Sat, 29 December 2007
A look at the
“mommy wars?, and how—and why-- we look at working mothers the way we do today. My guest is Fordham historian Kirsten Swinth.
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Sat, 22 December 2007
Christmas time is toy time...but what are we playing at when we talk about toys? An look at the
emergence of the modern toy industry with Fordham historian David
Hamlin. Also, we'll look at why it is that jingles are so memorable.
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Sat, 15 December 2007
We take a look at--and pay a visit to--
the Hasidic neighborhood of Boro Park, Brooklyn. Our tour guide is
Fordham anthropologist Ayala Fader--she's working on a book about
Yiddish among Hasidic girls and women.
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Sat, 8 December 2007
Did you
ask for an X-Files box set for christmas
this year? Spending Hanukah with your giant Darth Vader cutout? Mapping
out
your holiday drive so that you never lose NPR reception? Then you might
be...a fan.
We explore fandom with Fordham professor Jonathan Gray. He’s one of the
editors
of the book “Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World.?
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Sat, 1 December 2007
This week on Fordham Conversations...Birdsong. We speak with Fordham
Biologist Alan Clark about the songs that
penguins sing to each other--and we visit a canary singing competition
in Michigan.
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Sat, 24 November 2007
Feel like taking a walk? How about a 275 mile walk? We’ll speak to
author and Fordham grad Chris Lowney about his pilgrimage to Santiago de
Compostela; and for those of us who can’t even seem to get out of bed on
these wintry mornings, a look at how seasonal light affects our bodies,
and what we can do about it.
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Sat, 17 November 2007
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, 3 November 2007
We get our freak on with a post-halloween conversation about the
American Freak Show, with Fordham English professor Leonard Cassuto.
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Sat, 27 October 2007
We look at AIDS in
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Mon, 22 October 2007
If you have something to say in America, you know that at least in
theory you have the right to stand in any public place and say it. But
if you want to say it on TV, do you have a right to do it in prime time?
A conversation about how the right to free speech plays out in today's
media universe, with Fordham communications scholar Phil Napoli.
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Sat, 13 October 2007
The stories we tell about ourselves…and the stories that the
food we eat tells about us. We talk with Fordham professor Kim Hall about food and culture, and with a |
Sat, 6 October 2007
You might think that finding an apartment in |
Sat, 29 September 2007
Everyone knows that |
Mon, 24 September 2007
She was
a middle-class girl from
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Sat, 15 September 2007
This week on Fordham Conversations, we talk about the American
presidency--and how it's changed over time--with Fordham Political
Scientist Jeffrey Cohen.
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Sat, 8 September 2007
Lions and tigers and...polar bears? We talk about Fordham's new joint
program with the Bronx Zoo, teaching teachers how to teach conservation
biology. Also, branding global warming using polar bears; and a look at a somewhat different
educational effort in New York State's prisons.
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Sat, 1 September 2007
The West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn is the city's largest
cultural celebration--up to 3 million people show up every year for the
carnivale-like celebration--and it's coming up on labor day. This week
on Fordham Conversations, we talk about some of New York's West Indian
communities.
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Sat, 25 August 2007
this week on the show, we say "nyet!" to conventinality, with a discussion of the occult in Russia...also, a look at the links between |
Sat, 18 August 2007
With back-to-school preparations beginning in earnest and parents
frantically buying extra-long sheets for their college students' dorm
beds, we talk with Fordham Professor Leonard Cassuto about the state of
the university today.
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Sat, 11 August 2007
In
the last few years, the catholic church has received a fair amount of
publicity
for its conservative stances on issues like abortion, birth control,
and gay
marriage, leaving many progressive catholics feeling somewhat
abandoned. But that wasn't always the case--remembering the heyday of
liberation theology, this week on Fordham Conversations.
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Sat, 4 August 2007
If you remember the 1980's TV show "thirtysomething", chances are you
either loved it or hated it. We talk with Fordham professor Al Auster
about that show and why he says it's still fresh 20 years after the
fact. He's one of the authors of an upcoming book about the series.
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Sat, 28 July 2007
Hugo Benavides grew up watching Latin American soap operas—telenovelas—on TV in |
Sat, 21 July 2007
It's one of New York City's least appreciated waterways, but birds,
fish, and now at least one beaver are fans! The Bronx river, by canoe.
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Sat, 14 July 2007
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Sat, 7 July 2007
We take a fieldtrip, to look
at a few of |
Sat, 30 June 2007
On this
weekend before Independence Day, we look
at one very British institutions--the Booker
Prize--and what it says about what it means to be British in this day
and age.
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Sat, 23 June 2007
Apparently, yes. We speak to the author of the new book "Why Classical Music Still Matters", Fordham Professor Lawrence Kramer.
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Sat, 16 June 2007
This week on Fordham Conversations, we continue our look at Communism in
Harlem during the Great depression. With my guest Mark Naison, we take a
closer look at Richard Wright and Paul Robeson's forays into Communism,
and we talk about the lingering affects of this little-discussed chapter
in American History. (part 2 of 2)
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Sat, 9 June 2007
Most of us are familiar with the Harlem Renaissance, but we may not know
that around that same time, the Communist Party was gaining a major
foothold in the neighborhood and in other African-American areas
throughout the country. We'll begin a conversation about race and
American communism in the 1930s, with Fordham Historian Mark Naison
(part 1 of 2).
