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Hofstra University "Barack Obama Presidency: Hope and Change" Conference [1]

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Date: 2023-04-02  

Hofstra University’s Thirteenth Presidential Conference: The Barack Obama Presidency – Hope and Change will take place April 19-21, 2023. Hofstra has a long and distinguished tradition of hosting conferences on the administrations of all the Presidents of the United States who have served during the University's lifetime, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt forward. The presidential conferences feature commentary by scholars, journalists, and administration officials to examine a president’s leadership, policy making, and legacy. The Obama Conference is hosted by the Hofstra Cultural Center, the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs, and the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency in cooperation with the Barack Obama Presidential Library and the National Archives and Records Administration. For registration and schedule information, visit the conference website.

High school classes and teachers are encouraged to attend. Contact Athelene Collins, Executive Director of the Hofstra Cultural Center, at athelene.a.collins@hofstra.edu or 516-463-5658 to make arrangements.

During each conference, Hofstra brings together scholars, policy makers, and journalists for a series of panels and roundtables to discuss a president's campaign, political leadership, policy agenda, and legacy. Often the Hofstra conference is the first opportunity for scholars, journalists, and administration officials to come together to debate the issues of that period in history. The University has published volumes of selected articles and commentary from every conference, which have become standard scholarly volumes and early oral histories of each presidency.

These presidential conferences bring to campus hundreds of national leaders, scholars and historians, as well as college and high school classes. In addition, selected keynote panels and plenary events will be live streamed through the University's website, allowing access to schools across the country. The Hofstra Presidential Conferences provide a unique opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary scholarly analyses, with key insights from former administration officials and journalists, of the American presidency and American politics.

The keynote address on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 6:30 PM will be delivered by Professor Melissa Harris-Perry, the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair in the Department of Politics and International Affairs, the Department of Women and Gender Studies, and the Program in Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University. Harris-Perry serves as host and managing editor of The Takeaway, a daily, national public radio program and podcast distributed by WNYC and PRX. She is founder and president of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, whose mission is to advance justice through intersectional scholarship and action.

On Thursday, April 20th at 2:30 PM there will be a panel discussion of Education Policy during the Obama administration. Confirmed speakers are Pamela Donnelly, College Consulting, on

“Communicating Access to Higher Education in the Obama Presidency”; Brian L. Fife, Lehigh University on “Obama and Education Policy”; and Alan Singer, Hofstra University on “Grading the Obama-Duncan Education Record.”

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