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International Conference on Social and Environmental Justice
May 1-2, 2023
Fordham School of Law, 150 West 62nd Street, NYC
Costantino Room

Organized by: Fordham University, Fordham Office of the Provost, Fordham Office of Research

Sponsored by Fordham Strategic Research Consortia on: Digital Scholarship, Disability, Global Studies, Science and Justice

Supported by: Columbia University, New York University, Georgetown University

Monday, May 1, 2023

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony (Costantino Room)

Chair: Dennis Jacobs, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (Fordham University)

Remarks: 

1. Tania Tetlow, President (Fordham University)
2. Nina Gray, Assistant Vice Provost for Research Planning and Analysis (New York University)
3. Billy Jack, Vice Provost for Research (Georgetown University)
4. Skyller Walkes, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Bias (DEIA), Climate School (Columbia University)

10:30 am -12:00 pm Keynote Address (I) (Costantino Room A)

Co-Chairs: Aseel Sawalha (Co-Director of the Strategic Research Consortium on Global Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Fordham University) and Nicholas Paul (Co-Director of the Strategic Research Consortium on Digital Scholarship, Associate Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University)

Speakers: 

1) Molly Doane, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Fellow, Institute for Environmental and Social Policy (University of Illinois-Chicago), “Climate Stories: Gardening at the City's Edge in Chicago”

2) Alex Gil, Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Yale University), “Minimal Computing and Environmental Justice: A Humble Offering”

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch (Law School lobby - mezzanine level)

1:15 pm – 3:15 pm Panel Discussion Session I

Panel 1: Access to Healthcare and Social Protection for Persons with Disabilities

(Costantino Room A)

Chair: Ji Seon Lee, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Office of the Provost (Fordham University)

1. Ezekiel Kumwenda (Malawi Union of the Blind, Malawi), “Access to Health Care for People with Disabilities in Malawi: What are the Barriers?”
2. Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), “Disability as a Determinant of Access to Health Care Services in Colombia”
3. Md Khademul Basher (Disabled Child Foundation, Bangladesh) and Most Jahan Ara Begum (Alliance of the Urban DPO’s in Chittagong, Bangladesh), “Disability Justice In Bangladesh”
4. Divya Goyal (Centre for Evidence in Disability, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK), “Gender Responsive Inclusion in Social Protection: Towards an Intersectional Framework for Disability Inclusive Development”
5. Zachary A. Morris (Stony Brook University), “Preventing Catastrophe: The Welfare State and Disaster Risk for People with Disabilities”

Panel 2: Ecological Justice and Climate Change

(Costantino Room B)

Chair: Robert H. Beer, Fordham College at Rose Hill Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Chemistry (Fordham University)

1. Logic Giaccone (Georgetown University), “Dynamic Coupling of Economic Inequalities and Climate Change”
2. Gael Giraud (Georgetown University), “Extreme Climate Risks and Financial Tipping Points: A Case for Financial Justice”
3. Usha Sankar (Fordham University), “Mobile Air Quality Measurement”
4. Massaro Thomas (Fordham University), “What Precisely Did Pope Francis Contribute? Parsing Key Terms and Claims in Laudato Si’”
5. Carlos Zepeda (University of Oxford, UK), “Challenging Socio-Ecological Injustice with Integral Ecology”

Panel 3: Immigration Justice: Crossing Borders and Boundaries

(Costantino Room C)

Chair: Robert J. Hume, Professor of Political Science, Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Fordham University)

1. Julie Kleinman (Fordham University) and Alassane Dicko (Afrique-Europe-Interact), “Migrant Rights and Land Rights in Contexts of Conflict and International Humanitarianism”
2. Clémence Démurger (Ecole Normale Supérieure), “Climate Migration as a Challenge for Justice: Understanding Earth as a Home and Sharing Its Hospitality”
3. Auel Aidan (Fordham University), “Hostile Terrain 94: Bridging Academia and Art to Deliver Effective Activism”
4. Salman Hafisat and Rasheed Adeniyi Tiamiyu (Department of Bursary, the Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria), “Effect of E-governance on Socio-Economic Development in Africa, a Case Study of Nigeria”

