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IPED 2021-2022 Lecture Series: Poland and the Global Scene
2022-01-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Rose Hill, Dealy Hall, E-530, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Come hear the Polish ambassador to the United Nations, Szczerski Krzysztof, speak on geopolitical challenges and Poland’s position on them.

Physics Colloquium
2022-01-19 14:30 - 15:30 | Freeman 103, 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Ioannis (John) Kymissis, Ph.D., Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering and chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University SEAS, will present, “Electronics on Anything: How Thin Film Electronics can Instrument the World.”
Silicon electronics have revolutionized the processing and handling of information. The high temperatures required to create crystalline silicon devices, however, have limited the application of crystalline silicon to sensing systems that work in a small and mechanically rigid form factor. The development of inorganic and organic thin-film electronics has launched a second revolution in electronics, granting the ability to process electronically active materials at low temperatures. This has allowed for two exciting opportunities: the ability to build electronic devices on the same size scale as the systems they interact with, and the ability to integrate electronic materials on a range of substrates including the back-end of CMOS integrated circuits, electronically active substrates, and flexible materials.
Our group has been working on the hybrid integration of organic semiconductors, thin-film piezoelectrics, and laser-recrystallized silicon with active substrates to implement a range of new functionalities. In this presentation, Kymissis will show how thin-film electronics and the hybrid integration enabled by new semiconductor systems and process options allow for active and spatially localized control of systems that are typically used in a single element format. Devices we have developed include single-chip PCR systems, miniature spectrometers, devices for blood flow analysis, large-area and miniature microphones, integrated on-chip filters, and active matrix micro-LED displays. These approaches unlock new applications in health care, sensing, displays, and communications.
About the Speaker
Kymissis earned his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His M.Eng. thesis was performed as a co-op at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab on organic thin-film transistors, and his Ph.D. was obtained in the Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT, working on field-emission displays. After graduation, he spent three years as a postdoc in MIT’s Laboratory for Organic Optics and Electronics, working on a variety of organic electronic devices, and also as a consulting engineer for QD Vision (later acquired by Samsung Electronics). He joined the faculty at Columbia University in electrical engineering in 2006 as an assistant professor.
He has won a number of awards for his work, including the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport award, the Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award, the MIT Clean Energy Prize, and a Verizon Powerful Answers award. A Society of Information Display (SID) fellow, he recently served a term as the editor in chief of the Journal of the Society for Information Display. In addition, he was the general chair for the 2014 Device Research Conference and was the program vice chair for the 2019 SID Display Week Symposium.

Centennial Speaker Series: Robin Wigglesworth on Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
2021-12-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join us for a lunchtime program with Robin Wigglesworth, the Financial Times‘ global finance correspondent and author of Trillions, as he discusses the incredible true story of the iconoclastic geeks who defied conventional wisdom and endured Wall Street’s scorn to launch the index fund revolution, democratizing investing and saving hundreds of billions of dollars in fees.
Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly assembled in the financial industry’s backwaters, unified by the heretical idea that even many of the world’s finest investors couldn’t beat the market in the long run. The motley crew of nerds—including Gene Fama, Jack Bogle, John McQuown, and Nate Most—succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Passive investing now accounts for more than $20 trillion, equal to the entire gross domestic product of the U.S., and today is a force reshaping markets, finance, and even capitalism itself in myriad subtle but pivotal ways.
Agenda
12 p.m.: Welcome Remarks: Sris Chatterjee, chair, Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis
12:03 p.m.: Speaker Introductions: David Cowen, president and CEO, Museum of American Finance
12:08: p.m.: Presentation: Robin Wigglesworth
12:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A
1 p.m.: Closing Remarks: David Cowen
About the Speaker
Robin Wigglesworth is the FT’s global finance correspondent, based in Oslo, Norway. He focuses on the biggest forces reshaping the financial system, with a particular focus on technological disruption and quantitative investing, writing longer-form features, analyses, profiles, and columns. He was previously the U.S. markets editor, spearheading the outlet’s coverage of financial markets and asset management across the Americas, deputy head of FastFT, capital markets correspondent, and Gulf correspondent.
Copies of Trillions will be raffled off to attendees.
This event is co-sponsored with the CFA Society New York, the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, and the Museum of American Finance.

