Hofstra Cultural Center

11/04/2025

11/04/2025

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11/03/2025

Cervantine Blackness with Nicholas Jones and Victor Sierra Matute

During the politically intense days of the Summer of 2020, a group of people protesting the killing of George Floyd tagged with graffiti a monument to Miguel de Cervantes in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The event produced an enormous outrage in the international media and diplomatic circles. Nicholas R. Jones, a critic and professor of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, raised a fundamental question about this debate: Do black lives matter less than a monument to the beloved author of Don Quixote? Great questions produce great answers, so, armed with a formidable encyclopedia of critical tools from literary, race, social justice and cultural theory, professor Jones wrote a brilliant meditation –and 3 more—wondering about the subjects of monumentality, the problem of limiting literary studies to the search of agency, the idea of literary criticism as a form of extraction, and much more. The result of this meditative, intensely literary work is Cervantine Blackness, a brilliant book that renews how we can think about literary production in the convoluted multi-everything world of the early modern moment of the Spanish Empire.

Nicholas R. Jones, Yale University
Víctor Sierra Matute, Baruch College, CUNY

Thursday, November 6, 2:40-4:05 p.m.
East Library Wing 246
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Second 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/3vfbeww4.

11/03/2025

Fall Symposium 2025
The Role of Academic Freedom in a Democratic Society
November 6, 9:40 am - 4:35 pm

9:40 to 11:05 a.m.
Unequal Measures: Research Integrity in Times of Turmoil

11:20 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Academic Freedom and Political Activism on Campus

1 to 2:25 p.m.
Truth on Trial: Free Speech, Media, and the Expanding Boundaries of Government Overreach

1 to 2:25 p.m.
Conflicted Identities in a Democratic Classroom: Graduate Students’ Art-Based Reflections on Academic Freedom in Art Therapy

This panel brings together art therapy graduate students to explore how academic freedom is lived, contested, and reimagined within the context of a democratic classroom.
Room 246 Axinn Library

2:40 to 4:35 p.m.
Philosophical Challenges and Defenses of Academic Freedom in a Democratic Society

All sessions take place in the Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library
First Floor, South Campus, Hofstra University (unless otherwise noted)

This event is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/mr2z9jzw

10/31/2025

🏆 Adjunct Assistant Professor in the The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University Jeremy St. Romain was recently honored by the Television Academy Foundation with an Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship.

📽️ The award provides support for educators to attend the annual Media Educators Conference, held earlier this month at the Television Academy Foundation’s North Hollywood Campus.

Read more here: https://news.hofstra.edu/2025/10/21/st-romain-awarded-alex-trebek-legacy-fellowship/

10/29/2025

Hofstra Student Honored for Research in Public Transportation Policy

Hofstra University junior Elijah Fischer, a public policy, political science, and geography/GIS major and Rabinowitz Honors College student, has been recognized by the American Public Transportation Foundation (APTA) with the 2025 Donald C. Hyde Memorial Essay Scholarship for his research on the politics of public transit. Fischer received the honor at the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) TRANSform Conference in Boston this fall, where he was one of only a handful of undergraduates selected nationwide.

To read the full story visit https://tinyurl.com/sht6yxkp

Hofstra University junior Elijah Fischer, a public policy, political science, and geography/GIS major and Rabinowitz Honors College student, has been recognized by the American Public Transportation Foundation (APTA) with the 2025 Donald C. Hyde Memorial Essay Scholarship for his research on the pol

10/29/2025

Hofstra Law alumna Lynda Madera Vaillant '08 shares how she forged a path to success in the legal field as a first-generation law student.

“Many people helped me when I was a law student at Hofstra Law, so I feel it is my responsibility and honor to give back to the Hofstra Law student community. I enjoy being a panelist on programs at the Law School, assisting with mock interviews and helping students refine their pitches. I am always available to help a Hofstra Law student.”

Read more on the Hofstra LawNews website: https://lawnews.hofstra.edu/2025/10/27/nuestras-historias-lynda-madera-vaillant-08-on-forging-a-path-to-success/

10/29/2025

🚒 Members of the Uniondale Fire Department paid a visit to the Diane Lindner-Goldberg Child Care Institute (CCI), allowing toddlers, preschool and pre-K students to take turns in the driver’s seat of the fire engine and meet the brave first responders.

🦁 https://news.hofstra.edu/2025/10/24/cci-students-get-a-lesson-in-fire-safety/

10/29/2025

🏆 WRHU Radio Hofstra University was named College Radio Station of the Year at the 2025 National Association of Broadcasters Marconi Radio Awards, the fifth time the station has won the national prestigious award in just over a decade.

🎙️ Celebrate the achievement here: https://news.hofstra.edu/2025/10/22/wrhu-wins-its-fifth-marconi-for-college-radio-station-of-the-year/

10/28/2025

Hofstra Provost’s Office Announces Recipients of Diversity Grants

The Office of the Provost has announced the recipients of the 2025 Faculty Diversity Research and Curriculum Development Grants, LGBTQIA+ Research Initiative Grant, and Student Diversity Research Grant, awarded to support scholarly pursuits focused on issues of diversity.

Earlier this year, Hofstra earned the R2 research designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, a testament to the University’s dedication to research, innovation, and societal impact.

This year’s grant recipients include:
Lisa Merrill, PhD
Professor of Rhetoric and Performance Studies
School of Humanities and Performing Arts, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
“Sounding Anti-Slavery Voices: Black Women on the Speakers Platform”

Fabián Arroyo-Rojas, PhD
Assistant Professor of Specialized Programs in Education
School of Education
“Disabled Students’ Experiences in Kinesiology-Based Programs in Higher Education in the United States”

Aashish Kumar, MS, MFA, MA
Professor of Radio, Television, Film
The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication
“Colors That Move: How LGBTQ+ Family Acceptance Films From Immigrant Communities Create Radical Empathy”

To read the full story visit https://tinyurl.com/ywd5hsur

10/28/2025

📚 Hofstra University celebrated Faculty Research Day earlier this month, bringing together faculty scholars from schools across campus to share their research, exchange ideas, and forge new collaborations.

🦁 Faculty presentations reflected the breadth of Hofstra’s scholarly community: https://news.hofstra.edu/2025/10/22/faculty-research-day-showcases-innovation-and-collaboration-across-disciplines/

10/28/2025

🦁Hofstra University's annual Alumni Awards celebrates Hofstra alumni, their career achievements, and contributions to the Hofstra community.

Take a look back at the this year's event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiUFD-zcNuI