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FCRH Dean’s Newsletter
February 8, 2023
Dear FCRH! I hope this finds you staying well and warm. As we continue to bear witness to the devastation in Turkey and Syria, please know that there are resources for you, whether you are seeking a way to help or seeking support yourself. I encourage you to reference the recent message from Campus Ministry sharing a list of agencies collecting donations for relief efforts; as well, the Office of the Campus Ministry and Counseling and Psychological Services are available to provide support. Today’s newsletter focuses on events and opportunities at Fordham and beyond. Please read on to learn more!
All the best, Dean Mast Maura B. Mast, PhD
Dean, Fordham College at Rose Hill Fordham University Use the Fordham Hub Please remember that you can access your academic needs through the Hub!
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Fellowship Applicant Stories Thursday February 16th, 1-2:30pm | FLOM auditorium - Walsh Library (Rose Hill) and on Zoom Come and hear fellow students and alums talk about their experiences applying to fellowships -- scholarships that fund you to pursue international opportunities, undertake research, go to graduate school, and more! Register here. Serving the City - stay connected for summer internships! Summer internship opportunities will start to come in soon! While they’ll be listed here, you’ll want to stay in the loop by:
Fordham University Creative Writing Prizes From December 5th - February 15th, the Department of English is accepting applications to the Fordham University Creative Writing Prizes. These prizes are for current students. Click on the titles of prizes below to access guidelines and the online submission manager:
Rose Hill Wellness Week February 13 - 17 How’s your semester going? No matter what the answer is, Wellness Week at Fordham can make it better. This is a campus-wide effort inspired by cura personalis “care for the whole person.” Fordham University has resources dedicated to every student’s holistic well-being and from February 13-17, 2023, these resources are being highlighted and YOU are encouraged to participate, even if you’ve never been to these types of events before. Co-sponsored by FCRH, GSB, and GSAS. Full schedule and information at this link Memorial Sloan Kettering Bridge Program - deadline approaching MSK Bridge is a two-year postbac/gap year research program for students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in science who aspire to pursue biomedical PhDs or MD-PhDs. The inaugural cohort of 10 Bridge Scholars will start in July 2023, and the deadline to receive all application materials is February 24! I hope you apply soon. Apply for Orion Magazine’s environmental writers’ summer workshop Orion Magazine (a partner of the Serving the City internship program) just opened up applications for their environmental writers' workshop, in person this summer in Rhinebeck (in New York’s Hudson Valley)! Applications are open until May 1, but apply by March 1 for financial aid consideration. Learn more and apply here. Events at Fordham Be sure to check out Fordham News’s events page for events celebrating Black History Month! "Cinematic Imaginaries of Medieval England: Examining Race and Nation in 'Angevin' Film, 1938-1964" - Today!! February 8, 5:30-7:00 pm | Keating 3rd (Rose Hill) Joint ordham’s American Studies program for a presentation by Ester Liberman Cuenca, Institute for Advanced Study & University of Houston-Victoria Social Innovation Collaboratory Club Fair February 9 | 12:30pm | Lowenstein Lobby (Lincoln Center) The Social Innovation Collaboratory is hosting their Club Fair at the Lincoln Center campus; stop by to learn more about this network. IPED Lecture Series 2022-2023: Philippines Project Assessment Presentations February 9 | 4-5 p.m. | Dealy E-530 (Rose Hill) Come enjoy presentations and videos created by graduate students in the International Political Economy and Development (IPED) program. Two of the four project assessment teams will present their findings and analysis from the Philippines Project Assessment course. The two highlighted projects will be Pilkan Elderly Project and Gawang Kamay Project. Separation Anxieties: Jews, Judaism, and the Creation of Christianity — Conflict Theory (Part 3) February 9 | 6 p.m. | McMahon 109 and online via Zoom From the late 20th century to the present, the process by which Christianity became an entity separate from Judaism is most often described by the metaphor “the parting of the ways.” Even those who critique the metaphor end up using it. This metaphor is built around the notion of conflict between ancient Jews and the Jesus community, but, like the “’mother-daughter” metaphor, it reflects the sensibilities of scholars at least as much as it does the ancient evidence. What does this mean for how we might talk about Christian origins in the future? Allowing Their Testimony: The Struggle for Six U.S. Black Catholic Saints February 9 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Zoom Please join a conversation about how currently, the Catholic Church in the U.S. honors 11 of its "own" saints. None of these are of African descent. However, there are six figures: Pierre Toussaint, Mary Elizabeth Lange, Henriette Delille, Augustus Tolton, Julia Greeley, and Thea Bowman who are in the process. This webinar panel will focus on the letter campaign to the Vatican urging the canonization of these six candidates and the impact that it could have. Fordham Urban Law Journal Spring Symposium: Building a Greener Future Through Urban Sustainability February 10 | 9am-4:40pm | Fordham Law School, Costantino Room, 150 West 62nd Street, 2nd floor The second event of the Fordham Urban