Past Events

 
 

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The first openly gay State Senator in Massachusetts history and former President of the Human Rights Campaign, Cheryl Jacques travels nationally to speak on gay civil rights.
She will be speaking at Fordham about the current national political atmosphere and necessary efforts to organize around civil rights for the LGBT community.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15th 8:00pm
Faculty Lounge (Second Floor, McGinley Center)
Sponsored by PRIDE Alliance’s Coming Out Week

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"Songs for the Earth"
A Concert of Music & Poetry in Celebration of Earth Day
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Fordham University Church

Featuring an International Program of Music:

Julian Gargiulo (piano)
Maria Yefimova (Piano)
Octavio Vazquez (Composer-Piano)
Roza Tulyganova (Soprano)
Alejandro Saladin-Cote (Guitar)
The Mount Vernon Interfaith Gospel Choir

Poetry and Spoken Word from Chief Seattle, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, and Contemporary Writers

Presented by Fordham University Students & Faculty

Free and Open to the Public

Donations to Earth Care Organizations Are Encouraged

For More Information: 718.817.4721 or www.juliangargiulo.com

Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Department

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Compulsory Happiness and Queer Existence"
A lecture by Heather Love
Monday, February 25, 7:00 PM, Keating Auditorium, 3rd Fl. 

Sponsored by the Fordham PRIDE Alliance, the English Department, and the American Studies, Women's Studies, and Literary Studies Programs.

Professor Love is the M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard, 2007). 

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Are you afraid of the F-word?

We want to know how you feel! Come to the Re-Learning Feminism Panel and share your thoughts, hear what others have to say, have your questions answered, and help dispel the many misconceptions promoted by the media.

Professors in attendance will include:

Prof. Watkins-Owens
Prof. Fernald
Prof. Barry
Prof. Beck
Prof. Frost
Prof. LaBennett

Vegetable sushi and fruit will be served.

All are welcome!

Wed. Dec.5 @ 2:30

Student Lounge

November 6, 2007

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Lecture: Women's Rights Violations: Recent Human Rights Reports from Kenya and the Philippines

Speakers: Aya Fujimura-Fanselo (LAW '04), legal advisor for international litigation and advocacy at the International Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights; and Elisa Slattery, legal adviser for the Africa Program, Center for Reproductive Rights. Sponsored by Fordham’s Leitner Center for International Law & Justice.

12:30 p.m. | Room 310, Fordham Law School, 140 W. 62nd St.

Contact: Jorge Contesse (646) 312-8237

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April 10, 1:00pm, FCLC Room 510: Debanuj Dasgupta, Immigration Policy Analyst, Queers for Economic Justice.

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April 13, 4:00-5:00pm in Flom Auditorium: Susan Choi will be doing a fiction reading.
Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Noble.
Her second novel, American Woman, re-tells the story of the Patty Hearst kidnapping from the point of view of Wendy Yoshimura, the Japanese American former student radical who abetted Hearst during the notorious summer of 1975. American Woman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.