The March 2024 meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies will explore the complex considerations of and methodologies for examining the intersections of historical inquiry. For example, how do we lift up and make visible the spaces between geographies, intersectional identities, social solidarities, and/or the relationships between institutions and their constituents? As always, beyond our themed sessions, our program includes all aspects of French and Francophone History. We are also committed to creating a welcoming, antiracist, and diverse conference that embraces our Society’s anti-discriminatory mission of inclusiveness, political education, and equitable empowerment.
Presentations will be presented in English or French, and include traditional panels, roundtables, or lightning sessions that reflect the variety of recent scholarship, pedagogical concerns, and contemporary issues.
Thursday, March 14-Saturday, March 16, 2024 Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
More info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/9pzcyvsu
Join the MSA and the Department of Anthropology as various speakers from diverse backgrounds explore how societal attitudes towards Muslim and Jewish communities have been affected since Oct 7, 2023.
Tuesday, March 12, 4:30-6 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/mw6bb526
No issue is more divisive this election year than immigration. As nearly 200,000 new migrants have arrived in the NY Metro Area these past two years, Americans wrestle with fundamental
questions like: Whom shall we welcome as residents here? What are their impacts on local jobs, schools, and services? How do we reconcile immigrant rights with the rights of long-term
residents? What new policies are needed to fix the broken immigration system?
Anthony Capote — coauthor of new report on Immigration’s Impacts on Long Island: (immresearch.org).
Fanny Jalisca Garcia — Award-winning oral historian & Director, The Separated Project: (separatedoralhistories.org).
Bryan Perez — Central American Refugee Center & Hofstra graduate: (CarecenNY.org)
Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Center for Civic Engagement and the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program
Tuesday, March 12, 1-2:25 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/yckher92
Critiquing media coverage of any global event always falls into the category of “in-the-eyes-of- the-beholder” subjectivity, depending on the interests and concerns of the audiences that are receiving the reportage. This presentation will feature the unique perspective of a veteran journalist who for decades has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a critical perspective that is generally absent from U.S. mainstream news outlets, one that emphasizes human rights, and giving voice to those least heard in the media.
Featuring Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist, host and executive producer of Democracy Now, a daily, international, multi-platform news and public affairs program.
In conversation with Mario A. Murillo, Professor of Radio, Journalism and Latin American Studies, Vice Dean, The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication
Tuesday, March 12, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 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 registration is required.
International Scene Lecture Series
presents
U.S. Policy in the Middle East: Democracy and the Current Crisis with Sarah Leah Whitson
Sarah Leah Whitson is the Executive Director of DAWN. Previously, she served as executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division from 2004 – 2020, overseeing the work of the division in 19 countries, with staff located in 10 countries.
International Scene Series Co-Directors:
Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, Department of History
Professor Linda Longmire, Department of Global Studies and Geography
Professor Martin Melkonian, Department of Economics
This event is FREE and open to the public. Advanced registration is required. For more info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/63sbcwhm
HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER and the DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY in collaboration with the DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION AND JEWISH STUDIES and WOMEN STUDIES PROGRAM presents:
Dr. Nadia Malinovich, associate professor of American Studies at the Université de Picardie-Jules Verne and a researcher with the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités (CNRS-EPHE) explores the evolving contours of Sephardic as a category of self-identification for Jews who grew up in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and subsequently emigrated to Europe and North America.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater 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/4emnpp4y
Jelena Pia-Comella is a senior international consultant with over 25 years of experience in international relations and a deep knowledge of the United Nations system.
Thursday, March 7, 2:40-4:05 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
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/d3fzj6me
Join us for a panel discussion with renowned Certified Midwives on the critical needs and solutions to address the maternal health crisis in the United States.
Panelists:
Patricia Burke, PhD, CNE, RNC
Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN (She/Her)
Nubia Earth Martin, MS (Midwifery)
Michele Mayer, DNP, CNM, WHNP, RN
The Impact of Midwives on Maternal Health
Join us for a panel discussion with renowned Certified Midwives on the critical needs and solutions to address the maternal health crisis in the United States.
Wednesday, March 6, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
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/2krht2fs.
Distinguished Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar Middle East Legal Scholar and Founding Director of the Center for Security, Race, and Rights, Rutgers University, Author, Global Islamophobia in an Era of Populism, and The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
As a part of an approach that stresses the humanity of all parties involved in the ongoing crisis in Palestine and Israel, as well as our own humanity, Sahar Aziz will address the troubling rise in Islamophobia and Antisemitism.
Wednesday, March 6, 1-2:25 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
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/3y4n2jf8
Understanding the Rise and Fall of U.S. CONGRESSMAN
GEORGE SANTOS and Consequences for Policymaking
featuring
Mark Chiusano
Journalist and Author of “The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling,
Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos”
Moderators:
Meena Bose, Executive Dean, Peter S. Kalikow School of Government,
Public Policy and International Affairs; Director, Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, Hofstra University
Larry Levy, Executive Dean, The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University ®
Tuesday, March 5, 4:20 p.m.
Guthart Cultural Center Theater
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 events.hofstra.edu.