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The Italian American Experience Lecture Series/Spring 2026 New Italian American Writing

Join us for the final lecture in the series with Riccardo Costa, Adjunct Professor of Italian, Hofstra University

Co-author, Butterflies in the Brownstone: The Italians Souls of New York

Tuesday, April 7, 6:30 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. more info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/bdemzm4h.

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Intersecting Inequalities: Gender, Climate Change, and Mental Health in a Changing World A panel discussion featuring Thelma Abu, PhD.

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies, University of Connecticut

Climate change is more than just an environmental crisis but also a social and public health emergency with disproportionate impacts across gender and geography. Through a short presentation, panel discussion, and open dialogue, participants will examine how environmental degradation, extreme weather events, and resource scarcity intensify existing gender inequalities and contribute to psychosocial distress, displacement, livelihood insecurity and wellbeing. The event will foster cross-sector collaboration, highlight innovative research and community-based solutions, and identify pathways for integrating gender-sensitive and mental health–responsive approaches into climate adaptation and policy planning. Panelists: Meshack Achore, PhD, MPH,Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health J. Bret Bennington, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability Hellie R. Decker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Ruth Trumble, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies & Geography

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center, Department of Population Health and the School of Health Sciences.

Wednesday, April 22, 2:40-4:05 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor South Campus This event if FREE and open to the public. For more info and to RSVP visit events.hofstra.edu.

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American Constitutionalism at 250: How Will the Past Inform the Future?

Thursday, April 16, 9:40 a.m. -4:05 p.m.

9:40-11:05 a.m. Presidential Debating: How Can We Turn It From Spectacle (Back) to Constitutional Bedrock? The Helene Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center California Avenue, South Campus

11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m. No Kings 1776-2026: Executive Power and the Decision for War

1-2:25 p.m. No Kings 1776-2026: Whatever Happened to Separation of Powers?

2:40-4:05 p.m. No Kings: 1776-2026: Executive Power and ‘Unalienable Rights’

These events are FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. To RSVP, visit https://tinyurl.com/2zruh5sz.

For more information, call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/kalikow.

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(Untold) Stories of Revolution in the Atlantic World: Haiti and Latin America

featuring Millery Polyné, Associate Professor of Caribbean & Latin American History NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study in conversation with Brenda Elsey, Professor of History, Hofstra University

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 2:40-4:05 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/4yrk5h5r

4:30 p.m. Related Event: Hofstra University Museum of Art Exhibition Reception Our Unfinished Revolution(s) Dancing in Revolutionary America Lecture and Demonstration featuring Caroline Copeland, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance, Hofstra University Emily Lowe Gallery, Behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus Light refreshments will be available.

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Earth Day Conversations on Community, Climate, AI, and Food Systems

Tuesday, April 14, 9:40 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

Hofstra University will mark Earth Day with a full day of programming on Tuesday, April 14, bringing together students, faculty, and leading experts to explore pressing environmental issues, emerging technologies, and pathways toward a more sustainable future.

9:40-11:05 a.m. -- The Civic Benefits of Community Gardens

1-2:25 p.m. -- Community Dialogue: AI - Is it Good or Bad?

2:40-4:05 Rebound on the Sound and Other Positive Developments

4:30-7:30 p.m. -- Food: Science, Society, and Sustainability

All sessions take place in the Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater.

These events are FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit events.hofstra.edu.

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FOOD AS MEDICINE MINI CONFERENCE Part of National Public Health Week

Bringing the healthcare & nutrition science communities together to promote health & well-being.

Thursday, April 9, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

9 a.m. Registration & Networking

9:40-11 a.m. Keynote Address: Past, Present, & Future of Food as Medicine Dorella Walters, Chief Program Development Officer, God’s Love We Deliver

Session I Panel: Local Community Food Initiatives

11:20 a.m.12-:45 p.m. Session 2 Roundtable Discussions Participants will rotate through themed tables, stopping to learn about programs and organizations that are using food and nutrition as tools for health and healing across our region. Participation enters you in a raffle for prizes!

