Political Science Talks Politics: The Process of Choosing the President 
- 26-SEP-19 - The Department of Political Science in the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs presents The Process of Choosing the President, an explanation of how the primary and general election process works with David M. Green, Professor of Political Science, Hofstra University.
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International Day of Non-Violence featuring Ramachandra Guha 
- 25-SEP-19 - A lecture 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.
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Max Boot - Conservativism in the Age of Trump 
- 24-APR-19 - Max Boot discusses the impact of the Trump presidency on America’s domestic politics and international standing. He then looks ahead to the future of a post-Trump Republican Party. Boot is a historian and foreign policy analyst who has been called one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a columnist for The Washington Post, a global affairs analyst for CNN, and author of The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam and The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right.
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David Baker - Great Writers, Great Readings 
- 17-APR-19 - David Baker is one of contemporary poetry’s most gifted lyric poets. In Swift: New and Selected Poems (forthcoming in April 2019), he gathers poems from eight collections, including 2015’s masterful Scavenger Loop, and the intimate travelogues of 2009’s Never-Ending Birds. Baker is also the author of six critical books, most recently Seek After: On Seven Modern Lyric Poets (2018). He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University, and is the poetry editor of the Kenyon Review. He has received fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing Program, in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center.
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Salt Sugar Fat - Michael Moss 
- 9-APR-19 - Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Salt Sugar Fat, Michael 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.
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Dr. Douglas Brinkley - One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 @ 50 
- 3-APR-19 - Dr. Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. Drawing on new primary source material and major interviews with many of the surviving figures who were key to America's success, Brinkley brings this fascinating history to life as never before. American Moonshot is a portrait of the brilliant men and women who made this giant leap possible, the technology that enabled us to propel men beyond earth's orbit to the moon and return them safely, and the geopolitical tensions that spurred Kennedy to commit himself fully to this audacious dream. Brinkley's ensemble cast of New Frontier characters include rocketeer Wernher von Braun, astronaut John Glenn and space booster Lyndon Johnson. A vivid and enthralling chronicle of one of the most thrilling, hopeful, and turbulent eras in the nation's history, American Moonshot is an homage to scientific ingenuity, human curiosity, and the boundless American spirit.
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How to Make Sense of the 2020 Presidential Election Cycle with Basil Smikle Jr. 
- 27-FEB-19 - Basil Smikle Jr. is a Distinguished Lecturer of Politics and Public Policy at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies, and former executive director of the New York Democratic Party. He was also senior aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton during her first campaign for Senate and later on her Senate staff. As a Democratic strategist whose commentary has been featured regularly on CNN, MSNBC, and TheHill.com, Smikle discusses the 2020 presidential election cycle and what to expect for policy in the next two years of the Trump presidency.
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Evaluating the Trump Presidency at Midterm with Major Garrett 
- 14-FEB-19 - Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency presents Evaluating the Trump Presidency at Midterm With Major Garrett. Major Garrett is CBS News chief White House correspondent, host of “The Takeout” podcast and author of Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams, and Occasional Blackouts of An Extraordinary Presidency (St. Martin’s Press, 2018). Commentary by Kalikow Center Senior Presidential Fellows Howard B. Dean III, Democratic National Committee, 2005-2009 and Edward J. Rollins, political strategist.
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Why Elections Matter: The Environment and Your Future Are on the Ballot 
- 23-OCT-18 - National environmental leader and author Dr. Robert K. Musil, president of the Rachel Carson Council, talks about why it is vital to increase campus engagement in the 2018 elections and beyond, and how such engagement can shape environmental policy, transform higher education, and change the lives of students.
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Great Writers, Great Readings: Pamela Paul 
- 16-OCT-18 - Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversees books coverage at The New York Times. She is also the host of the weekly podcast, Inside The New York Times Book Review. Her latest book is My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues. She is also the author of four other books: By the Book; Parenting, Inc.; Pornified; and The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony.
