• The Tenth Annual Inaugural Lecture: Midsummer Nightmare

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    The English Department presents The Tenth Annual Inaugural Lecture - Midsummer Nightmare: Shakespeare and the Economic Crisis of 1595-7 by Mark Caldwell, Professor of English

  • “In Dialogue” with Hussein Ibish and David N. Myers: A Different Take on Israel/Palestine: Shared Histories, Divergent Pathways

    During 2017-2018, a year abundant with anniversaries related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Fordham University will host a three-part lecture series with Hussein Ibish and David N. Myers offering “A Different Take on Israel/Palestine: Shared Histories, Divergent Pathways” • Part One, on September 14, 2017 will focus on the years 1882-1948 • Part Two, on January

  • An Opening of an Exhibition of Photography: Chuck Fishman: Roots, Resilience and Renewal—A Portrait of Polish Jews, 1975–2016

    Derfner Judaica Museum 5901 Palisade Ave, Bronx, NY, United States

    Fordham University's Jewish Studies and Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale are pleased to announce its latest exhibition, Chuck Fishman: Roots, Resilience and Renewal—A Portrait of Polish Jews, 1975–2016, on view at the Derfner Judaica Museum from September 17, 2017–January 7, 2018. A reception and talk by the photographer

  • Reading Blake’s Dante

    12th-Floor Lounge, Corrigan Conference Center, Lowenstein Center Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, United States

    “Reading Blake’s Dante” examines Dante’s presence in William Blake’s art and life, focusing on the 102 watercolor illustrations to the Divine Comedy and seven engravings to the Inferno that Blake executed between 1825 and 1827. It will examine the illustrations, discuss what illustrating Dante meant to Blake, and it will demonstrate the role that the

  • IPED Lecture Series- Career Services & Global Outreach

    Dealy E-530 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Come learn about all the ways Fordham University works to help propel grad students into careers after graduation! Career Services offers: resume and cover letter advising, face-to-face practice interviews, networking events, CareerLink and on-campus interviewing. Global Outreach (GO!) is a cultural immersion and service program under the auspices of the Office of Mission Integration and

  • A Reading with Mark Alice Durant: 27 Contexts An Anecdotal History in Photography

    FCLC SL24L

    Mark Alice Durant is an artist and writer living in Baltimore. His essays have appeared in numerous journals such as Art in America, Aperture, Dear Dave, and Afterimage, and many catalogs, monographs and anthologies. With Jane D. Marsching, he was co-curator and co-author of Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal. He

  • Feerick Center Lecture: Should NYS voters authorize a Constitutional Convention?

    Law 3-02 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    New York State is the only state in the nation that has written into its constitution that every 20 years the people should vote whether to have a constitutional convention to review the entire constitution and make recommendations to the voters to amend or change the document. John Kiernan, the President of the New York

  • Department of Physics & Engineering Physics

    Freeman 103 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Speakers: Fordham College at Rose Hill senior William Charles, will present "Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics and Chiral Perturbation Theory at Low Energies and senior Marissa Vaccarelli, will present "Three Dimensional Printed Prostheses and Medical Physics.

  • Mullarkey-Reid Research and Teaching Forum: Linguistic Diversity in English

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Mullarkey Reid Departmental Forum, Linguistic Diversity in English, Wed 4th Oct 2017, 2pm-5.30pm, O’Hare Room 2 pm Introduction “Thinking Diversity in English” Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Session One Chair: Julie Kim Daniel Contreras, “Se habla inglés: How to Speak English in US English Departments” Rebecca Sanchez, "Made in Translation: The Development of ASL and the Deafening of

  • Poetry and Voice, Spirit and Grace: Alchemy and the Word in J.W. Goethe’s Faust and J.K. Rowling’s Severus Snape

    12th-Floor Lounge, Corrigan Conference Center, Lowenstein Center Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, United States

    A lecture by Dr. Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy, Fordham College at Lincoln Center Author, The Hallelujah Effect (Routledge, 2016); Words in Blood, Like Flowers (SUNY Press, 2006); Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science (SUNY Press, 1996) Four-time Fulbright Fellow Part of the College at 60 Fall 2017 lecture series

  • A Tale of Two Marys: Comparisons of Pain, Suffering, and Childbirth in Muslim and Christian Traditions

    12th-Floor Lounge, Corrigan Conference Center, Lowenstein Center Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, United States

    A lecture by Dr. Kathryn Kueny Professor of Theology and Director of Middle East Studies and Religious Studies, Fordham University Author, The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam and Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice (both SUNY Press) Part of the College at 60 Fall 2017 lecture series

  • Mass Incarceration and Violence: Are We Over-Punishing Violent Offenders?

