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Freedomland:
Fordham Conversations - August 12, 2019 15:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn part one of the interview about the book Freedomland USA. The Definitive History, author Michael R. Virgintino took us on an audio tour of the history-themed amusement park. In part 2 of the interview about the book, Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with Michael R Virgintino a...
Freedomland USA
Fordham Conversations - August 05, 2019 17:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn June 19, 1960 a short-lived, history-themed amusement park opened on what now sits co-op city in the Bronx. Freedomland U.S.A. was considered, by some, to be the East Coast’s version of Disneyland. However, Journalist and author Michael R. Virgintino disagrees. “Unlike Disneyland, the story ...
Raised by the Church
Fordham Conversations - July 22, 2019 17:22 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn 1946 Ed Rohs was left at a Catholic orphanage in pre-World War II Brooklyn. He spent the next 19-years of his life going from one institution to another until he was “unceremoniously dumped out into the world.” Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with Rohs about his own experie...
Fordham Conversations: Up and Down the Bronx's Grand Concourse
Fordham Conversations - July 16, 2019 18:29 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations Host Chris Williams explore The Grand Concourse. This four-and-a-half-mile boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the Bronx. Bronx Borough Historian, Lloyd Ulatan, discusses the history of Grand Concourse including its Art Deco buildings and the Loews Paradise Theater. T...
Preserving Memories
Fordham Conversations - July 10, 2019 16:39 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith the rise of social media there are fewer hard copies of letters, photos, and other documents. So what happens in the future? Will all of this be preserved and will there be too much of it to sort through? Fordham Conversations Host Chris Williams talks to Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge abo...
The Evolution of Queer Rights
Fordham Conversations - July 03, 2019 17:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsHow does describing someone by a certain term or label influence what others think about them? Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with Fordham Associate Professor of Political Science Zein Murib. Murib’s research examines the terms “gay” and “homosexual” and the socio-political imp...
LGBTQ Elders in the Criminal Justice System
Fordham Conversations - June 19, 2019 15:04 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs the American population ages, so does its population in the prison system. That has created particular challenges for members of the LGBT community that are incarcerated. Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with Tina Maschi, a Fordham University professor and former prison social...
Accidental Icon
Fordham Conversations - June 10, 2019 17:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsPROMO: Fordham University Professor Lyn Slater has been making a name for herself on social media. She has hundreds of thousands of followers on her blog and Instagram page Accidental Icon | For Women who Live Interesting but Ordinary Lives. The model and fashion influencer is also using her pla...
Fordham University and the U.S.: A History
Fordham Conversations - June 06, 2019 13:32 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon sits down with Author Debra Caruso Marrone. They discuss her book Fordham University and the United States: A History.
Preparing the Next Generation of Catholic School Leaders
Fordham Conversations - May 28, 2019 16:46 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with members of The Curran Catholic School Leadership Academy. Its goal is to prepare students from Fordham University, and other colleges, for the realities of leading a Catholic school Dr. Noelle Beale is Regional Superintendent for the Catholic...
Is It Time to Ditch The SAT?
Fordham Conversations - May 20, 2019 14:23 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversation’s host Robin Shannon sits down with Nicholas Tampio, Associated professor of Political science at Fordham University. He says it’s time to ditch the standardized tests used for college admissions. Tampio also offers other ideas to measure learning.
TV: The Book
Fordham Conversations - May 17, 2019 14:36 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations host Kyle McKee talks television with acclaimed critic Matt Zoller Seitz, the co-author of TV: (The Book) 2 Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time.
A Conversation with NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan
Fordham Conversations - May 07, 2019 21:12 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversation Host Robin Shannon talks with NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan. The Fordham Alumni discusses the NYPD's goals for 2019 and other challenges facing the largest police department in the country.
Morning, Noon, Night; Water, Land and Sky
Fordham Conversations - May 01, 2019 14:46 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe economic vitality that is visible at The Brooklyn Navy Yard today is a far cry from the way it once looked. For almost two centuries it was a shipbuilding facility. After being decommissioned in the 1960s, it became an industrial park. Now The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a mixed use complex that’s...
Our Story at Fordham University
Fordham Conversations - April 17, 2019 14:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOnce a semester a group of Fordham students are picked to learn how to create and share, impactful, powerful stories about their lives. “Our Story at Fordham University” falls under Fordham's Social Innovation Collaboratory. It is an action-based network designed to use creativity and critical t...
