The winners of this year’s various creative writing prizes, including the Reid Family Prize and the Robert F. Nettleton Poetry Prize, will gather for a reading.

Speaker: Peter Georgescu, chairman emeritus of Young and Rubicam, will deliver the 2016 Gannon Lecture.

Speaker: The Reverend Patrick J. Ryan, SJ, Lawrence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, with responses from Sarit Kattan Gribetz, PhD, assistant professor of theology, and Mehnaz Afridi, PhD, assistant professor of religious studies at Manhattan College.

Fordham IT will be on hand to answer questions about IT Customer Care’s new online presence, located at My.Fordham, via the Tech Help tab.

Fordham’s Residence Hall Association will host its annual auction and dinner to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Sponsored by the Office of Residential Life.

The Voices Up! concert series, in collaboration with Poets Out Loud, will set poetry to new musical compositions by Daniel Ott, Lawrence Kramer, Yangzhi Ma, and more.

Scholars will discuss the significance of the 13th-century medieval map that now lives online thanks to a project at the Center for Medieval Studies and how scholars can use the digital restoration to maximize teaching and research.

This fundraising event will benefit the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation (MC-LEF), which provides scholarships to children of fallen Marines and federal law enforcement personnel. Sponsored by the School of Professional and Continuing Studies’ Dean's Office.

Readers: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin featuring high school students from outreach with music written by the Winter Court. Co-sponsored by Poets Out Loud and Glucksman Ireland House at NYU.

Speaker: Brita R. Heimarck, PhD, associate professor of ethnomusicology, with live performance accompanied by David Ashford on South Indian mridangam. Sponsored by the Department of Theology.

A Middle States reaccreditation team will hold a series of open forums and discussions about the extent to which the University is achieving its goals.

The Graduate School of Social Service will host a panel discussion on preparing social workers to serve the Chinese-American population.

Speaker: Patricia Williams, MacArthur Fellow and professor of law at Columbia University, will present a lecture entitled “The Legislation of Fear: Race, Status, and Mobility in Terrifying Times.”

Speaker: Sara Lukinson, Emmy-winning filmmaker and biographer for the Kennedy Center Honors. Part of the College at 60 Lecture Series. Sponsored by the School of Professional and Continuing Studies. Open to those ages 50 and up.

Speaker: John Waldman, PhD, professor of biology at Queens College. Part of the College at 60 Lecture Series. Sponsored by the School of Professional and Continuing Studies. Open to those ages 50 and up.

Moderator and host Bill Baker, President Emeritus of WNET Channel Thirteen, will conduct a special interview with former Bloomberg press secretary Stu Loeser and Frank Berry, former director of public affairs and chief speech writer for Bloomberg.

Readers: Poets Jean Kane and Monica Ong will perform. Sponsored by Poets Out Loud.

Fordham University Press, along with the Office of Research and the faculty of arts and sciences, will host a seminar on the world of scholarly journals, including an understanding of commercial publishers, how best to pursue publication, and more.

Speakers: IPED alumni Claudia Pessagno, senior equity analyst at IHS Herold Inc.; Jane Wilkins, financial analyst at U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service; Ramon Fuentebella, senior transfer pricing analyst at Ernst and Young; and Thomas Moviel, lead economist at The Balmoral Group. Sponsored by the Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development (IPED).

Peter Vaughan, PhD, chair of the Diversity Task Force, and members of the task force will discuss the purpose of the group and how it will proceed, and will also answer questions about the group.

Practitioners and scholars will gather to examine cross-cultural perspectives on well-being, explore best practices, and propose innovative approaches to healthcare delivery. Co-sponsored by the Center on Religion and Culture and Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center.

The Center for Medieval Studies will host its annual weekend conference, which focuses on current concerns with manuscripts, including technical investigations of production, image and text on the manuscript page, accessibility of the manuscript in the digital age, and more.

This conference will spotlight positive outcomes of including and encouraging youth production of media in formal and informal educational settings. Various youth-produced videos will be screened, followed by panel discussions. Co-sponsored by the Department of Communication and Media Studies and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

A panel of activists and educators will discuss the evolution of contemporary resistance and protest. Sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies.

A panel of scholars and practitioners will discuss the search for gender equality in Irish theatre during this daylong event. Sponsored by the Institute of Irish Studies.