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Dear FCLC students, First and most importantly, with midterms in full swing and so much tragedy in the world, I want to encourage you to take the time and space you need to care for your well-being. Whether you are a commuting student or a resident, know that Fordham has a wide range of resources to support you. Information about support offered by Campus Ministry, Counseling and Psychological Services, and others areas that can help you through these challenging times is included in text below my signature.
If you’re looking to take a break this weekend, NYC will be offering a range of free experiences that are well worth checking out. These include the annual Open House New York festival, and Franchise Freedom – a 1,000 drone aerial performance that will light up the sky above Central Park on Saturday evening. Read on to learn about those opportunities and: Important Information
Paid Opportunities
Happening at Fordham
Happening around town (free or low-cost)
Yours,
Dean Auricchio ______________________________________ Laura Auricchio, Ph.D. Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center Fordham University ______________________________________ Important Information
Study spaces on campus
Did you know that, in addition to Quinn Library, the multiple student lounges on the Plaza level, and the study spaces on the 3rd floor of Lowenstein, Lowenstein 810 and 812 are available for quiet study, one-on-one tutoring, or group meetings? Check them out any time! Spring 2024 registration schedule Registration for spring 2024 opens in a couple of weeks. Check the information here to find your registration date. Make sure you talk with your advisor before trying to register, as your advising hold will need to be lifted. Counseling and Psychological Services support
To find out how to make an initial appointment for clinical services, please go here. And to learn more about our staff, trainees and peer counselors, please click here.
CPS counselors are also on call and available to meet with students who have been impacted by the violence in Israel and Gaza. To meet with a counselor, please call 212-636-6225 (LC), 718-817-3275 (RH) or stop by the office at 140 West 62nd St Room G-02 (LC) or O'Hare Hall Lower Level (RH). Printing on campus Hopefully you don’t need to do much actual printing these days. If you do, we know that the process for printing documents on campus may seem mysterious to you. But no worries! Fordham’s library has put together this guidance that may be helpful. Paid Opportunities Serving the City Internships The Serving the City Internship program provides paid internships at NYC nonprofits. These internships are available exclusively to FCLC and FCRH students. The following opportunities are available at this time. (New posting and opportunities with application deadlines within the next week are flagged for your attention.) Check out Fordham’s online job and internship database Handshake, our Serving the City LinkedIn page, or the summary below for more details. Email servingthecity@fordham.edu with any questions. Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
Happening at Fordham
Career Building Opportunities Career Center Events Did you know that all students are welcome to visit the Career Center and participate in many of their events? Don’t wait until junior or senior year! The Career Center is also offering also dozens of hybrid workshops on a variety of topics coming up at both Rose Hill and Lincoln Center, including Managing Stress & Work-Life Balance with Counseling & Psychological Services, How to Stand Out to Employers, How to Approach Career and Internship Fairs, and How to Put Your Humanities Degree to Work! To round out the month, both campuses will be hosting Halloween Celebrations. View the full list of events for October here and here!
Managing Stress & Work-Life Balance Workshop October 18 | 2:30-3:30pm | Hybrid/In-Person location is 140W G72 (Lincoln Center) The Career Center has partnered with Counseling and Psychological Services to provide advice on how to better manage stress and easily plan out your job or internship search! How to Stand Out to Employers Workshop October 18 | 3:30-4:30pm | Virtual via Zoom A Career Center counselor will be highlighting everything that students can do to put their best foot forward and improve their chances of finding a job/internship. Jobs for Arts & Humanities Students Workshop
October 19 | 12-1pm | 140W G49 (Lincoln Center) The Career Center will be highlighting resources and tips to help students in the arts and humanities majors expand their overall job search. October Drop-In Hours with Jerry Goldstein October 25 | 12:30-3:30pm | 140W G49 (Lincoln Center) Jerry will be meeting with students for 15 minute sessions to answer any job, internship, or graduate school related questions with no appointment necessary. Professional Headshots Event October 27 | 12-3pm | 140W G73 (Lincoln Center) Students can get their headshot taken for free to use on LinkedIn or any other professional platform or portfolio. Government, Law, and Public Service Micro-Fair October 26 | 1-3pm | McShane Campus Center/Great Hall 303 (Rose Hill) Meet with a variety of employers from the government, law and public service industries. Study Abroad Fair October 19 | 11-2 pm | Lowenstein Center Plaza Meet the study abroad office team and representatives from our programs in London, Granada, and partners from around the world at the fair happening tomorrow!
