By Gina Vergel
The Graduate English Association hosted a one-day conference on Feb. 12 at which presenters engaged the connections between sex, death and boredom in an effort to challenge their conventional definitions.
Held at the Lincoln Center campus, “Sex, Death and Boredom” featured keynote speaker Simon Critchley, Ph.D. (pictured), chair and professor and philosophy at The New School. The conference also featured various presentations by graduate students.
Gina Vergel is Senior Director of Communications. She oversees the digital news coverage, public relations, and social media for the university. Before joining Fordham in 2007, Gina worked as a reporter for the Home News Tribune, and The Ridgewood News, where she won Society of Professional Journalist (New Jersey chapter) awards for breaking news and feature writing, respectively. She can be reached at gvergel@fordham.edu or (646) 579-9957.
