Maxwell School Events Calendar

Social Science and Public Policy Events

• Citizenship in Perspective: Gender, Geopolitics and the Legacy of U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan

  February 29, 2024, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Jennifer Fluri will discuss the impacts of U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, exploring gender, geopolitics and the aftermath from 2001 to the Taliban's takeover in 2021.

• Hans Kundnani: Whiteness and the European Project

  February 28, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In this talk, Hans Kundnani will present his new book "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project."

• Maxwell African Scholars Union - Challenges to Citizenship Series: Authoritarianism in Africa

  February 23, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Analyzing post-Cold War geopolitics, focusing on authoritarian strategies, security forces' rising power, and predictors of their inclination towards military governance and authoritarianism.

• Group Facilitation Skills Workshop

  February 23, 2024, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  This interactive workshop will introduce students to the fundamentals of group facilitation—applicable to range of contexts.

• The Process of Policy: Artificial Intelligence

  February 22, 2024, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  The February Process of Policy seminar will explore the various concerns and considerations in the area of policymaking for an artificial intelligence world.

• Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Two Years Later

  February 22, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220 (SLR) 130 Crouse Drive Syracuse, NY, United States

  The Moynihan Institute's Center for European Studies and the D'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families present David J. Kramer, executive director of the George W. Bush Institute.

• A Conversation with Terrell Starr: War in Ukraine, Race and Foreign Policy, and the 2024 Elections

  February 19, 2024, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. EST

  1120 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite #350 Washington, DC

  In observance of Black History Month and nearly two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, join us for a conversation with journalist, podcaster and advocate Terrell Jermaine Starr.

• Stephen Biddle: War Termination and Ukraine

  February 16, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Moynihan Institute's Study of Global Politics series presents Stephen Biddle from Columbia University.

• Matthew Duss: 'The Urgency of a New U.S. Foreign Policy'

  February 15, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220 (SLR)

  Washington's old foreign policy consensus is breaking up and a new one is struggling to be born. What values should shape America's global role in this era?

• Faith and Flood: Indigenous Responses to Ecological Catastrophe in Coastal Pakistan

  February 15, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Adeem Suhail will highlight the practices of cosmological speculation born in the wake of ecological catastrophe on the Makran Coast of Pakistan.

• CPR Seminar Series: 'New Findings on Racial Bias in Teachers' Assessments of Students'

  February 15, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Maria Zhu, assistant professor of economics and CPR senior research associate, will present "New Findings on Racial Bias in Teachers' Assessments of Students."

• Hebrew Culture and Conversation Table

  February 13, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  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!

• Sociology Department Colloquium Series: Nazli Kibria

  February 13, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Boston University Professor Nazli Kibria will present, "'Education was Equally Important for All of Us': Siblings and Family Cultures of Mobility, Gender and Higher Education in Middle-Class India."

• 'Listen to the Elders' Speaker Series

  February 12, 2024, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. EST

  6680 Onondaga Lake Pkwy Liverpool, NY, USA

  The "Listen to the Elders" Speaker Series welcomes Onondaga Hoyane (Hawk Clan), Hoyoñnyeñ:nih, Spencer Lyons.

• Local Resistance to Climate Change Adaptation: Hindrance or Opportunity?

  February 09, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 032

  "Local Resistance to Climate Change Adaptation: Hindrance or Opportunity?" Michael Mikulewicz, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, SUNY- ESF.

• Material and Ideational Forces Behind Japan’s Shifting Identity in the Face of the China-US Rivalry

  February 09, 2024, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Explore Japan's evolving role in global politics. Discover how recent changes in regional security, domestic politics and the impact of global events shape Japan's assertive foreign policy.

• Citizenship in Perspective: Documentary Film 'Oqlanmagan – Unexonerated'

  February 09, 2024, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The "Oqlanmagan – The Unexonerated," a documentary film, is one of the first attempts to tell the story of more than 18,000 people designated as “extremists” by previous governments of Uzbekistan.

• Conversations in Conflict Studies

  February 07, 2024, 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 112

  Azra Hromadžić, associate professor of anthropology, will present "Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River."

• Book Talk - Indebted Mobilities: Indian Youth, Migration and the Internationalizing University

  February 06, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute presents a book talk with Susan Thomas, assistant professor of cultural foundations of education at SU’s School of Education.

• Energy Security in Central Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

  February 06, 2024, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Moynihan Institute's Central Asia and the Caucasus Initiative presents a hybrid CACI-SU Alumni Talk Series event with Mikhail Strokan, Ph.D. candidate from the University of Pennsylvania.