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity: A Conversation with Ina Merdjanova
2021-12-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the next episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history, thought, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel.
This episode features an interview with Ina Merdjanova, a senior researcher at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. Her research has focused on the intersection of society, religious and cultural pluralism, nationalism, minorities, gender, conflict, and peace-building, with particular reference to Eastern Europe and Turkey. She has extensive academic experience at various academic and research institutions: Oxford University, New York University, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Aleksanteri Institute at Helsinki University, and the Freiburg Center for Advanced Studies, among others. Her book publications include Eschatological Anthropodicy: the Human Person and History in Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Thought (Praxis Publishing House, 2000, in Bulgarian), Religion, Nationalism, and Civil Society in Eastern Europe—the Postcommunist Palimpsest (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), Religion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding in the Balkans (Continuum, 2009, with Patrice Brodeur), Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism (Oxford University Press, 2013), and a recent edited volume titled Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity (Fordham University Press, 2021).

IPED Fall 2021 Lecture Series: Convergence and the Rich-Poor Divide
2021-12-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Rose Hill, Dealy Hall, E-530, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Will poor countries eventually catch up to rich countries in income? Come hear prevailing theories on this issue and learn about the realities of trying to bridge the wealth gap.
Giacomo Santangelo, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, as well as the director of the International Political Economy Program (IPED) at Fordham University. He is an economist with training in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis with more than 20 years of teaching experience at various universities in the New York City area. Courses taught include Statistics and Statistical Decision-Making, Applied Econometrics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Financial Economics, Money and Banking, Corporate Finance, Public Finance, Comparative Economic Systems, Economics at the Movies, and Sports Economics.
About the Speaker
He earned his Ph.D. and Master of Arts in economics from Fordham University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in economics from Seton Hall University. A frequent media contributor, Santangelo has been seen on NBC, CBS, and Fox News, as well as in U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Monster.com, and Fortune. In 2016, he gave a TED talk on the unifying theory of all Disney animated films, and in 2020 he published Macroeconomics: Big Things Have Small Beginnings, a macroeconomics textbook geared toward the Global Business Honors class he teaches at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham. Santangelo’s research focuses on international economic growth, trade, and development.

Putting on Cologne: An Exploration of a Medieval City
2021-12-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom
The medieval city of Cologne was a bustling metropolis and a hub of commerce. The city is better known for its economic prowess, with Jews and Christians working side by side. But it is less known for its contribution to theology and canon law, from the Jewish to the halakha and Jewish tradition. Nevertheless, due to the city’s central location between England, the Low Countries, northern France, and the German Rhineland, it serves as a gauge for assessing many religious, political, and cultural processes in the high middle ages. Ephraim Shoham Steiner, the 2021-2022 visiting scholar and a Fordham-NYPL Fellow in Jewish Studies, and members of Fordham’s faculty in medieval studies will explore how Cologne served in this fashion, drawing on examples from both medieval Christian and Jewish sources.
Shoham-Steiner is a professor of medieval Jewish history in the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and an expert on urban life in Europe in the late Middle Ages. For 2021-2022, he is the Fordham-NYPL Research Fellow in Jewish Studies and a visiting scholar at Fordham University. He is the author of On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe (Wayne State University Press, 2014) and Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (Wayne State University Press, 2020).
This event is presented with Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies and the Leo Baeck Institute.

Physics & Engineering Physics Colloquium
2021-12-08 14:30 - 15:30 | Keating Third Auditorium, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Marc Gershow, Ph.D., associate professor of physics and neuroscience at New York University, will present “Are You Smarter Than A Maggot?”
Despite having very few neurons (~104; humans have ~1011), the fruit fly larva’s brain is capable of sophisticated computations. The larva coordinates its movement, navigates its environment, integrates conflicting sensory inputs, and learns from experience. Modern tools allow us to record and manipulate the activity of individual neurons in the larva’s brain, and a “wiring diagram” made using electron microscopy provides a guide to understanding how information flows through “neural circuits.” Gershow will discuss his lab’s work in understanding some of the computations carried out by the larva’s brain and try to give a sense of why this work is being done in the physics department.

