Maxwell School Events Calendar

• 2026 Institutional Analysis with the Institutional Grammar Training

  January 07, 2026-January 30, 2026

  Virtual

  The 2026 Institutional Analysis with the Institutional Grammar Training will take place online from Jan. 7-30, 2026.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  January 14, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Hindi-Urdu table of the spring semester!

• Supporting Disability Rights Scenarios: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Law from China

  January 16, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  East Asia Program Moynihan Graduate Student Grant awardee talk with Mercy Renci Xie.

• Social Impact Pitch Competition - Virtual Q&A Sesson 2

  January 19, 2026, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  This virtual Q&A session will offer an opportunity to learn more about the 2026 Social Impact Pitch Competition guidelines, expectations and more.

• Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentation

  January 20, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Bharati Memorial Award was established in 1992 to support graduate students at Syracuse University working on South Asia. Awardee Brooklyn Montgomery will present their work.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  January 21, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Tamil table of the spring semester!

• CPR Seminar Series: Celeste Carruthers, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  January 22, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Celeste Carruthers, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville will present, “Post-COVID Labor Market Shortages and College Enrollment,” as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• Zhou Dynasty Miniature Bronze Vessels

  January 23, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Sheri A. Lullo of Union College will discuss her theory that these miniature bronze vessels were crafted as adornments for the deceased as signifying markers of identity in death.

• A Maxwell DC Conversation Series–Make America Healthy Again: Public Health in Changing Times

  January 26, 2026, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. EST

  1333 New Hampshire Ave, NW Washington, DC

  Led by Maxwell professor and health economist John Cawley, this three-part series examines what it means to be “healthy” in America today.

• Real Citizens, Plastic Law: Citizenship and Gender in Pakistan

  January 27, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In this talk, Professor Uzma Zafar follows emergent meanings of what being a “khwaja sira” means in the narratives of community development, human rights legislation and citizenship reforms.

• Atrocity Prevention in Practice in a Contested World, with Cmdr. Jeffrey Sizemore, USN Retired

  January 28, 2026, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EST

  National Veterans Resource Center, K.G. Tan Auditorium

  The conversation will cover some of the successes, and just as importantly, the challenges in implementing the prevention agenda.

• Qualitative Research Data Management for Public Health Researchers

  January 29, 2026, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This 90-minute session introduces key ideas and essential practices in managing qualitative and multi-method data in alignment with the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy

• CPR Seminar Series: Iliya Gutin, Syracuse University

  February 12, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 426

  Iliya Gutin, research assistant professor and senior research associate at Syracuse University, will present as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• The Design of Brazil’s Digital Transformation Policy

  March 18, 2026, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Lizandro Lui, Thayna Gomes Rosa and Rafael Barbosa de Aguiar will present at the Latin America Policy Process Research Initiative's LAPPRI Research Seminar series.

• CPR Seminar Series: Florencia Torche, Princeton University

  March 26, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Florencia Torche, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University will present as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics: Alison Buttenheim

  April 09, 2026, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, Strasser Legacy Room, 220

  Alison Buttenheim (University of Pennsylvania) will present the eleventh annual Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics.