Fordham Conversations

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  • Unrequited
    Planning on spending Saturday watching movies in
    the dark, eating bon bons and feeling tragic? This is just the show to start
    your day--we talk unrequited love, melodrama, campiness and Morrisey with
    author Daniel Contreras. He's the author of "What Have You Done To My
    Heart?: Unrequited Love and Gay Latino Culture."


    30 min
  • "The Calling"

    With the Catholic church struggling to recruit and retain

    clergy, it may be harder than ever for those "in the religious life"
    to explain their decisions to the public, and to their families. David
    Ranghelli's film "The Calling" explores this question. This week on
    Fordham Conversations, we speak with Ranghelli about his film and its
    subjects.

    30 min
  • Treating Stalkers

    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
  • Family Violence in New Zealand
    You may know New Zealand mainly as the stunning setting of the "Lord of
    the Rings" films, but it's a real place with real problems--including
    domestic violence, of which it has one of the highest rates in the developed
    world. With researchers from Fordham Law School's Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, we visit New Zealand to look at what the nation's Maori communities are doing
    to combat that violence.
    30 min
  • Consumption and Faith

    The economy has many of us thinking hard about what we buy,

    why, and
    the place that buying stuff occupies in our lives. We talk with
    theologian Tom Beaudoin about consumption and faith--Beaudion is the
    author of the book "Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are With What
    We Buy." Also, a look at consumer needs and the Sabbath. 

    30 min
  • Comics and Controversy

    Comic books today are a bigger part of mainstream popular

    culture than they've been for a very long time. But comics have often
    been both subversive, and scandalous! We speak with author David Hadju about
    the comic book scare of the 1940s and '50s, and we talk about the relationship
    between horror comics and political protest in Brazil.

    30 min
  • The end of Guantanamo?
    One of Barack Obama's first acts as President
    was to issue an executive order requiring the closure of
    Guantanamo--but that's a lot more complicated than it sounds. We talk
    with Fordham Law professor Martha Rayner about the complexities,
    rights, and wrongs of shutting Guantanamo down.

    30 min
  • Love and Commerce

    What's the point of marriage? Well,

    sure, there's love...but in many places and times marriage has served lots of
    different purposes, from making business contacts to playing politics. We talk
    with historian Carina Ray about the complexities of love, marriage and commerce
    in the Colonial British Gold Coast, and we travel to Queens
    and the
    village to look at how young South Asians are looking for love.

    30 min
  • Freudian Football

    When we settle in with our fried snacks and beer to watch

    the BIGGEST FOOTBALL GAME OF THE YEAR tomorrow, what will we really be
    looking at? We speak with Fordham anthropologist Hugo Benavides about why we
    love football so much, and what that says about the way we think about race,
    manhood and war.

    30 min
  • Trauma and Delinquency
    We hear a lot about the stress that kids are under today--too many
    activities, too much pressure to get into college, but what kind of
    stress does it cause if you're a kid who's abused, or who's a witness
    to violence, or whose parents are heavy drug users? We speak with
    Fordham social work professor Tina Maschi about teenagers in the
    justice system, what they've been through, and what we can do to better
    deal with the situation.
    30 min

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