SPACs: The New IPO?
2021-12-07 17:00 - 18:15 | Virtual
In this program, industry leaders involved in different aspects of taking companies public will discuss the role of SPACs as an increasingly popular alternative to the more traditional IPO, including:

Addressing upcoming regulatory and legislative scrutiny
Trends in SPAC structures (e.g., anchor investors, trust accounts, and redemptions)
Outlook in 2022 and beyond for the SPAC vs. traditional IPO path to the public markets
Alignment of incentives among different constituencies in a SPAC
SPACs as an investment opportunity

The program will begin with a welcome from David Cowen, president and CEO, Museum of American Finance, followed by an introduction to the program by Michael Harris, head of capital markets and business development, Citadel Securities.
The moderated panel discussion will feature:
Andrew Cohen: Founder and CIO, Difesa Capital Management
E. Ramey Layne: Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP
David Panton: Managing Partner, SPAC Operations, Navigation Capital Partners, LP
Eklavya Saraf: Global Head of SPAC Listings and Managing Director of Listing Services, Nasdaq
Read more about the speakers.
The panel discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A. This event is co-sponsored with the CFA Society New York, the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, and the Museum of American Finance.

Jesuits and Boarding Schools: Truth, Reconciliation, Responsibility
2021-12-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
The Taking Responsibility project has a particular goal to highlight not only the history of Jesuit institutions and sexual abuse, but also to ask how we can confront and handle this history and its many legacies in the present. Following up on last year’s online dialogue, titled “Native American Communities and the Clerical Abuse Crisis,” this event will bring together a Jesuit who has been deeply involved in this question along with two speakers who are leaders at—and in one case a graduate of—the Red Cloud Indian School, now several years into a Truth and Healing process. The panel seeks to address the pressing question of what it means for today’s Jesuit institutions (and their employees, students, and graduates) to take responsibility for the full legacy of the Jesuits in North America.

Exhibiting Medieval Spain: Yesterday and Today
2021-12-05 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom
Co-organized with The Met Cloisters in conjunction with the exhibition Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith (running August 30 to January 30, 2022), this roundtable will feature three scholars who have deep experience curating exhibitions that engage with the multiple cultures of medieval Spain. It will be moderated by the curator of the exhibition, Julia Perratore.
The focus will be three exhibitions held in New York in the 1990s—shows that set the terms for addressing the so-called Convivencia of 11th- and 12th-century Iberia/Al-Andalus. Facets of those foundational exhibitions will be addressed in relation to contemporary issues of museology and investigations of race in the pre-modern world.
Speakers

Jerrilynn Dodds, Harlequin Adair Dammann Chair in Islamic Studies, Sarah Lawrence College
Mariam Rosser-Owen, curator, Victoria & Albert Museum
Risham Majeed, associate professor, Ithaca College

Moderator

Julia Perratore, assistant curator, The Met Cloisters

4th Annual Ram's Den Business Plan Competition
2021-12-04 | NY
Save the date for Fordham Foundry’s 4th Annual Ram’s Den Business Plan Competition. Watch early-stage ventures, with a Fordham student or graduate among their founders, compete for the chance to win their share of $40,000. You’ll also have the chance to network with potential investors, mentors, and advisers.
Ram’s Den serves as Fordham’s very own Shark Tank competition in which startups with growing momentum get to battle it out for thousands of dollars in prize funding and services. Startups with at least $10,000 in revenue are eligible to compete.
Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges drawn from the venture capital and startup communities.
The application deadline for founders closes on Sept. 17 and we encourage interested parties to look out for registration information.

