Join us for a Council of Foreign Relations academic conference call with Anne C. Richard, former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration under President Barack Obama. Previously, she was vice president of government relations and advocacy for the International Rescue Committee. In addition to the State Department, she served at Peace Corps
Elizabeth Thrall, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Fordham University, will present “Overcoming Obstacles: Visualizing How the DNA Replication Machinery Bypasses DNA Damage.” Across all domains of life, DNA is replicated by a multi-protein complex known as the replisome. At the center of the replisome are DNA polymerases, the enzymes that synthesize
The wholesale trade and manufacturing of diamonds, which once supported the vast majority of Antwerp’s Jewish male workforce, has steadily relocated to less-regulated zones in the “midstream pipeline” of the diamond supply chain. This lecture draws upon extended ethnographic fieldwork that Sam Shuman conducted with diamond traders, brokers, manufacturers, and artisans from 2017 to 2019
Join us for a lecture presented by Andrew Prevot, Boston College. Theologians have discerned the presence of the crucified Christ in oppressed peoples. They have wrestled with challenging questions about how to understand such crucified groups not only as victims but also as Christologically empowered agents of salvation. Drawing on the works of Ignacio Ellacuría
Jessica Esquivel, Ph.D., associate scientist within the particle physics division in Fermilab's Muon Department, will present, "Can Wobbling Muons Probe Physics Beyond the Standard Model? Fermilab’s Muon g-2 Run 1 Results." On April 7, 2021, Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment announced its first results of the precision measurement of the anomalous muon magnetic moment based on
The 20th century was marked by mass violence, with the Shoah and World War II dominating historical memory. But decades before the Shoah, other instances of mass violence took place with tens—if not hundreds—of thousands of Jews massacred in eastern Europe. Scholars and readers of Jewish history know and remember the pogroms of 1881, the
This panel features five distinguished speakers addressing the core questions of the Taking Responsibility project. They will help us ask how to confront and handle the history of clerical sexual abuse and its many legacies in the present. This event brings together one of the foremost researchers on clerical sexual abuse in the United States,
Every year, Fordham recognizes faculty research at Research Day, an in-person event at Fordham Law. This year, the keynote speaker will be Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D., professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. An awards ceremony will honor the following five outstanding Fordham faculty for their research: Distinguished Research Award in
Join us for a discussion on the impacts of environmental and climate change sponsored by the MOSAIC affinity chapter and the Office of Alumni Relations. The conversation will surround how these environmental issues disproportionately affect certain populations due to income, race, geography, or economy. These effects can have severe outcomes ranging from interrupted telecommunications and
Join us for a panel discussion on Song Searcher, a documentary about Moyshe Beregovsky, a musician and scholar, who traveled across Ukraine during the most dramatic years of Soviet history with a phonograph to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jews. His work began in the 1920s and ended with his arrest and
Need help getting started on a paper? Want to strengthen your claim? Thinking through the structure of your argument? The Writing Center is here to help! Attend our workshop about how to enter an academic conversation and respond to sources. Each workshop is hosted by tutors from the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center Writing Centers.
Join us for a lunchtime talk with renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, as he discusses his revelatory financial investigation into how President Abraham Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history. Lincoln inherited
The Department of Modern Language and Literature's is holding its final roundtable of the year: Linguistic Terrorism. Speakers Laada Bilaniuk, Ph.D., (she/her) is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She will discuss how the Ukrainian-Russian mixed language, Surzhyk, came into being, who speaks this language, and its place in
English department lecturer Shubhangi Mehrotra will model strategies for making syllabi aesthetically pleasing, inclusive, and accessible. During the session, Mehrotra will provide an overview of the many benefits of accessible syllabi as well as present best practices and resources for designing accessible syllabi. Participants will also take part in breakout sessions in which they reflect
Come hear from Viviana Martinez in Career Services about how to make the most of your summer internship and how to best position yourself to network for your future career.
When immigration from southern and eastern Europe began rising in the 1880s, many American Jews and Catholics viewed their co-religionists with a mixture of welcome, apprehension, and horror. With roots in Germany and Ireland, these religious communities had overcome prejudices and made places for themselves within a Protestant-dominated society. The sight of Italians parading hometown
Come discuss the findings of the 2022 Pope Francis Global Poverty Index.
Chris Hardy is the director of programs and partnerships for Justice and Mercy International, where he has served for three and a half years. He is responsible for the oversight of international programming and staff, as well as the development of partnerships with organizations and churches around the world. Hardy is an ordained minister and,
Americans’ understanding of their Constitution and legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two contested themes: the "originalism" of conservatives and the "living constitutionalism" of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative? Harvard Law School’s Adrian Vermeule says the alternative underlies the American legal tradition. He calls for "common good constitutionalism,"
Join us for a talk with Harvard University's Derek Penslar. Based on Penslar’s forthcoming book, the talk relates the history of Zionism through the lens of emotion. It argues that Zionism is a matrix of emotional states—bundles of feeling whose elements vary in volume, intensity, and durability across space and time. The history of emotions
Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of the world? Leaders today typically look for answers in economic models, big data, or artificial intelligence platforms. Gillian Tett points to anthropology—the study of human culture. Anthropologists learn to get inside the minds of other people, helping them not only
A conversation between Daniel Soyer and Robert W. Snyder about Daniel Soyer’s new book, Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy (Cornell, 2022). Between the 1930s and the 1970s, New Yorkers benefited from a kind of social-democracy-in-one-city unusual in the United States. Also
Join us for a lunchtime talk with the host of NPR’s Planet Money as she uncovers the deeply investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Las
How might spirituality, faith, or religion motivate the work of migration activists? In order to answer this question, 2021-2022 Duffy fellows Madeline Hilf and Afrah Bandagi interviewed activists in New York City and at the Arizona-Mexico border during an investigative trip in early January 2022. Madeline Hilf is a Fordham University senior double majoring in
The Asian American and Pacific Islander Alumni at Fordham (AAF) affinity chapter will gather to learn about updates on efforts to bring an “Asian American Studies” program to Fordham University. There has been much progress made since last year, including receipt of a generous grant. We will be joined by professor James Kim and members
