The Four Martyred Churchwomen: Allies in Today's Struggle for Social Justice
2020-12-02 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
On Dec. 2, 1980, Sisters Dorothy Kazel, Ita Ford, and Maura Clarke, along with lay missionary Jean Donovan, were raped and brutally murdered by National Guardsmen in El Salvador because they had dared to side with the marginalized in their struggle for human dignity. Forty years after their deaths, their stories still serve as an inspiration for all who struggle nonviolently against racism, economic injustice, and the mistreatment of immigrants and refugees. At a time when the Catholic Church is rocked by scandals and seen as no longer relevant by an ever-growing number of young people, their lives of faith-based service to those who suffered injustice also provide a much-needed blueprint for a church in need of reform.

Physics Colloquium: AmphiLight: Direct Air-Water Communication with Laser Light
2020-12-02 14:30 - 15:30
Charlie Carver, FCRH’2018, of Dartmouth College, will present the “AmphiLight: Direct Air-Water Communication with Laser Light” lecture. Air-water communication is fundamental for efficient underwater operations, such as environmental monitoring, surveying, or coordinating heterogeneous aerial and underwater systems. Existing wireless techniques mostly focus on a single physical medium and fall short in achieving high-bandwidth bidirectional communication across the air-water interface. We propose a bidirectional, direct air-water wireless communication link based on laser light, capable of (1) adapting to water dynamics with ultrasonic sensing and (2) steering within a full 3D hemisphere using only a MEMS mirror and passive optical elements. In real-world experiments, our system achieves static throughputs up to 5.04 Mbps, zero-BER transmission ranges up to 6.1m in strong ambient light conditions, and connection time improvements between 47.1 percent and 29.5 percent during wave dynamics.

IPED Fall 2020 Lecture Series: Grace Avila, the Clinton Foundation
2020-12-02 13:00 - 14:00
Please join Fordham’s International Political Economy and Development (IPED) community as we welcome Grace Avila, a foreign policy manager from the Clinton foundation.
The Clinton Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by former President Bill Clinton in 1997. The foundation’s main goals are to develop and implement programs that create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service. Avila has been with the foundation for more than two years. Prior to that, she was a Peace Corps volunteer and had internships with the United Nations and the State Department. She holds an M.A. in IPED from Fordham.

Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism
2020-12-01 16:00 - 17:00
Sarit Kattan Gribetz’s new book, Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism, explores the rhythms of time that animated the rabbinic world of late antiquity, revealing how rabbis conceptualized time as a way of constructing difference between themselves and imperial Rome, Jews and Christians, men and women, and human and divine. The book sheds new light on the central role that time played in the construction of Jewish identity, subjectivity, and theology during this transformative period in the history of Judaism, and traces the legacies of rabbinic constructions of time in the medieval and modern periods.
Please join us for a conversation between the author and Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, a scholar of rabbinics, as they discuss the big themes from the book and the implications of the book’s findings for how we understand time, religion, and community today, as well as key rabbinic passages that are central in the book,
For more information about the book, visit https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691192857/time-and-difference-in-rabbinic-judaism.
About the Speakers
Gribetz is an associate professor of theology at Fordham and author of Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton University Press, 2020).
Alexander is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and author of Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and co-editor with Beth Berkowitz of Religious Studies and Rabbinics (Routledge, 2017).