Exhibitions and Events October 19 | 5:30-8 pm | McNally Amphitheatre (Lincoln Center)
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 useful terms. It also depends on policymakers’ interest in what we have to say. After framing the general issues, the talk will include the presenter’s experiences in two domains: climate change (beginning in the Carter administration) and pandemic disease (beginning with H5N1, in the mid-2000s). The talk will conclude with reflections on what these engagements have done for society and for our science. 5 Consejos: A Guide for Lantinx Students to Succeed in College October 19 | 5:30pm | Lowenstein 12th Floor lounge (Lincoln Center) Join the Office of Multicultural Affairs for a speaking engagement with Alvert Hernandez. Alvert is the Director of First-Generation Student Initiatives at Moravian University and outside of this role, Alvert is a national speaker and consultant for colleges/universities. He is also the host of his own podcast “Los Fundamentos” (The Fundamentals). Food provided! One Girl Annual Conference: Women in Charge October 21 | 9-3 pm | 12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein (Lincoln Center) Co-sponsored by One Girl Inc. and Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service, this annual conference focuses on empowering women to become leaders of tomorrow. We unite women from all walks of life to speak about their experiences and expertise, hoping to highlight the endless possibilities they can take on. QSC Visit to Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art October 21 | 11:30 am | Meet on Lowenstein Plaza (Lincoln Center) Join Campus Ministry and the Queer Spirit Community on a visit to a home for queer art, artists, scholars, activists and allies, and a catalyst for discourse on art and queerness. All are welcome! Metro cards and museum fees are covered! Please register in advance. Can Academia Survive ChatGPT? October 24 | 5:30-7pm | O’Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library - 4th Floor (Rose Hill) Join us for a conversation on ethics of generative AI and the future of research & teaching sponsored by the Center for Ethics Education. Panelists include Brenda Curtis, Ph.D., MsPH and Matthew Smith, Ph.D. Registration is required, please register here. Black Studies and Jewish Studies in Conversation: Shared Past/Divided Present—Museums and Public History October 24 | 6-8 pm | Bateman Room (2-01B), Fordham Law School (Lincoln Center) 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 public conversations and understanding of history but also in fashioning cultural change. With history contested, both in the United States and in other countries, this panel of distinguished public historians, visionaries, and leaders of public history will discuss what museums and public history mean in the current moment, addressing questions about shared past but divided present both in the United States and in Europe. Museums and public history can not just challenge the predominant perspective but also introduce new voices and bridge conflicting and clashing versions of history. Decay and Speculation: Reading Planetary Futures in Eco-gothic Fiction October 24 | 6 p.m. | 140 West 62nd St, Room 325 (Lincoln Center) Recent scholarship in environmental humanities and media theory has proposed that humans should "think with" the more-than-human world as a method for addressing anthropocentric ideologies and combating environmental crises. But what does it mean to think “with” or “through” other beings, matter, environments, or ecosystems? And how might those methods be developed in ethical ways in which this new thought doesn’t merely reduce the world to a tool for human activities? Chris Walker, JD, PhD, draws upon Michelle Serres’s “philosophy of prepositions” to argue that this method for thinking is a speculative dance in which entanglement is considered from the vantage of nonhuman agents. To do so, he considers the current explosion of imaginative literature engaging with fungi and mushrooms to ask what entangled thought looks like from the perspective of decomposers. Chris Walker, JD, PhD, is a scholar and leader in ecocriticism and the environmental humanities whose presentation will draw from his current in-process monograph. He is an Assistant Professor at Colby College and co-leader of the Mellon-funded summer Environmental Humanities Institute. Dracula: Medieval Hero and Modern Vampire October 26 | 6:00-7:30 pm | McNally Amphitheater 140 W. 62nd Street (Lincoln Center) Dracula—the vampire count—has been a popular cultural mainstay portrayed in films, television shows, novels, and comic books for over a century. The modern fascination with Dracula began in the 1920s and 1930s with the success of plays and movies based on Bram Stoker’s eponymous novel, first published in 1897. The events described in Stoker’s Dracula take place in fin-de-siècle London and Transylvania, and the novel makes only loose historical references to its fifteenth-century namesake: Vlad III "the Impaler" (1431–c. 1476), prince of Wallachia, now a region of Romania. The massive popularity of the fictional Dracula has generated considerable curiosity about the real-life prince himself, his brutal reign, and his times. In this lecture, Dr. Alice Isabella Sullivan will examine the transformations of the historical figure into a modern vampire and the tireless allure of Dracula for creators and audiences. Please register in advance. New issue of The Observer We are pleased to share Issue 11 of The Observer, the student newspaper of Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, which you will be able to pick up on newsstands all around campus this week or read online at www.fordhamobserver.com. Happening around town Events at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (free or pay-what-you-wish) Lincoln Center: David Rubenstein Atrium Events 61 W 62nd St, New York, NY 10023 All events at the Atrium are free and open to the public. Truth to Power Café
