In light of the Sustainable Millennium Development Goals, economic empowerment, with its aims of both education and employment, is crucial for realizing women’s rights. Changing social contexts, displacement, migration and social exclusion require new innovative approaches to increase access to education and employment for women. This symposium will address comparative challenges and innovations that address
In honor of the Centennial celebration of the Fordham Graduate School of Social Service and Veteran’s Day, the event will feature keynote speaker, David L. Albright, PhD, associate professor and Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair in Mental Health at the University of Alabama School of Social Work. Dr. Albright will address the ways in which
Join Fordham IT for faculty-led workshops, demonstrations of Cisco’s video conferencing system, and a keynote address by Jose Antonio Bowen, PhD, author and president of Baltimore’s Goucher College.
Speakers: Journalist Greg Lindsay, the Urban Studies Distinguished Visitor for 2016, and William Easterly, PhD, professor of economics at NYU. Sponsored by the Urban Studies Program.
Fordham’s Center on Religion and Culture and the Center for Ethics Education will co-host a forum that will examine when the right to live safely and securely trumps obligations to uphold basic human rights.
Fordham’s Institute for Women and Girls will host a conference aimed at addressing the issues of women’s trafficking and violence against female refugees, as well as propose strategies for action and empowerment.
Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service will host a celebration of 100 years of strengthening communities through social work leadership. A panel discussion focused on social work’s opportunities and challenges, as well as a community awards ceremony will follow.
Maimonides (Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon), known in the Jewish tradition as the "Great Eagle," is perhaps the most widely studied and best-known figure in Jewish history from medieval times until the present day. This joint lecture and response will compare for the first time Maimonides' tort theory with other pre-modern tort theories both in the
