Sat, 27 December 2008
With the advent of new therapies, people with HIV and AIDS
are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. But that happy result is revealing
something far less promising, and the group that seems to be affected more than
most is right here in New York City.
We talk with Fordham psychologist Monica Rivera Mindt about the situation, why
it's developed and what can be done about it. Also, visiting the AIDS quilt.
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Sat, 20 December 2008
We may not realize it when we're eating mince pie, decorating the tree, and singing carols, but a lot of our Christmas traditions come from the Medieval world. And so too does the modern world—at least according to Thomas Cahill. We speak with him about his book "Mysteries of the Middle Ages and the Beginning of the Modern World." |
Sat, 13 December 2008
This week on Fordham Conversations, climate change, evolution and
resurrection with Fordham plant biologist Steve Franks. Also, a look at
why companies seem so much greener than they used to be...even though they might not be.
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Sat, 6 December 2008
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Sat, 29 November 2008
A couple of days ago, most of us sat down and ate a huge meal in honor
of some of the first immigrants to America... but what about more
modern immigrants? We'll talk about one aspect of acclimation – housing
– and look at how immigrants, and their children and grandchildren,
fare in the New York housing market.
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Sat, 22 November 2008
When you see the latest teen pop vixen, you might worry for
the future of teen girls...but maybe they're savvier than we think. We talk
with Fordham Anthropologist Oneka LaBennett about how one group of girls, West
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Sat, 15 November 2008
Hello, Clarice! From Sam Spade to Hannibal Lecter, we look at crime
novels, that thing they do to us, and what they say about the way we
look at families. Lenny Cassuto, Fordham english professor and the
author of "Hard Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American
Crime Stories", joins me in the studio.
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Sat, 8 November 2008
What makes a man? And are you a 98-pound weakling if you decide to go
to the doctor when you have a cold? And is your answer to that last
question different depending on whether you're black, white or Asian?
We look at health, ideas of masculinity, and race, with Fordham
psychologist Jay Wade.
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Sat, 1 November 2008
We try to answer this question, and
look at how we might know, with voter behavior expert Monika McDermott.
And, just when we think we can't take it anymore, a little comic
relief.
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Sat, 25 October 2008
In
honor of Halloween, we talk about terrifying women in poetry and
literature: Poet Janet Kaplan reads some of her favorite poems about
witches, sirens and creepy nighttimes, and author Jeffrey Weinstock talks about scary stories, and the women who write them.
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Sat, 18 October 2008
With the economic climate being what it is at
present, many of us may find ourselves with less flexible work schedules than
we once had. But if we find ourselves working night shifts, or different shifts
every week, how will it effect our families? We talk with Fordham sociologist
Chris Morett about his work on shiftwork and work-life balance.
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Sat, 11 October 2008
Culture and community, over a beer: We visit KGB bar in the
east village—where they've been hosting free readings most nights for years—and
talk with owner Denis Woychuk about changes in the neighborhood, his colorful clientele, and why
culture should be free.
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Sat, 4 October 2008
We look at the idea of “greening” |
Sat, 27 September 2008
We look at the recent changes in the legal status of the Guantanamo
detainees, and at the process of determining what's happened to former detainees
who may have been psychologically effected by their experiences.
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Sat, 20 September 2008
What do we see when we look in the mirror? We talk about the
new anthology "About Face" (Seal Press) with editor and Fordham writer in
residence Christina Baker Kline, and contributor Jennifer Baumgardner—she talks
in the book about her ill-fated outing into the world of beauty pageants.
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Sat, 13 September 2008
Do video games rot kids' brains, or do they make them smarter? And how do you even figure out what kids know, anyway? Computer gaming and academic testing, this week on Fordham Conversations. |
Sat, 6 September 2008
Does the fact that you bought that Prada knockoff bag on Canal
Street mean that you got a fabulous bargain, or just
that you get what you pay for? With Fashion Week clomping all over the city's
catwalks in its super high heels this week, we'll take a look at fashion and
the law.
