Join us for a book launch and panel discussion featuring Bryan Massingale and Jed Shugerman, moderated by David Gibson. This hybrid event is co-sponsored with Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies and Fordham Law School.
The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are unable to beat the market over the long term, which has led to massive outflows from active funds to passive funds. Where should investors turn in search of a new approach? Pulak Prasad offers a philosophy of patient,
Healthcare social workers engage in discipline-specific, skilled interventions informed by training, best practices, and attunement to social justice. Documenting assessments and interventions clearly communicates the value of the social work perspective, skills, and contributions and influences outcomes while also contributing to the learning of those who read our work. This class will review the literature
Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, is the Curia’s chief promoter of the social justice ministry of Pope Francis, a fellow Jesuit. Cardinal Czerny will be discussing his latest book, Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis. Written with Italian theologian Father
Can mental health professionals work with clients that they know from outside of the job? Can you barter with clients for your services? Mental health professionals are charged with the legal and ethical responsibility to maintain professional boundaries, but the obligation isn’t always so easy to discern. This class brings real-world context to ethical concerns
In the beginning, there was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia, people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn’t always popular: In the ancient world, usury was generally viewed as exploitative, a potential path to debt bondage and slavery. Yet as capitalism became established from the
Much attention is given to returning veterans with war-induced syndromes, such as PTSD. An estimated 10% to 20% of returning soldiers have PTSD. The experiences of the other 80% to 90% are not as well understood, including whether or not their experiences are clinically significant or indicative of psychosocial problems. There is a growing body
Fordham first celebrated Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, in June 2020. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when the announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army General Gordon Granger proclaimed African Americans' freedom from slavery in the state of Texas, roughly two months after the official
Susan Chevlowe, Ph.D., will speak about the exhibition she organized at the Derfner Judaica Museum in Riverdale, New York, on view through July 16. The exhibition includes 36 black-and-white images by noted street photographer Jill Freedman (1939–2019), documenting sites of destruction and the resurgence of Jewish life after the Holocaust in Hungary, Poland, and the
The Center on Asian Americans and the Law at the Law School is holding its second annual Summer Scholarship Conference.
Join us for a crucial conversation highlighting the Capping the Cross-Bronx Expressway Campaign as part of our annual Urban Plunge pre-orientation program. Guided by Nilka Martell, the visionary who led the Capping the Cross-Bronx movement, this panel will explore the intersection of environmental justice and policymaking. The panel features policy experts who will provide insightful
Join us for a fireside chat with Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Family Office, and Mario Gabelli, a 1965 graduate of Fordham and the chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors. The pair will discuss Cooperman’s recently published memoir, From the Bronx to Wall Street: My Fifty Years in Finance and Philanthropy. The discussion will be
Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call with Nirupama Menon Rao, focusing on "India and Great-Power Rivalry." About the Speaker Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired Indian diplomat, foreign secretary, and ambassador. During her four-decade-long diplomatic career, she held several important assignments. She was India’s first woman spokesperson in the Ministry
We are kicking off this year's lecture series as we always do with the heroic tales of the second year students' summer internships. Please come and learn about their adventures and what opportunities are available for students.
Join us for a discussion and audience Q&A with Andrea Elliott, winner of the 2022 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, for her book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City. About the Author: Andrea is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has documented the lives of poor Americans, Muslim
Drawing on his experience facilitating Dante workshops in prisons in Italy, Indonesia, and the U.S., Ron Jenkins will discuss ways in which the divine comedy is viewed by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated readers who find compelling similarities between Dante’s journey out of hell and their own journeys out of prison.
Join us for a presentation from Ben Coco, a physics student in Fordham’s Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, as he presents “Galactic Archaeology at Notre Dame” and “We are all star stuff, but what about the stuff stars can’t make?” All of the elements through iron can be formed in stars, but what about
Join Fordham alumni and friends as literary historian and Fordham University professor Edward Cahill kicks off the tour for his debut novel, Disorderly Men. The book is a page-turner set in the gay subculture of pre-Stonewall, Mad Men-era New York City, and will be Fordham University Press' first work of original fiction Cahill will be in
Join us for a virtual program with award-winning financial journalist Diana Henriques on her latest book, Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism. Taming the Street describes how President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash
Forty years after Cardinal Bernardin's landmark speech at Fordham University in which he set out a “consistent ethic of life,” his successor as Archbishop of Chicago continues to broaden the conversation first begun in 1983. The timing of this talk could not be more propitious: Pope Francis has been promoting a “seamless garment” view of
Last spring, the faculty of arts and sciences received a generous donation from James C. McGroddy to establish a new award recognizing leadership and innovation in pedagogy. Please join us for a panel discussion as we congratulate the James C. McGroddy Award recipients and listen to their thoughts on innovations in pedagogy and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Joe Calandro will profile the United States credit cycle and the challenges it poses, and he will share his perspective on where we seem to be in the cycle today. He will show the prior credit cycle wave of progressively lower inflation and interest rates began in 1982—following a historic inflationary trend—and ended in the
Collins Obidiagha, S.J., entered the Jesuit novitiate in Benin City in 2007, spending two years as the network administrator for the community’s computer lab. He then earned a B.A., with honors, in philosophy and humanities from the University of Zimbabwe in 2013. After attending the Cisco Networking Academy, Father Obidiagha served as the IT administrator
Generative AI is taking the world by storm, yet it remains unclear if we are ready for the paradigm shifts it will bring for the workplace and for those who currently rely on a human workforce. What will knowledge work look like in the age of generative AI? Will the creative talents required to write
Join us in welcoming former Philippine senator Paolo Benigno Aguirre Aquino IV. Aquino is the youngest senator in Philippine history. As a senator, he served on numerous congressional committees and helped pass laws uplifting youth, microfinance, and people with disabilities. Currently, he is a Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow at the Yale Jackson School of