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Know Your Lines: Gerrymandering U.S. Elections 
- 11-OCT-18 - Does your local congressional election feel like a foregone conclusion? Increasingly, many electoral districts are designed to be this way. The word for this is gerrymandering -- the practice of politicians drawing electoral boundary lines to benefit a specific party. Not only is it problematic for an electoral republic, but gerrymandering can make politicians more extreme and voters effectively powerless and apathetic. This multidisciplinary panel will explore how gerrymandering became so common in the United States, the current state of gerrymandering and its consequences, and methods for identifying gerrymanders to confront and prevent the manipulation of electoral districts. To do so, it draws on the expertise of Dr. Katrina Sims, Dr. Johanna Franklin, and Dr. Craig Dalton of the Departments of History, Mathematics, and Global Studies and Geography, respectively, at Hofstra University.
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The Economy and the 2018 Elections -- Does It Matter Who Wins? 
- 9-OCT-18 - Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and Op-Ed Columnist for the The NY Times offers insightful commentary about the current state of the economy and how it will affect the 2018 elections. Dr. Krugman has spent more than 20 years writing extensively for the lay person about economics, economy, and the effect politics has on both. As Paul says in his book, End This Depression Now!, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge--all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all--remain in a state of intense pain."
Presented by the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, in collaboration with the Center for Civic Engagement and the Institute for Peace Studies.
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Dr. Louis W. Uccellini: Long Island Hurricanes 
- 3-OCT-18 - The unnamed 1938 hurricane -- nicknamed the "Long Island Express" due to its fast forward motion and initial landfall in Suffolk County -- brought abrupt and untold devastation to the northeastern United States, particularly Long Island's East End. To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the 1938 hurricane, and look ahead to the future, this interdisciplinary symposium recounted the many impactful tropical cyclones that have affected Long Island over the years, assess our current forecasting and hazard communication techniques, and discuss future planning for resilience to these extreme events. Despite that storm, and several subsequent New York hurricane landfalls in the following decades, the recent experience of Sandy underscores our vulnerability to the impacts of tropical cyclones, particularly storm surges and coastal flooding. The symposium hosted keynote speaker Dr. Louis W. Uccellini, assistant administrator for Weather Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Director, National Weather Service.
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International Day of Non-Violence: Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II 
- 3-OCT-18 - The Institute for Peace Studies at Hofstra University, on the occasion of the International Day of Non-Violence presented Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II. He is the president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival. The Poor People's Campaign renews Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s challenge to confront racism, militarism, and poverty. Barber served as president of the North Carolina NAACP, the largest state conference in the South, from 2006 to 2017, and currently sits on the national board of directors of the NAACP. He is the author of three books: Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing; The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement; and Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation.
Please note: Due to technical difficulties, the beginning of the event is unavailable. The remaining two hours are available in this video.
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The State of Suburban Politics in 2018 
- 17-APR-18 - Suburban voters are a key constituency in U.S. politics, and recent special election results indicate that they may be decisive in the upcoming midterm elections. What issues motivate them, and are they changing? How do we see parties and candidates appealing to the suburbs in this election cycle, and are their efforts likely to succeed?
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A Conversation With David Frum 
- 5-APR-18 - Former White House speechwriter, Atlantic senior editor, and media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed. His thoughtful and hard-hitting book, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, is a warning for democracy and America’s future.
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The Art of Translation: Great Writers Great Readers 
- 22-FEB-18 - What makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to feel like we belong? A new essay collection, edited by Margot Kahn and Hofstra faculty member Kelly McMasters, explores the theme of home through essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, objects, homelessness, domestic violence, solitude, immigration, gentrification, and more. This installment of Great Writers, Great Readings features a conversation with book contributors Sonya Chung, Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, and Kelly McMasters.
