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Thursday, September 22, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. Signature Debate Speakers: What Issues Will Decide the 2016 Presidential Election? A Discussion with Eugene Robinson and Stephen Hayes Eugene Robinson, TheWashington PostMSNBC Contributor Eugene Robinson uses his twice-weekly column in The Washington Post to pick American society apart and then put it back together again in unexpected and revelatory new ways. His remarkable story-telling ability has won him wide acclaim, most nota...Continue reading

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The Signature Debate Speaker on Tuesday, September 20 will be Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology, at Georgetown University and author of The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America. Moderated by Julie Byrne, Monsignor Thomas J. Hartman Chair in Catholic Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Religion Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus... Free and open to the public. Registration is recommended. Please RSVP using the RSVP for this Event link: http://events.hofstra.edu/index.php?com=rsvp&eID=19175 * This is held in conjunction with the forthcoming symposium -- Race and Religion in the Americas: A Critical Spiritualities Symposium on October 5. In the Americas in the last five years, a combination of factors have pushed religion and race to the forefront of discussion in media, policy, and scholarship. From events such as the shooting of congregants at Emmanuel AME in South Carolina and new diplomacy in the Americas by President Obama and Pope Francis; from persistent race-and-religion-baiting in the US Republican presidential primaries to movements such Occupy, #BlackLivesMatter, and renewed socialism; from ongoing attempts to close Guantanamo coupled with "War on Terror" drone strikes, the moment is ripe to grapple with issues behind the headlines. At Hofstra, too, initiatives to remedy campus inequalities coincide with the establishment of the Kalikow School, charged to add interdisciplinary scholarship and intellectual inquiry to discussions of policy and social movements. In this symposium on Race and Religion in the Americas, we aim to put the best and deepest of scholarly work in frank conversation (or tension) with the headlines. For more information on the symposium, please visit hofstra.edu/culture. See more

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