagree with this approach. Participants will debate whether nuclear energy has a place in our efforts to create a more sustainable future.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

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Tuesday, December 2, 9:30-11 a.m.
Clash of Civilizations in Italy

Amara Lakhous, author, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, examines the theme of identity through the descriptions of idiosyncrasies in multicultural
Italy by way of a story of a murder in Rome.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library


Thursday, December 4, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Poetry and the Visual Arts in Romance Languages
(XIX-XXI Centuries): A Tribute to Jorge E. Eielson (1924-2006)

Hofstra University will host a one-day symposium honoring the great Peruvian poet/artist Jorge Eduardo Eielson. One of the most radical voices of Latin American poetry of the 20th century, Eielson was known for his iconoclastic poetry and his quipus, today considered precursors of conceptual art. The symposium is in collaboration with the Americas Society and The Italian Cultural Institute of New York.

Friday, September 19, 12:30 pm
Joseph G. Astman International Concert Series
Music From Around the World

The Taiko Masala Drum Ensemble*
Founded by master drummer Hiro Kurashima, the ensemble combines the training and discipline of Japanese martial arts with the precision and power of complex drumming.

*Presented in conjunction with the Hofstra Cultural Center conference Asia Transforming: Old Values and New Presences
Main Dining Room, Mack Student Center

Tuesday, November 11, 7 p.m.
Lecture and Demonstration: Women in India: Music and Culture
Professor Rita Ganguly, New Delhi, India Professor Rita Ganguly is an authority in the fieldvof semiclassical Indian music, with particular reference to the romantic repertoire performed by female artists. She is the foremost disciple of the legendary Ghazal singer Begum Akhtar, and she will be at Hofstra to share her memories and her music.
Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

Friday, November 14, 7 p.m.
Gamelan Kusuma Laras performing The Spirit of Gamelan

Gamelan Kusuma Laras is a classical Javanese gamelan orchestra based in New York City that performs music, dance and theater from the classical repertoire of the courts of Central Java. The orchestra was formed 30 years agoto study and present Indonesian performing arts to American audiences. Kusuma Laras has entranced music and dance lovers in the United States and in Indonesia with its authentic performances on instruments created especially for the Indonesia Pavilion at the World's Fair of 1964-65 in New York.

Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center

Joseph G. Astman Concert Series Sacred Music From Around the World

Persian Mystic Songs for Nowruz
Sepideh Raissadat, vocal and sehtar
Naghmeh Frahmand, zarb, daff
The event celebrates the Nowruz, the festivity marking the Iranian New Year on March 21. The repertoire presented by Sepideh Raissadat includes masterpieces of Persian mysticism set to music.
Thursday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.

Sikh Holy Hymns
Dr. Francesca Cassio, vocal and tanpura
Parminder Singh Bhamra, pakhawaj
Nirvair Kaur Khalsa, taus
Dr. Francesca Cassio (Sardarni Harbans Kaur Chair in Sikh Musicology at Hofstra University) will perform traditional hymns from the Sikh Gurus's repertoire (16th-18th centuries) in the traditional dhrupad style. Dr. Cassio will be exceptionally accompanied on pakhawaj by Parminder Singh Bhamra (from the Anad Foundation, India) and on taus by Nirvair Kaur Khalsa. The event aims to celebrate the Sikh Festival of Vaisakhi.
Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.

The Alash Ensemble Performing
Overtone Singing from Mongolia
The Alash Ensemble is a trio of master overtone singers (xöömei) from Tuva, a tiny republic in the heart of Central Asia. The ancient art of overtone (or throat) singing developed among the nomadic herdsman of this region. Alash remains grounded in this tradition, while expanding its musical vocabulary with new ideas from the West.
Wednesday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.

Cambridge Union Society Debate

Hofstra University will host one of the oldest and most prestigious debating societies in the world, the Cambridge Union Society, from the University of Cambridge (England).
A series of debating workshops for students will be followed by a debate, featuring mixed Hofstra-Cambridge teams.

First Debate: Individualism
Tuesday, March 25, 11:10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.

Second Debate: Surveillance
Wednesday, March 26, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m.

Electrify Your Strings With Mark Wood

Mark Wood, Emmy-winning composer and music education advocate as well as an original member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, presents innovative techniques in music education and performs on an electric violin, the Viper, his own invention.
Friday, March 28, 2:55 p.m.

2014 Donald Sutherland Lecture: The Honorable Joe Lieberman

The 2014 Donald Sutherland Lecture will feature former United States Senator Joe Lieberman (1989-2013) from Connecticut.
John Cranford Adams Playhouse
Thursday, April 3, 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK (NPHW)
Various events around campus.
Thursday, April 10, 6-7:30 p.m.
National Public Health Week Keynote Address
Dr. John McDonough, Harvard School of Public Health
Monday, April 7-Friday, April 11

The Butler
Film directed by Lee Daniels.  As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.
Dates/Times: Saturday, February 22 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Sunday, February 23 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Soul of a Nation
By the creators of the nationally acclaimed theatrical series of multimedia, one-person plays Faces of America.

In this performance three actors all portray young African Americans, who examine topicsthat the present college generation feel need to be addressed. These include the U.S. Justice System, hair, balancing adulthood, intersection of cultural identities, and more.
Date/Time: Monday, February 24, 7 p.m.