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Sat, 30 August 2008
This Labor Day weekend, we look at an event that was a catalyst for both
labor organizing and factory safety improvements, and the worst
workplace disaster until September 11, 2001: The Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory fire of 1911.
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Sat, 23 August 2008
What inspires you to travel? Fun, adventure, maybe a desire to learn
something about someplace different? This week on the show, we look at
what it takes to do research in exotic locales, with Fordham biologist
Alan Clark--he's just returned from the Costa Rican rainforest.
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Sat, 16 August 2008
When we think of the internet, our vision is often of something of an
e-utopia of personal freedom, albeit one marred by annoying pop-up ads.
But is the internet actually making us less free, at least from our
past indiscretions?
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Sat, 9 August 2008
Maybe in the last few years, you've noticed more Mexican restaurants
around and tortillas for sale in the supermarket, or seen people playing
a different kind of music in the subway...They're all part of the
explosion in New York's Mexican population that's been occurring in the
last two decades. We talk with CUNY's David Badillo about this newer
wave of immigration and how Mexicans are making New York theirs.
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Sat, 2 August 2008
Dispatches from foreign lands: We talk with
reporter and author Bryan Mealer about his time in Congo--His book "All
Things Must Fight To Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo" is
out from Bloomsbury--and we hear from filmmakers Doug Carr and Eddie
Boyce. They traveled with Fordham Law School’s Crowley Scholars on their
2007 mission to Malawi to study the effects of AIDS on women there...and
they reported back with the 2007 film "The Face of AIDS".
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Sat, 26 July 2008
On October 4, 1947, “Leave it to Beaver”
premiered on US television…and space travel premiered in the USSR as the
Soviets launched the first Sputnik. We take a look at the roots of
Soviet space travel, and America’s response to it, with Fordham History
professor Asif Siddiqi.
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Sat, 19 July 2008
When we think of bullies, we tend to think
of things like bigger boys stuffing a smaller boy into a locker. But
when girls bully, it's a lot more covert, and some say a lot crueler.
We'll talk with JoAnne Dornfeld Januzzi, the principal of Henry H. Wells
Middle School in Brewster, about her research on how girls bully, and
what we can do about it.
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Mon, 14 July 2008
Most of us know about those Galapagos island finches, but we may not be
as aware that Charles Darwin was an avid botanist. We look at an
exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden that explores the role plants
played in Darwin's framing of his theory; and we hear about one of the
more interesting animal adaptations around--penguin song.
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Mon, 7 July 2008
We look at the summer scourge of ticks with Fordham researcher Thomas Daniels--and we hear about some of the possible long-term effects of a tick's bite.
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Sat, 28 June 2008
We look at the world of New York's longshoremen,
and the classic movie it inspired, with Fordham Theologian and author
James Fisher--his forthcoming book is "The Irish Waterfront and the Soul
of the Port", from Cornell University press.
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Fri, 20 June 2008
We visit the murals of Philadelphia with theologian
Maureen O'Connell, and Lincoln monuments around the country
with James Percoco--his book, "Summers with Lincoln", is out from
Fordham University Press.
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Sat, 14 June 2008
Sure, you can bring home the bacon, and fry it up in a pan, but if you have to do it through shiftwork will it mess up your kids? We talk with sociologist Chris Morett about work-life balance and how nontraditional work schedules affect children.
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Sat, 7 June 2008
Pollinators Good, Pollen Bad—2 of 2. This week on Fordham Conversations,
we’ll talk about what the pollen count actually means and what seasonal
allergies do to us…and we’ll get out onto one of New York’s more
surprising natural areas—the Bronx River.
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Sat, 31 May 2008
Pollinators Good, Pollen Bad,
part 1 of 2: We speak with bee and butterfly researcher Kevin Matteson
about looking at New York through insects' eyes; and we learn about a
new project that turns New Yorkers into bee researchers. Next week:
Pollen Bad!