Leonard Cohen’s Theological Legacy: Exploring the Songwriter's Work Through a Christian Lens
2021-12-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
When Leonard Cohen, the singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist, died five years ago, the cultural world mourned the loss of a great artist—and religious communities mourned the loss of a unique spiritual voice. Cohen was a Canadian Jew who channeled Christian themes in his work and lived for years as a Buddhist monk.
He put all of those beliefs and experiences into words and music, and the theological legacy of that astonishing body of work is still growing. The latest exploration of Cohen’s vision comes in a new book by the religious studies scholar Marcia Pally, titled From This Broken Hill I Sing To You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen.
In this Fordham Center on Religion and Culture (CRC) webinar, Pally will highlight the religious impulses of Cohen’s six-decade career. The event will feature a conversation with Fordham theologians Kathryn Reklis and Thomas Beaudoin, as well as musical performances.
Pally has taught at Fordham University and is a professor in multilingual multicultural studies at New York University. She is an annual guest professor for the theology faculty at Humboldt University-Berlin and has written numerous books and articles on culture, religion, and politics.
Kathryn Reklis, an associate professor of theology at Fordham University, writes on a range of topics, from modern Protestant theology and religion to pop culture. She has a regular column in The Christian Century, and her most recent book is Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts, co-edited with Sarah Covington.
Thomas Beaudoin, a professor in Fordham University’s Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, focuses on theologies, philosophies, and religious studies of practice; concepts and practices of religious disaffiliation and affiliation; and the theological and secular meanings of popular music.
David Gibson, director of CRC, will moderate the discussion, including questions from the audience.

GSS Continuing Education: Health Care Decision-Making: What Every Social Worker Needs to Know
2021-12-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
Despite the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, advance care planning remains poorly understood and often completed at the very end of life. Consequently, patients are left with making difficult health care decisions in highly stressful situations and poor health. Similarly, designated health care decision-makers often need to make these decisions with little or no knowledge of the patient’s wishes. This class will provide an overview of advance care planning as an essential component of quality patient care. Advance care planning documents, such as advance directives and POLST orders, will be discussed. Strategies on how to facilitate quality advance care planning conversations will be presented, and the role of the social worker in promoting advance care planning will be elaborated upon.
Completion of this class will result in the receipt of two (2) continuing education hours.

IPED Fall 2021 Lecture Series: National Identity in China
2021-12-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Rose Hill, Dealy Hall, E-530, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Grace Shen is an associate professor of history and director of graduate studies in the history department. Her work centers on questions of identity and aspirations of modernity, change, and self-fulfillment in late-19th to late-20th century China. As a science historian, she has primarily explored this through the lens of knowledge production. Her first book, Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and National Identity in Republican China, traces the complex (and often surprising) ways that interactions with “modern science” helped Chinese articulate what they wanted, how they saw themselves, who they wanted to be, and why. Her present book project, Raising the Nation, examines technologies of infant and child care to probe the ways that choices about children shaped China’s understanding of its place in the modern world and the potential of its nation-building project.