1 p.m. Lunch and End of Conference

All sessions take place in the Multipurpose Room, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center.

Presented by Hofstra University School of Health Sciences and Cornell Cooperative Extension Nassau County and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Explore more SHS NPHW 2026 Events https://tinyurl.com/423r8avd

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Film Screening: Heightened Security

Join us for a screening of Heightened Scrutiny (2025; Sam Feder, director), an award-winning film that follows fearless civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio as he fights a high-stakes legal battle before the Supreme Court to overturn Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth (United States v. Skrmetti). The film confronts not only anti-trans legislation but also a media landscape that distorts public perception and threatens democracy. With the SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving health care, Heightened Scrutiny is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice.

Tuesday, April 7, 1-2:40 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor South Campus

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/57d5zs7e.

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Hofstra Cultural Center presents

The Italian American Experience Lecture Series / Spring 2026 New Italian American Writing

Jennifer Romanello, Associate Director, Masters in Publishing Program, Pace University Contributing Author, And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere Join us for the second reading and discussion in a series of three.

Tuesday, March 31, 6:30 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Admission is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/58dk9svv.

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A Musical Rainbow Across South Asia and the West featuring David Trasoff acccompanied by Teja Tope on tabllā

This concert recognizes the pioneering role of Western musicians in South Asian art music who contributed to its dissemination in Europe and North America.

The event marks the launch of Dr. Cassio’s Book, Evening and Night Rāgas. The Dhrupad of Amelia Cuni.

Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of Music in collaboration with the SNEH Arts Foundation.

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

Thursday, March 26, 7-9 p.m. The Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center California Avenue, South Campus

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. For more info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/46jwesc3.

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Fighting the Deportation Machines: Lessons From History

Featuring Adam Goodman, PhD Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Latin American and Latino Studies University of Illinois, Chicago Author, The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants.

As federal agents occupy cities across the country as part of an ongoing mass deportation campaign, people have organized in record numbers to protect themselves and their communities. What's happening today is the latest chapter in a long series of debates about immigration and what it means to be an American.

This talk will trace the troubling history of the US government’s systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants during the past 150 years. It will also explore the innovative strategies people have adopted to fight against the deportation machine and to redefine belonging in ways that transcend citizenship.

Wednesday, March 25, 2:40-4:05 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Flour, South Campus

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit https://rb.gy/gcxq4o

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How Will White House Policies Inform the 2026 Congressional Midterm Elections?

Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs in Conjunction with the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and the Hofstra Cultural Center

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A Conversation with Kalikow Senior Presidential Fellows Ari Fleischer and Phil Schiliro

PANELISTS: Ari Fleischer, Media Consultant; White House Press Secretary, George W. Bush Administration and Phil Schiliro, Policy Analyst; Director of Legislative Affairs, Barack Obama Administration

MODERATOR: Meena Bose, Executive Dean of Hofstra University’s Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs, Director of Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies, Professor of Political Science.

Thursday, March 26, 1-2:25 p.m. Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/23ummaas.

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The Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice 2025 Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipient Public Lecture Featuring Jyoti Thapaliya

Building on prior research showing that racial groups with a high probability of underdiagnosis reported greater difficulty accessing healthcare, this study examines current pediatric access to care and equity in New York State.

Jyoti Thapaliya, PhD is an educator, researcher, and nonprofit leader serving as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Hofstra University. She has a PhD in Biology and an MBA.

Monday, March 23, 4:20-5:45 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

This Event is FREE and open to the public. Advance reservations are required. More info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/3mmc4rr9.