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Sat, 24 May 2008
Brand names and identities are more in our lives than ever before--but
they're not in the public domain. We look at branding, "anti-branding",
and the legal issues both carry with them, with Fordham Law Professor
Sonia Katyal.
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Sat, 17 May 2008
This week on the show, we get a little arty with it: The Bronx, the immigration
experience, and the pleasures of wordplay, with poet Janet Kaplan.
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Sat, 10 May 2008
Whether you think he's a fabulous throwback, a dangerous dictator or
just another politician, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has changed
the discourse about Latin American politics--and oil. We talk with
reporter Bart Jones, whose book "Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story, from Mud
Hut to Perpetual Revolution", is out from Steerforth Press.
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Sat, 3 May 2008
Although living in New York can be wonderful...sometimes we all dream of escape. We speak
with author Christina Baker Kline about her "escape from New York" novel, "The Way Life
Should Be", and we find out where New Yorkers would most like to escape to.
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Sat, 26 April 2008
A crash course in Low Power FM, media
activism, pirate radio and why we should care about it...with Christina
Dunbar-Hester, of Fordham's McGannon Communication Research Center.
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Sat, 19 April 2008
This week on Fordham Conversations…school anxiety! We talk bad study
habits, exam nightmares, and the uncertain role of universities in
American life. Also…cutting class and getting caught.
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Sat, 12 April 2008
Is green the new black? Is mother nature in fashion...and does that mean
that being "green" might go out of fashion? The environment and consumer
culture, with Fordham media analyst Robin Andersen.
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Sat, 5 April 2008
For many of us, summer in
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Sat, 29 March 2008
We like to talk about how
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Sat, 22 March 2008
When you're feeling depressed, do you go to the movies?
In the 1930s, that's what America did! We'll revisit the films of the
depression, and talk about what they meant to people.
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Sat, 15 March 2008
97 years ago this week, more than 100 workers
died when
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Sat, 8 March 2008
When you think of the beginning of the modern world…you don’t tend to
think of
the middle ages. But author Thomas Cahill says that’s just when it
began. We
talk with him about his book Mysteries of
the Middle Ages—it’s out in paperback this week from Anchor Books.
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Sat, 1 March 2008
Sure, we all know that the President is one of the most important
people in the world...but what does the Presdident DO, exactly? As we
get ready for another round of primaries and eventually to actually
vote a new one in, we look with Fordham Political Scientist Jeffrey
Cohen on what the job really entails. Also, we talk with some New
Yorkers about what they think the president does--and should
be doing.
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Sat, 23 February 2008
From gas pump rage to phone bill bewilderment, we all know what it
feels like to feel unfairly charged...We talk about unfair pricing
with Fordham Professor Sarah Maxwell. Her new book is "The Price is
Wrong: Understanding What Makes a Price Seem Fair and the True Cost
of Unfair Pricing."
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Sat, 9 February 2008
Keeping housing affordable, and making affordable housing greener.
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Sat, 2 February 2008
Women’s
magazines and other guilty pleasures,
with Fordham Professor Amy Aronson.
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Sat, 26 January 2008
We look at how human activities are affecting some of our more--and less--photogenic flora and fauna.
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Sat, 19 January 2008
New York City's no longer known as one of the crime capitals of
America...but for Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes, crime--and police
corruption--are still very much on the radar. His new crime novel,
"Triple Homicide", looks at the Blue Wall of Silence.
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Sat, 5 January 2008
One of
your new years resolutions might have been to get more in touch with
your heritage...but if you're Irish-American, what does that mean
exactly? We talk with author Peter Quinn about Irish-American identity;
and we look at what playing the tin whistle does for your Irishness.
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Thu, 3 January 2008
There doesn't seem to be too much hassle every year with the
birth of the New Year (except for the hangover)...but Fordham sociologist
Jeanne Flavin says that birth is one of increasingly few that's allowed
to go unmolested by the criminal justice system. In her new book, "Our
Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in
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