A Conversation with Wil Haygood
Washington Post journalist and author of the book The Butler will speak about his book, which inspired the movie, followed by a book signing.
Date/Time: Tuesday, February, 25, 7:30 p.m. ​

Hofstra Heart Health Week
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Surprisingly many young people are at risk. Learn how you can change this during a week of free activities, including health screenings and nutritional consults; expert talks on cardiac arrest and stress management; a blood drive; and “Hoops for Hearts” and “Dodgeball for Hearts” tournaments.

The Edge of Therapy: Students, Yoga and Mindful Practice — A Four-Hour Workshop
A panel discussion with mindfulness and yoga-in-school experts, followed by break-out groups. Exciting new dimensions of psychotherapy are emerging from the juncture of Eastern and Western traditions. This is a rare opportunity to meet with leading practitioners and researchers. Participating students will speak about their experiences with yoga and mindful techniques. This is a workshop of importance to students, educators and psychotherapists alike.
Date/Time: Monday, March 4, 4-8 p.m.
Please visit Hofstra Cultural Center Event Recordings to view the event video.

Women’s History Month/Religion and Film Series:The Works of Margarethe von Trotta

Both screenings will be followed by a panel discussion led by Hofstra professors from various departments to examine the intersection of religion, politics and gender as portrayed in the films of renowned German director Margarethe von Trotta.

Vision
The inspirational portrait of Hildegard von Bingen, the famed 12th-century Benedictine nun, who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment.
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 4, 6:30 p.m.

Hannah Arendt
A biopic of influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt. The film covers Arendt’s controversial reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker.
Date/Time: Monday, March 10, 6:30 p.m.

Living With Nature: Food, Beauty and Healing in Post-Tsunami Japan

Internationally renowned chef and restaurateur Kazushiro Sato discusses his family’s experience with the tsunami and demonstrates his cooking skills as he sculpts fruits and vegetables into intricate shapes such as flowers and butterflies. He will explain how important it is for us to live alongside nature as we mark the third anniversary of the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 5, 7 p.m.

Sixth Annual Seminar in Central Asian and Middle Eastern Numismatics

This seminar brings to Hofstra top world specialists on coins of the Ancient Near East and Islamic World. Over the past five years this event has evolved into an important North-American international forum for the specialists on the history of pre-modern coinage. 111 Breslin Hall, South Campus

Date/Time: Saturday, March 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

65th Annual Hofstra Shakespeare Festival
Acting Shakespeare Lecture Series: FIASCO THEATER
Three co-founders of Fiasco Theater, one of New York's most innovative ensemble companies,will discuss the art of acting and producing Shakespeare today.

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 12, 7 p.m.

Beauty and the Brain
Dr Anjan Chatterjee, discusses his new book The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art (Oxford University Press, 2013). Dr Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched in our minds and evolutionary psychology to explain why aesthetic concerns feature centrally in our lives.
Date/Time:         February 5, 5-6:30 p.m.
Funding provided by the Hofstra Cultural  Center Grants

Up South - The Great Migration in Sound and Movement
"Up South: The Great Migration in Sound and Movement" featuring performances by the Hofstra Chamber Singers, Jazz Ensemble, Hofstra student dancers, invited choral ensembles from Hempstead High School and Uniondale High School and acclaimed soloists Diana Solomon-Glover, Robert Hughes and Steven Herring.  Hofstra student actors will guide the audience through a semi-historical narrative describing the great migration. Hofstra Jazz band will round off the show with a Count Basie dance featuring set choreographed by Mickey Davidson. 
Date/Time: February 9, 5 p.m.
Funding provided by the Hofstra Cultural  Center Grants

Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Italy: Film Viewings led by Italian Ghanaian Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu

Fred Kuwornu, film director and activist, will present two of his acclaimed documentaries and conduct a question and answer period after each screening.
Both films will be shown on Wednesday, February 12

18 Ius Soli: The Right of Citizenship
The documentary examines the difficulty in obtaining citizenship in modern Italy, particularly for those immigrants coming from North African and Sub-Saharan countries.
Showing at 12:45 p.m.

Inside Buffalo
The story of the 15,000 soldiers of the 92nd African-American Infantry Division who served in Italy during World War IIwent unnoticed upon their return to the United States.
Showing at 3:30 p.m.

Artists Without Walls
Artists Without Walls inspires, uplifts, and unites people and communities of diverse cultures through the pursuit of artistic achievement. Through music, dance, and the spoken word, they build a multicultural community that springs from “creative chemistry.” Performers hail from all over the globe including Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the U.S., and Hofstra University!
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 18, 2:20-3:45 p.m.
Funding provided by the Hofstra Cultural Center Grants

Monday, November 17, 7 p.m.
Lecture: Sacred and Secular in the Sikh Musical Tradition
Dr. Virinder S. Kalra
, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester, UK
How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production? Through the deconstruction of the sacred/secular opposition, Dr. Kalra explores the relationship of religion and music to wider questions of religion and politics. Its postcolonial approach brings Asia into the Western sacred/secular opposition, and provides a set of analytical tools — a language and range of theories — to allow further exploration of non-Western religious music.
Presented in collaboration with the Sardarni Harbans Kaur Chair in Sikh Musicology at Hofstra University
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library