Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of English present
10 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:10-11:05 a.m.
THE PARANOID Hofstra University and the University of Amsterdam Excha STATES OF AMERICA: The Student Experience: Perspectives in Both Directions Conspiracy Theories on 11:15 a.m. Ceremonial Presentation in Honor of the 25th Anniversary Campus and in the Hofstra’s University and the University of Amsterdam Exch 10 a.m. Ballot Box with Welcome and Opening Remarks11:30 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND BOOK SIGNING: RUSSELL Amsterdam, Old and New: The Flow of Influe DR. COLIN DICKEY
The keynote address will be given by best-sel Russell Shorto, whose book The Island at the 10:10-11:05 a.m. Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony T Wednesday September 18, 2024 •broad 2:40-4:05 p.m. reconsideration of the early Dutch colo Exchange Program Hofstra University and the University of Amsterdam state, and surrounding areas.
Conspiracy theories in political and popular discourse nothing new, but recently The Student Experience: Perspectives inare Both Directions
it feels like they’ve been on the rise have become more prevalent with changes in how we consume social media. Colin Dickey, author Under the Eye of Power: How 1:55-2:50 p.m. Organization of Dutch Life: Interiors, H Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy (Viking, 2023), is an expert on 11:15 a.m. how conspiracy theories are structured and built. His talk will focus on how to spot 3-4:15 p.m. The Organization of Dutch Life in New N and identify these structures, and in howHonor to combat with special attention to of the Ceremonial Presentation ofthem, the 25th Anniversary Amsterdam, and the History and Resou upcoming presidential election and conspiracy theories related to higher education Hofstra’s and across the University of Amsterdam Exchange Progra Research Center that are nowUniversity being weaponized the United States. About the speaker:
ADDRESS : TWEED ROOSEVELT 4:30-5:30 p.m. SPECIAL EYNOTE at ADDRESS AND BOOK IGNING : RUSSELL 11:30 COLINa.m. DICKEY is aKprofessor National University andSthe author five books. ASHORTO keen observer of history, culture, and human behavior, Dr. Dickey’s work explores Amsterdam, Old and New: TheGreat-grandson Flow of(and Influence of President Theodore ( our attraction to oddities and irrational thinking, demystifying complex sometime troubling) proclivities with generosity and circumspection. CEO and Immediate Past President, The The keynote address will be given by best-selling author, Raucous New Amsterdam and the Rise Russell Shorto, whose book The Island at the Center of th Co-sponsored Dutch by the Departments of History, Philosophy, Sociology and the Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped Special Collections will feature two exhibits – one on the main flo Rabinowitz Honors College. memorabilia and photographs of Hofstra’s Dutch heritage, and ono broad reconsideration of the early Dutch colonial period photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Hofstra as well as the campus in blo state, and surrounding areas.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
1:55-2:50 p.m.
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