Patrick C. DeBrosse, a PhD candidate in History, has published an essay online for Medievalist Toolkit. His essay, “A Note on Names,” explores the challenges that historians of the premodern world face in deciding how to translate personal names into modern English, including the problem of historiographical biases that lead to different conventions for different groups of people.
Patrick C. DeBrosse, PhD candidate, publishes a blog post, “A Note on Names”
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History Department to present “Sudan: Violence, Political Economy, and Environmental History” at Lincoln Center.
Fordham’s Department of History will, with the co-sponsorship of the Chief Diversity Officer, African and African American Studies, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, present talks by Dr. Khalid Mustafa Medani and Dr. Alex de Waal as part of its O’Connell Initiative on the Global History of Capitalism. The talks, entitled “Sudan: Violence, Political Economy, and Environmental History,” will provide context for the ongoing war in Sudan, and are part of a larger O’Connell series on armed violence and forced displacement around the world. Amir Idris, Professor of History, will serve as moderator. All are welcome to the event, which will take place on Wednesday, April 17 at 5:00PM in the South Lounge of the Lowenstein Building at the Lincoln Center Campus.
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Amir Idris, Professor of History, publishes an op-ed entitled “Recognizing and Mitigating the Risk of Expansion of Sudan’s Conflict to South Sudan”
Amir Idris, Professor of History, has published an op-ed entitled “Recognizing and Mitigating the Risk of Expansion of Sudan’s Conflict to South Sudan” in Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker. You can find the op-ed at this link.
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Fordham to host “Catholicism As Cultural History: The Enduring Legacy of John O’Malley, S.J.” at Lincoln Center
Fordham’s Center on Religion and Culture, with the support of the History Department, will host a conference to honor the legacy of the historian John O’Malley. The event will take place in the 12th-floor Lowenstein lounge on Saturday, February 3, 2:00–6:30 p.m. Thomas Worcester, S.J., will be among the contributors to the conference. Those who wish to register can find the link here.
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Scott G. Bruce, Professor of History, and W. Tanner Smoot, PhD Candidate, publish an article entitled “The Social Life of an Eleventh-Century Shrine in the Miraculorum sancti Maioli libri duo (BHL 5186)”
Scott G. Bruce, Professor of History, and W. Tanner Smoot, PhD Candidate, published their article entitled “The Social Life of an Eleventh-Century Shrine in the Miraculorum sancti Maioli libri duo (BHL 5186)” in Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 12 (2023): 27-51. Congratulations, Scott and Tanner!
Below is the abstract:
The early eleventh-century Miraculorum sancti Maioli libri duo narrated accounts of more than four dozen miracles that took place at the shrine of Maiolus of Cluny in the town of Souvigny, where the abbot died in 994. This article examines the evidence of this little-known source to reconstruct the social life of a popular pilgrimage destination at the turn of the first millennium. It presents a profile of the kinds of people who visited Maiolus’s tomb, including their names, genders, and occupations. Next, it analyses the maladies for which these pilgrims sought relief through the healing power of the saint. Finally, it explores the social networks that facilitated the movement of pilgrims with motor and sensory disabilities from their homes to the abbot’s shrine.
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HGSA hosts “Historic Horror Stories” for Halloween.
On October 31, the History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) hosted “Historic Horror Stories,” a reading of primary sources appropriate for Halloween. The event, held in the History Department, included readings of Walter Map, Orderic Vitalis, and William of Malmsebury.
To find out about more upcoming HGSA events, contact Benjamin Bertrand and Owen G. Clow!
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Jordyn H. May, PhD candidate, publishes a blog post, “‘Bears Do Not Roam the Streets’: Woman Suffrage and the Reimagining of the American West.”
Jordyn H. May, a PhD candidate in History, has published an essay online in the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. Her essay, “’Bears Do Not Roam the Streets’: Woman Suffrage and the Reimagining of the American West,” explores the important role that maps played in the U.S. women’s suffrage movement, with a particular emphasis on the depiction of the American West in contemporary maps. Congratulations, Jordyn!
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“Banned! A History of Censorship” opens at Walsh Library
Walsh Family Library and the Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham University have collaborated on an exhibit, “Banned! A History of Censorship,” which opened on September 20, 2023. The curators, Gabriella DiMeglio, Amy Levine-Kennedy, Hannorah Ragusa (FCRH ’26), and Magda Teter, in collaboration with Fordham alumni and the staff of O’Hare Special Collections, chose to explore the history of banned books. On display are books published between the 16th and the 21st centuries. The exhibit also links the larger history of censorship to the particular history of prohibited books at Fordham.
The exhibit is open to the Fordham community and to the public. You can find it in Walsh Library’s Exhibition Hall (first floor) and in the Special Collections (fourth floor). The exhibit will run until March 15, 2024, and there will be two guided tours featuring guest speakers. To register, follow the link here.
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“The Light of the Revival: Stained-Glass Designs for Restituted Synagogues in Ukraine” by Eugeny Kotlyar opens at Walsh Library
An exhibit of stained glass artwork created for Ukrainian synagogues in the post-Soviet era is now on display in the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room on the 4th floor of the Walsh Library. Prof. Magda Teter opened the exhibit on September 10 on behalf of the Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham. It will remain on display until December 8.
The prints of the artwork, placed in conversation with Fordham undergraduate-curated Jewish illuminated manuscripts, also feature extensive gallery notes that reveal Eugeny Kotlyar’s artistic and religious influences. Through its design, the exhibit embraces the challenge of bringing Ukrainian scholarship and art to the United States, even in the midst of its war with Russia.
To watch Eugeny Kotlyar’s presentation from the exhibit’s opening, click here.
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Stephen J. Cerulli, PhD Candidate, quoted in the New York Times.
A New York Times article has cited the expertise of Stephen J. Cerulli, a Fordham History PhD Candidate, on the history of pizza. The article, “The Many Lives of Tomato Pie” by Mari Uyehara, explores different styles of tomato pie which groups of Italian immigrants developed across the Northeast United States. Read the article here before grabbing a slice!
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