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Wed, 6 June 2007
President Bush announced this week that he's seeking to double spending
on AIDS prevention...but what does fighting HIV/AIDS look like on the
ground? We talk to recent Fordham Law grad Brian Honermann about his
work fighting for people with AIDS in South Africa, and we'll hear
voices from around the world of people whose lives have been affected by
AIDS.
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Sat, 26 May 2007
Queens often gets all the credit for being the most diverse borough,
but almost as diverse is WFUV's home borough of the Bronx. We talk to
the Bronx African American History Project's Natasha Lightfoot about
one community in the borough--West Indians.
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Sat, 19 May 2007
In the first of two shows about life in the Bronx...with housing prices on a continual upward crawl in New York, we look at
efforts to keep housing in one area of the city--the North West
Bronx--decent, and affordable, for New Yorkers. My guest is
Gregory Lobo Jost, of the University Neighborhood Housing Program.
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Sat, 12 May 2007
On this mother's day Fordham Conversations, we look at the "mommy wars",
and how--and why--we look at working mothers the way we do today.
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Sat, 5 May 2007
Sure, their show’s been running longer than any TV
sitcom
ever has…but that’s not the only reason the Simpsons might be the most
successful family ever to wrap things up in 23 minutes or less. We talk
to
Fordham communication and media studies professor Jonathan Gray about
the
Simpsons and how they’ve managed to change the way that people all over
the
world look at TV, and America.
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Sat, 28 April 2007
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Sat, 21 April 2007
We tend to think of romani--"gypsies"--as romantic
and mysterious; but in
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Sat, 14 April 2007
One day before Holocaust remembrance day, we look at one
family--Holocaust survivor Roma Ben-Atar and her son, Fordham History
professor Doron Ben-Atar. Together they wrote a book about Roma's
experience in the war...and now Doron's written a play inspired by it.
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Sat, 7 April 2007
We talk to author
Eric
Klinenberg about his surprisingly optimistic take on media
consolidation in
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Sat, 31 March 2007
In the
wake of the first conviction this week of
a
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Sat, 24 March 2007
A few years ago, Yvette Christianse was doing archival research in
South
Africa, when she came across a slave woman's story. The story haunted
Christianse, and the book she wrote about, Unconfessed, has just been
named a finalist for the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
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Sat, 17 March 2007
In literature, what does it really mean to tell the truth? We explore
that question with authors Mary Karr--she's the author of the hugely
successful memoir "The Liar's Club"; and Heidi Julavits, whose novel
"The Uses of Enchantment" explores the idea of how truth changes when
different interests get involved.
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Sat, 10 March 2007
On an early-St. Patrick's Day Fordham Conversations, we talk with author
Peter Quinn, about Politics, Jimmy Cagney, and the Irish-American
sense of History (or lack thereof.) Also, one Irish-American daughter's
memories of her father's favorite drinking song.
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Sat, 3 March 2007
When most of us think of the Civil Rights movement, we think of iconic
figures like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks...southern figures.
But there was much more going on in the north than we seem to recall.
We talk to Fordham African-American Studies professor Brian Purnell,
about the civil rights movement in Brooklyn, and why we should remember
it.
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Sat, 24 February 2007
You might be cursing sugar right now for your winter weight gain. But
back in the 17th century, sugar was a luxury item that people couldn't
stop talking about...and it had a much bigger effect on the development
of the modern world than you might think. We talk to Fordham professor
Kim Hall about what sugar means to us today, and what it meant back then.
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Sat, 17 February 2007
Who really owns the music you buy online? A
Conversation with Fordham Professor Tom McCourt, co-author of "Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox."
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Sat, 10 February 2007
People place bets on it;
nominees are covered in the tabloids; and the award is given out at a black-tie
gala that's broadcast nationally on TV. Is it the oscars? No! It's
the Booker Prize. We talk with Fordham professor Nicola Pitchford about the
literary prize, and why it's so important to the British. |
Sat, 3 February 2007
Hugo Benavides grew up watching Latin American soap operas -telenovelas-on TV in |
Fri, 26 January 2007
What image comes into your mind when you think of someone in
prison? Chances are it's not an image of a woman. But there are about 200,000
women incarcerated in the |
Mon, 22 January 2007
Abu Ghraib and other incidents abroad have brought misbehavior in the
US Military into sharp relief...but what about at home? We'll talk to
Fordham Professor Mary Ann Forgey about a project she's working on with
the Army, to improve social workers' ability to deal with reports of
domestic violence. --Aired 12/9/2006
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Mon, 22 January 2007
With support for the war in |
Tue, 16 January 2007
With the end of the year approaching, and with it about a million lists
of the superlatives of 2006, we'll hear from the former publisher of
another superlative--The Nation, America's oldest weekly magazine. He's
written a memoir of his time at The Nation. Also, a few of our favorite
things. --Aired 12/23/2006
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Tue, 16 January 2007
Sure, their show's been running longer than any TV sitcom
ever has. But that's not the only reason the Simpsons might be the most
successful family ever to wrap things up in 23 minutes or less. We talk to
Fordham communication and media studies professor Jonathan Gray about the
Simpsons and how they've managed to change the way that people all over the
world look at TV, and America. --Aired 1/6/2007 |
Tue, 16 January 2007
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
was a huge blockbuster and introduced many to CS Lewis as a writer of adventure
stories. But an off-off-broadway production is taking a stab at some of Lewis'
less child-friendly work. We talk to Magis artistic director, Fordham
artist-in-residence, and Jesuit Priest, George Drance. --Aired 1/13/2007
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