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Global Justice Day – Revolutions 250: Untold Stories of Revolution: Indigenous and Black Voices

Moderator: Susan Yohn, Professor Emerita of History, Hofstra University

Panelists: Lynda Day, Professor, Africana Studies, Brooklyn College Rashad Young, Project Director for the Language Project for MPTN (Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation) Nakai Northup, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Head of Education, Pequot Tribal Nation John Staudt, Adjunct Associate Professor of History, Hofstra University Reception immediately following in the Emily Lowe Gallery with Native American flute music and to view the exhibition, Our Unfinished Revolutions, from 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11, 2:40 p.m. This event is FREE and open to the public. To RSVP, visit https://tinyurl.com/4d5tsxcr

Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock Indian Nation / American, born 1990), Cloak of Divisibility, from the series Rise, 2025, Archival inkjet print, 20 x 30 inches

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2026 Lives in Public Policy and Public Service Address: Private and Public Advocacy in the Age of Environmental, Social, and Governance Pushback: How Corporations, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Governments Are Shaping the Rules for Tomorrow

The Lives in Public Policy and Public Service lecture series of the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs invites speakers each academic year to share their journey into public service with faculty and students. The lecture series seeks to engage students who are keenly interested in pursuing their passion for public service and policymaking.

Eric Lopez, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR); B.A., Liberal Arts (History, Philosophy, Psychology), ’05; M.A., Applied Social Research and Policy Analysis, ’11

Tuesday, March 10, 1-2:25 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Presented by the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs and the Public Policy AND Public Service Program

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required.

To RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/3apxj6xt.

For more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/kalikow.

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Cognitive Science Speaker Series Ritual as Cultural Immune Strategy: Religion & the Predictive Mind

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Dr. Jesper Sørensen Associate Professor in Comparative Religion, Aarhus University, Denmark

Dr. Sørensen’s research focuses on magic, ritual, and cognitive and evolutionary aspects of religion. His recent monograph, Why Cultures Persist: Toward a Cultural Immunology, investigates how culture contributes to the stabilization of various social groupings. (Open Access at Why Cultures Persist: Toward a Cultural Immunology on JSTOR)

This talk explores the central role of rituals in forming and maintaining social groups through a framework of Cultural Immunology. Recent developments in organismic immunology see the immune system not as a defense system meant to keep out the foreign, but as a regulatory system seeking to uphold the viability of the organism. In a similar way, cultural immune systems, like religions, preserve the integrity of a social sphere and ritual is one of the prime cultural technologies employed.

Presented by the Hofstra Department of Philosophy and Rabinowitz Honors College. In cooperation with the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Thursday, March 5, 6-7:30 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit events.hofstra.edu.

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Hofstra University Museum of Art Public Program: Converstion with the Artist - Jeremy Dennis

Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine arts photographer; an enrolled tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY; and the founder and lead artist of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc., a nonprofit art space and residency program on the Shinnecock Reservation.

Thursday, March 5, 10-11:30 a.m. Multipurpose Room, Mack Student Center, North Campus

Admission is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/33zhcet8.

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

Credit: Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock Indian Nation / American, b. 1990), Many Nations, Under One, All Invisible, from the series Rise, 2025, archival inkjet print, 20 x 30 inches, courtesy of the artist.

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From the Monroe Doctrine To Donald Trump 2.0: The United States, Latin America and Regional Resistance To the New Imperialism

This international panel of experts will examine the many risks of the current crisis in the hemisphere as they pertain to democracy, human rights, neo-colonialism and national sovereignty.

Moderators: Mario A. Murillo, Professor, Vice Dean The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication and Conrad Herold, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics Hofstra University

Steve Ellner, Ph.D., retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, University of the West Indies – St. Augustine in Trinidad, from Cuba (via zoom) Manuel Rozental, Colombian physician, veteran social justice activist, Pueblos en Camino, Cauca, Colombia, (via zoom) Alejandro Velasco, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, New York University, Editor of NACLA Report on the Americas

Presented by the Center for Civic Engagement’s Institute For Peace Studies and the Hofstra Cultural Center. In collaboration with Latin America and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) and the  L.I. Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 2:40-4:05 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. For more information and to RSVP https://tinyurl.com/2m83pd8m.