Panel 4: Digital Tools and Data Analysis: 

Challenges and Opportunities for Social Justice 

(Bateman Room)

Chair: Su-Je Cho, Co-Director of the Strategic Research Consortium on Digital Scholarship and Professor of Graduate School of Education (Fordham University) 

1. Robin Reich (Fordham University), Adam Matthews (Cornell University), Claire Dillon (Columbia University), Sarina Kuersteiner (Union College), “Academics but Not Activists: The Medievalist Toolkit for Building Bridges Between Disciplines”
2. Shawn Hill (Fordham University), “Reinforcing Structural Inequality: New York City’s Non-Random Shelter Geography”
3. Lauri Goldkind (Fordham University) and Jessica Baldwin-Philippi (Fordham University), “LOVE-AI - A Jesuit Approach to Studying, Teaching, and Doing Data Ethics”
4. Meiping Sun (Fordham University), “Is It Expensive to Be Poor? Public Transit in New York City”
5. Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham University), “Struggle for Justice in Europe's Last Dictatorship: Women's Marches in Belarus”

3:15 -- 3:30 pm Coffee Break (Law School lobby - mezzanine level)

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Panel Discussion Session II 

Panel 5: Environmental Justice in New York City 

(Costantino Room A)

Chair: Rachel Annunziato, Professor of Psychology, Associate Dean, Fordham College at Rose Hill (Fordham University)

1. Alex de Sherbinin, Thinus Venter, Muye Huang, Jane Roschen, Anwulika Molokwu, Yousif Adam, and Tricia Chai-Onn (Columbia University), “An Index of Flood Risk and Environmental Justice in New York City”
2. Paul Gallay, Aya Morris, Bernadette Baird-Zars, Jacqueline M. Klopp, Annel Hernandez, Lexi Scanlon, and Hannah Su-An Lin (Columbia Climate School, Center for Sustainable Urban Development), Victoria Sanders (New York City Environmental Justice Alliance), “Advancing Equitable Partnerships: Frontline Community Visions for Coastal Resiliency Knowledge Co-Production, Social Cohesion, and Environmental Justice”
3. Stephen Holler (Fordham University), “Project FRESH Air: A Community Engagement Project about Health and Climate”
4. Che Cooper (Bronx Green-Up), Audrey Jenkins (The New School; NYBG Mellon Fellow in Food Humanities), Samrah Shoaib (Humanities Institute, New York Botanical Garden), "Food, Knowledge, and Place: Community Gardens as a Tool for Healing and Justice in NYC"

Panel 6: Environmental Economics, Justice, and Policy

(Costantino Room B)

Chair: Marc N. Conte, Professor of Economics (Fordham University)

1. R. Jisung Park (University of Pennsylvania), “Climate Change, Human Capital, and Labor Market Inequality”
2. Beia Spiller (Resources for the Future), “Charging Stations and the City”
3. Marc N. Conte (Fordham University), “The Challenges of Studying Air Pollution's Health Effects”
4. Lanessa Owens-Chaplin (New York Civil Liberties Union), “A toolkit for Environmental Justice Advocacy, The SIGH Act”

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Keynote Address (II) (Costantino Room A)

Chairs: Sophie Mitra, Professor of Economics, Founding director of the Research Consortium on Disability (Fordham University) and Steven Franks, Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences and Founding Director of the Strategic Research Consortium on Science and Justice (Fordham University)

1. Michael Ashley Stein, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School (Harvard University), “Disability-Inclusive Climate Justice”
2. Fushcia-Ann Hoover, EcoGreenQueen, Founder, and Assistant Professor (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), “Planning with Green Infrastructure, Myth, Mystery or the Future?”

