• Distinguished Lecture Series: Katrin Kogman-Appel, “Medieval Passover Haggadah: From Rituals to Illuminations,” Session II

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    The Center for Jewish Studies is delighted to welcome Katrin Kogman-Appel, PhD, as a distinguished lecturer. Professor Kogman-Appel will deliver three lectures and will hold two workshops with early printed books and facsimiles. Overview of the Lecture Series A stand-alone haggadah is an individually bound book that is ritually used during the seder ceremony on

  • S.P.A.R.K – Scholars Promoting Action, Research & Knowledge

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Join us to showcase innovative research happening at Fordham in ethical leadership, inclusion, and social responsibility. Connect with faculty, students, and industry leaders. 4:00-5:00: Spotlight Presentations 5:00-5:30: Networking Reception Spotlight Presentations Include: - Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress, Dr. Atinuke (Tinu) Adediran - Coaching Anti-racism: Promise and Pitfalls, Dr. Jane Bolgatz, Clarence Ball

  • IPED Lecture: Can Europe Protect Itself from U.S. Trade Policies?

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Join the Graduate Program in International Political Economy & Development (IPED) for this lecture by Dr. Konstantinos Myrodias, a Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London (KCL) and a Research Associate at the Hellenic Observatory at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is the author of The Political Economy of the Eurozone’s

  • Lecture & Lunch: Joshua Teplitsky on the Aftermath of Epidemics Among Jews of Early Modern Europe

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    In connection with an exhibit "COVID Pandemic Five Years On: Remembering and Forgetting" The spring of 2025 marks five years since the first outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Retrospectives in different forms of media—books, newspaper articles and editorials, radio and podcasts, and conferences and gatherings—all represent different approaches to grappling with

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  • Can Democracy Survive AI?

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    This interdisciplinary panel discussion will feature Mathias Risse, the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University; and Mekela Panditharatne, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice's Elections & Government Program, where her work focuses on election integrity.

  • Exhibit: Citizenship, Inclusion, and the Struggle to Belong

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    This exhibition explores the ways that exclusion affects minority groups in Western-dominant societies. It explores the ways in which Jews were excluded from European Christian-dominated society based on Christian notions of Jewish inferiority and the way Black people were excluded and marginalized in the United States and Europe based on race and association with slavery.

  • 2024 Research Day Celebration

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Please join us for this year’s Distinguished Research Award celebration. David Chalmers, professor of philosophy and co-director of New York University’s Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, will deliver the keynote address, titled “Can ChatGPT Think?” The following awards will be bestowed: Distinguished Research Award in the Humanities: Kirsten Swinth Distinguished Research Award in Interdisciplinary

  • Elisheva Baumgarten on ‘Contending with Domestic Crises: Jewish Marriages in the Late Middle Ages’

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    In the late 13th century, a Jewish rabbi in northern France declared: “And now we (anu) are accustomed to betrothing our daughters, even minors, because every day the exile becomes harsher. Thus, if a person is able to provide his daughter with a dowry, perhaps at some later time he will not be able to

  • 2023 Loyola Chair Lecture

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Join us for the St. Ignatius Loyola Chair Lecture featuring Brian Dunkle, S.J., associate professor of historical theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. As Christian poets gained status and influence in the Roman Empire, they wrote out of aemulatio, that is, the desire to rival and surpass the great pagan poets

  • IPED Event: Corruption and Development in the Philippines

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Join us in welcoming former Philippine senator Paolo Benigno Aguirre Aquino IV. Aquino is the youngest senator in Philippine history. As a senator, he served on numerous congressional committees and helped pass laws uplifting youth, microfinance, and people with disabilities. Currently, he is a Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow at the Yale Jackson School of

  • ‘Jews in the Bronx: Archival and Oral Histories’

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    This hybrid event will feature undergraduate research by Reyna Stovall, FCLC ‘25, and Sophia Maier, FCRH ‘23, in conversation with professors Ayelet Brinn, Ayala Fader, and Daniel Soyer. This event is hosted by Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored with FCRH Undergraduate Research; the Urban Studies Program; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Fordham’s

  • Guided Exhibit Tour: ‘Confronting Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Resistance’

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Join us for a final guided tour of our exhibit Confronting Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Resistance, curated by Westenley Alcenat, Lesley East, FCRH '24, and Magda Teter. Also on view is an exhibit of photographs by Julian Voloj, curated by Ray Felix. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP yourself and any guests you

  • Tour of Walsh Family Library Exhibits: “Confronting Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Resistance” and “The Remnants of Jewish Life in the Bronx”

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Join us for a guided tour of the exhibits currently on view in the Walsh Family Library: "Confronting Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Resistance," curated by Westenley Alcenat, Lesley East FCRH '24, and Magda Teter; and "The Remnants of Jewish Life in The Bronx," curated by Reyna Stovall FCLC'25, which accompanies an exhibit of photographs

  • Careers in Ethics Panel

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Please join us for our careers in ethics panel with Rebecca Dresser, J.D.; Thomas Massaro, S.J.; Stefanie Juell, M.A., CIP; Fordham faculty; and alumni. Please see registration page for speaker bios.

  • Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Pi Day/STEM

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Come celebrate Pi Day and help improve coverage of STEM topics on Wikipedia.

  • American Studies Senior Symposium

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Please join Fordham University's American Studies program for the annual Senior Symposium, in which program seniors present their research. The symposium will begin at 1:00pm and end at 4:00pm, it will be followed by the American Studies annual Holiday Party (4:00pm - 6:00pm).

  • Realism Versus Reality in Dante’s Paradiso

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Presented by: Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University)

  • Columbia and NYU Research Fellow Forum

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    In an effort to showcase and recognize the research accomplishments by six Fordham-NYU and Fordham-Columbia Research Fellows, the Office of Research is organizing the Columbia and NYU Research Fellow Forum at 2:30-4:30 pm, October 25 (Wed.), 2017 in the O’Hare Special Collections Room -Walsh Library at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus. We welcome all to join

  • Mullarkey-Reid Research and Teaching Forum: Linguistic Diversity in English

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    Mullarkey Reid Departmental Forum, Linguistic Diversity in English, Wed 4th Oct 2017, 2pm-5.30pm, O’Hare Room 2 pm Introduction “Thinking Diversity in English” Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Session One Chair: Julie Kim Daniel Contreras, “Se habla inglés: How to Speak English in US English Departments” Rebecca Sanchez, "Made in Translation: The Development of ASL and the Deafening of

  • The Tenth Annual Inaugural Lecture: Midsummer Nightmare

    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

    The English Department presents The Tenth Annual Inaugural Lecture - Midsummer Nightmare: Shakespeare and the Economic Crisis of 1595-7 by Mark Caldwell, Professor of English