The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City
2020-11-22 13:00 - 14:30
Please join us for a conversation celebrating the publication of Nina Rowe’s new book, The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City (Yale University Press, 2020). This multidisciplinary study examines a curious genre of illustrated books that gained popularity among the newly emergent middle class of late medieval cities. These illuminated World Chronicles, produced in the Bavarian and Austrian regions from around 1330 to 1430, were the popular histories of their day, telling tales from the Bible, ancient mythology, and the lives of emperors in animated, vernacular verse enhanced by dynamic images.
The World Chronicle stories recast stories of the past to meet the interests of late medieval urban dwellers and include surprising narratives—the devil sneaks aboard Noah’s Ark and cons a couple into having a forbidden tryst, Achilles engages in combat like a medieval knight, and Charlemagne becomes romantically enraptured with his deceased wife. Among the lively anecdotes is a suite of episodes about Moses that explore the patriarch’s Judaism and marriage to an African princess.
Rowe will explore the images and texts that recount these spirited tales in a conversation with Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, an expert on urban life in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
About the Speakers
Rowe is a professor of art history at Fordham. Previous publications include The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge, 2011) and Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction (Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, 2001, co-authored with Sandra Hindman, Michael Camille, and Rowan Watson). Rowe’s research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2016-2017), the American Council of Learned Societies (2016-2017), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2007-2008). She is currently president of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).
Shoham-Steiner is a professor of medieval Jewish history in the department of Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe (Wayne State University Press, 2014) and Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (Wayne State University Press, 2020).

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
2020-11-19 18:00 - 20:00
The Church, a 2020 documentary directed by Anat Tel, tells the story of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in contemporary Jerusalem, focusing on the various Christian denominations that share the place of worship, the Muslim families that serve as the guardians of the entrance key, and the Israeli police officer charged with maintaining the status quo of the ancient site.
Join us for an exclusive screening of this film, followed by a panel discussion featuring Fordham theology professors George Demacopoulos, Sarah Eltantawi, Sarit Kattan Gribetz, and Michael Peppard. Their areas of expertise cover Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; history, theology, art, ritual, sacred space, violence, and inter-religious relations; and the development of religion from antiquity to the present moment.
This event is co-sponsored by Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center. To see a trailer of the film, visit https://go2films.com/films/the-church/.
About the Panelists
Demacopoulos is the Father John Meyendorff & Patterson Family chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and co-founding director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham. He is the author of Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade (Fordham University Press, 2019), Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), and Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
Eltantawi is an associate professor of modern Islam at Fordham and the author of Shari’ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria’s Islamic Revolution (University of California Press, 2017). She is currently working on a project on the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from 1928 until the present, as well as a book of essays that tackle problems ranging from Islamic reform to spiritual offerings of Islam for American Muslims.
Kattan Gribetz is an associate professor of Judaism and acting chair of Jewish studies at Fordham. She is the author of Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton University Press, 2020) and is currently writing a book titled Jerusalem: A Feminist History.
Peppard is the professor of New Testament, Early Christian Studies, and Religion and Public Life in the theology department at Fordham. He is the author of The World’s Oldest Church: Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria (Yale University Press, 2016) and The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Centennial Speaker Series: Bruce Greenwald on Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond with an Introduction by Mario Gabelli
2020-11-18 18:00 - 19:00
In the modern era, investors are increasingly caught up in so-called hot tips, can’t-miss startups, excessive optimism, and short-term speculation. Value investing is the antithesis to these short-sighted approaches and stresses what Ben Graham—the father of value investing—referred to as the “margin of safety” when describing the gap between an equity’s price and its value.
A classic, seminal work in the field, Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond has been updated in a second edition to include the latest trends and a close look at some of the emerging investors who continue in the value investing tradition of Graham and Warren Buffett. Featuring an exploration of the history of value investing and those who brought this investment approach to the fore, you will also discover the real-world techniques you can use to propel your own portfolio using a sound, proven approach to discovering value.
Digital copies of Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond will be raffled off to attendees.
Agenda
6 p.m.: Welcome Remarks: Donna Rapaccioli, dean of the Gabelli School of Business
6:05 p.m.: Speaker Introduction: Mario Gabelli, founder, chairman, and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors
6:08 p.m.: Discussion: Bruce Greenwald
6:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A
7 p.m.: Closing Remarks: Dean Rapaccioli
About the Speaker
Greenwald is the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia Business School and the academic co-director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing. Described by The New York Times as “a guru to Wall Street’s gurus,” Greenwald is an authority on value investing, with additional expertise in productivity and the economics of information.
Mario J. Gabelli is the chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors, Inc., the firm he founded in 1977. A 1965 summa cum laude graduate of Fordham’s College of Business Administration, he also holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and honorary doctorates from Fordham and Roger Williams University. Gabelli serves on the boards of Boston College, Roger Williams University, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, the American-Italian Cancer Foundation, and the Foundation for Italian Art & Culture, and he is a trustee of the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States and of the E.L. Wiegand Foundation. He was Morningstar’s Portfolio Manager of the Year in 1997. He was named Money Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2011, and he is a member of Barron’s All-Star Century Team.
This event is co-sponsored with the CFA Society New York, the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, and the Museum of American Finance.