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch (Law School lobby - mezzanine level)

1:15 pm – 3:45 pm Panel Discussion III

Panel 7: Local and Community-based Data and Research for Disability Justice

(Costantino Room A) 

Chair: Ruhul Amin, Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science (Fordham University)

1. Shaun Grech (CBM Christian Blind Mission & University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Joerg Weber (CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission, Germany & University of Cape Town, South Africa),“Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Action: Critical Readings from the Field”
2. Elizabeth Lockwood (Inclusion Advisory Group) and José Viera (International Disability Alliance), “Citizen-Generated Data and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities: Ensuring Inclusion and Representation”
3. Joerg Weber (CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission, Germany & University of Cape Town,South Africa) and Shaun Grech (CBM Christian Blind Mission & University of Cape Town, South Africa), “Localization of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): from rhetoric to practice.” 
4. Pradeep Kumar Bagival (Humanity and Inclusion, Lao PDR), “Access to Justice through Effective Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Asia-Pacific Region”
5. Ben Mayala, Katherine Theiss, and Sophie Mitra (Fordham University), “Zooming in on Disability Rights within Countries” 

Panel 8: Global Perspectives on Environmental Justice

(Costantino Room B) 

Chair: Rachel Annunziato, Professor of Psychology; Associate Dean, Fordham College at Rose Hill (Fordham University)

1. Kevin Aviles-Rodríguez (Fordham University), “In Search of Resilience: Informing Biological Conservation in Puerto Rico Through the Perspective of Environmental Justice”
2. Dena Montague (University of California at Santa Barbara) and Stewart Isaacs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Energy Justice: Green Hydrogen Production and Distribution in Namibia”
3. Eni Onyekachi (Alex-Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria), “Stemming the Tide of Environmental Injustice in Africa's Mining Industry through Judicial Activism: The Case of Nigeria and South-Africa”
4. Clara Rodriguez (Fordham University) and Carmen E. Collins (St. John’s University), “Puerto Rico and Efforts to Address Climate Change and Environmental Justice”
5. Meiyan Zhang (Sanming University, China), “Social Justice for Ecological Conservation and Easement for Household's Forestland in China”

Panel 9: Immigration Justice from Global Perspectives

(Costantino Room C) 

Chair: Lisa Lancia, Director, Office of International Initiatives (Fordham University)

1. Nehemia Abel (Georgetown University), “Challenges of Full Localization and INGO Exit Strategies”
2. Pavel Kantor (Center for Curative Pedagogics, Moscow, Russia), “Living Independently and Being Included in the Community for Individuals with Mental Disorders in Russia”
3. Nicole Spicer (Victorian Government Solicitor's Office, Australia), “Voice, Truth, and Treaty -- What is this and Why Does it Matter? What does it have to do with Justice?”
4. Yingyan Gong (Ningbo University, China), “Religious Faith vs. Social Justice: A Chinese Catholic in Ming-Qing Transition”

1. Gong will present online.

1. Volha Shalkouskaya (University of Manchester, UK and Saint Philaret's Institute, Russia), “Spacewalk: First Steps of a Russian NGO in Organizing Assisted Living for Ex-Residents of Welfare Institutions”

Panel 10: Digital Storyworlds: Recovery and Discovery

(Bateman Room)

Chair: Nicholas Paul, Associate Professor of History (Fordham University) 

1. Roger Panetta (Fordham University), “Shadows On Stone: The Sing Sing Admission Registers 1860-1925 - An NEH Digital Crowdsourcing Project”
2. Tianai Ren and Vineha Ramesh (Columbia University), “Counter-Narratives: A Digital Reimagination of Marginalized Stories”
3. Brian Reilly (Fordham University), “Rutebeuf's Brouhaha: A Data Analysis of the Construction of Difference in Thirteenth-Century French”
4. Christina Bruno (Fordham University) and Katherina Fostano (Fordham University), “Medieval New York: Immersive Digital Storytelling and the Global Middle Ages”

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break (Law School lobby - mezzanine level) 

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closing Discussion (Costantino Room A)

Moderator:  George Hong, Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (Fordham University)

Participants: Steven Franks; Nicolas Paul; Aseel Sawalha; and Sophie Mitra (Fordham University)

5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks:

George Hong, Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs (Fordham University) 

The Conference organizing committee consists of Tihana Abiala, Steven Franks, George Hong, Sophie Mitra, Nicholas Paul, and Aseel Sawalha. The conference organizing committee is grateful for the considerable support received from the following colleagues: Su-Je Cho, Marc N. Conte, David Heston, Elizabeth Munnelly, Tripat Rihal, and Rafael Zapata.