Centennial Speaker Series: Campbell R. Harvey on DeFi and the Future of Finance
2021-12-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Governments bailed out the very institutions that let the economy down, spurring a serious rethink of our financial system. Does it make any sense that it takes two days to settle a stock transaction? Why do retailers, operating on razor-thin margins, have to pay 3% for every customer credit card swipe? Why does it take two days to transfer money from a bank account to a brokerage—or any other company? Why are savings rates minuscule or negative? Why is it so difficult for entrepreneurs to get financing at traditional banks?
In DeFi and the Future of Finance, Campbell R. Harvey, Ashwin Ramachandran, and Joey Santoro introduce the new world of decentralized finance. The book argues that the current financial landscape is ripe for disruption and we are seeing, in real time, the reinvention of finance.
Agenda
12 p.m.: Welcome Remarks: Sris Chatterjee, chair, Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis
12:05 p.m.: Presentation: Campbell R. Harvey
12:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A
1 p.m.: Closing Remarks: Sris Chatterjee
About the Speaker
Harvey is a professor of finance at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as president of the American Finance Association in 2016. He serves as a partner and senior advisor at Research Affiliates LLC, overseeing more than $180 billion in client funds, as well as investment strategy adviser to the Man Group PLC, the world’s largest, publicly listed, global hedge fund provider.
Over the past seven years, Harvey has taught a course titled Innovation and Cryptoventures at Duke University. The course focuses on blockchain technology and decentralized finance. He also teaches Tech Driven Transformation of Business, as well as International Finance. He offers a Coursera called Blockchain Business Models,” and his book DeFi and the Future of Finance was released this fall. From 2006 to 2012, Harvey edited the Journal of Finance—the leading scientific journal in his field and one of the premier economics journals.
Harvey received the 2016 and 2015 Best Paper Awards from The Journal of Portfolio Management for his research on distinguishing luck from skill. He has also received eight Graham and Dodd Awards/Scrolls for excellence in financial writing from the CFA Institute. He has published more than 150 scholarly articles on topics spanning investment finance, emerging markets, corporate finance, behavioral finance, financial econometrics, and computer science.
Professor Harvey obtained his doctorate at the University of Chicago in business finance. He has served on the faculties of the Stockholm School of Economics, the Helsinki School of Economics, and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Svenska Handelshögskolan in Helsinki, and is a fellow of the American Finance Association. Harvey is a founding director of the Duke-CFO Survey, a widely received quarterly survey that polls more 1,500 CFOs worldwide.
Copies of DeFi and the Future of Finance will be raffled off to attendees.
This event is co-sponsored with the CFA Society New York, the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, and the Museum of American Finance.

IPED CFR Series: African Politics and Security Issues
2021-12-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Rose Hill, Dealy Hall, E-530, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
This Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call will feature Michelle D. Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has more than 20 years of experience in international affairs in government and nonprofit roles. She was formerly the managing director of The Africa Center, a multidisciplinary institution dedicated to increasing understanding of contemporary Africa.

Writing Center Workshop: Introductions and Conclusions
2021-11-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
This third workshop will teach attendees about the role(s) of introductions and conclusions in academic writing and offer practical instruction in how to craft them.

Discussion: The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century
2021-11-23 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom
Join contributors to The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century (Academic Studies Press, 2021) Daniel Soyer, Ayelet Brinn, John M. Dixon, Diana L. Linden, and Devin Naar in a discussion of the diversity of the Jewish experience in New York. Over the centuries, Jews have influenced the city’s culture, politics, social fabric, and economy, and in turn, been influenced by them. New York Jews have contributed to the development of American Judaism, to the rise of modern art, and to world Jewish culture in English, German, Yiddish, Ladino, and other languages. Since the 1890s, New York has been the greatest Jewish metropolis of all time. It’s no wonder that Academic Studies Press has included a volume on the city in its Lands and Ages of the Jewish People series, the only city so featured.
About the Speakers
Soyer is a professor of history and Jewish studies at Fordham University. He is editor of The Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century (Academic Studies Press, 2021). His other books include The Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 (NYU, 2012), which he wrote with Annie Polland, and which won a National Jewish Book Award, and Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 (Harvard, 1997), winner of the Saul Viener Award of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is co-editor of the journal American Jewish History. Keep an eye out for his forthcoming book, Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy, due out in January from Cornell University Press.
Brinn is an American Jewish historian with expertise in gender and popular culture. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019, and is currently an associate fellow at Fordham University and a scholar in residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She is working on a book about the role of gender politics in the development of the American Yiddish press.
Dixon is an associate professor of history at the College of Staten Island and is affiliated with the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. A historian of colonial New York and the Atlantic world, and a former fellow of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University, he is currently completing a history of Jews in the early modern Americas.
Linden is a historian of American art. Her book, Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene (Wayne State University Press, 2015), was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. She was part of the team behind the award-winning City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York (NYU Press, 2012). In 2019, the journal Smithsonian Studies in American Art awarded her the Frost Prize for excellence in scholarship.

Managers Tool Kit: Understanding the Consumer Decision-Making Process
2021-11-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
This exciting and interactive workshop, part of a series created for working professionals, will provide attendees with relevant, up-to-date, and unique information that can be immediately applied on the job. It’ll be presented by Sertan Kabadayi, Ph.D., professor of marketing and director of teaching excellence.