October 18 | 7:30 pm From Adelaide to Zagreb and now in New York for its U.S. premiere, Jeremy Goldstein’s Truth to Power Café is a profound theatrical reflection on loss, hope, and resistance. This inspirational performance event is told through memoir, image, film, poetry, music, and true and authentic stories in response to the question: ‘who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?’ Truth to Power Café is inspired by the political and philosophical beliefs of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter and his inner circle “The Hackney Gang”, which included Café creator Jeremy Goldstein’s late father, Mick Goldstein, and poet and actor Henry Woolf. Erni Lu October 19 | 7:30 pm Peruvian-born singer-songwriter and guitarist Ernesto "Erni Lu" Lúcar has found his true musical home in New York. From a young age, Erni fell in love with the city's music scene, particularly the infectious rhythms of boleros, waltzes, acid jazz, and funk. These genres, along with strains of contemporary Latin pop and traditional Peruvian folk, define his enticing sound. Over the past several years, Erni has gained significant experience composing film scores for movies such as Gary Terracino's Elliot Loves and Gonzalo Benavente's Rocanrol 68. As part of the Festival of Firsts, Erni will make his Lincoln Center premiere, backed by a full live band performing a set of original songs celebrating the release of his debut album Siempre, including the new hit single, "Amor Platónico". Uptown Royalty October 20 | 7:30 pm A Lincoln Center favorite since 2015, ¡VAYA! is a showcase for the finest Latin dance traditions. ¡VAYA! offers devotees of Latin music a friendly community, excellent orchestras, and the city's most inviting dance floor. The husband and wife duo of trombone player and bandleader Ron Renaissance and the glamorous vocalist Jodi Music are at the heart of the NYC-based Uptown Royalty, a combo at the forefront of the future of the modern salsa revolution. Uptown Royalty's fusion of classic salsa with contemporary pop, disco, rock, and R&B ignores divisions of genre and seeks connection across the musical spectrum. Backed by a multi-piece band, Ron and Jodi's fresh approach to live performance sizzles with irresistible charisma, energizing audiences with their spectacular energy. Events in The Bronx The Brotherhood Sister Sol’s Green Youth Market
October 19 | 10:30 am - 6 pm | New York Botanical Garden The vibrant youth members of our Environmental Program lead the way in operating our thriving, youth-run farmers’ market, distributing a wealth of fresh, locally-sourced food to more than thousands of community residents. Visit us!! Zhen Guo: Chroma Comes from the Margins October 19 (through January 21, 2024) | 10:30 am - 4:30 pm | Derfner Judaica Museum Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale is pleased to announce their fall exhibition, Zhen Guo: Chroma Comes from the Margins.Zhen Guo: Chroma Comes from the Margins features ten recent large-scale ink paintings on rice paper, some with brightly colored stripes in oil pastel, a neon light installation, and a seven-minute film by Chinese feminist artist Zhen Guo. Her newest paintings evolved from a series of black and white, semi-abstract landscapes that Guo titled Muted Landscape, a body of work she began in 2016 that alludes to the marginalization of vulnerable people and places—in this case, women and the environment—and the experience of being silenced and effaced. Intentionally eschewing the strong lines characteristic of traditional Chinese ink painting, the Muted Landscape works are amorphous, monochromatic plumes that suggest the contours and crevices of the female body and the natural world. Photo I.D. required for admission. Music in the Digital Age at BronxArtSpace October 21 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm | 700 Manida St Bronx, NY 10474 The Bronx Arts Ensemble’s 51st season, 𝘈 𝘍𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, examines all the rituals and experiences that make us human. Tik Tok and other social media platforms have given the everyday person the opportunity to “romanticize” their life by making a quick video and adding music– and curiously, a lot of classical music has made the cut. The BAE string quartet will perform various “Tik Tok” popular songs, works that were promoted by the composer on social media, and unjustly forgotten works that have found their way back into the canon through social media. Works by Max Richter, Nia Imani Franklin, Ariana Grande, Joe Hisaishi, Angélica Negrón, and William Grant Still. Urban Farm Tour Monday - Friday through December 29 | 4 - 6 pm | 2550 Olinville Ave Bronx NY 10467 Experience the wonder of urban farming right in the heart of the Bronx with our unique farm