Fordham Conversations

Does what's going on with the economy, the bailout and Bernard Madoff

make you so mad you just want to scream and throw things? Well, in

1999, that's how tens of thousands of people felt about the World Trade

Organization, and their protests of its Seattle conference--and the

extraordinary police response--became known as the Battle of Seattle. A

look at those protests and what they mean to us today, with Fordham

sociologist Heather Gautney.

Is that a glass ceiling above my head, or am I just seeing things? We

speak with Fordham management professor Roslyn Chernesky about women in

management today, and why she says we haven't made as much progress as

expected.

decorating the tree, and singing carols, but a lot of our Christmas traditions come

from the Medieval world. And so too does the modern world—at least according to Thomas Cahill. We speak with him

about his book "Mysteries of the Middle Ages and the Beginning of the Modern

World."

This week on Fordham Conversations, climate change, evolution and

resurrection with Fordham plant biologist Steve Franks. Also, a look at

why companies seem so much greener than they used to be...even though they might not be.

When Georgia and Russia suddenly went to war this summer, many had their

suspicions about the war's real causes--was this a proxy war between Russia and the US? Was it all about oil? Or, was it because Russia can't get no respect? This week on Fordham

Conversations, we speak with journalist, former CBS Moscow Bureau chief and

Fordham professor Beth Knobel: She covered the war for CBS, and who says it's

more about the latter than we might imagine.

A couple of days ago, most of us sat down and ate a huge meal in honor

of some of the first immigrants to America... but what about more

modern immigrants? We'll talk about one aspect of acclimation – housing

– and look at how immigrants, and their children and grandchildren,

fare in the New York housing market.

the future of teen girls...but maybe they're savvier than we think. We talk

with Fordham Anthropologist Oneka LaBennett about how one group of girls, West

Indian teens in Brooklyn, use pop music, TV and even

their accents to their own ends.

Hello, Clarice! From Sam Spade to Hannibal Lecter, we look at crime

novels, that thing they do to us, and what they say about the way we

look at families. Lenny Cassuto, Fordham english professor and the

author of "Hard Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American

Crime Stories", joins me in the studio.

What makes a man? And are you a 98-pound weakling if you decide to go

to the doctor when you have a cold? And is your answer to that last

question different depending on whether you're black, white or Asian?

We look at health, ideas of masculinity, and race, with Fordham

psychologist Jay Wade.

We try to answer this question, and

look at how we might know, with voter behavior expert Monika McDermott.

And, just when we think we can't take it anymore, a little comic

relief.