Exhibit: “Fordham’s Babel: An Exploration of World Languages in the Special Collections”
2024-10-08 - 2025-03-15 | Walsh Library, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
This exhibit, featuring centuries-old books and manuscripts, explores Western interest in languages. At first, we try to situate the story of Babel in a non-Western context, highlighting non-European languages. The exhibit then traces the Renaissance study of languages through the lens of the Bible and its translations and of ancient material relics, such as obelisks, coins, and other remains. We also showcase the tools scholars produced to study languages—for example, medieval and Renaissance-era grammar books and lexicons. The exhibit ends with a reflection on the impact of language study and classification on the formation of identities and prejudices in the Western world. How did early 20th-century Westerners classify languages and peoples? What does it say about their understanding of nationalities and cultures and their place within a society of their own?
The exhibit was curated by Gabriella DiMeglio, Miriam Krakowski, FCRH ’27, and Magda Teter.

Ancient Sculpture from the Brooklyn Museum and The Hispanic Society of America
2025-01-17 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art, Walsh Library, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Longterm loans of important and rarely seen ancient sculpture from the Brooklyn Museum and the Hispanic Society of America are on view at the Fordham Museum until 2026. The Museum is located in the atrium of the Walsh Library at Rose Hill

“Henna, Love, and Light: Jewish Life and Art in Siona Benjamin’s India”
2025-01-30 10:00 - 2025-03-28 17:00 | Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room, Fourth Floor, Walsh Family Library, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
In 2011, Siona Benjamin, an intercultural artist born in India to a Bene Israel Jewish community, returned to her country of birth on a Fulbright India-US fellowship. During her stay, she traveled across the country, conducting research and interviewing Jews in India. “Henna, Love, and Light: Jewish Life and Art in Siona Benjamin’s India” brings to Fordham several pieces from Siona Benjamin’s series of photo-collage paintings, “Faces: Weaving Indian Jewish Narratives.” These pieces serve as anchors that link the present and the past. Around Siona Benjamin’s art are photographs taken by the artist’s parents and family members. In the 1950s, Siona Benjamin’s parents, Judah and Sophie Benjamin, traveled across India photographing synagogues and houses of prayer, capturing the range and diversity of the Indian Jewish community: from splendid metropolitan synagogues to small rural prayer halls. The cache of photographs in Siona Benjamin’s possession thus documents an aspect of Jewish history, now threatened by oblivion.
Like Siona Benjamin’s art, some of the old family photographs underscore how much the life and culture of Jews in India were very much of India. Henna, saris, glass lamps of synagogue lights meld with modern suits and classic fedoras becoming one. Indian and Jewish, traditional and modern–all form a distinct Indian Jewish identity.
The exhibit was made possible by the Hadassah Ruth Weiner Jewish Art Fund at Fordham University and was curated by Amy Levine-Kennedy, Mallory Roof FCRH ‘26, and Magda Teter. It will be on view from January 30 until March 28, 2025 in the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room on the 4th floor of the Walsh Family Library.

Responsible Business Center Annual Sustainable Clothing Drive
2025-02-03 10:00 - 2025-04-04 18:00 | 140 W 62nd St Suite 126, 140 W 62nd St Suite 126, New York, 10023, United States
Donate to the Gabelli Clothing Exchange. The exchange is designed for students to swap clothing that they no longer wear for something from someone else’s wardrobe. Alumni are encouraged to bring gently used clothing, especially business casual and winter clothing, to the Student Success Center from now through Friday, April 4. Your donations can provide students with attire to wear to interviews or help an international student build their cold-weather wardrobe. Collection bins will be available for donations in suite 126 of 140 West 62nd Street. Please email Kate Kennon at kkennon@fordham.edu with questions.
About the Drive
In 2023, the Responsible Business Center and the Student Success Center introduced a fall and spring clothing exchange as part of its mission to help Gabelli School business students take part in and understand circular fashion, an important aspect of sustainability and engagement. In its simplest form, a clothing exchange is a gathering of people who swap clothing they no longer wear for something from someone else’s wardrobe.

International Conference on Im/migration, AI, and Social Justice - Day 2
2025-03-11 10:00 - 17:00 | 12th-Floor Lounge, Corrigan Conference Center, Lowenstein Center, Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, 10023, United States
Building on the success of Fordham University’s 2023 International Conference on Social and Environmental Justice, this international conference seeks to examine the connection between migration, immigration, and AI through the lens of social justice and human rights. It aims to foster meaningful dialogue on creating more equitable and humane systems with marginalized communities to protect rights and leverage responsible AI to advance justice for all.
Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, roundtables, and collaborative sessions, participants will explore actionable and sustainable strategies to promote justice, accountability, and participation in policies and technologies impacting marginalized communities. The conference will provide valuable insights and policy recommendations to ensure human rights are prioritized while responsibly harnessing AI to address pressing challenges in migration and immigration.

2025 Tampa Brunch and Baseball
2025-03-11 10:30 - 16:00 | George M. Steinbrenner Field, 1 Steinbrenner Drive, Tampa, FL, 33614, United States
The Fordham alumni chapters of Tampa and Sarasota and the Office of Alumni Relations cordially invite you to an afternoon of brunch and baseball. Cheer on your favorite New York team as the Bronx Bombers take on the Baltimore Orioles! Guests will have the chance to meet and hear from Charles Guthrie, director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation.
The early bird price for this event is $95 per person and includes a selection of brunch/breakfast offerings (yogurt, fruit cups, assorted pastries, and breakfast sandwiches); beer, wine, mimosas, and bloody Marys; and a premium, loaded game ticket (an $85 value). Brunch will take place in the Pavilion. The Third Base Rooftop Deck ticket includes a buffet, ballpark fare and other food options, and a drink package (soft drinks, beer, and house wine). Register by February 11 to take advantage of early bird pricing. After February 11, the cost is $105 per person.
Please note: Tickets will be distributed electronically through the MLB mobile app. Detailed instructions for accessing and downloading tickets will be emailed closer to the event.
Space is limited, and registrations will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please consider making a gift of $25 or more to support an area of your choice at Fordham.