tours! Step into our apartment-turned-farm and witness the magic of microgreens and mushroom cultivation like never before. During this immersive tour, you'll have the opportunity to explore our carefully designed urban farm, where every inch of space is maximized for sustainable farming. Our farm tours are perfect for food enthusiasts, nature lovers, and anyone curious about urban farming. Gain a deeper understanding of the innovative techniques used to cultivate these miniature powerhouses and witness the potential of apartment farming in bringing sustainable food production to our communities. RSVP is required. BronxWorks 2023 5K Monster Mash Hunger Dash October 21 | 10 am | St. Mary’s Park Amphitheatre BronxWorks is excited to bring back the Annual BronxWorks 5K! Join the BronxWorks 2023 5K Fun Run/Walk Monster Mash Hunger Dash and support BronxWorks programs combating food insecurity in the Bronx! We welcome our participants to dress up in their best costume! If you would like to join the 5K, Buy Tickets Here! You can also join as a team with your friends or family. Join as a fundraiser or support 5K participants here! Events throughout NYC Open House New York
October 20-22 | 300+ places | 5 boroughs One weekend a year, hidden gems in every corner of NYC are open to the public – all 100% free and most with no tickets required! Opportunities available at Open House New York 2023 include BioBAT Art Space, celebrating innovative Bio-Artworks in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, Queens, the Museum of Chinese in America Collections and Research Center in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and hundreds of others. Franchise Freedom October 21 | 7 PM, 8 PM, 9 PM | Central Park Franchise Freedom is an aerial drone performance exploring the relationship between man, nature and technology. To create Franchise Freedom, DRIFT translated over 10 years of starling flight behavior research into an especially-developed software that is embedded in the drones. The artwork is a poetic illustration of how we as humans strive to live autonomously within a society defined by rules and conventions. Although the drone patterns appear random and the swarm reminds us of freedom, the behavior of these birds is completely orchestrated and subject to many rules and survival instincts. Queens County Farm Museum Fall Events Through October | Queens County Farm Museum; 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, Queens, NY 11004 New York City’s only corn maze is waiting for you at The Queens County Farm Museum! This year’s design was inspired by the 1954 Ford tractor donated by Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In addition to the Amazing Maize Maze, Queens County Farm Museum has a Cider Booth open on weekends and for 4 nights only, navigate the Amazing Maize Maze by the starry night. Bring your flashlight and enjoy the fun! Tickets range from $16-$18 for the maze and are available for purchase online. New Voices in French Cinema 2023 Through October | FIAF Florence Gould Hall; 55 E 59th St, New York, NY 10022 New Voices in French Cinema (previously known as Burning Bright: New French Filmmakers) is back for its seventh edition, showcasing the exceptional talent of emerging filmmakers who are making their mark in French cinema. Over the years, New Voices has become a rendez-vous that not only introduces the next generation of visionary storytellers to a wider audience, but also recognizes their contributions to the art of filmmaking. This year’s lineup will highlight nine films by visionary storytellers and include the new season of Quartiers Lointains, a short film touring program which has highlighted Panafrican and French multicultural filmmakers since 2013. Student discounted tickets are available for purchase online. Seasonal Movies at Rooftop Cinema Club Through October | Rooftop Cinema Club Midtown; 60 W 37th St 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018 If you didn't get enough of outdoor movie season this summer, don't worry: It's not over yet. Rooftop Cinema Club is keeping the fun going this fall with a packed slate of films running all the way through October 31. Movies run all fall long with special scray screenings in October, including Rosemary’s Baby, Paranormal, The Exorcist, The Shining, American Psycho and other cult classics as well as family favorites like Coco and Monsters, Inc. That all leads up to All Hallow's Eve's screenings of Hocus Pocus and Halloween. Tickets are available for purchase online. FALL-O-WEEN at NYBG Through November 12 | NYBG; 2900 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458-5126 Make NYBG your pumpkin headquarters this fall! The tricks and treats of the season come to life with plentiful pumpkins, gourds, and ghouls—and all sorts of fun-filled activities to celebrate this season of frights and foliage! Day or night, there’s something for everyone as we offer special weekends of pumpkin parades and pumpkin carving face-offs. Evening events give kids (and adults!) the chance to show off their Halloween costumes in New York City’s most beautiful landscape, while you can savor the flavors of the season with artisan demos, food and drink talks, and so much more as autumn in the Bronx brings vibrant color to your backyard. Student discounted tickets are available for purchase online. |
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