Maxwell School Events Calendar

Social Science and Public Policy Events

• No Sugar Coating: Quantifying the Welfare Losses from US-Cuba Trade Policy

  October 28, 2024, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Using digitized historical trade data, we analyze Cuba's early 20th-century comparative advantage and explore how U.S. involvement shaped its specialization and growth.

• Africans and African Americans: Political Solidarities and the Question of Slavery

  October 25, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Africans and African Americans: How is their relationship mediated through the lens of racism?

• For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire

  October 25, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  The Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series. "For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire." Banu Subramaniam, Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College.

• Hebrew Culture and Conversation Table

  October 23, 2024, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hebrew conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers!

• Life Together: A Community Conversation for Election Season and Beyond

  October 22, 2024, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. EDT

  Schine Student Center, Goldstein Auditorium

  This dialogue-driven event is designed not to make participants agree, but to alter the way we disagree, so we can live better together as learners and leaders.

• Analyzing Parallels Between Uganda and US Law in the Context of the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023

  October 21, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2:05 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  The 2024 Ugandan Constitutional Court decision in Fox Odoi parallels the infamous 1857 Dred Scott case, raising concerns on rights and judicial influence.

• East Asia Annual Meet and Greet

  October 19, 2024, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  The Inn Complete

  This is East Asia Program’s annual meet and greet event.

• Rupture, Resistance, and Community: The Crisis of Violence against Women

  October 18, 2024 At 4 p.m.-October 20, 2024 At 12 p.m. EDT

  Showcases Mithila Art from India within a global comparative framework of gender violence and discusses the reparative work needed, collectively and individually, to restore women’s right to dignity.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Amrita Kulka

  October 18, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Amrita Kulka (Univ. of Warwick) will present, "Under the (neighbor)Hood: Understanding Interactions Among Zoning Regulations.” Discussion will follow with Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Univ. of Toronto).

• Conversations in Conflict Studies

  October 16, 2024, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 400Q

  “‘They Can't Keep their FOOT on Our Necks’ Carceral Citizenship, Parole Reform, and Disrupting Mass Incarceration,” with sociology Ph.D. student Shaneya Simmelkjaer.

• The US Farm Bill: What’s at Stake for our Food, Farmers, and Environment?

  October 16, 2024, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Faculty experts from the Center for Policy Research answered questions about the potential implications of the Farm Bill on Americans’ everyday lives.

• Daniel Fata: The 2024 US Election and What it Means for Global Order

  October 10, 2024, 2 p.m.-3:15 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  In this talk, Fata will explore the current state of the war in Ukraine and what it means for the future of global security.

• Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporalities in Occupied Palestine

  October 09, 2024, 3:45 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 500

  "Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporalities in Occupied Palestine." Dr. Sandy Marshall, Elon University.

• Book Talk: ‘Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation’

  October 09, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to India through a study of the decade long rule, 1953-1963, of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the 2nd prime minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

• Anna Calori: The Power of Alternatives

  October 09, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The Anthropology Department welcomes Anna Calori to discuss collective self-reliance, non-alignment, and the Yugoslav approach to South-South cooperation.

• Bureaucracies At War

  October 08, 2024, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Daniel Detzi will present at the October Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI) research seminar.

• Kim Ruhl: Trade War and Peace: US-China Trade and Tariff Risk from 2015–2050

  October 07, 2024, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Ruhl analyzed U.S.-China trade war expectations, finding tariffs rose more under Biden, due to the extended trade war duration.

• Effects of Income on Infant Health: Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Stimulus Checks

  October 07, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Robert Kaestner, University of Chicago, will present "Effects of Income on Infant Health: Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Pandemic Stimulus Checks" as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• The Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Maeve E. Kane

  October 04, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, Eggers 220

  Drawing on oral, archival, quantitative and visual evidence, historian Maeve E. Kane discusses how Haudenosaunee women used clothing to define and protect their nations’ sovereignty.

• Why and How to Include Animal Welfare in Local Policymaking

  October 04, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  The Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series. "Why and how to include animal welfare in local policymaking." Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, New York University.