Speaker: Science writer Carl Zimmer will present “Editing Life: The Strange Science of Engineering Humans, Altering Nature, and Bringing Species Back from Extinction.”

Speaker: 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.

Speaker: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, PhD, the Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA, will take us through the modern history of Sephardic Jews.

Speakers: Dave Andrews, PhD, adjunct instructor of English at Loyola University Chicago, and Kathryn Krasinski, PhD, adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

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.

Speaker: Jennifer Wright Knust, PhD, associate professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Boston University.

Speaker: Judith Altmann, a Holocaust survivor, will speak about remembering history.

Speaker: Father Carlos Maria Galli, STD, dean of the theology faculty and director of doctoral studies at the Catholic University of Argentina. Sponsored by the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education.

Continuous University Strategic Planning (CUSP) will hold an open community forum to discuss the draft strategic framework.

Speaker: Joseph E. Stiglitz, PhD, Nobel Prize winner and professor of economics at Columbia University. Part of the Nobel Lecture Series sponsored by Fordham’s Global Economic Policy Center.

A group of religious experts will address the ways faith affects one’s ability to respond well to challenges raised by divorce and remarriage within a diversity of faith traditions. Co-sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Studies Center and the Center on Religion and Culture.