• CANCELED: Fourth Annual Women in Charge Conference: Let’s Get Real

    Fordham University School of Law 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    Young women and individuals have the rewarding opportunity to hear from panelists who are trailblazers in fields such as finance, engineering, arts, wellness, and more.

  • Attica Prison Uprising – Lessons Learned for Today’s Criminal Justice Reform Efforts

    Fordham University School of Law 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    Please join the Stein Scholars Program and the Stein Center for Law and Ethics for a panel discussion: The Attica Prison Uprising Lessons Learned for Today's Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Panelists (in formation) •Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy •Dean Matthew Diller, Fordham

  • McLuhan in New York

    Fordham University School of Law 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    From Fall 1967 to Spring 1968, Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan spent one academic year in New York City as the Albert Schweitzer Chair of the Humanities at Fordham University, invited by John Culkin S.J. On October 13th, 2017, the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, in conjunction with the Book &

  • Forum – Overcriminalization + Mass Incarceration: A Fundamentally Different Path to Reform

    Fordham University School of Law 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    FEATURED SPEAKER John Pfaff Professor of Law, Fordham Law School Author of Locked In, the important new account of the unprecedented 40-year boom in U.S. incarceration rates Professor Pfaff will speak about his data-driven research on overcriminalization and mass incarceration — and the new approaches he advocates for a fundamentally different path to reform. RESPONDENTS

  • Sapientia et Doctrina Lecture – 21st Century Community Health: The Intersection of Social Work and Public Health

    Fordham University School of Law 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is a nationally recognized leader and expert on urban public health. Dr. Bassett approaches public health in an expansive way, recognizing that environment; family; and community – social determinants - have as much of an impact on health outcomes for individuals

  • Conference: Tradition, Secularization, Fundamentalism: Orthodox/Catholic Encounters

    Fordham University School of Law 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    While the very meaning of the “secular” remains contested, Christians globally are self-identifying in different ways in relation to an imagined secularization, all the while discerning how to live as a tradition. This intersection between tradition, secularization, and fundamentalism is especially evident in both post-Communist Catholic/Orthodox countries and the American context, where fundamentalist-like responses have