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This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home 
- 22-FEB-18 - What makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to feel like we belong? A new essay collection, edited by Margot Kahn and Hofstra faculty member Kelly McMasters, explores the theme of home through essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, objects, homelessness, domestic violence, solitude, immigration, gentrification, and more. This installment of Great Writers, Great Readings features a conversation with book contributors Sonya Chung, Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, and Kelly McMasters.
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Dr. Robert Hill: Form, Function, Fossils, and … Physicians? 
- 21-FEB-18 - Anatomy, the study of body structure, is as important for paleontologists as it is for medical doctors. Virtually every bone in the human body has a counterpart in the skeletons of dinosaurs. Their differences are striking, but their similarities reveal our common evolutionary ancestry. What's more, those same body parts change during development from embryo to adult. Join us for an exploration of how anatomy changes – over millions of years, and since just before you were born. Dr. Robert Hill is associate professor of science education and director of the Anatomical Gift Program at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He helps direct the 100-week-long Structure curriculum, where students learn anatomy, embryology, histology, radiology, and physical diagnosis. He has discovered fossils on four continents and has published several research papers on paleontology, human anatomy, and medical education.
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Great Writers, Great Readings: John McPhee 
- 15-NOV-17 - John McPhee’s writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges, Coming into the Country, The Control of Nature, The Founding Fish, Uncommon Carriers, and Silk Parachute. Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World.
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment In Black America 
- 7-NOV-17 - Based on James Forman Jr.'s 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.
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Peter Chadwick: Brutal Library 
- 1-NOV-17 - Peter Chadwick delivered the keynote lecture and serve as scholar-in-residence for the Brutal Library symposium. He is a London-based art director and graphic designer.
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Engineering Baseball: STEM, Management, and the National Pastime - Science Night Live 
- 1-NOV-17 - Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and management have been used in professional baseball from the time of “scientific baseball” in the early 1900’s to the application of Moneyball, big data analysis, and advanced analytics today. Professional baseball has long been linked to applications in STEM and such diverse fields as statistical analysis and optimization, ergonomics, material science, as well as organizational behavior and management theory. This discussion may change how you watch and think about baseball.
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Breaking News or Making News? Evaluating Media Coverage of the White House 
- 19-OCT-17 - Peter S. Kalkow Center for the Study of the American Presidency presents Breaking News or Making News? Evaluating Media Coverage of the White House. The panel featured Tom DeFrank, Contributing Editor, National Journal.
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Feminizing Farming: World War I and Female Agricultural Resilience in France 
- 18-OCT-17 - Dr. Nicole Dombrowski-Risser, Professor of History at Towson University discusses Feminizing Farming: World War I and Female Agricultural Resilience in France.
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What Mathematics Can Tell Us About Cancer 
- 11-OCT-17 - 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.
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Thinking Like an Attacker: An Introduction to Red Team Security 
- 11-OCT-17 - Ada Lovelace Day, named for the 19th-century mathematician who pioneered computational programming, is a worldwide event highlighting the achievements of women in science. This year, Hofstra commemorated the day with a presentation by Cassia Martin, Senior Security Engineer at Amazon.
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Sinkholes of Doom - Science Night Live 
- 4-OCT-17 - Sinkholes form all over the world, but there are some places where they form more than others. Why is there such a variation in sinkhole formation over time and space? Why do places like Brooklyn and Florida seem to get more sinkholes than other places? This lecture will review the formation of some of the most dramatic sinkholes on the planet—including some in our own backyard.
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Is There a Human GPS System? - Science Night Live 
- 13-APR-17 - How is it that some people always know how to get from one place to another, and others always get lost? What do we know about how humans navigate, and can we predict their actions before they even start? This talk explores navigation research using everything from video games to real-world forests – and confirms the belief that there are good navigators and people who are perpetually lost. Speaker: Elisabeth J. Ploran, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Hofstra Universit.
