Fordham Center on Religion and Culture Events Calendar

Fall 2008 Schedule of Programs Fordham Center on Religion and Culture Events, 2008-9: All events are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Please be advised that event details such as location, contact, and RSVP information are specific for each program. Due to the popularity of our programs, seating is on a first come, first serve basis. The Indelible Mark: The Writer and a Catholic Childhood Tuesday, December 9, 2008 \| 6-8 pm Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th Street Free and Open to the Public RSVP: CRCevent@fordham.edu, 212.636.7347 Q. What do you do with a Catholic childhood? A. You write about it. The temptations, excitements, satisfactions and angst of going from childhood memories to written text—join us for an evening of readings and discussion with four distinguished writers (who had Catholic childhoods). Moderator: Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist, author of A Romantic Education, Virgin Time and most recently The Florist’s Daughter. She is Regents Professor and McKnight Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches in the English department’s MFA program. Panel: Stuart Dybek, author of three collections of short stories, I Sailed with Magellan, The Coast of Chicago and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, and two collections of poetry, Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic and in Best American Fiction and Best American Poetry. He is distinguished writer in residence at Northwestern University, and was a 2007 MacArthur fellow. Lawrence Joseph, poet and essayist. His books of poetry include Into It, Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos, Before Our Eyes and Shouting at No One, which received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships. He teaches law at St. John's University School of Law and wrote Lawyerland, a book of prose. Valerie Sayers, author of five novels, Who Do You Love and Brain Fever--both named "Notable Books of the Year" by the New York Times Book Review--Due East, How I Got Him Back and The Distance Between Us. She has received a Pushcart Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Notre Dame. Transcript Coming Soon! Headline Forum: Torture & American Culture- An Inquiry and Reflection Tuesday, October 21, 2008 \| 1-5 pm Fordham University McNally Amphitheatre 140 West 62nd Street, New York City The photographs that revealed the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib shocked the world. American military personnel and civilian contractors are seen engaged in practices prohibited by the Geneva Conventions, the Army Field Manual, and U.S. and international law. Further revelations about CIA rendition policies, deaths in custody, Guantanamo detainees, and government secrecy raise critical questions about U.S. culture and the practices and conditions that have fostered the resort to torture.