Life Inside the PGA Tour
Fordham Conversations - April 09, 2019 16:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe casual golf fan is concerned with who wins the major events on the PGA tour or how they brand themselves. But what about the preceding events? How hard is it to reach the big stage and how difficult is it to stay there? “Making the Cut: Life Inside the PGA Tour System” by John Fortunato seek...
Miracle in Rwanda
Fordham Conversations - April 02, 2019 09:50 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsMiracle in Rwanda is an Off-Broadway play based on the real-life story of Immaculée Ilibagiza. She was able to survive the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi to become a motivational speaker and New York Times bestselling author. Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with two peop...
The Economy of Attractiveness
Fordham Conversations - March 27, 2019 16:10 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOften we hear that beauty comes from within, but it turns out the way you look can affect how other people react to you, for better and for worse. Fordham Conversations Host Chris Williams talks with the author of Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. Daniel Hamermesh disse...
Health Disparities in The Transgender Community
Fordham Conversations - March 21, 2019 15:02 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsTransgender people face numerous health disparities when it comes to quality healthcare. Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with Celia Fisher, director of the Center for Ethics Education at Fordham University. Fisher discusses the discrimination and special health needs in the T...
The Journey Out of Abuse and Homelessness
Fordham Conversations - March 13, 2019 18:46 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsAfter hours of interviews and soul-searching questions, over a dozen courageous people were able to share their stories of overcoming homelessness and other trauma for the book "Sacred Shelter: Thirteen Journeys of Homelessness and Healing." Robin Shannon, host of Fordham Conversations, was join...
A Conversation with Actor Michael Potts
Fordham Conversations - February 27, 2019 18:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with award winning actor Michael Potts. Known for his roles in The Wire and The Book of Mormon, Potts is currently in the Broadway musical Prom. The show tells the story of a student in Indiana who was unceremoniously sidelined from attending her ...
Depression in Visually Disabled Seniors
Fordham Conversations - February 19, 2019 17:47 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon discusses depression and visually impaired older adults with Dr. Amy Horowitz, a professor of social work at Fordham University.
Coping with Schizophrenia
Fordham Conversations - February 12, 2019 17:18 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks Elyn Saks. The esteemed University of Southern California Law Professor discusses how she became an Ivy League grad, legal scholar, endowed professor all while coping with schizophrenia. Dr. Saks also discusses the book she co-authored called “Info...
Feminism's Forgotten Fight:
Fordham Conversations - January 25, 2019 16:08 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham University's annual Women's Philanthropy Summit hosted hundreds of alumni, students and faculty to network and reflect on work and the power of giving. Keynote speaker Kirsten Swinth, an associate professor of history and American studies at Fordham University, discussed societal challen...
Race and Commercial Surrogacy in India
Fordham Conversations - January 16, 2019 16:51 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThere are breakthroughs in science that make it easier for those who can’t become parents to do so. But it’s also raising complex questions for women in India who become surrogates for families in America. Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with Dr. Daisy Deomampo. The Fordham Univer...
Kids, Culture and Music
Fordham Conversations - January 09, 2019 14:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon discusses the evolution of rock and rap and the influence that young New York City kids, who helped create the music, have had on American culture. Dr. Mark Naison is Professor of History and African American Studies at Fordham University. He created the...
Fortnite' could be teaching us the wrong lessons
Fordham Conversations - January 02, 2019 15:57 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe on-line video game Fortnite has exploded in popularity. But what lessons does it teach American children? Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon talks with Nicholas Tampio. The tenured associate professor of Social Science at Fordham University wrote the article “Fortnite could be teachi...
The Mind is the Final Frontier
Fordham Conversations - December 27, 2018 15:36 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe 60's original soundtrack Star Trek describes space as the final frontier. But Dr. Kirk Bingaman says there is another frontier we are only beginning to understand: our inner space. Fordham Conversations host Robin Shannon talks to the Associate Professor at Fordham University’s Graduate ...
History and Music at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Fordham Conversations - December 20, 2018 18:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsSt. Patrick’s Cathedral is a prominent cultural attraction known for its grand architecture; however, it has a rich musical history that is no as prominent. Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon revisits a conversation with Salvatore Basile about his book Fifth Avenue Famous: The Extraordin...
Sacred Shelter Part 2
Fordham Conversations - December 11, 2018 17:16 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon continues her conversation with three of the people who took part in creating the book “Sacred Shelter: Thirteen Journeys of Homelessness and Healing.” It follows the lives of formerly homeless New Yorkers, who graduated from a life-skills program and no...
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