Last spring, the faculty of arts and sciences received a generous donation from James C. McGroddy to establish a new award recognizing leadership and innovation in pedagogy. Please join us for a panel discussion as we congratulate the James C. McGroddy Award recipients and listen to their thoughts on innovations in pedagogy and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Joe Calandro will profile the United States credit cycle and the challenges it poses, and he will share his perspective on where we seem to be in the cycle today. He will show the prior credit cycle wave of progressively lower inflation and interest rates began in 1982—following a historic inflationary trend—and ended in the

Collins Obidiagha, S.J., entered the Jesuit novitiate in Benin City in 2007, spending two years as the network administrator for the community’s computer lab. He then earned a B.A., with honors, in philosophy and humanities from the University of Zimbabwe in 2013. After attending the Cisco Networking Academy, Father Obidiagha served as the IT administrator

Generative AI is taking the world by storm, yet it remains unclear if we are ready for the paradigm shifts it will bring for the workplace and for those who currently rely on a human workforce. What will knowledge work look like in the age of generative AI? Will the creative talents required to write

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

The 19th Annual Rita Cassella Jones Lecture on Women and U.S. Catholicism will be presented by Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Ph.D. (Loyola Marymount University).ome Pineda-Madrid's lecture will explore how disciples of Jesus Christ must denounce and subvert this evil, finding in Pope Francis’ writings a source to encourage Christian hope through the subversion of evil. Ultimately, she

Join us for an in-person event with one of the most important economists of his generation. Edmund Phelps developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. His work represents a lifelong project to put “people as we know them” into economic theory. In his latest book,

Landry Signé is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program and the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution. His career and research span the areas of global political economy, global governance and sustainable development, global business and emerging markets, strategic management and leadership, fragility, state capacity and policy implementation, the Fourth

Christopher Aubin, Ph.D., associate professor of physics at Fordham University, will present, “Established 1936: The particle that began and could end the Standard Model.” During the 20th century, there was an explosion of new particles discovered, so many that it took decades for physicists to formulate what is now known as the Standard Model of

Join us for a conversation with Christopher Kellerman, S.J., about his thought-provoking work. In All Oppression Shall Cease, he provides a rigorously researched, era-by-era history of the Catholic Church's teachings and actions related to slavery. By telling stories of enslaved Catholics and Catholic slaveholders, analyzing arguments of theologians who either defended or condemned slaveholding, and

William Easterly, Ph.D., is a renowned economist, author, and researcher in the field of economic development. His ideologies caution against the wasteful side of international aid and instead promote investing in the rights of the poor. Currently, he is a professor of economics at New York University and co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute,

Rachel Swarns will discuss her new book, The 272, which follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to illuminate the harrowing origin story of Georgetown University and the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the saga of the Mahoney family, Swarns illustrates how the Church relied on slave labor

Orthodox Christians are called, first and foremost, to love all—for “God is love.” But the reality for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Orthodox Christians today is that their relationship to the Church is defined not by love, but by apathy, exclusion, and condemnation. We must, as a faith, choose love and compassion—to “love

Sergiy Olehovych Kyslytsya is a Ukrainian career diplomat, who serves as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Ukraine and permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He previously served as deputy minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Ambassador Kyslytsya will give a live talk covering topics on Ukraine current events, such

Sophie Mitra is a professor of economics, founding director of the Research Consortium on Disability at Fordham University, and principal investigator of the Disability Data Initiative. Her research agenda has documented economic insecurity and evaluated policies that try to reduce it. Her work seeks to produce evidence to document disability inequalities through disaggregated statistics and

Join us for a lecture with Baruch Fischhoff, Ph.D., (Carnegie Mellon University) followed by a reception. Part of society’s return on the investment in our science is the help that we provide in making public policy decisions. The return depends, in part, on the state of our science and our ability to translate it into

Financial thought leader and Research Affiliates’ founder Rob Arnott identifies major market myths—on inflation, value investing, and the supposedly passive nature of index funds—and the investment opportunities they are creating in a wide-ranging, in-person discussion with Consuelo Mack, executive producer of public television’s Consuelo Mack WealthTrack. About the Speakers Rob Arnott is the founder and

Join Christy S. Coleman, Erica Lehrer, and Annie Polland (in person and on Zoom) for this panel discussion. The past does not change; the way it is told does. While scholars typically write books, public historians and museums translate this scholarship for the broader public. Museums, then, play an important role not only in shaping

Stephen Biddle is a senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and the author of notable books that have won prestigious prizes, such as the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Award Silver Medal for 2005, and the 2005 Huntington

​​​​​Peter Lupoff is the founder and principal of Lupoff/Stevens Family Office, his family's company for direct and third-party impact investments, as well as other grant-making, advisory, research, teaching, and writing activities. He previously served as the CEO of both Net Impact (2019 to 2022) and GOOD Institute (2021 to 2022). Lupoff is a Gabelli fellow

Thomas Massaro, S.J., Ph.D., professor of moral theology with a specialization in Catholic social ethics and public theology, will deliver the 15th annual Julio Burunat Memorial Lecture, titled "Pope Francis As Moral Leader: Ethicist, Discerner, Communicator, and Advocate for Social Justice." Recent decades have witnessed a particular type of moral leadership exercised by such global

A professor of theology will look back at the ways the iconic Irish singer steeped herself in religion, even as she criticized its institutions. Join us for an afternoon of reflection, conviviality, and music!

Nadieszda Kizenko will deliver the 2023 Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture, ‘‘A Vanishing Point: Unity in Orthodoxy and the Ukraine Crisis.” Until recently, it was possible to describe Orthodoxy as “unity in plurality.” Although Orthodoxy consisted of more than a dozen local churches with a wide variety of local practices, and without an overarching structure,

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

George Athanassakos, Ph.D., founder and managing director of The Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at the Ivey Business School, will argue that the hefty average nominal and real stock returns experienced over the last 30 years are not going to be repeated in the next 30