    McNally Amphitheatre 140 W. 62nd St., New York, NY, United States

    The King's College has partnered with Fordham's Center for Ethics Education to discuss whether or not we are over-punishing violent offenders. Nearly 2.3 million men and women are currently incarcerated in America’s jails and prisons, 88% of which are in state prisons. According recent data, approximately 53% of all state prisoners are in prison for

  • The Inaugural Fr. Miguel D’Escoto Memorial Lecture: “The Spiritual Sources of Legal Creativity”

    Fordham Law School, Room 3-03 150 West 62nd Street, New York City, NY, United States

    In the 1980s, Maryknoll priest and Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Father Miguel D’Escoto was a lead advocate in a historic case before the International Court of Justice. In its final verdict, the United States was found guilty of orchestrating acts of aggression in Nicaragua during the Contra guerrilla insurgency. "It was not only a moral

  • St. Ignatius Loyola Chair Lecture, “Sacra conversazione?: Catholicism, Sexuality, and Violence in Federico García Lorca and Caravaggio”

    South Lounge, Lowenstein Center, Lincoln Center Campus Lincoln Center campus, New York, NY, United States

    José I. Badenes, S.J, visiting Loyola Chair will give his lecture, 'Sacra conversazione?: Catholicism, Sexuality, and Violence in Federico García Lorca and Caravaggio' at our Lincoln Center campus on October 24th and at Rosehill on November 14th. The lecture sets up a “sacred conversation” between works by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) and Michelangelo Merisi da

  • 33rd Annual Daniel J. Sullivan Lecture

    12th-Floor Lounge, Corrigan Conference Center, Lowenstein Center Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, United States

    "Attention as a Cultural Problem and the Possibility of Education", a lecture by Matthew Crawford, Senior Fellow, University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.

  • Building bridges: How can media facilitate dialogue in our polarized society?”

    McNally Amphitheatre 140 W. 62nd St., New York, NY, United States

    People today seem more divided than ever. When they remain in their own groups, they tend to communicate only with those who hold similar views. This has a profound effect on all of our relationships and our society as a whole. The media has certainly contributed to this development; but can it also help reverse

  • Why Chinatown Matters: The Classic Film, So Ahead of Its Time

    12th-Floor Lounge, Corrigan Conference Center, Lowenstein Center Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, United States

    A lecture by Dr. Robert Spiegelman Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Fordham University as well as other NYC universities Published writer, filmmaker, historian, multimedia artist, and founder of Internet trilogy called ThenAndNow.us Part of the College at 60 Fall 2017 lecture series

  • IPED Lecture

    Dealy E-530 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    International Rescue Committee Liz Parr, the Digital Data Manager in IRC’s Economic Recovery and Development Technical Unit will be presenting about her job hunt experience in New York City, largely centered on analyst-type opportunities in the global development/humanitarian space. “In an era where funding is tight and the future of these organizations is unclear learning

  • Arresting Tales: Law and Morality in Modern Jewish Literature

    12th-Floor Lounge, Corrigan Conference Center, Lowenstein Center Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, United States

    Arresting Tales: Law and Morality in Modern Jewish Literature will straddle two seemingly unrelated phenomena in Jewish history: the encounter of Polish Jews with the concept of state law and the birth of modern Jewish literature in Eastern Europe. Drawing on newly discovered documents, legal texts, poems, and plays, Dynes will reflect on the experience

  • TOUR: Hidden in Plain Sight: Discovering the Jesuit Presence at Lincoln Center

    Lincoln Center Campus 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Fordham is one of 28 Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States. While the collegiate gothic architecture and decoration at Rose Hill unconsciously reminds one of Jesuit history, where do you look for the Jesuit presence in the gleaming modern heart of the Manhattan? You will be amazed to learn how many Jesuit activities,

  • Lecture: Impact of Immigration Enforcement Policies on Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking

    Law 3-02 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    The Feerick Center for Social Justice of Fordham Law School sponsors four public lectures each year to instruct and inspire the Fordham community on a variety of issues of social justice. The speaker at this lecture will be Andrea Panjwani, Esq., who is the Managing Attoreny of the immigration practice at My Sisters' Place, a

  • “Having It All” in Graduate School: Balancing Work and Family Life Historically and Today

    Hughes 212 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Join GSAS Futures for a discussion featuring Dr. Kirsten Swinth from the Department of History. Dr. Swinth will discuss the challenges which have faced working professionals as they have balanced building a career while raising a family from the 1970s through the present. America's labor force has shifted to include more working mothers than ever

  • Culture Matters: Celebrating the Apollo Theatre

    McMahon 109 McMahon Hall, 113 West 60th Street, Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY, United States

    A lecture by Monique J. Fortuné Director of Student Success and Adjunct Instructor, College of New Rochelle Adjunct Instructor, Communications and Media Studies, Fordham University President, Fortuné and Associates, a consulting company specializing in public speaking coaching and business communication strategies Part of the College at 60 Fall 2017 lecture series