One-Hour Retreat: Mid-Semester Check-In
2025-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Lowenstein 219, 113 W. 60th Street, NY, NY, 10023, United States
Participate in a guided reflection and conversation about our spiritual health at the mid-semester point. Lunch sandwiches provided. All are welcome to participate (students, staff, faculty, alumni). Meet a new friend!
Facilitators:
Erin Hoffman, Stephanie Roddy, Campus Ministry
Robert Parmach, Mission Integration & Ministry

PatagoniAmazonia: Colonialism, Literature, and Im/possible Futures
2025-03-11 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual Zoom
Please join us for a talk by Alberto Harambour, a historian who will be visiting from Chile’s Universidad Austral. Harambour’s work bridges history, literature, and anthropology, and his book Soberanías Fronterizas—about colonialism, genocide, and the formation of state sovereignty in the “frontier” region of Chilean and Argentine Patagonia—is key in the field of Latin American studies.
Harambour will be presenting research about his new project about the multiple frontier regions of South America, including Amazonia and Patagonia.

St. Ignatius Loyola Chair Lecture: The Invisibility of the Visible Other—Rethinking Our Intersubjectivity
2025-03-11 16:30 - 18:30 | Rose Hill, McShane Campus Center, Room 311, 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, 10458, United States
This event will feature Willy Moka-Mubelo, S.J. (Université Loyola du Congo).
The invisibility of the visible other is the expression of a deep anthropological crisis that manifests itself in various ways: the loss of the meaning of life, the search for identification groups for personal security, and the notorious disregard for the protection of our common humanity, leading to disrespect for the laws that govern communities of rational and reasonable beings, the fierce refusal to encounter another subjectivity that enables us to awaken to ourselves as subjects and moral agents, and the voluntary destruction of the community in which each human being takes his existential anchorage, etc.
The establishment of a moral community of mutual recognition requires a radical shift from the invisibility of the visible other to the visibility of the socially constructed invisible other. We are always already related to other people. No one exists as an isolated entity (a monad). The “I” is always understood in connection with the “we.” Therefore, the responsibility of the-one-for-the-other requires us to rediscover the true meaning of the question: Who is my neighbor? Far from being merely a spiritual question, this question is, first and foremost, an ethical one. It means: What is expected of me as a moral individuality open to the light of reason?

Purim Party!
2025-03-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Lowenstein 206 (Welcome Center), 113 W. 60th Street, NY, NY, 10023, United States
Have some snacks, make a mask, paint your face, and enjoy the party!

Career in Ethics Panel & Networking Reception
2025-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | JMCC 112
Interested in pursuing a career in ethics? Come learn & meet with Fordham alumni about their success integrating values into their work in law, medicine, business, and human research protections.

New Media and Digital Design Alumni Panel
2025-03-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Martino Hall, 7th floor, 45 Columbus Ave, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Join us for a panel discussion by four professional New Media and Digital Design alumni who will discuss their journey, challenges and successes from graduation as NMDD majors to their current position.
Our panelists are:
Becca Estrella ‘20, Senior Designer, Player’s Tribune
Cleo Papadopoulos ‘22, Production Associate, Random House Children’s Books
Janine Balthazar ‘23, Product Designer, Slack
Clark Walecki ‘23, Associate Product Designer, TIAA
The event will take place on TUE 3/11. Pizza, snacks, sodas and waters will be served by 6:15pm and the actual discussion will start at 6:30pm.
You can attend the event in person or in Zoom.
You must RSVP for either option by completing the RSVP form.

Team Trivia Night with the Fordham College Alumni Association
2025-03-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Ann & Tony’s Restaurant, 2407 Arthur Avenue, Bronx, 10458, United States
Calling all Fordham alumni and friends for team trivia hosted by NPR’s George Bodarky (FCRH ’93)!
Join us to test your knowledge while getting together with fellow Fordham alumni over dinner at Ann & Tony’s on Arthur Avenue. Come with a team or on your own and join a group. (Teams can be two or more people.)
Q: For whom was Arthur Avenue named? (See below for answer.)
The above will not be one of the questions posed at the event, BUT there are lots more to which you can look forward. The trivia challenge, prizes, dinner, beverages, and we are thrilled to announce that the evening’s host will be NPR’s George Bodarky, FCRH ’93 (known to many from his days at WFUV).
The cost is $50 for dinner (salad, bread, choice of one of five entrees, soda/water, and dessert, with a cash bar) and a full night of trivia (three 10-question rounds and a final question, with some pertinent to Fordham and its surroundings). And, there will be prizes!
Why we charge admission:
Because the FCAA raises money to give it away. Each year we award a series of scholarships to students in need and students who have distinguished themselves academically and as individuals who exemplify the Jesuit ideal of “cura personalis.”
Trivia answer: Arthur Avenue, the restaurant-rich road in the Bronx, is named for Chester A. Arthur, 21st U.S. president. It was so named by Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, a great-granddaughter of business magnate Pierre Lorillard (whose name also graces the name of a nearby street).