For access questions, please contact Fordham University Office of Research at [email protected].

Fordham Reseach Day 2023 - Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Fordham Research Day Celebration 

March 22, 2023

Fordham School of Law

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Award Ceremony

School of Law, Costantino A 

Introduction: Dr. George Hong, Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Opening Remarks: Dr. Dennis Jacobs, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. – Presentations by the Awardees

School of Law, Costantino A 

Chair: Dr. Jonathan Crystal, Vice Provost

Distinguished Research Award in the Humanities 
Distinguished Research Award in Interdisciplinary Studies 
Distinguished Research Award for Junior Faculty 
Distinguished Research Award in the Sciences and Mathematics 
Distinguished Research Award in the Social Sciences

11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Keynote Speech

School of Law, Costantino A 

Chair: Dr. Ron Jacobson, Associate Vice President, Office of the Provost

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeannette Wing

Executive Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, “Trustworthy AI”

CONCURRENT SESSION A: Meeting New Book Authors: Humanities – Costantino A – 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Chair: Dr. Ann Gaylin, Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Presenters:

1. Babette Babich (Philosophy). Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology: From Phenomenology to Critical Theory. London: Bloomsbury.  
2. Caitlyn Meehye Beach (Art History), Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
3. Silvana Patriarca (History). Race in Post-Fascist Italy: “War Children” and the Color of the Nation. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press.

CONCURRENT SESSION B: Meeting New Book Authors: Interdisciplinary Studies – 

Costantino B – 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Chair: Dr. Sarah J. Wu, University Research Council Member and Professor of Operations Management Information, Technology, and Operations Area at Gabelli School of Business

Presenters: 

1. Anjali Dayal (Political Science). Incredible Commitments: How UN Peacekeeping Failures Shape Peace Processes. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2. Allie Kosterich (Gabelli School of Business). News Nerds: Institutional Change and Professional Journalists. Oxford University Press.
3. Tina Maschi (Graduate School of Social Services). Youdin, Robert. Social Worker as Researcher: Integrating Research with Advocacy. Boston, MA: Pearson Publishing.

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lunch served for all attendees – Bateman Room

2023 Distinguished Research Awards

Distinguished Research Award in Humanities:

Asif Siddiqi, Ph.D. is the winner of the Distinguished Research Award in Humanities. He is a Professor of History in Arts & Sciences.

Distinguished Research Award in Interdisciplinary Studies:

Atinuke Adediran, J.D., Ph.D. is the winner of the Distinguished Research Award in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Law. 

Distinguished Research Award for Junior Faculty:

Juntao Chen, Ph.D. is the winner of the Distinguished Research Award for Junior Faculty. He is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science in Arts & Sciences.

Distinguished Research Award in the Science and Mathematics:

Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. is the winner of the Distinguished Research Award in the Science and Mathematics. She is the Chair and a Professor in the Chemistry Department in Arts & Sciences.

Distinguished Research Award in Social Sciences:

Hye Seung (Grace) Lee, Ph.D. is the winner of the Distinguished Research Award in Social Science. She is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Gabelli School of Business.

The Office of Sponsored Programs will hold its next online workshop on October 11, 2022 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. See below for RSVP information.

Faculty Orientation to Research Funding
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Please register for this meeting and Zoom details will be included in a follow-up calendar invitation.