Law Journal’s 50th year of publication provides a forum for this discussion at its 2023 Symposium, Building a Greener Future Through Urban Sustainability. Alongside scholars, government and agency appointees, technical experts, and advocates, the Symposium will explore a range of topics on urban climate adaptation and resilience, including flood prevention, electrification of the transportation and buildings sectors, efforts to equitably transition to clean energy, and the important environmental justice considerations central to all climate initiatives and policies. Common Practice Challenges: Working with People Impacted by Cancer February 13 | 12-3 p.m. | Zoom Caring for those impacted by cancer is an increasingly common occurrence, regardless of a social worker’s practice setting. This interactive workshop will provide social workers in a range of settings with information needed to recognize and better address the impacts of cancer on all those they serve. Three continuing education hours will be offered upon completion of the course. What is Love? Thinking Across the Humanities on Valentines Day February 14, 4 pm | Duane 351 (RSVP here) Join this fun student-faculty roundtable discussion on topics related to love in all of its fabulous variety: erotic love, unrequied love, love and justice, love of friends, love of the Divine, sanctioned and unsanctioned love, personal and political love, and so much more! What insights can we, along with some of our favorite artists and thinkers, offer on love? Come for a roundtable where a small group of faculty and students will jump off with brief prepared remaks, followed by a discussion, food, and fun! Please RVSP. Responsible Gaming on Campus February 15, 11-12:00 pm | McShane Campus Center, room 311 (Rose Hill) Join radio and TV personality Craig Carton for a discussion about responsible gaming. First College, then the Moon! February 15, 3:15 - 4:45 p.m. | Hughes Hall Lower Level, C04B (Rose Hill) All are welcome to attend a first-year panel designed to help first-generation college students reach the stars! Come mingle with fellow first-gens and learn from an experienced panel of upperclass students, alumni, and faculty who have successful academic experiences and careers! Food and refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by Fordham’s First Generation Network. Financial Issues Forum: Alan Blinder on A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Zoom Join a virtual event with Alan Blinder, one of the world’s most influential economists, as he discusses his latest book, in conversation with renowned economic historian and former Museum of American Finance chairman Richard Sylla. In A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021, Blinder draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of 60 years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Bryan Roby, “Blackness in Motion: The Centrality of Black Thought for Afro-Asian Jewry in Israel” February 16 | 1 p.m. | Zoom This talk will explore how and why Afro-Asian (Mizrahi) Jews in Israel became associated and engaged with Global Black thought throughout the 20th century. Professor Roby will conclude with a reflection on present-day Black cultural production in Israel to illustrate the shifting notions of Blackness and Jewishness amongst Mizrahi and Ethiopian Israelis. Why Black History Matters: Critical Race Theory & the Importance of Black Studies February 23 | 6 p.m. | Lowenstein 12th Floor Lounge This will be our culminating keynote lecture speaker, Dr. Khiara M. Bridges, for a discussion on Critical Race Theory and the important place of Black Studies to the present and future. Dr Bridges is a professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where she specializes in race and gender in the law. She is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory. Her book Critical Race Theory: A Primer (Concepts and Insights) explores the origin, development, and debates surrounding critical race theory. Confronting Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Resistance Through February 28 | Walsh Library, fourth floor Antisemitism and anti-Black racism have often been viewed as separate issues. The exhibit “Confronting Hate: Racism, Antisemitism, and The Resistance,” a fruit of the work of students in HIST 4312: Antisemitism and Racism taught by Professors Westenley Alcenat and Magda Teter, seeks to open a conversation about historical and phenomenological connections between racism and antisemitism. The exhibit highlights the way popular culture, scholarly works, and art have served to construct ideas about race and racial identity. It explores how racist ideas became entrenched in European and American cultures and how Jews, Black people, and their allies strove to push back. Premodern works displayed here illustrate the process of construction of racist and antisemitic ideas through rhetoric and imagery. More recent works, in turn, show how these ideas have left residual ramifications, continuously influencing future generations. Read Fordham Professor Mark Naison’s reflection on the exhibit here. Join faculty and students from the Jewish Studies program for a tour of the exhibit on Sunday, February 26th at 3PM. Learn more and register here. The catalogue of the exhibit is available here. Events at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (free or low-cost for the Fordham Community) $10 tickets to select Black History Month performances for the Fordham Community As part of the growing collaboration between Fordham and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) LCPA is offering $10 tickets to select Black History Month events for members of the Fordham Community. Use code CELEBRATE10 to obtain the discount. Also check out some events at Lincoln Center below! Will Liverman February 15 | 7:30 p.m. Starr Theater, Alice Tully Hall Operatic baritone Will Liverman performs select songs from his Grammy-nominated album Dreams of a New Day alongside pianist Paul Sánchez, showcasing the work of renowned Black composers across generations. The program concludes with a new piece co-written by Liverman and Lady Jess, "Good-night" featuring Lady Jess on violin. Liverman returns to Lincoln Center after starring last fall in The Metropolitan Opera’s re-opening production, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, “in a breakthrough performance” (The New York Times). Lincoln Center: David Rubenstein Atrium Events 61 W 62nd St, New York, NY 10023 All events are free and open to the public. La Manga
