Join us for a screening of The Dove Flyer (Farewell Baghdad), followed by a discussion between language instructors Mohamed A. Alsiadi and Hagit Galor Halperin, and Ahuva Keren. They will discuss the making of the film, the heritage of Iraqi Jewry, and the memories that Iraqi Jews brought with them from Iraq to Israel and
Nancy Wackstein was the director of community engagement and partnerships at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) from February 2016 to July 2021, following a long career in the New York City nonprofit sector. Along with her duties as a director, she also acted as the adviser for the GSS Student Congress
The Activism Subcommittee, a subcommittee of the Action Committee for Racial and Social Justice, provides a mechanism through which Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) community members can engage in coordinated advocacy efforts that promote antiracism. We engage in these efforts using an intersectional lens and seek to address social injustice, specifically white supremacy, within
Need some motivation to work on a paper? Questions about the writing process? The Writing Centers at Rose Hill and Lincoln Center are here to help! We will host three joint workshops this fall for Fordham students. This first workshop hosted by the Fordham Writing Centers will address both how to cite and why we
The concept of moral distress refers to a clinical situation in which the patient is perceived to be “suffering” and the clinician knows what they feel to be the best course of action, but that course conflicts with what is best for the organization, other providers, other patients, the family, or society as a whole.
In the 19th century, as the enslavement of African Americans was expanding on the North American mainland, many free African Americans left the United States and sailed for Haiti, the first Black republic in the Atlantic world created in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), where slavery was abolished. This transnational migration from the
Professor Anna Dreber, Stockholm School on Economics, will deliver the 2021 Anastasi Lecture, titled "(Predicting) Replication Outcomes." https://fordham.zoom.us/j/88605480413?pwd=M3Y1R3I2TmNSZmViQnRqWTFsTDliQT09 Which results can we “trust?" What share of results are replicated in different kinds of literature in the experimental social sciences? I will discuss several recent, large replication projects, mainly in psychology and economics, in which my
Death anxiety is an evolutionary concept relating to the very core of what it means to be human. While death anxiety is often implicit and below conscious awareness, some theorists and researchers propose it actually underlies much of our motivation in life. A better understanding of the death anxiety implicit within us helps us better
In this talk, Judith Weisenfeld and Jenna Weissman Joselit will explore the theologies, practices, and politics of early 20th-century congregations in the U.S. in which members claimed Ethiopian Hebrew identity and navigated race and religion among Black Christians and Jews of European descent. About the Speakers Weisenfeld is the Agate Brown and George L. Collord
Even as recently as the early 2000s, when a large range of scholarship was dedicated to Black-Jewish relations, nearly all of these discussions were framed by a Black-Jewish binary, with Jews on one side and Blacks on the other. Such a history, however, ignores not only the experiences of Jews of color in the U.S.
In 2019, the Business Roundtable redefined the purpose of a corporation to promote "an economy that serves all Americans." In 2020, the New York Times endorsed this redefinition of corporate purpose fifty years after Milton Friedman's editorial and amid protests for recognizing and including all. This year the Fordham University School of Law's Institute on
The people we call "Byzantine" self-defined as "Romans." The terms "Byzantium" and "Byzantine" were first employed by Western scholars more than a century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in an effort to differentiate what they perceived to be the authentic Roman empire from its later, eastern, and Christian derivation. For centuries, these terms circulated
Elazar Ben Lulu, a post-doctoral scholar at the Open University of Israel, will hold a discussion regarding the high holidays. He is an anthropologist of religion and gender with particular interest in the intersection of LGBTQ+ identities and Judaism. A former fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University
The Russia Question is a book talk series devoted to all things Russia, hosted by Michael Ossorgin, professor and Russian program director at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus, with generous support from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center. Join us for a book talk with Nadieszda Kizenko to discuss her brilliant book, Good for the Souls:
On September 8, 1971, the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS inaugurated the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in memory of her late husband, the work bore the weight of a decade of sorrows: the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Martin Luther King Jr.; racial unrest
Recalling the Catholic enslaved experience reveals new patterns about enslavement within the Catholic Church and the instrumental ways enslaved people formed community, resisted their enslavement, and shaped their faith. Prize-winning scholar Kelly L. Schmidt, Ph.D., invites the audience to engage with records about enslaved people in Jesuit archives, cross-referencing them and reading against the grain
Writer and professor Randy Boyagoda, Ph.D., University of Toronto, has been reading a canto of The Divine Comedy every day for the past five years while writing a novel about people building a Dante theme park in an opioid-ravaged American small town. In this talk and reading from his new novel, Dante’s Indiana, he will reflect on
Join us for a roundtable on Jewish presence within and across the geopolitical regions at the meeting points of Christian- and Muslim-ruled Spain.
Join three NYC born and bred members of Fordham President's Council for a conversation on building a career in the city, the advantages of being a Fordham New Yorker, and the future of work as we strive toward a post-pandemic world. Maureen Beshar, FCLC '86, Errol Pierre, GABELLI '05, and Ed Sisk, FCRH '85, will
Does your energy shift from day to day? How about moment to moment? With all that is going on in the world, it makes complete sense that you might be experiencing pendulum shifts in your energy. It turns out there are seven levels of energy, and understanding what they are and when you employ them
Join alumni chaplain Damian O’Connell, S.J., and fellow alumni for a read-along and discussion of Charles M. Murphy’s book, Mystical Prayer: The Poetic Example of Emily Dickinson.
The CARS Research Assistant Program is a competitive training program intended for M.S.W. students who are interested in pursuing careers or further graduate training in social work research.
Alumni from all Lincoln Center-based schools are invited to celebrate Block Party at Lincoln Center through a range of virtual programming.
Duffy Fellow Carlos Orbegoso Barrios, FCRH '21, will draw conclusions on the future of FREPAP and the impact of similar parties and movements in Latin America.
Join education department staff for an online experience exploring public transit through the lens of sustainability.
