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News and Events
This is the place to learn all
about what's going on in the History Department at Fordham University.
Check this page regularly for a listing of upcoming conferences,
meetings, lectures and other social events, plus information about
recent awards and new publications.
2008
April 2008
The St. Robert Southwell, S.J. Lecture Series, Monday, April 14, 2008, 4 p.m. Susan C. Karant-nunn, Ph D. Director, Late Medival and Reformation Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson
Flom Auditorium, Walsh Libray
2007
The
Medieval Studies Lecture Series
October 2007
The St. Robert Southwell, S.J. Lecture Series, Monday, October 22, 2007, 4 p.m. "Mary Queen of Scots: Sinner and Saint," a lecture by Patrick Collison, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Canbridge
Flom Auditorium, Walsh Libray
June 2007
June 14th-16th- Orthodox
Readings of Augustine -First Annual Conference of the orthodox
in America Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Center for medieval
Studies.
April 2007
April
26th –
Susan Martin speaks on “U.S. Immigration: Challenges for the 21st Century” Immigration her work The
Infinite Noise of Longing and
the experience of writing a Latino diasporic memoir.
The Cassamarca Lecture Series.
March 2007
March 31st - April 1st -
The
French of England: Multilingualism in Practice, c. 1100-c. 1500
-26th Annual conference of the Center fro Medieval Studies.
March
29th -Mae Ngai
discusses the “Origins of the Illegal
Immigration Crisis”
The Cassamarca Lecture Series.
March
1st – Douglas Gurak & Mary
Kritz will speak on “ Endless Journeys: The Dispersion of Foreign-Born
Migrants to New Destinations”
The Cassamarca Lecture Series.
2006
December
2006
December 5th.-
Luisita López Torregosa
will discuss her work The
Infinite Noise of Longing
and the
experience of writing a Latino diasporic memoir.
November 2006
November 16th.- Reginald Cardinal
Pole Lectures: Thomas F. Mayer will speak on: "Cardinal Pole's
Itinerary: England, Venice, Viterbo, Rome, Points in Between and
Back Again"
November 14th.- Famed
Cuban author
Edmundo Desnoes will
speak on: "My Twenty Years with the Cuban Revolution: Literature,
Film and Politics."
November 1st.- Reginald Cardinal
Pole Lectures: Thomas S. Freeman will speak on:" Mary Tudor,
Cardinal Pole and the Prosecution of Hersey"
October 2006
Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series
September 2006
September 15th.-
Antonio Saborit spoke on "Marius de Zayas and Modern Art in New York City."
September 14th.-
"Mexico's
2006 Presidential Race: The Election, the Aftermath and the Political
Implications”
July
2006
July 27th-31st- The
15th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, - the
26th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies.
Medieval
Studies Spring Lecture Series
2005
Medieval
Studies Fall Lecture Series
Medieval
Studies Spring Lecture Series
March 2005
March 12th-13th - Medieval
Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household, - 25th Annual Conference
of the center for medieval Studies.
2004
March 2004
March 27th: 24th Annual Conference
of the Center for Medieval Studies at the Lincoln Center Campus
- The Discourse of Law and Justice in Medieval Europe
2003
July 2003
Congratulations to History major
Jeremiah
Schwarz (class of 2003) who took to the "Hot
Seat" with MSNBC's Chris Matthews on the latest Hardball College
Tour. He answered 13 out of 19 questions correctly, placing
him among the ranks of the top ten finalists now eligible to participate
in the Final Challenge. The Grand Prize winner will receive
a $10,000 grant, and the winner's school will receive a $5,000 grant.
September
2003
Wednesday, September 17th, 3:30pm
- Medieval Studies Lecture Series
Spiritual Direction in the Early Church
George Demacopoulos, Theology, Fordham University
Walsh Library, Flom Auditorium ... Reception to follow.
October 2003
Wednesday, October 8th, 2:30pm
- Medieval Studies Lecture Series
The Essentialist Nominalism of John Buridan
Gyula Klima, Philosophy, Fordham University
Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center ... Reception to follow.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy
Wednesday, October 8th, 6:30pm - University
Faculty Seminar on Psychoanalysis with Professor Peter Gay
Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Building, Room 821
All members of the history department are invited to attend this
seminar. Please RSVP to Eva Badowska at badowska@fordham.edu so that space may be reserved for you. All participants are
expected to read Peter Gay's draft from his forthcoming interpretive
book on modernism. The readings are posted on electronic reserve,
as well as Peter Gay's draft of the introduction plus the first
two chapters of his book. To access Peter Gay's material you
need to go to E-Res,
select Badowska as the instructor, and then click on the psychoanalytic
seminar.
Friday, October 10th,
3:30pm - Medieval Studies Lecture Series
Spices and Medieval Ideas of Scarcity
Paul Freedman, History and Medieval Studies, Yale University
Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center ... Reception to follow.
Friday, October 17th, 2:30pm
- Medieval Studies Lecture Series
God and Nature in the Philosophy of Johannes Scottus Eriugena
Dermot Moran, Philosophy, University College, Dublin
Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center ... Reception to follow.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, October 28th, 3:30pm
- Medieval Studies Lecture Series
Fixing France: A Humanist's Advice on Restoring Order
During the French Civil War
Christopher Bellito, Medieval Fellow, Fordham University
Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center ... Reception to follow.
Wednesday, October 29th, 6:00pm
- "Shame Now": Lecture and Seminar
with Professor Ruth Lays
Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Building, the President's
Dining Room, 12th floor
All members of the history department are invited to attend this
lecture and seminar by Professor
Ruth Leys of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Leys is the author of Trauma: A Genealogy (University
of Chicago Press, 2000) and many articles on the history of trauma
studies. Participants
are asked to have a look at selections from Trauma (Introduction,
Chapters 1, 3, 7, 8, and Conclusion) prior to the seminar, if possible.
Please RSVP to Eva Badowska at badowska@fordham.edu
by October 24th.
This event is sponsored by the Faculty
Seminar in Psychoanalytic Studies and the Literary Studies Program.
November
2003
Tuesday, November 11th, 3:30pm
- Medieval Studies Lecture Series
Understanding the Population History of England, 1450-1750
John Hatcher, History, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center ... Reception to follow.
Co-sponsored with the Department of History
December
2003
Friday, December 5th, 2:30pm -
Medieval Studies Lecture Series
Saturn in Medieval Granada: Jews, Muslims and Melancholia
in King Abd Allah's Memoirs
Javier Jimenez-Belmonte, Modern Languages and Literature, Fordham
University
Reception to follow.
Modified,
April 14, 2008 10:22 AM
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