• Her Journey, Her Story, Her Rights: The Impact of Gender on Forced Migration

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    The symposium will bring together discussants using a multi-stakeholder approach to address the global and local implications of gendered migration processes and center the voices of women with lived experiences of forced migration in developing key recommendations for addressing identified challenges and advocating for improved migration policies. CEUs available. Keynote Speakers Pía Riggirozzi, Ph.D., Professor

  • 18th Annual Global Diversity and Inclusion Networking Banquet

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Join us for the 18th Annual Global Diversity and Inclusion Networking Banquet. The theme is “Principles of Cultural Humility in the Workplace.” Students will be able to learn valuable lessons from DEI professionals on how to identify authentic belonging, positive work environments, and resources to excel in a growing culture. The dress code is business

  • One Girl Annual Conference: Women in Charge

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Co-sponsored by One Girl Inc. and Fordham's Graduate School of Social Service, this annual conference focuses on empowering women to become leaders of tomorrow. We unite women from all walks of life to speak about their experiences and expertise, hoping to highlight the endless possibilities they can take on.

  • Voices Up! Presents New Music for Clarinet/Hichirikri and Piano

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Clarinetist Thomas Piercy and pianist Marina Iwao perform new music for clarinet or hichiriki (a Japanese double-reed flute) and piano in a kaleidoscopic variety of styles. The program includes works by American, Chinese, and Japanese composers. In addition to full-scale works by Ned Rorem, Chen Yihan, and Fordham professor Lawrence Kramer, Piercy and Iwao will

  • GSS Book Chat: Invisible Child: Poverty Survival and Hope in an American City with Andrea Elliott

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Join us for a discussion and audience Q&A with Andrea Elliott, winner of the 2022 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, for her book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City. About the Author: Andrea is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has documented the lives of poor Americans, Muslim

  • FCLC ARS Nova 2023

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Join us for the 2023 ARS Nova: Arts and Research Showcase. FCLC students from all majors and programs will display posters showcasing their original work—both completed and in progress. This annual event provides a great opportunity for students to discuss their academic and creative projects with an audience of engaged peers, mentors, and visitors! For

  • Voices from the Amazon: Activists on Protecting the Indigenous and Healing the Planet

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    The fate of the Amazon rainforest is tied to the fate of our planet: The vast region touches eight different South American countries plus French Guiana and is home to more than 2 million indigenous peoples from almost 400 traditional nations. Moreover, the health of Amazonia’s ecosystem is key to the ecological health of the

  • Film Screening: The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Join us for a screening of Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes' film, The American Dream and other Fairy Tales. Following the screening, the foundation's president and CEO, Ana L. Oliveira, will lead a panel discussion with Disney about issues related to the rights and dignity of low-wage workers. Additional panelists will be announced in

  • Her Migrant Hub Spring Symposium: Celebrating International Women’s Day

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    This event will bring together women asylum seekers and activists, organizational leaders, service providers, students, and professors, as well as NYC governmental representatives to identify some of the current challenges for people in forced migration situations in NYC, learn about added challenges for women and asylum seekers from indigenous communities, explore resources and best practices,

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Taking a Chance on God

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Join us for a screening of the film Taking a Chance on God, which profiles John McNeill, a Catholic priest and former Jesuit who was a pioneer of the inclusion of gays and lesbians in the Catholic Church, beginning in the 1970s. A discussion with film director and LGBTQ activist Brendan Fay and theology professor

  • Why Black History Matters: Critical Race Theory and the Importance of Black Studies

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Every year for Black History Month, the Department of African and African American Studies at Fordham University invites a guest speaker to address the Fordham community. This year's keynote speaker is Khiara M. Bridges, Ph.D., J.D., who will discuss critical race theory and the important place of Black studies in the present and future. Bridges

  • Taking Responsibility: Jesuit Educational Institutions Confront the Causes and Legacy of Clergy Sexual Abuse Keynote Plenary Panel

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    This panel features five distinguished speakers addressing the core questions of the Taking Responsibility project. They will help us ask how to confront and handle the history of clerical sexual abuse and its many legacies in the present. This event brings together one of the foremost researchers on clerical sexual abuse in the United States,

  • Passion and Purpose: Finding Your Purpose, and How It Changes Everything

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Finding your purpose has very little to do with "shoulds," obligations, and expectations, and everything to do with your heartfelt feelings about what you choose to do with your life. And that affects the world and everyone in it! It's your life and it's your purpose, so only you can live it. Join Genevieve Piturro,

  • CIA in Afghanistan ROTC Panel

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Please join Fordham University Army ROTC as we host a panel on First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11, a new book by author Toby Harnden. Hear from members of the first CIA team to go behind Taliban lines in 2001. This panel will discuss aspects of the CIA’s operations

  • CANCELED: Justice for Children: Then and Now

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Shirley Gatenio Gabel, Ph.D., the newly appointed MaryAnn Quaranta Endowed Chair in Children for Social Justice, will discuss how our sense of justice for children has changed and explore the future expectations for justice we are creating for children.

  • CANCELED: Orthodoxy and Anthropology in Conversation

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    This panel will bring theologians and anthropologists of Orthodox Christianity together to discuss the social life of religious concepts and the future of the field.

  • 2020 FUAA Alumni Career Fair

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Register for our third annual alumni recruitment fair, hosted by the Fordham University Alumni Association (FUAA).

  • Cookies and Cocoa with Santa

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    Fordham families and friends are invited to this fun holiday event!

  • Sperber Prize Ceremony

    12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 113 W 60th St, New York, NY

    The Department of Communication and Media Studies presents the annual Ann M. Sperber Prize for the best biography or memoir of a journalist.