St. Ignatius Loyola Chair Lecture: Exploring Conceptual Plasticity: Should We Attribute Legal Personality to Intelligent Machines?
2020-11-18 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for the St. Ignatius Loyola Chair Lecture featuring Louis Caruana, S.J. To describe computers and sophisticated robots, many people today have no problem using personal attributes. Alan Turing published his famous intelligence test in 1950. From then on, computers have gained an increasingly higher status in this regard. Computers and robots nowadays are not only intelligent. They perceive, they remember, they understand, they decide, they play, and so on. Recently, a further step has been taken, but, this time, many researchers are seriously concerned.
In 2017, the European Parliament passed a resolution to attribute legal personality to intelligent robots. If this is accepted as law, it will have significant consequences for our self-understanding and for the way we live together as a community. This resolution and similar proposals in the U.S. have stimulated various studies, arising mainly from the area of legal studies. It is important, however, that the response also include a philosophical component on how fundamental concepts change. This lecture seeks to make a contribution of this kind. It explores the attribution of legal personality to machines by focusing on what is happening at the level of meaning, in view of indicating what dangers could lie ahead and what could be the right way to avoid them.
About the Speaker
Caruana is a Jesuit priest, a philosophy professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and an adjunct scholar at the Vatican Observatory. He started his education with a degree in mathematics and physics, and then proceeded with a master’s degree in philosophy and another one in theology. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. His previous service includes a six-year term of office as faculty dean and a seven-year period of teaching and research at Heythrop College at the University of London, where he was appointed reader in 2003. He spent time as a non-stipendiary research scholar at the University of Notre Dame in 2009 and at the Australian National University in 2015.
His research deals with the interaction between philosophy of science, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, and his publications include three monographs: Holism and the Understanding of Science (2000), Science and Virtue (2006), and Nature: Its Conceptual Architecture (2015). He is also the contributing editor of two interdisciplinary volumes: Darwin and Catholicism (2009) and The Beginning and End of the Universe (2016, in Italian).

Physics Colloquium: Applications of Dose Calculation Algorithms in Medical Physics
2020-11-18 14:30 - 15:30
Marissa Vaccarelli, FCRH ‘2018, who specializes in radiation therapy at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will present the “Applications of Dose Calculation Algorithms in Medical Physics” lecture. This presentation will discuss the various classes of dose calculation algorithms used in radiation therapy treatment planning, as well as research applications. Model and direct methods, such as convolution superposition and Monte Carlo, respectively, will be highlighted.
Two projects harnessing the automated calculation of therapeutic dose in radiation oncology will be examined. First, knowledge-based treatment planning involves dose estimation based on organ segmentation of computed tomography simulation images. Using the Anisotropic Analytical Algorithm of the Eclipse Treatment Planning System, an iterative optimization approach can be utilized to auto-generate clinically feasible plans. Second, rapid dose calculation can also be used for managing and mitigating intra-fractional patient motion during treatment delivery.

IPED Fall 2020 Lecture Series: Areg Kochinyan on the Armenia and Azerbaijan Conflict
2020-11-18 13:00 - 14:00
Please welcome Areg Kochinyan from the Enlight Public Research Center NGO and a Ph.D. candidate at Yerevan State University. He will be discussing a critical issue: the ongoing Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict. Please join us as he provides his insights and perspective on the conflict.
Enlight is a research and consultation center that conducts, researches, and provides consultations in education and technology, as well as public policy, economy, and culture.

Well-Behaved Women Undermining Jewish Gender II: Glikl Hamel As a Model Jewish Grandmother?
2020-11-18 12:00 - 13:00
Glikl Hamel is one of the rare female voices from the premodern era thanks to the memoirs she began writing in 1691. In this lecture, Moshe Rosman, professor emeritus of Jewish history, Bar-Ilan University, will offer a new interpretation of Hamel as conventional in appearance yet subtly feminist and somewhat ambivalent about Jewish society in her day.
The lecture will also feature Ruth von Bernuth, the Seymour & Carol Levin Distinguished Term Professor and director of Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the late medieval/early modern period—or the 15th to the 18th centuries—with a special emphasis on the 16th century. She is the author of Wunder, Spott und Prophetie: Natürliche Narrheit in den Historien von Claus Narren (Niemeyer, 2009), How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition (NYU Press, 2016), and Zwischen Ereignis und Erzählung: Konversion als Medium der Selbstbeschreibung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, with Julia Weitbrecht and Werner Röcke (de Gruyter, 2016).
Rosman is the author of several groundbreaking and award-winning books, including The Lords’ Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth During the Eighteenth Century (Harvard, 1990), Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov (California, 1996), and How Jewish Is Jewish History? (Littman, 2007). Rosman is the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award, the Zalman Shazar Prize, and the Jerzy Milewski Award. His research interests include Polish-Jewish history, Jewish gender history, historiography, and Hasidism.
All Fordham events in Jewish Studies are free and open to public.

Fordham at the Forefront of American Thought and Politics
2020-11-17 17:30 - 18:30
Hear from a panel of esteemed faculty members who will reflect on the 2020 presidential election. Who voted? How accurate were the polls? What were the outcomes? What are the implications for the country?

Religious Freedom, Greece and the EU: A Conversation with Effie Fokas
2020-11-16 16:00 - 17:00
The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the 10th episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explores some facet of the history, thought, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel.
This episode features an interview with Effie Fokas, a senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and a research associate of the London School of Economics Hellenic Observatory. Her background is in political science, but in the last two decades her research and writing have concentrated on religion in general—and often Orthodoxy in specific—in interplay with a number of different fields and themes, including politics, law, human rights, nationalism, and European identity. She was principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project on the grassroots impact of European Court of Human Rights religious freedoms case law (Grassrootsmobilise), based at ELIAMEP. Also at ELIAMEP, she completed a research project titled “Pluralism and Religious Freedom in Majority Orthodox Contexts in Europe” (PLUREL).
Her publications include Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity, and Influence, co-edited with Aziz Al-Azmeh; Religious America, Secular Europe?, co-authored with Peter Berger and Grace Davie; The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions, co-edited with James T. Richardson; and she hopes to contribute to the rich body of literature on Orthodoxy and human rights with an empirically based account of similarities and differences across minority and majority Orthodox contexts.

Centennial Speaker Series: JC de Swaan on Seeking Virtue in Finance
2020-11-16 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for the latest event in the Centennial Speaker Series, featuring JC de Swaan, author of Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry.
Since the global financial crisis, a surge of interest in the use of finance as a tool to address social and economic problems suggests the potential for a generational shift in how the finance industry operates and is perceived. In Seeking Virtue in Finance, de Swaan seeks to channel the forces of well-intentioned finance professionals to improve finance from within and help restore its focus on serving society. Drawing from inspiring individuals in the field, de Swaan proposes a framework for pursuing a viable career in finance while benefiting society and upholding humanistic values. In doing so, he challenges traditional concepts of success in the industry.
Digital copies of Seeking Virtue in Finance will be raffled off to attendees.
Agenda
12 p.m.: Welcome Remarks: Sris Chatterjee, Professor, Finance and Business Economics
12:05 p.m.: Speaker Introduction: David Cowen, president/CEO of the Museum of American Finance
12:08 p.m.: Discussion: JC de Swaan
12:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A
1 p.m.: Closing Remarks: David Cowen
About the Speaker
de Swaan is a lecturer in the economics department at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the Bendheim Center for Finance, and a partner at Cornwall Capital, a New York-based investment fund. He also teaches at the University of Cambridge and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
This event is co-sponsored with the CFA Society New York, the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, and the Museum of American Finance.