February 11 | 11 a.m. La Manga is a Brooklyn-based cultural identity laboratory inspired by the spirit of the modern and ancestral people of the Colombian Caribbean coast. This collective of women artists—composed of Daniela Serna, Andrea Chavarro, Katherine Ocampo, and Lina Fernanda Silva—work to foster a creative community that accesses the Afro-Colombian tradition by drumming as a lifeline to connect diverse cultures. In performance, the group honors Black and indigenous oral traditions by engaging the power of Afro-Colombian percussion, including tambor alegre, tambor llamador, tambora y maracas, and celebrating life through storytelling, dance and song. Seen, Sound, Scribe February 11 | 7:30 p.m. Brooklyn’s Mahogany L. Browne, a prolific writer and important advocate for public art, is Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence. Browne's recently released book-length poem, I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love, explores the binding and boundaries of incarceration. For her Seen, Sound, Scribe series, Browne curates thought-provoking and politically driven evenings of spoken word, spirited conversation, and presentations of new work. Events in NYC (free or low-cost) Saturday Afternoon Movies: Black History Month NYPL (St. Agnes Library); 444 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10024 Admission is free. 12 Years a Slave
February 11 | 2 p.m. The true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man in 1800s New York who was kidnapped and forced into slavery on a plantation near New Orleans. Later, he fights for his freedom with the help of a Canadian abolitionist. Selma February 18 | 2 p.m. The marches from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to secure voting rights for black Americans are depicted in this docudrama set during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and which focuses on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr. Respect February 25 | 2 p.m. Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a young child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom. "Respect" is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice and become the Queen of Soul. Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future February 9 | 6:30-9 p.m. | 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037 This event will feature welcome remarks from Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick and the founding Chair of Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Farah Jasmine Griffin, followed by a conversation between Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett and Howard University economist Omari Swinton. They will discuss the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, which are the subject of the first book in this new series, Vital and Valuable: The Relevance of HBCUs to American Life and Education. Admission is free. Thursday Night Jazz Presents: Marcus Gilmore February 9 | 8 p.m. | 161-04 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432 The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning presents a free jazz show featuring the acclaimed drummer Marcus Gilmore! His grandfather is the legendary drummer Roy Haynes. Marcus has performed with some of today’s best known contemporary jazz artists, including Chick Corea, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Nicholas Payton, Vijay Iyer, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Robert Glasper to name a few. Concert: Imani Rousselle February 10 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 35 W 134 Street, New York, NY 10037 Join NYC Parks for a Black History Month celebration with Imani Rousselle, a Texas-born singer who has skills beyond her years when it comes to interpreting and delivering the healing powers of song. Whether covering jazz standards or performing her own contemporary compositions, the voice within Imani invites you to follow along as they fill the space between the silence with carefully crafted sound. Admission is free. 15th Annual Black History Month Celebration February 16 | 6:30-8:15 p.m. | 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10037 The Harlem Chamber Players will be performing a free concert at The Schomburg Center. Artists include Aruán Ortiz, Terrance McKnight, Don Byron, Oliver Hagen, Ashley Horne, Claire Chan, William Frampton, Wayne Smith, Karen Bogardus, and Shelby Blezinger-McCay. AJASS: Pioneers of the Black is Beautiful Movement February 18 | 3-7pm | NYPL Bronx Library Center 310 East Kingsbridge Road The Bronx, NY 10458 Join Cultural Caravan Productions, Inc., The Bronx County Historical Society, The Bronx African American History Project, the Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Cedric Fergus, and Fordham University's Center for Community Engaged Learning for a screening of Louise Dente's award-winning AJASS: Pioneers of the Black is Beautiful Movement (2022). |
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