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Silvia Federici - On the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Capital 
- 6-APR-17 - From the conference Marx's Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today
Karl Marx was simultaneously one of the founders and one of the most important critics of the modern social sciences. All of the social sciences and humanities today draw widely from his work. At the core of Marx’s published work is his analysis of capitalism: Volume One of Capital, published in 1867. Capital defined his labor theory of value, which Marx drew from Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and the whole of classical political economy. This symposium draws together leading scholars from all over the world who have been applying the Marxian analytical apparatus — including his labor theory of value — to decipher and understand the current global economic and political crisis.
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A Van Jordan - Great Writers, Great Readings 
- 16-MAR-17 - A. Van Jordan has published four books of poetry: The Cineaste: Poems, Quantum Lyrics, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, and Rise. His poetry is influenced by music, film, race, history, and pop culture. His most recent book, The Cineaste, marries his love of film with poetry in pieces that re-examine a wide range of seminal films such as Nosferatu (1922), The Homesteader (1919), Run Lola Run (1998), and Oldboy (2003) through the perspectives of both the voyeur and the character onscreen. Jordan has been awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Whiting Writers' Award, as well as fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and United States Artists, among others. He currently teaches in Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers and serves as the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at Rutgers University-Newark.
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Science Night Live: Tales of Designer Drugs 
- 9-MAR-17 - Designer drugs such as “Spice,” “Bath Salts” and “Molly” have spread rapidly around the world in the past decade, fueled by cheap and inventive chemistry and the rapid distribution through Web 2.0. Hospitals, law enforcement and legislators are struggling to keep up with increasing cases associated with these dangerous products. What are our solutions? Speaker: Ling Huang, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Hofstra Universit.
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Social Media Use in the 2016 Presidential Election's Influence 
- 16-FEB-17 - The Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs presents How Has Social Media Influenced the 2016 Race for the White House and Policy Deliberations in 2017? This is a two-panel event. The second panel is How Will the Use of Social Media in the 2016 Presidential Election Influence Political Deliberation and Policymaking? While social media is popularly credited with facilitating greater public participation and political agency, the research is not entirely clear. This panel considers how social media shapes public deliberation by looking at social media research from the 2016 presidential election and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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How Did Social Media Change the 2016 Presidential Race? 
- 16-FEB-17 - The Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs presents How Has Social Media Influenced the 2016 Race for the White House and Policy Deliberations in 2017? This two panel event will start with How Did Social Media Change the 2016 Presidential Race? According to The Washington Post, “2016 may yet be the first ‘Instagram election.’” This panel explores how the 2016 presidential candidates utilized social media; the implications of the ability of candidates to bypass the traditional press to communicate with voters directly via social media; how the candidates debated and responded to one another on social media platforms; and the role that social media played in determining the outcome of the election.
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Science Night Live: Darwin and Hume's Excellent Intelligent Design Adventure 
- 16-FEB-17 - Does the universe show evidence of having been designed by an intelligent agent? See Charles Darwin and the philosopher David Hume tackle this question live on stage.
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Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar - Philip Kitcher: Six Problems of Climate Change 
- 2-DEC-16 - 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, explains these questions, and suggests 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).
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What Was the President-elect's Road to Victory in 2016? 
- 18-NOV-16 - Meena Bose, Executive Dean for Public Policy and Public Service Programs moderates a panel with participants: Howard B. Dean III, Senior Presidential Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency Hofstra University and Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 2005-2009; Edward J. Rollins, Senior Presidential Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency Hofstra University, Political Strategist; and Reid J. Epstein, National Political Reporter The Wall Street Journal.
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Extending the Human Lifespan: Implications of an Aging Population - Science Night Live 
- 16-NOV-16 - Public health efforts and improvements in medicine have led to record increases in life expectancy globally. The growth of the older adult population and the declining fertility rate will have significant consequences and require new thinking on the structure of health care systems, housing, workforce, and social services.
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What Was the President-elect's Road to Victory in 2016?
