The primary asset for health, happiness, career/life fulfillment, and overall well-being lies in one's mental resources. Join certified hypnotherapist Jessica Myers, FCRH ’97, as she teaches us tools to heighten our resilience, enhance quality of life, increase meaningful engagement, and achieve greater confidence through the lens of positive psychological capital. This event will be held
Launch and Develop Your Career in the Federal Government with the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program! Each fall, this highly selective, rigorous leadership program recruits recent graduates (who completed an advanced degree up to two years prior to the application opening date) and current graduate students (who will complete an advanced degree by August 31
Join us for a discussion with Jacob Abolafia, author of The Prison Before the Panopticon Incarceration in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2024). In his new book, Abolafia uncovers the historical roots of modern incarceration. Those roots, he shows, are highly salient for our current debates over mass incarceration, as well as
The Council on Foreign Relations webinar will feature speaker Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, the deputy director of the Migration Policy Institute’s (MPI) International Program. Her expertise in migration studies and how they pertain to development, climate, and governance has led her to write several publications that focus on these topic areas within Europe and Latin America. She
Join us in welcoming back our IPED class of 2025 cohort. They will present on their summer internships and language immersions. IPED students spent their time working and learning in a variety of private sector as well as non-profit environments around the world. Free refreshments are available for attendees.
Rachel Gordon will be discussing her book Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American, which details a transformational era in American history immediately following World War II. At the start of the 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the
Synod reports from every corner of the world ask the church to recognize the baptismal equality of all people. While women are increasingly added to church management, the only response to requests for women deacons has been Pope Francis’ televised “no.” What does the future hold? Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D., senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University,
Join us for this lecture on the Jews of Greece featuring Anastasios Karababas, author of In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Greek Jewry has a unique history in Europe, and Greek Judaism is possibly the oldest faith on the continent. The Hellenized Romaniotes, the Sephardim from
Join Thomas Massaro, S.J., Rabbi Katja Vehlow, and Imam Ammar Abdul Ramhan as they discuss the intersection between faith and our political responsibility. Light refreshments will be served.
Giacomo Santangelo, head of the Fordham Undergraduate Program in International Political Economy, will be giving a talk on election models and how they affect both real predictions and public perceptions on the upcoming U.S. presidential elections. This event consists of a 35-40 minute presentation followed by a 20-25 minute Q&A session. Free refreshments provided.
Orit Avishai, professor of sociology, led a team of students in researching how (and why) religious Americans mobilize rights-based arguments and the relationship between civic engagement and faith-based rhetoric. Students explored using freedom of religion to legally argue for abortion protections, how scripture in public schools can violate freedom of religion, and religious minorities' legal
Please join President Tania Tetlow for a conversation with John Dickerson of CBS News as part of the inaugural FitzSimons Presidential Speaker Series event on September 24 at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. John Dickerson is anchor of The CBS Daily Report, CBS News chief political analyst, senior national correspondent, and CBS Sunday Morning contributor. His
Join us for a webinar discussion of the film Commandment 613 with Rabbi Kevin Hale, Lois Roman, Julie Seltzer, and Miriam Lewin, moderated by Rabbi Katja Vehlow, Ph.D. The film will be virtually screened from September 19 to 29, and a link will be sent to all registrants prior to the event. In the award-winning,
Speaker: Andrew Simons, Ph.D. From health to food security, learn about the ins and outs of a career in NGOs, including the types of development projects, the preparation and skills, the different positions within an NGO, as well as an inside look into the NGO working environment. Simons is an applied economist, researcher, and professor
Join us for an evening with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ric Burns and Riccardo Bruscagli, scholar and co-writer, in conversation about their film, DANTE: Inferno to Paradise. DANTE: Inferno to Paradise explores the power and drama of Dante Alighieri’s great masterwork, The Divine Comedy. The documentary dives into the riveting life and times of the poem’s
Save the date for the annual Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture. This year, the lecture will be delivered by Joseph McShane, S.J., president emeritus of Fordham University.
Join us for a film screening of Battleground, a timely window into the intersection of abortion and politics in America, following three women who lead formidable anti-abortion organizations to witness the influence they wield. As the nation faces the end of Roe, the film also depicts those on the front lines of the fierce fight
Join us for a series of discussions about the life of the prophet Abraham and the common threads of the Abrahamic faiths with Imam Ammar Abdul Rahman.
This exhibit, featuring centuries-old books and manuscripts, explores Western interest in languages. At first, we try to situate the story of Babel in a non-Western context, highlighting non-European languages. The exhibit then traces the Renaissance study of languages through the lens of the Bible and its translations and of ancient material relics, such as obelisks,
Andrea Tornielli is an Italian journalist and longtime "vaticanista" who now oversees the various Vatican media outlets. Tornielli’s latest book, The Life of Jesus, is a reimagining of the life of Jesus that, like the TV series The Chosen, helps readers approach the story of Jesus with fresh eyes and an open heart. The book
Join us and hear from our panelists about they live out the mission at Fordham. Panelists include AnnaMarie Paccione, FCRH ’26, Roger Milici Jr., vice president of development and university relations, and Lerzan Aksoy, dean of Gabelli School of Business.
In “The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus,” Troy L. Tassier, Ph.D., discusses the intersection between public health and poverty and inequality. With various backdrops from Ancient Greece and all the way up to the COVID-19 pandemic, he provides examples of how our collective approach to epidemic and health crisis response disproportionately affects
Speaker: Steven A. Cook Steven Cook is the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. Prior to CFR, Cook was a research fellow at
Speaker: Jas Verem From humanitarian aid to food security, find out how IRC helps people affected by conflict or disaster, providing services such as health care, education, and economic assistance, and discover the opportunities linked to these projects. Jas Verem is IRC’s education and learning manager. He oversees the implementation and management of educational programs
This interdisciplinary panel discussion will feature Mathias Risse, the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University; and Mekela Panditharatne, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice's Elections & Government Program, where her work focuses on election integrity.