Plagues, Pandemics, and Outbreaks of Disease in History
2020-11-13 10:00 - 16:00
The Renaissance Society of America and Fordham present the online symposium “Plagues, Pandemics, and Outbreaks of Disease in History.” The event aims to develop and review specific ways to incorporate the historical understanding of disease outbreak into the teaching curricula at colleges and secondary schools.
Agenda
10–11:30 a.m. EST: Presentation and Discussion: Plagues, Pandemics, and Pedagogy

Hannah Marcus, Harvard University: Reflecting on Plague from Within a Pandemic
Colin Rose, Brock University: Chaos and Order in Times of Plague
Lisa Sousa, Occidental College: Epidemic Disease and Indigenous Survival in 16th-Century Mexico

1:30–4 p.m. EST: Developing Pedagogy: Roundtable and Discussion,

Katherina Fostano, digital and visual resources curator, Fordham
Mark Host, MA student, medieval studies, Fordham
Camila Marcone, MA student, medieval studies, Fordham
Rachel Podd, Ph.D. candidate, history, Fordham

This symposium is co-sponsored with the classics department. Please email questions to the Renaissance Society of America at rsa@rsa.org.

How to Be Strategic About Applying to Medical School
2020-11-12 17:00 - 18:00
Thinking of applying to a school in the health professions? The path to becoming a doctor, veterinarian, dentist, physician’s assistant, physical trainer, or other health professional is a challenging one filled with hard work and sacrifice. Those who succeed often take a strategic approach to applying to schools and may spend up to two years preparing so that their application is robust.
In this webinar, Laura Bigaouette, Ed.D., director of Fordham’s Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Med/Pre Health program, will walk you through the application cycle for these programs and give you tips on how to prepare to make your application shine. Learn about what medical and other health schools are looking for, understand the committee letter process, and get tips on how to set yourself apart from the competition.

2020 World Day of the Poor
2020-11-12 12:00 - 13:30
Fordham’s Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development (IPED) invites everyone to join in commemorating the 2020 World Day of the Poor with a webinar presented by America Media and the Mission of the Order of Malta to the United Nations.
Speakers

Paul Beresford-Hill, KM, CBE, ambassador of the Order of Malta to the United Nations
The Most Rev. Gabriele Caccia, apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
Geraldine Byrne Nason, ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to the United Nations
Audra Plepytė, ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations

Panelists

Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times
Sister Donna Markham, O.P., Catholic Charities USA
Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, United Nations

This webinar will be moderated by Matthew F. Malone, S.J., president and editor-in-chief of America Media. Dominique Prince de la Rochefoucauld-Montbel, grand hospitaller of the Sovereign Order of Malta, will deliver special remarks.
This event is co-sponsored by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, the Mission of the Republic of Ireland to the United Nations, the Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations, Catholic Charities USA, Fordham University’s Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development, and Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Fondazione USA (CAPP-USA).

Explore Fordham’s Louis Calder Center
2020-11-12 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for a virtual, exclusive look inside the Louis Calder Center, Fordham’s biological field station that offers unique opportunities for studying natural processes in close proximity to a big city.
Just 25 miles north of New York City in Armonk, New York, the Louis Calder Center is one of the University’s hidden gems, comprising a variety of ecosystems and wildlife on 113 forested acres. The center’s laboratories are well equipped for ecological studies and research, as well as an array of graduate and undergraduate educational programs.
Join Associate Research Scientist Tom Daniels, director of the center, for a one-of-a-kind virtual tour of its beautiful campus and state-of-the-art facilities. During the webinar, he will show videos and pictures of the center and share updates on the exciting research taking place there.
Following Daniels’ discussion, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with him during a live Q&A session.
Questions? Contact rsvp@fordham.edu.