IPED Fall 2021 Lecture Series: Local Business Alliances
2021-11-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Rose Hill, Dealy Hall, E-530, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Join us as we hear how local business alliances shape communities and affect development from Norman Barnum, who serves as interim president and CEO at the New Orleans Business Alliance (NOLABA), an economic development organization that partners with the city’s government to attract and support businesses, develop talent and workforce, and strengthen the sense of place.
He is a finance expert with more than 30 years of community and economic development leadership experience in cities in the Northeast and Gulf South. Before becoming the interim president and CEO, Barnum served as CFO at NOLABA, where he developed the overall financial strategy and implementation of data systems. He managed the finance team, treasury, shareholder relations, accounting, tax, external audit, and risk management. Barnum also led the development and implementation of strategic initiatives that increased the organization’s self-sustainability and minimized dependence on public funding. To do so, he served as a liaison between leaders in the public and private sectors and community members to generate outcomes that drive prosperity for all citizens of New Orleans.

What Rhymes with Ireland? Poetry, Peace, and Troublemaking
2021-11-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Butler Commons, Duane Library, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Join us for a poetry reading and discussion with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama.

Writing Center Workshop: Paragraph Structure
2021-11-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
At this workshop, Writing Center tutors will discuss strategies for writing rhetorically effective and organized paragraphs! Register in advance for the meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting!

Climate Change and the UN Call to Action
2021-11-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Duane Library, Tognino Hall, 2nd Floor, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Fordham University’s graduate program in international political economy and development (IPED) is hosting a lecture titled “Climate Change and the UN Call to Action.” Following on the heels of the ongoing Climate Change Conference, which aims to accelerate action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the lecture will feature Selwin Hart, GSAS ’00, special adviser to the UN secretary-general on climate action and assistant secretary-general for the UN Climate Action Team. Marc Conte, Ph.D., from Fordham’s economics department will also be participating as a respondent.
This event is co-sponsored by Fordham Students for Environmental Awareness and Justice. We are grateful for the financial support of the Cassamarca Foundation.

Physics & Engineering Physics Colloquium
2021-11-17 14:30 - 15:30 | Freeman 103, 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Sheehan Ahmed, Ph.D., FCRH 2011, assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University, will present “Teaching with ISLE: Facilitating Students to Discover Physics for Themselves.”
Effectively introducing new students to physics goes hand in hand with using research-based practices for teaching physics. Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) is an inquiry-based approach that focuses on students discovering physical concepts on their own using processes similar to what actual researchers use: observing phenomena, identifying patterns, developing hypotheses, using them to make predictions for testing experiments, and using these testing experiments to reject inconsistent hypotheses. Ahmed will focus on the particular implementation of ISLE that is being run and developed at Rutgers-Newark and the innovations and challenges that come with it.

Fall 2021 Budget Forum
2021-11-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Martha K. Hirst, senior vice president, CFO, and treasurer, and Nicholas Milowski, vice president for finance and assistant treasurer, will present a webinar regarding the Fordham University operating budget, with a question-and-answer session to follow.

IPED CFR Series: Energy Policy and Efforts to Combat Climate Change
2021-11-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Rose Hill, Dealy Hall, E-530, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Join us for this Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call featuring Jason Bordoff, co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, and professor of professional practice in international and public relations at Columbia University SIPA.