- 15-NOV-16 - Meena Bose, Executive Dean for Public Policy and Public Service Programs moderates a panel with participants: Howard B. Dean III, Senior Presidential Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency Hofstra University and Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 2005-2009; Edward J. Rollins, Senior Presidential Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency Hofstra University, Political Strategist; and Reid J. Epstein, National Political Reporter The Wall Street Journal.
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Still the Superpower? How Will the United States Lead in the World in 2017? 
- 28-OCT-16 - Meena Bose, Executive Dean for Public Policy and Public Service Programs moderates a panel with participants: Howard B. Dean III, Senior Presidential Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency Hofstra University and Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 2005-2009; Edward J. Rollins, Senior Presidential Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency Hofstra University, Political Strategist, and Michael A. Cohen, Author, Columnist and Regular Commentator, Boston Globe and World Politics Review, U.S Political Correspondent, London Observer.
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Dr. Jessica Santangelo - Science Night Live 
- 27-OCT-16 - Caught Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Coral Reefs and Climate Change
Dr. Jessica Santangelo shares her research adventures in the Florida Keys, Mexico, Hawaii and Palau. She discusses the impacts of the recent El Niño and ocean acidification on corals (and other marine ecosystems) around the world.
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Phillip Lopate - Great Writers, Great Readings 
- 28-SEP-16 - Phillip Lopate has written four personal essay collections—Bachelorhood (Little, Brown, 1981), Against Joie de Vivre (Poseidon-Simon & Schuster, 1989), Portrait of My Body (Doubleday-Anchor, 1996) and Portrait Inside My Head (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2013); two novels, Confessions of Summer (Doubleday, 1979) and The Rug Merchant (Viking, 1987); two poetry collections, The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open (Sun Press, 1972) and The Daily Round (Sun Press, 1976); a memoir of his teaching experiences, Being With Children (Doubleday, 1975); a collection of his movie criticism, Totally Tenderly Tragically (Doubleday-Anchor); an urbanist meditation, Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan (Crown, 2004); and a biographical monograph, Rudy Burckhardt: Photographer and Filmmaker (Harry N. Abrams, 2004..
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Creative Thinking: A 21st Century Success Skill 
- 25-APR-16 - Gerard Puccio, Department Chair and Professor at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State, the State University of New Yor.
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What is Creativity? Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives 
- 25-APR-16 - This presentation will describe diverse paradigms of creativity across time and culture and not be restricted to definitions proffered by traditional researchers on creativity.
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An Inventor's Vision of the Future: Innovation and Creativity 
- 19-APR-16 - ALisa Seacat DeLuca, a technology strategist for IBM Commerce, was named one of MIT’s 2015 “35 Innovators Under 35” and one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business.” Ms. DeLuca was also named a 2015 “Working Mother of the Year” and in 2014, was named one of Network World’s “50 Most Fascinating People in the World of Technology.” A TED speaker, she is the most prolific female inventor in IBM history and, at only 32 years old, is one of the youngest inventors at IBM to ever reach the 100th Invention Plateau Award. Her innovation portfolio includes over 380 patent applications filed within the United States and abroad, of which over 180 have been granted, to date. The subjects of her patent ideas include areas such as cloud, mobile, IoT, social, security, and everything in between.
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Hunting for Beneficial Microbes on Long Island - Science Night Live 
- 14-APR-16 - An introduction to the microbes being studied in the lab of Javier Izquierdo, Hofstra assistant professor of biology – including their uses in biofuel production and agriculture. The focus of the lab is on “locally grown” microbes that have been collected from various sources, from vineyard soils on the North Fork to sand dunes on the South Shore to zoo animals.
Speaker: Dr. Javier Izquierdo, Department of Biology, Hofstra Universit.