Centennial Speaker Series: Lawrence Cunningham on Quality Shareholders: How the Best Managers Attract and Keep Them
2020-11-12 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for the latest event in the Centennial Speaker Series, featuring Lawrence A. Cunningham, author of Quality Shareholders: How the Best Managers Attract and Keep Them, and Astrid Doerner, a financial correspondent. Anyone can buy stock in a public company, but not all shareholders are equally committed to a company’s long-term success. In an increasingly fragmented financial world, shareholders’ attitudes toward the companies in which they invest vary widely, from time horizon to conviction. Faced with indexers, short-term traders, and activists, it is more important than ever for businesses to ensure that their shareholders are dedicated to their missions. Today’s companies need “quality shareholders,” as Warren Buffett called those who “load up and stick around,” or buy large stakes and hold for long periods.
In Quality Shareholders, Cunningham provides an expert guide to the benefits of attracting and keeping quality shareholders. He demonstrates that a high density of dedicated, long-term shareholders results in numerous comparative and competitive advantages for companies and their managers, including a longer runway to execute business strategy and a loyal cohort against adversity.
Digital copies of Quality Shareholders: How the Best Managers Attract and Keep Them will be raffled off to attendees.
Agenda
12 p.m.: Welcome Remarks: Donna Rapaccioli, dean of the Gabelli School of Business
12:05 p.m.: Speaker Introduction: David Cowen, president/CEO of the Museum of American Finance
12:08 p.m.: Discussion: Astrid Doerner and Lawrence Cunningham
12:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A
1:00 p.m.: Closing Remarks: David Cowen
About the Speakers
Cunningham is an author, lecturer, professor, public company director, and consultant on corporate governance. He is the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor at George Washington University and founding director of George Washington University in New York. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Warren Buffett Shareholder: Stories from Inside the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting; The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, in collaboration with Buffett; The AIG Story, with Hank Greenberg; and Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values.
Doerner is a U.S. correspondent in New York for Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading business daily. She has covered Berkshire Hathaway for many years, including interviews with Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Ted Weschler, and she is a regular attendee of the company’s shareholder meetings in Omaha, Nebraska. Doerner also covers banks, financial markets, and the economy.
This event is co-sponsored with the CFA Society New York, the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, and the Museum of American Finance.

Physics Colloquium
2020-11-11 14:30 - 15:30
Join us for “Engineering and Measurement of Thermal Radiation,” presented by Mikhail Kats, Ph.D., department of electrical computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thermal emission (thermal radiation) is the phenomenon responsible for most of the light in the universe. Though understanding of thermal emission dates back more than a century, recent advances have encouraged the reexamination of this phenomenon and its applications.
During the talk, Kats will describe advances and outline future work in the measurement and manipulation of thermal emission. Kats will discuss their efforts to improve thermal-emission metrology, especially for low-temperature thermal emitters, emitters with temperature-dependent emissivity, and emitters out of equilibrium. Such improvements can enable such techniques as depth thermography, in which measurements of thermal emission yield temperature information below the surface of objects. Kats will describe the use of phase-transition materials, including vanadium dioxide and rare-earth nickelates, to demonstrate new phenomena, including negative- and zero-differential thermal emittance, radiative thermal runaway, and thermo-dichroism. He will also discuss the recent demonstration of nanosecond-scale modulation of emissivity and thermal-emission pulses down to picosecond scales. The talk will include discussion of exciting opportunities of thermal-emission engineering for infrared camouflage and thermoregulation.

