• ‘Sing Sing Files’ Author Dan Slepian in Conversation with Vanity Fair’s Michael Calderone

    Fordham Law School, Room 4-09 150 W 62nd St., New York, NY 10023, New York, NY, United States

    The New York Press Club and Fordham's Department of Communication and Media Studies present: Justice Delayed: A Conversation with NBC Dateline producer Dan Slepian Moderated by Vanity Fair's Michael Calderone The first 30 to sign up will receive a copy of Dan Slepian's book The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a

  • Book Talk: The Deep Historical Roots of Modern Incarceration

    Fordham Law School, Room 4-09 150 W 62nd St., New York, NY 10023, New York, NY, United States

    Join us for a discussion with Jacob Abolafia, author of The Prison Before the Panopticon Incarceration in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2024). In his new book, Abolafia uncovers the historical roots of modern incarceration. Those roots, he shows, are highly salient for our current debates over mass incarceration, as well as

  • Dialogue and Difficult Questions: Can We Understand Each Other?

    Fordham Law School, Room 4-09 150 W 62nd St., New York, NY 10023, New York, NY, United States

    At work, at school, or whenever we turn on the computer, we seem to be barraged by a host of difficult questions, and the sense that daily life is permeated by deep disagreement with others, even in our families and communities. Various forms of media seem to heighten the sense of talking "past" each other