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Unconventional Wisdom? Presidential Politics in 2016 
- 10-MAR-16 - Hofstra Senior Presidential Fellows Howard B. Dean III and Edward J. Rollins, along with Glenn Thrush, Chief Political Correspondent, Politico and Lawrence Levy, Executive Dean, National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, led a panel discussion on Unconventional Wisdom? Presidential Politics in 2016 on Thursday, March 10, sponsored by the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency.
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Remember the Triangle Fire 
- 8-MAR-16 - 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.
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Superbugs and Superdrugs: The Future of Antibiotics - Science Night Live 
- 2-MAR-16 - Dr. Scott Lefurgy traces the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from the early victories of penicillin to the current struggles against MRSA and the threat of CRE. His research focuses on understanding the structure of bacterial enzymes that cause resistance to antibiotics, so that drug designers can address this ever-changing threat.
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Great Writers, Great Readings: Laurie Sheck 
- 22-FEB-16 - Laurie Sheck is the author of several collections of poetry, including Captivity, Black Series; The Willow Grove, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Io at Night; and Amaranth. She is also the editor of the anthology Poem a Day, Volume 2 and the author of the hybrid work A Monster’s Notes , which re-examines the un-named monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Her poems have been included in two volumes of Best American Poetry and three volumes of The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA program at the New School.
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Science Night Live: When Dinosaurs Ruled New York 
- 3-FEB-16 - Dr. J Bret Bennington, Department of Geology, Environment and Sustainability, Hofstra University, takes a look at Mesozoic fossils and the important history of dinosaur studies in New York and the Northeast.
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Understanding Personality, Leadership and Policy Making in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidency 
- 4-DEC-15 - Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and the Hofstra Cultural Center presents A Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: The Promise and the Challenge. A panel discussion will address Understanding Personality, Leadership and Policy Making in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidency.
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The 2016 Elections and American Foreign Policy: Constraints, Challenges, Opportunities? 
- 5-NOV-15 - Hofstra Senior Presidential Fellows Howard B. Dean III and Edward J. Rollins, along with author and journalist James Mann, leads a panel discussion on The 2016 Elections and American Foreign Policy: Constraints, Challenges, Opportunities.
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A Conversation with Dr. Bernice A. King 
- 23-OCT-15 - Dr. Bernice A. King (Be A King), the chief executive officer of The King Center and youngest daughter of the late Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is nationally and internationally known as one of the most powerful, motivating and life-changing orators and speakers on the circuit today.
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Great Writers, Great Readings: Karen Russell 
- 20-OCT-15 - Karen Russell’s debut novel, Swamplandia!, was chosen by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of 2011 and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. Russell has been featured in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. In 2009, she received the 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. In 2013 she was named a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship -- the youngest of the year’s 24 winners.
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How Do Millennials Engage in Public Policy and Public Service? 
- 15-OCT-15 - Hofstra Senior Presidential Fellows Howard B. Dean III and Edward J. Rollins, along with Scott Rechler, Chairman and CEO of RXR Realty and Christopher K. Norton, Vice Chairman, Board of Directors of The Washington Center, led a panel discussion on How Do Millennials Engage in Public Policy and Public Service? on Thursday, October 15, sponsored by the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency.
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Hofstra, Cambridge Union Debate Police-Race Relations 
- 1-APR-15 - Hofstra University partnered with the Cambridge Union Society, the world’s oldest continually operating debate society, to host the second annual Cambridge – Hofstra Debate series, with two public debates. The debate featured teams of students from Cambridge Union Society and the Hofstra’s Debate Team.
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Should Nuclear Energy Be Expanded to Help Create a More Sustainable Future? 
- 21-NOV-14 - In recent years, many concerned with 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. Panelists will debate whether nuclear energy has a place in our efforts to create a more sustainable future.
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Understanding the 2014 Midterm Elections and Consequences for 2016 
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Pelé Honorary Degree 
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Foucault Conference 
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The Edge of Therapy: Student Yoga and Mindful Practice 
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Cornel West 
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