Agenda

• Welcome! George Hong introduces himself, the Office of Research (OR), Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) staff, and Institutional Giving (IG) staff
• Faculty Introductions
• Discussion of Office of Research Internal Funding Opportunities 
• Discussion of OSP Services
• Discussion of Institutional Giving
• Ask attendees about recent grants and problems they may have experienced in applying for and managing grants
• How can OR, OSP and IG help faculty obtain grants?
• Would faculty be interested in attending additional workshops? On what topics?
• Questions and comments

Fordham University’s Research Day Celebration
 
Organized by:
Office of the Provost
Office of Research
University Research Council 
Research Deans’ Council 

Monday, April 25, 2022
Fordham School of Law, 150 West 62nd Street, NYC

School of Law, Costantino Lobby 11:00 am-11:35 am

Keynote Speech School of Law, Costantino A

• Moderator: Dr. Donna Rapaccioli, Dean, Gabelli School of Business
• Introduction: Dr. Ron Jacobson, Associate Vice President, Office of the Provost
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, (Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University;
  President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development) The Role of Universities in Supporting Urban Sustainability
• Dr. Sachs will join this event online 11:35 am - 11:50 am - Award Ceremony School of Law, Costantino A
  • Introduction: Dr. George Hong, Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
  • Opening Remarks: Reverend Joseph McShane, S.J., President
  • Awards Presentation: Dr. Dennis Jacobs, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

11:50 am-12:10 pm - Presentations by the Awardees
Chair: Dr. Jonathan Crystal, Vice Provost

• Distinguished Research Award in the Humanities: Stephen Grimm, PhD 
• Distinguished Research Award in Interdisciplinary Studies: Ahir Gopaldas, PhD 
• Distinguished Research Award for Junior Faculty: Alesia Moldavan, PhD 
• Distinguished Research Award in the Sciences and Mathematics: Marija Kundakovic, PhD
• Distinguished Research Award in the Social Sciences: Tiffany Yip, PhD

CONCURRENT SESSION A:  

Meeting New Book Authors: Humanities – Costantino A
12:10 pm-1:00 pm 
Chair: Dr. Eva Badowska, Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, and Associate Vice President, Arts & Sciences

Presenters:

1. Dr. Ayala Fader (Sociology and Anthropology), Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020).
2. Dr. Christine Hinze (Theology), Radical Sufficiency: Work, Livelihood, and a U.S. Catholic Economic Ethic (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2021).
3. Dr. Daniel Soyer (History), ed., Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2021).

CONCURRENT SESSION B:

Meeting New Book Authors: Interdisciplinary Studies – Costantino B
12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
Chair: Dr. Yi Ding, Chair of University Research Council, Professor of Graduate School of Education

Presenters: 

1. Dr. Juntao Chen (Computer and Information Sciences), Zhu, Q., Baras, J., Poovendran, R., Chen, J., eds. Decision and Game Theory for Security (Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2020).
2. Dr. Gregory Donovan (Communication and Media Studies), Canaries in the Data Mine: Understanding the Proprietary Design of Youth Environments (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
3. Dr. Sarah Lockhart (Political Science), Money, J., Lockhart, S. P., eds. Introduction to International Migration: Population Movements in the 21st Century (New York: Routledge, 2021).
4. Dr. Tina Maschi (Social Service), Morgen, K. Aging behind Prison Walls: Studies of Trauma and Resilience (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).

10:00 am - 3:00 pm - New Book Exhibition
School of Law, Costantino Lobby

December 4, 2019

Lowenstein Cafeteria Atrium, Lincoln Center Campus

Sponsored by: The Office of the Provost, The Office of Research, The University Research Council, The Research Deans’ Council, The Office of Sponsored Programs

Purposes:

The Fordham Office of Research has invited to this Intern/Job Fair six Fordham-Columbia, NYU, and IBM fellows, and four external grant awardees who are Fordham professors from Arts & Sciences, Education, Social Service and Business. The purpose is for these invited faculty members to showcase their research projects, to recruit students to join their research activities, and to provide a casual environment for initiating these professional relationships between faculty and students.

