Join us for an evening with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ric Burns and Riccardo Bruscagli, scholar and co-writer, in conversation about their film, DANTE: Inferno to Paradise. DANTE: Inferno to Paradise explores the power and drama of Dante Alighieri’s great masterwork, The Divine Comedy. The documentary dives into the riveting life and times of the poem’s
Save the date for the annual Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture. This year, the lecture will be delivered by Joseph McShane, S.J., president emeritus of Fordham University.
Join us for a film screening of Battleground, a timely window into the intersection of abortion and politics in America, following three women who lead formidable anti-abortion organizations to witness the influence they wield. As the nation faces the end of Roe, the film also depicts those on the front lines of the fierce fight
Join us for a series of discussions about the life of the prophet Abraham and the common threads of the Abrahamic faiths with Imam Ammar Abdul Rahman.
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,
Andrea Tornielli is an Italian journalist and longtime "vaticanista" who now oversees the various Vatican media outlets. Tornielli’s latest book, The Life of Jesus, is a reimagining of the life of Jesus that, like the TV series The Chosen, helps readers approach the story of Jesus with fresh eyes and an open heart. The book
Join us and hear from our panelists about they live out the mission at Fordham. Panelists include AnnaMarie Paccione, FCRH ’26, Roger Milici Jr., vice president of development and university relations, and Lerzan Aksoy, dean of Gabelli School of Business.
In “The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus,” Troy L. Tassier, Ph.D., discusses the intersection between public health and poverty and inequality. With various backdrops from Ancient Greece and all the way up to the COVID-19 pandemic, he provides examples of how our collective approach to epidemic and health crisis response disproportionately affects
Speaker: Steven A. Cook Steven Cook is the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. Prior to CFR, Cook was a research fellow at
Speaker: Jas Verem From humanitarian aid to food security, find out how IRC helps people affected by conflict or disaster, providing services such as health care, education, and economic assistance, and discover the opportunities linked to these projects. Jas Verem is IRC’s education and learning manager. He oversees the implementation and management of educational programs
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.
Elise Andaya, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology at the University at Albany, will discuss findings from her new book, Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice (NYU Press, 2024). Drawing on research among pregnant low-wage service workers in New York City, Andaya considers how inequalities of gender, race, and class are reproduced and
Join us for a series of discussions about the life of the prophet Abraham and the common threads of the Abrahamic faiths with Imam Ammar Abdul Rahman.
Speaker : William Easterly, Ph.D. William Easterly is a professor of economics at New York University and co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute. He is the author of three books: The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (2014); The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid
The Gabelli School of Business School invites you to attend the Flaum Leadership Lecture Series featuring Pulak Ghosh, Ph.D., on ”Democratization of AI: Impact on Business, Economy, and Society.“ A reception will immediately follow the lecture. About the talk: Despite the tremendous progress in the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) still belongs to a few
Spiritual Friendship and a Buried Catholic History: Insights for Today Brenna Moore, Th.D., Fordham University Brenna Moore will be sharing research from her book Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism (winner of John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association). She will describe her discovery of an archive
This event will celebrate the launch of two new books by Joy Ladin: Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender and Family, a new collection of poems. She will read from both books and reflect on what Jewish identity can teach us about trans identity, what trans identity can teach us
Presented by Susan B. Reynolds, Ph.D., Winner of the 2024 New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas. Clergy sexual violence in immigrant communities is an understudied dimension of the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. Yet records reveal how immigrant-serving parishes were regularly treated as dumping grounds for serially abusive clergy. There,
Join us to hear a panel of experts discuss the major technological innovations of the 2024 campaign, and how those new tactics are being used to mobilize interest groups in new ways. This panel will feature political practitioners, journalists, and academics discussing the role of political TikTok, digital grassroots mobilization, influencers, targeted social media ad
Speaker: Stephen Sestanovich Stephen Sestanovich is the George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at CFR and the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor Emeritus at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, he served as the ambassador to the former Soviet Union for the U.S. State Department. Additionally, he
The Western Africa region is currently facing complex dynamics, including security challenges, international relations, and the impact of military engagements. Join us for an engaging discussion that promises to enhance your understanding of Western Africa’s strategic importance in today’s world. Michael Miklaucic is a senior fellow of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National
This talk will explore how Jewish memorial books, yizker-bikher, created by Holocaust survivors or by pre-war Jewish émigrés from Eastern Europe, have engaged and encouraged various forms of mappings. These include both material cartographic images published in memorial books and performative acts of mapping the space of Jewish Eastern Europe undertaken by two groups of