IPED Fall 2020 Lecture Series: Danielle Provo, Bridges Fund Management
2020-11-11 13:00 - 14:00
Please join the International Political Economy and Development (IPED) community to welcome Danielle Provo from Bridges Fund Management. Provo has been with the firm for more than a year as a private equity analyst specializing in sustainable growth. Prior to her current role, she was a consultant at Compass Impact Capital, an impact investing consultancy firm, and a Peace Corps officer in Guinea. She will focus her presentation on the capacity of impact investing to usher development. She graduated from Fordham with a master’s degree in IPED with a specialization in international banking and finance.
Bridges Fund Management has been a private equity firm since its founding in 2002. As a lower-middle-market fund, it specializes in impact and sustainable investing.

Well-Behaved Women Undermining Jewish Gender I: Leah Horowitz As the Jewish Mary Wollstonecraft?
2020-11-11 12:00 - 13:00
This lecture will focus on the story of Leah Horowitz, a traditional woman, who demanded that traditional Jewish women gain cultural capital by transforming from facilitators to actors in Torah study, public prayer, and performing mitzvot (commandments). The lecture will feature Elisheva Baumgarten, Yitzchak Becker Professor of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in conversation with Moshe Rosman, professor emeritus of Jewish history, Bar-Ilan University.
Baumgarten studies the social and religious history of the Jews of medieval northern Europe (1000-1400), with a special interest in women and gender hierarchies. She is the author of Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Princeton, 2000; Hebrew publication: Zalman Shazar Center, 2006) and Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women and Everyday Religious Observance (Penn Press, 2014).
Rosman is the author of several groundbreaking and award-winning books, including The Lords’ Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth During the Eighteenth Century (Harvard, 1990), Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov (California, 1996), and How Jewish Is Jewish History? (Littman, 2007). Rosman is the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award, the Zalman Shazar Prize, and the Jerzy Milewski Award. His research interests include Polish-Jewish history, Jewish gender history, historiography, and Hasidism.

IPED Career Sessions: United Nations Development Programme
2020-11-06 13:00 - 14:00
Fordham’s graduate program in International Political Economy and Development (IPED) will be welcoming Jamison Ervin, manager, Nature for Development, and Martin Sommerschuh, coordinator, Equator Initiative, from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Friday, November 6 at 1 p.m. They will be discussing their work with UNDP and how they are highlighting the role of nature in development. They will also discuss their career paths and give advice to students interested in perusing careers with the United Nations.
To join this event, please email iped@fordham.edu to receive the Zoom link.

My Fair Junkie: A Conversation with Amy Dresner and Joe Schrank, Hosts of Rehab Confidential
2020-11-05 17:30 - 19:00
Amy Dresner and Joe Schrank, hosts of the popular podcast Rehab Confidential, will visit the Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) for a real, raw conversation about addiction and substance abuse. With GSS Assistant Professor Sameena Azhar, Ph.D., moderating, the GSS community will get a firsthand look at what addiction is like and how one can come out the other side.

Gender and Migration: The Complexities of Migration Journeys for Women and Girls
2020-11-05 12:30 - 14:00
This webinar will shift the migration discourse by focusing on the complexities of forced migration for women and girls. We will show the documentary Eimai, made by the Athens-based agency Action for Women, which tells the stories of three female migrants in Greece. Following the screening, panelists will discuss the legal challenges and mental health implications surrounding forced migration of women and girls. The panelists are Stephen Poellot, director of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and an adjunct professor at Fordham Law; Gabrielle Tay, founder of Action for Women; and Sally Salem, humanitarian assistance coordinator with IRAP. Graduate School of Social Service Associate Professor Marciana Popescu, Ph.D., will moderate.

