Fordham Conversations

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Fordham Conversations episodes

  • Carmelites and Career Advice

    Are you thankful for 600-year-old choirbooks?  Carmelite priest and musicologist James Boyce gives us a look and a listen.  Followed by sober career advice from Shasa Dobrow, who says your sense of calling is out to get you.

    30 min
  • Vince Lombardi's first year with the Green Bay Packers
    Vince Lombardi is one of football's most accomplished and
    respected coaches.  The Brooklyn native and Fordham University Alum is
    known for his inspirational speeches and no-nonsense coaching methods that
    helped transform under-dog teams into successful winners. On this week’s
    Fordham Conversations, Author John Eisenberg discusses his new book “That First
    Season,” and explains how Lombardi took the worst team in the NFL, The Green
    Bay Packers, and set them on the path to glory.
    30 min
  • Interview with a Vampire Writer: Andrew Valentine's Bitter Things
    Move
    over Anne Rice.  On this week’s Fordham Conversations we’ll hear Host
    Robin Shannon’s interview with a vampire…writer!  Author and Fordham Grad
    Andrew Valentine takes us on a mysterious journey in his latest novel “Bitter
    Things.”  We also discuss vampire history, culture and the reason he
    decided to use Fordham University as a backdrop in his story.
    31 min
  • Bird in Hand
    We talk with author Christina Baker Kline about her new
    novel, “Bird In Hand" (William Morrow), kids, adulthood, and moving to New Jersey.
    30 min
  • Stalk ya later!
    We
    all joke about stalking people or having stalkers...but what,actually,
    is stalking? And how can we stop it or at least reduce the risk that it
    will escalate into violence? We speak with Fordham psychologist Barry
    Rosenfeld about his work with stalking offenders.
    30 min
  • The Grand Concourse

    The Grand Concourse at 100: We look at the Concourse as an inspiration for art, with the Bronx museum's Sergio Bessa; and we look back at the history of the street with author Constance Rosenblum.

    30 min
  • Comics: Good or Evil?
    Comics: Good or Evil? We speak with comics author and editor
    Alisa Kwitney about Young Adult comics for girls; and with author David Hajdu
    about the comic book-related panics of the 1940s and ‘50s.
    30 min
  • School's Back In!
    To kids' consternation and many parents' relief, it's time again for
    school...this week, we look at schooling in some less-explored corners
    of
    America--at immigrants and education with Fordham sociologist Emily
    Rosenbaum, and at Teach for America in one of the nation's toughest
    schools, with author Donna Foote.
    30 min
  • Beehunters
    This week on Fordham Conversations, we go on a bee hunt in New York
    City's largest park, with Fordham biologist and pollinator expert Kevin
    Matteson.
    31 min

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An exploration of the worlds of literature, science, politics, and the arts with faculty, visiting scholars and outside guests