GSA Social - Stitch Bar & Lounge (Manhattan)

GSA HAPPY HOUR SOCIAL

Friday, November 30, 6-8 pm

Open Bar and Food for two hours

Stitch Bar & Lounge: 247 West 37^th Street

www.stitchnyc.com

(between 7th and 8th Avenue, just a stones throw away from Herald Square, Madison Square Garden, Times Square, Penn Station and Port Authority)

Head upstairs to the DJ booth Section when you arrive. Don’t forget your Fordham ID!

Ethics Working Group Meeting - Dec. 3

The first meeting of the Ethics Working Group will be on Monday, December 3 from 2:00 - 3:00pm in Dealy 107. Refreshments will be provided.

All graduate students are invited to attend.

Description of the Group:

The Ethics Working Group promotes the collaborative study of theoretical and applied ethical issues in an interdisciplinary setting. Topics are determined by the interests of the group; potential areas include bio-ethics, environmental ethics, issues of social justice, science and technology, and professional ethics. All departments are encouraged to join.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

The Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium "Narrative Geographies" will take place this Friday (Nov. 16th) at 4pm in the Economics Seminar Room (Dealy E530).

Presentations by Josh Jones ("Pope and Garden Poetry"), Megan Burke ("Lady Mary Montagu's Travel Writings"), and Jason Ashlock ("Philip Roth's American Pastoral ").

Wine and cheese to follow. All are invited.

Philosophy Grad Discussion Group

Wednesday 14th November, 6:15-7:15

Collins Hall, Philosophy Seminar room

Richard Atkins of the Philosophy Dept. will be presenting some of his research at the next meeting of the Philosophy Grad Discussion group. The title of his talk is "Broadening Perceptual Normativity."

His blurb on the talk:

The discussion of perceptual normativity has focused on two interrelated issues. The first is perceptual veridicality, the claim that a perception is "good" if and only if it is of the way the object in fact is. The second is perceptual entitlement, which holds that a perception is "good" only if it entitles the perceiver to make true judgments. I argue that these claims constitute an aenemic theory of perceptual normativity because they fail to take into account the variety of aims we have in perceiving. Once we do so, we find that the first claim is false. Moreover, for the second claim to be non-trivial it must be supported by a broader theory of perceptual success.

Medieval Working Group

The 1st meeting of the Medieval Thought and Society Working Group will take place on Wed., Nov. 14 at 3:00pm in Dealy 202.

See the post below from Oct. 31 for more information on the group. All interested students are invited to attend.

Questions, please contact the GSA at gsa@fordham.edu

GSA Council Meeting

The next GSA Council Meeting will take place on Monday, Nov. 12 from 9:30 - 11:00 am in FMH 308. All GSAS graduate students are invited to attend.

GSA Day of Service

The GSA will be co-sponsoring a day of Native Tree Planting in the Bronx River Forest with the Bronx Neighborhood Initiatives and Development Corporation (NIDC) on Saturday, Nov. 17 from 10am - 1pm.

Come learn about recent changes in our local natural areas and plant young trees to restore the balance of nature. All graduate students are encouraged to participate. Transportation will be provided.

Please RSVP to Gary Gabor at gsa@fordham.edu by Wednesday, Nov. 14.

GSAS Insurance Discount:

Students who have not received their insurance discount and are on scholarships with the exception of tuition scholarship only students, should be aware that the Office of Academic Programs & Support (i.e. Lydia and Jenn Latham's Office) will be requesting the next batch of $400 insurance discount by November 7. If anyone is interested you will need to submit a copy of their bill or a copy of their insurance card to this office (Keating 216/217) by November 7, 2007. Those who have already submitted their copy, they don't need to do anything.

Please note: the insurance discount is a one time stipend for the academic year.

Any questions, contact:

Lydia Ocasio
Office of Academic Programs & Support
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Fordham. University
LOCASIO@FORDHAM.EDU

External Fellowships: Regina Plunkett-Dowling

Dr. Regina Plunkett-Dowling will be visiting the following departments, serving pizza and soda, and informing grad students about opportunities for external fellowships - including the Mellon, Fulbright, DAAD, and others - and services available through her office, the Campion Institute, Fordham's Office for Prestigious Fellowships.

Other departments are also encouraged to invite her to visit. To set up an appointment, call her at ext. 2772, or e-mail plunkettdowl@fordham.edu

Economics Department
Tuesday, Nov. 6th
4:00pm-5:00pm

Biology Department
Thursday, Nov. 8th
1:00pm-2:00pm

English Department
Thursday, Nov. 29th
Noon - 1:00pm

Also, as a note: Dr. Plunkett-Dowling is going on leave spring semester - she is travelling to Ireland on a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and conduct research in her specialty, the New Testament.

Graduate students who are contemplating applying for fellowships in the fall of 2008 should stop by Thebaud 107 and introduce themselves before she leaves. She will return her Fordham office June 1st. In her absence, Dr. John Kezel, the Director of the Campion Institute, will work with graduate students.

GSA Working Groups

The GSA would like to announce a new initiative for graduate student research: The GSA Working Group Committee.

These groups aim at fostering interdisciplinary graduate-level research on topics which draw from a number of disciplines.

This fall, three Working Groups are being developed: Ethics, Medieval Thought and Society, and Phenomenological Psychology. Descriptions are available below.