Trump, Biden, and the Future of Christian Nationalism: What the Presidential Election Means for Rightwing Religious Populism
2020-11-05 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for the second of a two-part series. Donald Trump’s presidency coincided with the emergence of a fiery American nationalism fed by a strain of conservative Christianity and a sense of white racial and cultural superiority. This toxic combination is growing in many parts of the globe.
In the United States, the outcome of the presidential contest between Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will have a critical impact on whether white Christian nationalism dissipates or grows as a political force and a domestic threat.
This panel of experts convenes two days after the election to explain the sources of Christian nationalism in America and internationally, analyze the impact of the election’s outcome on this phenomenon, and discuss ways to combat this scourge. David Gibson, director of Fordham’s Center on Religion and Culture, will moderate the discussion, including questions from the online audience.
Panelists
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and president of the American Academy of Religion. He is a well-known commentator on religion and politics and his most recent book is Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Crown Publishing Group, 2020).
Robert P. Jones is the CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute and is a leading commentator on religion, culture, and politics. He is the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Simon & Schuster, 2020) and The End of White Christian America (Simon & Schuster, 2016), which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
Kristina Stoeckl is a professor of sociology at the University of Innsbruck. She is currently principal investigator of the research project Postsecular Conflicts. This effort examines connections between the Russian Orthodox Church and global networks of the Christian Right.

Guiding a 16-Million-Square-Foot Portfolio Through Turbulent Times: A Conversation with Brian Steinwurtzel of GFP Real Estate
2020-11-05 08:30 - 09:30
Please join Brian Steinwurtzel, co-CEO and principal of GFP Real Estate, and William Lee, CFA, CRE, senior managing director of Newmark Capital Markets, for a discussion of the challenges and opportunities of guiding GFP Real Estate’s 75-property, 16-million-square-foot portfolio through the current market turbulence. The discussion will also highlight GFP’s on-going projects, including the redevelopment of 100 Pearl Street, a nearly 1-million-square-foot office property in Manhattan’s Financial District, and the firm’s move into New York’s burgeoning life sciences sector with the Innolabs project at 45-18 Court Square in Long Island City. A Q&A session will follow.

2020 Presidential Regional Tour: East Coast and Central U.S.
2020-11-04 18:30 - 19:30
While we are disappointed that the annual Presidential regional tour cannot take place in person this year, the Office of Alumni Relations cordially invites you to attend a special virtual program for alumni, parents, and friends.
Attendees will hear from Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University; Michael Griffin, associate vice president for alumni relations; and John D. Feerick, FCRH ’58, LAW ’61, professor and former dean of Fordham Law.
Attendees are invited to submit questions ahead of time to be answered during the event Q&A.

IPED Fall 2020 Lecture Series: Sean Cox, Foreign Service and USDA
2020-11-04 13:00 - 14:00
Please join the International Political Economy and Development (IPED) community to listen to Sean Cox, a foreign service officer at the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). Based in Rome, Italy, Cox has been with FAS since 2014, with assignments in both Rome and Guatemala. He will be sharing his insights, among other things, on his journey to a career in public service and the foreign service officer program. Cox holds a dual master’s degree in economics and IPED from Fordham.
The U.S. Foreign Service is tasked to promote peace, support prosperity, and protect American citizens around the world. A foreign service officer will be stationed in one of the 270 US embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic missions. With numerous pathways into the program—from economic and political officers to consular and management officers—it could be a career track for you.

Jewish Gender Under Review: Early Modern Ambivalence
2020-11-04 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for this lecture on ideas, events, and processes that led to shifts in gender boundaries in early modern times and how they set the stage for developments in the 19th to 21st centuries, featuring Professor Elisheva Carlebach and Moshe Rosman.
Carlebach is the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University. She is the author of The Pursuit of Heresy (1990), awarded the National Jewish Book Award; Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Early Modern Germany (2000); and Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe (2011), winner of the Association for Jewish Studies Schnitzer Prize. Her research focuses on the cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the Jews in early modern Europe. She has served as president of the American Academy for Jewish Research and is currently director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia.
Rosman is a professor emeritus of Jewish history from Bar-Ilan. He is the author of several groundbreaking and award-winning books, including The Lords’ Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth During the Eighteenth Century (Harvard, 1990), Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov (California, 1996), and How Jewish Is Jewish History? (Littman, 2007). Rosman is the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award, the Zalman Shazar Prize, and the Jerzy Milewski Award. His research interests include Polish-Jewish history, Jewish gender history, historiography, and Hasidism.