Agenda

Introduction: Tihana Abiala, Research Initiatives Officer, Office of Research

Welcome Remarks: Dr. Dennis Jacobs, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

1. Project Introduction by the Fordham-Columbia, NYU and IBM Fellows

1. Dr. Christopher Conway (Psychology), Columbia Fellow, “Forecasting Suicidal Behavior with Intensive Longitudinal Data”
2. Dr. Kimberly Hudson (GSSS), NYU Fellow, “APPROACH (Assessing Perceptions of Practice Roles, Orientations, and Change)”
3. Dr. Alesia Moldavan (GSE), NYU Fellow, “Ontological Possibilities for Aesthetic Practices in Mathematics Education”
4. Dr. Michael Pirson (Gabelli School of Business), Columbia Fellow, “Social Innovation, Laudato Si, Humanistic Management and Transformation of Business Education”
5. Dr. Sudip Vhaduri (Computer and Information Science), IBM Fellow, “SmartAutoCough: Smartphone-based Automatic Cough Detection in Noisy Environments”
6. Dr. Yijun Zhao (Computer and Information Science), NYU Fellow, “Apply deep learning techniques to detect and reduce motion artifacts in brain MRI images”

2. Project Introduction by the Principal Investigators (PIs)

1. Dr. Anita Batisti (Associate Dean; Director, Center for Educational Partnerships， Graduate School of Education), three city-wide Technical Assistance Centers, sponsored by the New York State Education Department.
2. Dr. Brendan Cahill (Department of English, IIHA), “Ireland at Fordham Lecture Series” sponsored by IRISH Aid.
3. Dr. Thaier Hayajeneh (Computer Science, Fordham College at Lincoln Center), “Cyber Scholarship Program (CySP) at Fordham University—Capacity Boiling” sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense
4. Dr. Monica Rivera Mindt (Psychology), “Study of Aging Latinas/os for Understanding Dementia HIV (SLUD HIV)” sponsored by National Institutes of Health-NIA.

3. Table Interview and Discussion between Faculty and Students

The International Symposium on Digital Scholarship is organized by Fordham University London Centre and Birkbeck, University of London
June 3-5, 2019

Learn more about the International Symposium on Digital Scholarship 2019.

If you have any questions, please contact Tihana Abiala at [email protected].

International Conference on Sustainable Cities 2018
Columbia-Fordham-NYU
May 1-2, 2018

Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus, McNally Amphitheatre
113 West, 60th Street, New York, NY

Creating sustainable cities has become one of the most pressing issues facing the United States and the global community. As Dr. Steven Cohen, Executive Director of the Columbia Earth Institute, has noted, a sustainable city “uses resources as efficiently as possible, uses renewable resources as much as possible, recycles as much as possible and has the least possible impact on the natural environment.” There is a growing consensus, Dr. Cohen argues, that our cities must be “attractive, exciting, healthy and productive places to live, learn, develop, work and play.”

There is, however, far less consensus about how cities can most efficiently and effectively design and implement the architecture and systems to grow and prosper sustainably, as the world’s population urbanizes and the threats to urban areas increase. Rigorous research related to sustainable cities is thus more central than ever, and the questions scholars face are urgent: What is a sustainable city? What is the role of climate change in sustainable cities? And what is the future of the sustainable city—and how can we best get there?

In a unique collaboration to help answer these questions, three universities—Fordham, Columbia and NYU—in the world’s greatest city are organizing a two-day interdisciplinary International Conference on Sustainable Cities. The Conference will bring together leading scholars from a range of disciplines with policymakers, business leaders, and advocates to share insights and set a comprehensive research agenda for this vital subject.

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Steve Cohen, Executive Director of the Columbia Earth Institute
• Nestor Davidson, Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law at the Fordham Law School
• Dr. Julia Lane, Professor of Public Service at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
• Shelley Poticha, Director, Urban Solutions, NRDC-Natural Resources Defense Council
• Jonathan F.P. Rose, Jonathan Rose Companies

Learn more about International Conference on Sustainable Cities.