The Russia Question is a book talk series devoted to all things Russia, hosted by Michael Ossorgin, professor and Russian program director at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus, with generous support from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center. Join us for a book talk with Nadieszda Kizenko to discuss her brilliant book, Good for the Souls:

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call featuring Thomas E. Graham.

Please join us at the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar, where Apostolos Filippas, assistant professor of the information technology and operations area, will be presenting his paper, titled "The Production and Consumption of Social Media." Lunch will be served, so please RSVP to Elizabeth Cardiello at 718-817-4101 or ecardiello@fordham.edu.

Elazar Ben Lulu, a post-doctoral scholar at the Open University of Israel, will hold a discussion regarding the high holidays. He is an anthropologist of religion and gender with particular interest in the intersection of LGBTQ+ identities and Judaism. A former fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University

How did New York City's transportation fare during COVID-19? Why is it important to forecast it? During this lecture, Matthew Jacobs will discuss forecasting NYC transportation during the pandemic. Among its umbrella mandates, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is tasked with ensuring the smooth and safe transportation of the states' residents.

The people we call "Byzantine" self-defined as "Romans." The terms "Byzantium" and "Byzantine" were first employed by Western scholars more than a century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in an effort to differentiate what they perceived to be the authentic Roman empire from its later, eastern, and Christian derivation. For centuries, these terms circulated

Even as recently as the early 2000s, when a large range of scholarship was dedicated to Black-Jewish relations, nearly all of these discussions were framed by a Black-Jewish binary, with Jews on one side and Blacks on the other. Such a history, however, ignores not only the experiences of Jews of color in the U.S.

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call with Dhruva Jaishankar, executive director of the Observer Research Foundation America (ORF America). He is also a non-resident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Australia. A regular contributor to the Indian and international media, he presently writes a monthly column for the Hindustan Times.

Join us as Michael E. Lee, Ph.D., discusses how liberation theology has impacted the developing world. Lee is a theology professor and director of the Francis & Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University, where he is also affiliated with the Latin American and Latinx Studies Institute. Born in Miami of Puerto

In this talk, Judith Weisenfeld and Jenna Weissman Joselit will explore the theologies, practices, and politics of early 20th-century congregations in the U.S. in which members claimed Ethiopian Hebrew identity and navigated race and religion among Black Christians and Jews of European descent. About the Speakers Weisenfeld is the Agate Brown and George L. Collord

Yacine Ali-Haimoud, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Physics, New York University, will present, “Hunting for Dark Matter in the Early Universe." It is now well-established that a large part of the matter in the universe is some substance that appears to be oblivious to any force but gravity. The nature of this "dark matter" remains

Come hear one of Fordham’s own talk about his work in international private equity! Albert J. Bartosic is the executive director of the Fordham Foundry. He is a serial entrepreneur who has extensive experience with fundraising, management, finance, and operations. He was the CEO of Standing Stone, a startup he co-founded, which is a medical

Join us for a discussion of the place and value of free speech in U.S. organizations, and the conditions under which it can legitimately be limited. The in-person panel discussion will include: Bruce Barry, Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Professor of Management, Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University Jason Brennan, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor

Come hear about the great work of alumnus Will Spisak, who is working on building a more just and equitable economy! Spisak is the senior program strategist at New Economy Project, a New York-based nonprofit organization that seeks to build an economy that works for all, based on cooperation, equity, social and racial justice, and

Professor Anna Dreber, Stockholm School on Economics, will deliver the 2021 Anastasi Lecture, titled "(Predicting) Replication Outcomes." https://fordham.zoom.us/j/88605480413?pwd=M3Y1R3I2TmNSZmViQnRqWTFsTDliQT09 Which results can we “trust?" What share of results are replicated in different kinds of literature in the experimental social sciences? I will discuss several recent, large replication projects, mainly in psychology and economics, in which my

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call featuring Sanam Vakil.

Javad Shabani, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics at New York University, will present "Towards Topological Superconductivity in Epitaxial Superconductor-Semiconductor Materials System." A central goal in condensed matter physics is to understand and control the order parameter characterizing the collective state of electrons in quantum heterostructures. For example, new physical behaviors can emerge that are absent

Come join us as we hear Paul Wilkins, a 2005 graduate of the International Political Economy and Development (IPED) program at Fordham University, speak about his work at Bloom Energy. Wilkins joined Bloom Energy in 2016 and serves as vice president for federal policy. In this role, he manages Bloom’s relationships with federal policymakers and