Fordham Conversations

If you have something to say in America, you know that at least in

theory you have the right to stand in any public place and say it. But

if you want to say it on TV, do you have a right to do it in prime time?

A conversation about how the right to free speech plays out in today's

media universe, with Fordham communications scholar Phil Napoli.

food we eat tells about us. We talk with Fordham professor Kim Hall about food and culture, and with a Brooklyn

mother and daughter about what it’s like being Greek and American at the same

time.

York City is tough, but for new immigrants it can be

an impossible task. We’ll talk about how immigrants—and their children and

grandchildren—fare in the New York

housing market.

is the place where they say “hey babe…take a walk on the wild side?…but

nothing’s more wild and wooly than New York City

politics. We take a look at what makes the city go with Fordham political

scientist Bruce Berg, and we talk to some New Yorkers about what they think of

when they think of city politics.

She was

a middle-class girl from St. Petersburg, Florida, who became

a heroine in the French resistance during

World War II. We'll talk about the life of Virginia D'Albert Lake, with

historian Judy Barrett Litoff, who edited D'Albert-Lake's diary and

memoir for publication by Fordham University Press.

This week on Fordham Conversations, we talk about the American

presidency--and how it's changed over time--with Fordham Political

Scientist Jeffrey Cohen.

Lions and tigers and...polar bears? We talk about Fordham's new joint

program with the Bronx Zoo, teaching teachers how to teach conservation

biology. Also, branding global warming using polar bears; and a look at a somewhat different

educational effort in New York State's prisons.

The West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn is the city's largest

cultural celebration--up to 3 million people show up every year for the

carnivale-like celebration--and it's coming up on labor day. This week

on Fordham Conversations, we talk about some of New York's West Indian

communities.

this week on the show, we say "nyet!" to conventinality, with a discussion of the occult in Russia...also, a look at the links between
russian alternative spiritual beliefs, and the space race, and a visit with a boy psychic right here in the northeast.

With back-to-school preparations beginning in earnest and parents

frantically buying extra-long sheets for their college students' dorm

beds, we talk with Fordham Professor Leonard Cassuto about the state of

the university today.