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* All lectures are held on Wednesdays from 2:30pm-3:30pm
* Location: - 3rd Floor Lounge, 113 West 60th Street, which is at
the corner of Columbus Avenue (9th Ave) and 60th Street.
* Admission is free and open to the public – please feel free to bring along
family and friends
* Reservations not required
October 15
12th Floor, 113 West 60th Street
2:45 – 3:45 pm
The Vatican and the Holocaust Revisited
Dr. Edward Bristow
Professor of History and former Dean, Fordham
Author of No Religion is an Island: The Nostra Aetate Dialogues; Prostitution and Prejudice: The Jewish Fight against White Slavery 1870-1939
October 22
McMahon Hall, 155 West 60th Street
2:30 – 3:30 pm
If You Haven’t Met Eddie, You Haven’t Met Yourself
Rev. George McCauley, S.J.
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Religion/Religious Education,
Fordham
Professional Associate, Grubb Institute of Behavioral Studies, London
Author of Eddie’s Dream; 5 books of poetry; Sacraments for Secular Man; Kingdom Come; and Sacraments and the Human Condition
October 29
12th Floor, 113 West 60th Street
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Arab-American Relations: Love, Hate or Both?
Dr. John Entelis
Professor of Political Science and Director, Middle East Studies, Fordham
Author, Islam, Democracy and the State in North Africa; Culture and Counter-culture in Moroccan Politics; State & Society in Algeria; and Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized
November 5
College at 60 at the New York Historical Society
**See below for details
November 12
12th Floor, 113 West 60th Street
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Goddesses: Cultural Aspects of the Biblical World
Dr. Ilona N. Rashkow
Adjunct Associate Professor, College at 60 Program, Fordham
Professor Emerita of Judaic Studies, Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature, SUNY at Stony Brook
Author of Taboo or Not Taboo: The Hebrew Bible and Human Sexuality; the Phallacy of Genesis: A Feminist-Psychoanalytic Approach; and Upon the Dark Places: Sexism and Anti-Semitism in English Renaissance Biblical Translation
November 19
12th Floor, 113 West 60th Street
2:30 – 3:30 pm
The Force That Is: Leonard Bernstein at 90
Dr. Frank Retzel
Adjunct Professor of Music, Fordham and St. John’s Universities
Award-winning Composer, conductor, reviewer, scholar, performer and specialist of 20th Century music
** College at 60 at the New York Historical Society
In collaboration with the New York Historical Society, Fordham’s College at 60 is offering a special joint program to coincide with the Society’s current exhibition:
November 5, 2008 Grant and Lee: The Fortunes of War and Peace
The Theatre at the Kathleen Hulser
New York Historical Society Public Historian, NY Historical Society
170 Central Park West
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Kathleen Hulser has been the Public Historian at the NYHS since 1999. Many are familiar with her from her media appearances including CBS, Discovery Channel, History Channel, NY1, BBC, National Public Radio, New York Times, New York Post and Christian Science Monitor.
In addition to a national lecture schedule, she has curated or co-curated such exhibitions as:
Grant and Lee
Legacies: Contemporary Artists Look at Slavery
Petropolis: A Social History of Urban Animals
The Death Penalty in the Cold War: The Rosenbergs reconsidered
Up on a Roof
Reading Uncle Tom's Image: Harriet Beecher Stowe's 150 Year Old
Character
Lecture Information:
- The lecture will start promptly at 2:30 pm
- Reservations are not required and please feel free to invite any age 50+ guests.
- Enter the NY Historical Society at the main entrance on Central Park West between West 77th and 78th Streets
- Ask for Fordham’s College at 60 Lecture at the main entrance and you will be directed to The Theatre on the 1st Floor.
- The entrance fee will be waived and you will be given a free pass to the Society’s exhibitions, which can be used after the lecture.
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