Signature Events: Cultural Center
Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion (IEI)
Thursday, December 5, 7:30 p.m.
Kwanzaa Celebration
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In collaboration with the Black Student Union, join us to learn about the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa, watch performances, and enjoy food and refreshments!
Multipurpose Room, Mack Student Center
Admission is free and open to the public. For more information on IEI events, please visit hofstra.edu/iei or email [email protected].
Sunday, November 24, 7 p.m.
The Hofstra Jazz Ensemble
The Annual Peter B. Clark Memorial Scholarship Fund Concert
By the Virtue of the Blues
David Lalama, director
Featuring Harlem’s Tina Fabrique, from Broadway musicals Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk and Ragtime, and dramatic roles in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Glass Menagerie, and The Old Settler.
Presented in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center series The Legacy 1619-2019. Funding provided by the Joseph G. Astman Family.
Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center
For tickets and information, please call the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at 516-463-6644, Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m., or visit hofstratickets.com.
Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice
Wednesday and Thursday, November 20 and 21
The Distinguished African Scholars And Writers Series Program Lecture
With Dr. Alain Lawo-Sukam
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Wednesday and Thursday, November 20 and 21
Dr. Alain Lawo-Sukam, from Cameroon, is professor of Africana studies and Hispanic studies at Texas A&M University. A creative writer in three languages (French, English, and Spanish), author of trilingual poetry books (Dream of Africa. Rêve d’Afrique. Sueño con África, 2013) and a novel (Mange-Mil y sus historias de tierra caliente, 2017), he specializes in the history and culture of Afro-descendants in the Americas, focusing in particular on Afro-Colombian, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Argentine communities. The titles of two of his public lectures: “African Immigrants in Argentina: An Old-New Odyssey” and “Estado de la literatura africana en español y los departamentos de Estudios Hispánicos en los Estados Unidos.
For information, please contact the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice at 516-463-6585 or [email protected].
Wednesday, November 13, 6:30 p.m.
Great Writers, Great Readings: Colson Whitehead
Underground Railroad (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and recipient of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize). His latest novel, The Nickel Boys, was published in July 2019. Previous works include The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York (a collection of essays). He was named New York’s 11th State Author in 2018. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He has taught at many prestigious institutions around the country and has been a writer-in-residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and the University of Wyoming.
Photo by Madeline Whitehead
Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center
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Thursday, November 7, 4:30 p.m.
Keynote Address: Eddie S. Glaude Jr., PhD
Chairperson, Department of African American Studies
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies
Princeton University
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library
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Day of Dialogue
Wednesday, October 23, 7 p.m.
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: CONFLICT, CLIMATE, AND THE CRISIS OF FORCED MIGRATION
1619-2019: The Quest for Reparatory Justice to Achieve More Perfect Union
With Dr. Ron Daniels
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch ship White Lion in Jamestown, in the British Colony that was to become the Commonwealth of Virginia, with “20 and odd Negroes” from Africa. The arrival of these enslaved Africans was the opening chapter in one of the most horrific tragedies in human history. In this presentation, Dr. Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, will present a historic look at the centuries-old struggle for emancipation, and the current movement for reparations in the U.S. and its global implications. Dr. Daniels served as executive director of the National Rainbow Coalition in 1987, and deputy campaign manager for the Jesse Jackson for President Campaign in 1988. From 1993 to 2005, Dr. Daniels served as the first African American executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library
In collaboration with the Center for Civic Engagement, the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and the Hofstra Cultural Center.
For information, please visit hofstra.edu/cce. Join the #HofDialogue conversation on social media.
Tuesday, October 22
6 p.m., Documentary Screening
8 p.m., Panel Discussion
Living on Long Island While Black: The Suburban Search for Justice
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A screening of Strong Island explores the murder of William Ford Jr. through the eyes of his brother, Yance Ford, the Oscar-nominated director in the category of feature documentary (2018). The film looks at Long Island’s past through a detailed crime story, the legacy of trauma on one family, and the reverberating consequences on families.
The panel discussion, co-moderated by Martine Hackett, associate professor in the Master of Public Health and Community Health programs, and Nicole Franklin, assistant professor of radio, television, film, Hofstra University, will feature Keith Bush, whose murder conviction was overturned in May 2019 after he spent 33 years in prison, and a Nassau County Civil Liberties Union representative, as they discuss and take questions from the audience on systemic racism in criminal justice.
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library
Saturday, October 19, 9:30 a.m.
Brooklyn and Abolition Tour
Tour takes you through historic Brooklyn Heights and will examine the abolitionist movement; includes a visit to Plymouth Church. Meet at Brooklyn Atlantic Terminal in front of Starbucks. Each tour will run for two hours.
Facilitator for both tours: Alan Singer, professor of teaching, learning and technology, and director of social studies education programs.
Advance registration is required. To register visit hofstra.edu/walkingtour.
For more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture.
Wednesday, October 16, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. (Common Hour)
Keynote Address: Deborah Gray White, PhD
Are There Really Forty Million Ways to Be Black in the Age of Trump?
Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History
Rutgers University
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library
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Wednesday, September 25, 6:30 p.m.
Great Writers, Great Readings: Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th poet laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five poetry collections:Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the Lillian Smith Book Award for Poetry. Her book of nonfiction,Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, was published in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Trethewey was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.
Photo by Joel Benjamin
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library
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Center for Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, September 24, 11 a.m. -2:15 p.m.
Healthcare Entrepreneurship Community Challenge Regional Symposium and Pitch Competition
This event showcases preselected businesses who have submitted applications and received mentorship, and will pitch their innovations to a panel of healthcare and entrepreneurship experts, all vying for over $60,000 in cash and prizes.
The theme for 2019 is Creating Wellness, focusing on improving health care and inspiring solutions that address healthcare inequity in underserved communities. The challenge connects participating businesses with these communities to test and develop their products. Wizdom Powell, PhD, director of the Health Disparities Institute at UConn Health, will give the keynote address, titled “Breath, eyes, memory: Optimizing emotional well-being among boys and men of color.”
Multipurpose Room and Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center
For more information or to register, please visit nyhealthchallenge.com or call Stacey Sikes at 516-463-7496.
Walking Tours
Saturday, September 21, 10 a.m.
New York Slavery Tour – African Burial Ground
A memorial dedicated to enslaved Africans in Colonial America.
Meet at the African Burial Ground, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
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Tuesday, September 17, 6:30 p.m.
Unheard Voices
Conceived by Judy Tate
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Unheard Voices is an original monologue piece, with singing and drumming, by the award-winning writers of the American Slavery Project. Up to 30,000 men, women, and children from New York’s Colonial era are buried in the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. Based on specific burials, each monologue gives one of them voice and honors those African descendants – enslaved and free – who were buried without their names.
In collaboration with the Women’s Studies Program, the Hofstra Cultural Center, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice.
Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater, John Cranford Adams Playhouse
