Maxwell School Events Calendar

Social Science and Public Policy Events

• ‘An Unparalleled Economic Gold Mine’: Climate Finance in Northern Kenya

  October 04, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Amiel Bize discusses financialized climate responses in northern Kenya, focusing on a soil-based carbon credits project with local pastoralists.

• Backsliding or Bias? Understanding Global Democratic Decline and Resilience

  October 04, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join Amanda B. Edgell as she explores controversies in measuring democratic backsliding and presents findings on resilience against autocratization.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Shinya Inukai

  October 04, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Shinya Inukai will present “Effects of Shrinking Population on Local Government and Housing Markets: Evidence from Japan” and “Impact of Intergovernmental Fund Transfers on Local Public Finance.”

• Creating Dangerous Muslims during the ‘War on Terror’

  September 27, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341 United States

  Exploring Mohammad Salman Hamdani's story, we reveal how news media uncritically framed South Asian, Arab and Muslim people post-9/11.

• Economics of Crime: Alternatives to Traditional Criminal Justice Policies

  September 26, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Monica Deza, associate professor of economics and CPR senior research associate, will present as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• Challenges to Citizenship in East Asia: MEMORY

  September 26, 2024, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  How does memory relate to citizenship and how are those relationships textured by the histories and institutions of East Asia?

• Davin Chor: Exclusions for Sale? Tariff Exemptions in the US-China Trade War

  September 23, 2024, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  TDPE welcomes Davin Chor from Dartmouth College to discuss Section 301 tariffs, the role of exemptions and the implications of tariff policy design.

• Poner la vida en el centro: Centering Social Reproduction in Agrarian Studies and Politics

  September 20, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  "Poner la vida en el centro: Centering Social Reproduction in Agrarian Studies and Politics," with Professor Diana Ojeda from Indiana University Bloomington.

• Distinguished Speaker Burkhardt Wolf: ‘Dial A for Anxiety: Media and Affect’

  September 20, 2024, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204B

  Burkhardt Wolf is chair and professor of modern German literature at the University of Vienna, where he studies cultural history at the intersection of literary and media theory.

• The Process of Policy Seminar Series: Criminal Justice

  September 19, 2024, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  This panel convenes a set of academics and practitioners that will discuss key policy issues in criminal justice.

• Transforming Minds and Policies: The Quest for Religious Freedom in Vietnam

  September 19, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Hein Vu discusses the Institute for Global Engagement's two-decade effort in Vietnam to promote religious freedom through dialogue and diplomacy.

• Kei-Mu Yi: Global Value Chains - Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

  September 16, 2024, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This study analyzes U.S. global value chains from 2002-2017, revealing supply chain patterns, trade linkages and impacts of trade agreements.

• Keynote: Eurasia Unbound? Reflections on Empire, Geopolitics and Citizenship

  September 14, 2024, 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Auditorium

  The Maxwell School is hosting the 2024 CESS Fall Conference, themed "Citizenship Unbound: Central Eurasia in a Changing World" with alumna Bhavna Davé presenting the keynote lecture.

• Outreach: Afghanistan in the Classroom

  September 13, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  This virtual workshop provides approaches and tools for elementary school educators to introduce Afghanistan into their curriculum and provide a nuanced view of the people and culture.

• Alexander Lee: How Polarization Ends

  September 13, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 100A

  Join us for an insightful talk on the history of partisan polarization in the United States of America.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: William Hoyt

  September 13, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  During this webinar, William Hoyt (University of Kentucky) will present “Estimation of Welfare Effects in Hedonic Difference-in-Differences: The Case of School Redistricting.”

• CESS Fall 2024 Conference

  September 12, 2024-September 15, 2024

  Maxwell Hall 110 Crouse Drive Syracuse, New York, United States

  The conference, a staple event since 2000, is a platform for scholars from North America and Central Eurasia to converge and share their insights.

• 2020: How America's Year of Crises Has Shaped 2024

  September 11, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, will present at the 2024 Lourie Lecture.

• Joyojeet Pal: Technopopulism and the Assault on Indian Democracy

  September 05, 2024, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Exploring technopopulism, where digital technology and modernity serve as aspirational governance and a mask for charismatic leadership, benefiting social elites and obscuring institutional capture.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Francesco Ruggieri

  August 30, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Francesco Ruggieri will present "The Geography of the U.S. Property Tax" and "A Spatial Theory of Overlapping Local Governments." Discussion will follow with Troup Howard.