Dr. Alex Novikoff (Medieval History) will be delivering a 30-minute invited lecture, “Are Jewish-Christian Disputations a Source of Conversion?” at Ben Gurion University in Israel this coming week. The symposium, entitled “Debating Conversion in Different Historical Contexts,” from 26-29 May, is the inaugural conference at BGU’s new Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, a project sponsored by I-CORE (Israeli Centers of Research Excellence).
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Joe Passaro, a first year PhD in History at Fordham, has just been selected to serve for a one-year term on the Council for European Studies’ online publication “Reviews & Critical Commentary,” or CritCom. Continue reading
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The History Department will host a workshop on Developing Statements of Teaching Philosophy on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to be held in the Walsh Library Electronic Information Center (Computer Lab 044). Light refreshments will be available before the workshop with lunch to follow.
Dr. Paul Beaudin, Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Science and Associate Professor of Education at Iona College, will offer a 3-hour workshop for graduate students.
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History major Dylan DeMartino has long been interested in international economics and Latin America. He combined hose interests to produce an article in the most recent Fordham Political Review.
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We are delighted to hold our third HSTEM seminar with Dr. Marwa Elshakry, of Columbia University. On Friday, May 9 at 4:30 PM in LL802 on the Lincoln Center Campus, Elshakry will discuss her paper “Translation Movements in History: Science and Civilization in Nineteenth Century Histories of Islam and Europe”. The commentator for this session will by Dr. Durba Mitra (Fordham History), who works on gender and medicine in South Asia. Attached below please find the seminar paper for discussion and a poster for distribution as widely as possible. We look forward to seeing you on Friday!Comments Off on Final HSTEM Seminar for Spring 2014: Elshakry on “Translation Movements in History”
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