Centennial Speaker Series: Leo Melamed in Conversation with Bob Pisani on Man of the Futures
2021-11-17 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual
As the founder of financial futures and initiator of Globex, the world’s first global electronic trading system, Leo Melamed revolutionized the finance industry. Join us for a conversation with this commodities pioneer moderated by CNBC senior markets correspondent Bob Pisani.
Agenda
11:30 a.m.: Welcome Remarks: Sris Chatterjee, chair, Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis
11:35 a.m.: Speaker Introductions: David Cowen, president and CEO, Museum of American Finance
11:38 a.m.: Discussion: Leo Melamed and Bob Pisani
12:15 p.m.: Audience Q&A
12:30 p.m.: Closing Remarks: David Cowen
About the Speakers
In Leo Melamed’s recently released, definitive memoir, Man of the Futures, he recounts his journey from Holocaust survivor and accidental runner at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to one of the most prominent leaders in the world of finance. At 33, Melamed gave up a promising law career to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time pit-trader at the CME. He quickly ascended the ranks to become chairman. From there, he set out to disrupt the status quo and ultimately transform both the exchange itself and the broader finance industry.
Bob Pisani is senior markets correspondent for CNBC. A CNBC reporter since 1990, Pisani has covered Wall Street and the stock market for nearly 20 years. He covered the real estate market for CNBC from 1990 to 1995, and then moved on to cover corporate management issues before becoming stocks correspondent in 1997. In addition to covering the global stock market, he also covers initial public offerings, exchange-traded funds, and financial market structure for CNBC.
Copies of Man of the Futures will be raffled off to attendees.
This event is co-sponsored with the CFA Society New York, the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, and the Museum of American Finance.

2021 Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture
2021-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | University Church, 441 E Fordham Rd, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
His Grace, Bishop Daniel Findikyan, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, will deliver this year’s Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture, titled “Returning to Normalcy and the Sacrament of Penance.”
The lecture will be livestreamed for those who are unable to attend in person. RSVP by Tuesday, 9 November.
Major support for the 2021 Orthodoxy in America Lecture is made possible by Christ and Anastasia Economos, with additional support provided by the Nicholas J. and Anna K. Bouras Foundation Inc.

Jewish Studies and Black Studies in Dialogue Series: Creole Ambivalence—The Politics of Jewishness in Caribbean Suriname, 1890-1959
2021-11-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom
Suriname, a small Caribbean country on the northeast coast of South America, is home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere, having been established in the mid-1600s by settlers of Iberian Jewish origin and the scores of African people they enslaved. By the turn of the 20th century, the colony’s Jewish community had transformed in two fundamental ways: The Jews had long shifted their geographic center from a series of interior plantations to the coastal capital of Paramaribo, and native-born, Creole (Eurafrican) Jews of mixed Iberian, Ashkenazic, and African origin now dominated communal and synagogue life as free people of color.
This presentation, featuring Eli Rosenblatt, Northwestern University, in conversation with Belinda Edmondson, Rutgers University, will illuminate their lives by examining how the Surinamese-Jewish press interpreted and represented Jewish cultural autonomy in a climate of rising Christian, anti-colonial sentiment supported by the growth of the colonial mission. Beginning in 1890 with the advent of anti-Jewish violence in Paramaribo and concluding at the beginning stages of independence in the 1950s, this presentation will trace the politics of being Jewish in Paramaribo while giving special attention to how racial and religious antagonism came to bear on individuals forced by regimes of colonial and Christian power to distinguish between their Jewish and Creole selves.
About the Speakers
Rosenblatt received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently affiliated with Northwestern University. His fellowship at Fordham is grounded in the Working Group on Jewish Studies and Black Studies in Dialogue. Rosenblatt is a scholar of Yiddish culture and Ashkenazic Jews, with a current interest in the communities of the Atlantic world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Edmondson is a professor of English and African American and African studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She is an elected member of the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars and has been the recipient of several fellowships. Her most recent book, Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Insights and Impact: A Conversation with Fordham Champions
2021-11-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
The Fordham University Alumni Association presents Insights and Impact, an alumni speaker series that showcases Fordham alumni making a positive difference in society. We’ll delve into issues that matter, inviting seasoned and emerging alumni leaders and experts to offer insights and show us how we, as Fordham alumni, can make an impact in our communities, professional lives, and the world.
This virtual event will introduce you to our Fordham Olympians, giving you an opportunity to hear about their time at Fordham, their Olympic experience, and how their lives have been changed by both.
Featured Panelists
Nick Martinez, silver medal winner in baseball at the 2020 Tokyo Games
Fiona Murtagh, FCRH ’16, bronze medal winner in rowing at the 2020 Tokyo Games
Moderator
Katherine DeStefano, LAW ’13, senior counsel, U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee
