Signature Events

The Frank G. Zarb School of Business invites you to an interactive, insider talk with key leaders and experts in the energy sector who will discuss the emerging innovations, technologies, and policies in energy that will power and preserve our dynamic world. Discussion will cover renewables, sustainability, research and governance, followed by a live audience Q & A.

Moderated by Robert Catell, Director, Zarb Executive in Residence Program Chairman of the Board, Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center, Stony Brook University Former CEO, Keyspan

Featuring industry leaders:

John Rhodes
Acting CEO, LIPA 

Justin Driscoll 
President and CEO, New York Power Authority

Pete Rose
Senior Director of Stakeholder Relations, Hydro-Québec

David Manning
Director, Stakeholder Relations Office, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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With Honorable Denny Chin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit

Hofstra Law marks Constitution Day 2024 by staging a re-enactment of the trial and events leading up to the Supreme Court’s controversial 1944 decision to uphold the constitutionality of interning Japanese-Americans solely on the basis of their race. The Hon. Denny Chin, a senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will preside with Hofstra Law students playing parts in the re-enactment. 

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The fourth annual Presidential Symposium will take place on September 23-26, 2024, during the fourth week of classes. We invite speakers from Hofstra’s twelve academic colleges and schools to address the broad topic of “Higher Education in an Election Year” from multiple disciplinary, scholarly, and practitioner perspectives.

The 2024 elections will be highly consequential for leadership, policymaking, and higher education, and civil dialogue about topics in each area is essential in academe. Of the many subjects to address, the following are of particular interest for this symposium: 

• Free speech and contentious policy topics 
• News coverage of elections (candidates, campaigns, policy issues) 
• Policy debates on economy, health care, medicine, nursing
• Public resources for colleges and universities (student funding, research support) 
• Role of higher education in the 21st century (information literacy, addressing artificial intelligence, etc.) 
• Voting and civic engagement

For more information on the Hofstra Presidential Symposium visit Hofstra Presidential Symposium 2024.

DR. SUSAN POSER
President
Hofstra University

(Followed by BBQ on Roosevelt Quad)

Join us in a conversation about the 2024 Election with David Hogg, gun violence prevention activist and survivor of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL, and Rikki Schlott, New York Post columnist and co-author of The Canceling of the American Mind. As co-founder of March For Our Lives and Leaders We Deserve, David has challenged Americans to elect morally just leaders, increase civic engagement, and to "get over politics and get something done." Rikki is a passionate free speech activist focusing on civil liberties and youth issues from a Generation Z perspective. Together, they will discuss how we can all use our voices to protect democracy.

David Hogg
Co-Founder of March For Our Lives Co-Founder of Leaders We Deserve
Co-Author, #NeverAgain

Rikki Schlott
New York Post Columnist
Co-Author, The Canceling of the American Mind

Moderated by:
Rosanna Perotti, Professor of Political Science
Lincoln Anniballi, Class of 2025, President, Hofstra University Student Government Association

Presented by Hofstra Cultural Center, Peter S. Kalikow Center School Of Government, Public Policy And International Affairs and the Hofstra University Student Government Association.

Hofstra University welcomes Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer and Dean Amaney Jamal from Princeton University to discuss their specialized insight into the Gaza conflict and share their approach to fostering spaces where different perspectives can engage on this deeply sensitive topic.

In this conversation, moderated by Dr. Bernard Firestone, Hofstra University professor of political science, Kurtzer and Jamal will explore how the conflict has affected campuses across the country, strategies they have implemented at Princeton, and the core issues behind the Middle East crisis. This session aims to offer a roadmap for productive dialogue, demonstrating how such conversations can be conducted successfully. The audience may submit questions during the event for a concluding Q&A session.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is the author of three novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), of a short story collection, The Thing around Your Neck (2009), and of three books of non-fiction, We Should All Be Feminists (2014), Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), and Notes on Grief (2021).Ms. Adichie’s work has been trans- lated into over thirty languages.She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008). She has also been named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015, and in 2017, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.

• 8-9:25 a.m.
  Session 1: Deliberative Dialogue and Breakfast: Students Discussing Immigration and Climate Change Policy
• 9:40-11:05 a.m.
  Session 2: Student Perspectives on the Presidential Election
• 11:20 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
  Session 3: Staying Woke: The Case for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Why it Matters
• 1-2:25 p.m.
  Session 4: Human Rights, Security and the Israeli, Palestinian Conflict
• 2:40-4:05 p.m.
  Session 5: Grassroots Power- Organizing for Change
• 4:20-5:45 p.m.
  Session 6: Inspiring Women in Leadership
• 6-7:25 p.m.
  Session 7: ERA is on the ballot in New York State!