If interested in joining a Working Group, please contact Gary Gabor, Vice President of the GSA, at gsa@fordham.edu . In addition, students who wish to propose new Working Groups are encouraged to contact the GSA.

If you have any questions about Working Groups, please contact the GSA or your Departmental GSA Council Representative (list available at www.fordham.edu/gsas/gsa )


Working Groups Descriptions

Ethics

The Ethics Working Group promotes the collaborative study of theoretical and applied ethical issues in an interdisciplinary setting. Topics are determined by the interests of the group; potential areas include bio-ethics, environmental ethics, issues of social justice, science and technology, and professional ethics. All departments are encouraged to join.

Medieval Thought and Society

The Medieval Thought and Society Working Group utilizes interdisciplinary cooperation to engage medieval worldviews across number of spheres including intellectual, religious, and political thought. Specific topics will be chosen by the group, but the underlying theme will be to explore the connections between medieval thought and its manifestation in medieval society.

Phenomelogical Psychology

The Phenomelogical Psychology Working Group fosters an appreciation for Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, etc.) through exploring the philosophical roots of psychological concepts and methods. Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, and Merleau Ponty are just a few of the philosophers discussed. The forum affords students exposure to deep philosophical thinkers and ideologies and encourages students to brainstorm in a meeting of the minds framework; whereby students from a variety of disciplines share their expertise in various forms of methodology and analysis.

Jazz it Up! - Concert Series

For those who don't know, Eoin O'Connell (Ph.D., Philosophy) has been bringing some of New York's (and the world's) best jazz musicians to Fordham for the past couple of years for the Jazz it Up! concert series.

The current season kicks off this Wednesday, Oct 24th with the Ari Hoenig Trio. Begins at 8.00pm in the University Commons, Duane Library 3rd Fl.

Performing will be:

Jean Michel Pilc - piano
Johannes Weidenmuller - bass
Ari Hoenig - drums.

Promises to be a phenomenal concert. Any questions, contact Eoin O'Connell at 718-817-4634.

NY Times: Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ph.D.

An interesting article is available here from the NY Times Education section last Wednesday, passed on by Jane D.

Well worth a look for all those on the ascent to a Ph.D.

If anyone else wants to pass something along, send an email to gsa@fordham.edu.

GSA Council Meeting

2nd GSA Council meeting of 2007 - 08:

Wed., Oct. 10
2:30 - 4:00pm

Dealy 102

Items on the agenda include:

- Revising the GSA Constitution
- Establishing Interdisciplinary Working Groups
- Setting up a Grads Conference Series

All students in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences are encouraged to attend.

For more details, email Gary Gabor at gsa@fordham.edu

For all those correcting papers...

For anyone who's ever had to mark papers, whether a beginning graduate student or professor, come and learn from one of the world's leading experts on how to leave comments that actually pierce the student's mind.

Nancy Somers, Sosland Director of Harvard's Expository Writing Program, will be presenting on "Responding to Student Writing" at Lincoln Center, Lowenstein rm 309 this Thurs., Oct. 4 from 3:30pm - 5:00pm. A live simulcast will be broadcast in Dealy 226H. A live reception of wine and more will follow at LC in the Dean's Conference Room, Lowenstein 8th fl.

Sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin's. Questions contact Anne Fernald (fernald@fordham.edu).

Gyug on Teaching while Travelling

For those of you who don't know, Prof. Richard Gyug of the History Dept. leads a group of students on a walking tour of the famous Camino pilgrimmage trail in Spain each summer. So this workshop on Wednesday sponsored by the Graduate English Medieval Area Group and the Center for Medieval Studies should be very interesting:

"Teaching while Travelling"
Dr. Richard Gyug

Wednesday, October 3, 2 p.m. -- FMH 302

All are invited, & refreshments will be served. For further information contact medievals@fordham.edu or blatt@fordham.edu

The Christian City Redefined: Carthage and the Ancient City

The Center for Medieval Studies presents:

"The Christian City Redefined: Carthage in Late Antiquity"
Susan T. Stevens, Randolph College

Thursday, September 27, 7:30 p.m.
McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge

Co-sponsored with Departments of History and Theology

Philosophy Grad Discussion Forum

The Fordham Philosophical Society is sponsoring a series of graduate student discussion papers.

The first meeting will be today, Thurs. September 20 in Walsh Library Rm 229 at 5pm. Daniel Fincke will be giving a presentation on his dissertation research into a Nietzchean Ethics.

Discussion to follow, with a likely outing to one of the local bar afterwards. All are invited.

Questions, email Dylan Futter at mrapollinax@gmail.com

NYPL Graduate Student Reception

The Research Libraries of the New York Public are having a
reception for all NYC - area graduate students. The details:

Tuesday, September 18 from 7pm – 9pm

Celeste Bartos Forum at The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
(i.e. 'The Main Branch')

Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street (enter at 42nd Street)

Wine, hors d’oeuvres, and the opportunity to meet other faculty and graduate students in your area of study, as well as The Research Libraries’ curators and subject specialists. Discover the scholarly opportunities and services available in one of the world’s largest research libraries.

RSVP: If you’d like to come, please email southcourt@nypl.org or call
(212) 930-0585 and provide your name, area of study, and institution.

GSA Council Meeting:

The 1st GSA Council meeting of 2007/2008 will take place in
Duane Library, Room 352, Mon. Sept. 17, 11am - 1pm.

All current students in the GSAS are welcome to attend.