Monthly Archives: October 2020

by | October 20, 2020 · 5:50 pm

Prof. Huezo to give a presentation at the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES) on October 23.

The Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES) is hosting their final two events for their online symposium, Learning Across Liberation Theologies, to explore the links between liberation theology, pedagogy, and activism. We gather front-line educators, movement organizers, and practitioners and scholars of Liberation Theology to address these themes. This week the themes are “Caribbean/Latin American Liberation Theologies.” and “Black Radical Tradition”

Prof. Stephanie Huezo will be giving a presentation entitled “Pedagogy, Community, and Survival in the Salvadoran Revolution” on Friday, October 23, 2020, from 6-8pm ET. The presentation will be in English with Spanish interpretation.


Friday, Oct. 23: Caribbean/Latin American Liberation Theologies (with Spanish interpretation)

Speakers:

 ● Sylvia Marcos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Universidad Iberamericana – Keynote 

● Stephanie M. Huezo, Fordham University 

● Tito Mitjans Alayón, CESMECA, UNICACHModerated by Conor Tomás Reed, CUNY 

Saturday, Oct. 24: Black Radical Tradition

Speakers: 

● Mark L. Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary – Keynote 

● Rashad Moore, First Baptist Church of Crown Heights and Columbia University

● Sharon Gramby-Sobukwe, Eastern University

Moderated by Jason Wozniak, West Chester University

Registration: https://bit.ly/2FoerN5

YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/RafaelVizcainoR

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Stephanie Huezo

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by | October 17, 2020 · 5:53 pm

Prof. Asif Siddiqi Publishes Book Review, “Transcending Gravity: The View from Postcolonial Dhaka to Colonies in Space,” in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

On October 12, 2020, Prof. Asif Siddiqi published, “Transcending Gravity: The View from Postcolonial Dhaka to Colonies in Space,” in The Los Angeles Review of Books.

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by | · 5:46 pm

Prof. Asif Siddiqi is Featured in The National Geographic.

Professor Asif Siddiqui was featured in an October 7, 2020, National Geographic article, “How the ‘right stuff’ to be an astronaut has changed over the years.”

Prof. Siddiqi is quoted:

“They’re green,” says Fordham University history professor Asif Siddiqi of the first group of cosmonauts. “You essentially have the space program mold and shape them.”

The author Jay Bennett continues, “As the U.S. and U.S.S.R. gained experience flying people in space, they began to attempt more complicated missions, such as docking in orbit and sending astronauts outside their spacecraft. In the astronaut selection process, the two space programs put more emphasis on engineering education, and the Soviet program raised its standards for flight time, making the second group of astronauts older and more experienced than the first, Siddiqui says. Buzz Aldrin, selected in the third group of NASA astronauts in 1963, was the first person to join the corps with a doctoral degree (in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).”

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by | October 5, 2020 · 8:59 am

Prof. Kirsten Swinth Publishes “What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Learned From Swedish Social Democracy” in the Jacobin Magazine.

On September 29, 2020, Prof. Kirsten Swinth published, “What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Learned From Swedish Social Democracy,” in Jacobin Magazine.

She begins the article by writing: “The pioneering sex-discrimination law casebook that Ruth Bader Ginsburg published with two of her colleagues in 1974 closes, after nine-hundred and twenty-seven pages, with a brief chapter of “Comparative Side-Glances.” Ginsburg and her colleagues avowed a “modest purpose” for the pages that followed. They sought merely “to suggest the breadth of the movement toward equal rights for men and women” that went well beyond the borders of the United States. The side-glances, however, had a rather surprising focus: Sweden.”

You can read more here.

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