Maxwell School Events Calendar

Social Science and Public Policy Events

• Early Modern Connected Histories Workshop Featuring Dr. Gillian Weiss

  November 30, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 151

  Dr. Gillian Weiss will present "The Money Launderer's Daughter: A Sephardic Woman and a Slave Rumor in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean."

• CPR Seminar Series: Sadé Lindsay

  November 30, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Sadé Lindsay, assistant professor of public policy and sociology, Cornell University, will present "Signals from the Carceral Tower: Race, Prison Education Programs, and Stigma in the Labor Market."

• Conversations in Conflict Studies Presents Jamie Shinn

  November 30, 2023, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 112

  Jamie Shinn will present “The Power and Politics of Transformational Adaptation in International Climate Finance” as part of the Conversations in Conflict Studies series.

• Navigating Civil Dialogue in the Context of the War in the Middle East

  November 28, 2023, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Facilitating campus discourse about the Israel-Hamas conflict will be the focus of this virtual event featuring two professors from Dartmouth College: Tarek El-Ariss and Susannah Heschel.

• Central Asia’s “new” states: Emergence of New Uzbekistan and New Kazakhstan

  November 27, 2023, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341 NY, United States

  SU student researchers from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will discuss the chronological background, political context and situated meanings of “New” Kazakhstan and “New” Uzbekistan.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Erin Troland

  November 17, 2023, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Erin Troland (Federal Reserve Board) will present “The Role of Property Assessment Oversight in School Finance Inequality.” Discussion will follow with Bob Bifulco (Syracuse University).

• CPR Methods Workshop: Xue Zhang, “Web Scraping with Python for Beginners: BeautifulSoup Library”

  November 16, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Xue Zhang, Lerner Postdoctoral Scholar in Population Health will present “Web Scraping with Python for Beginners: BeautifulSoup Library."

• Scaling Up and Going Out: The Politics of Chinese Agribusiness Development

  November 15, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Kristen Looney explores Chinese agribusiness “scaling up” and “going out,” its impact on smallholder farming & industrial agriculture, and competition with U.S. firms.

• Sociology Department Colloquium Series: Dana Moss

  November 14, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Dana Moss, associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, will present, "The Globalization of Authoritarianism and The Impact on Refugees and Diasporas in the 21st Century."

• Challenges to Citizenship | Competitive Authoritarianism in the Middle East: The Turkish Case

  November 14, 2023, 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Panelists will discuss President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's perspective on Turkey's relationship with the West

• International Law in a World of States: The Politics of the International Criminal Court

  November 13, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  The Moynihan Institute’s newest series, Law in World Affairs, with the Maxwell African Scholars Union and the Political Science Department presents Oumar Ba from Cornell University.

• Ray Smith Symposium: Tour of Peter B. Jones Exhibition at Syracuse University Art Museum

  November 13, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m. EST

  Shaffer Art Building

  Tour the exhibit and hear remarks from the curators, symposium speakers and guests, and Onondaga Nation elders.

• Trevor Tombe - Regional Integration and Aggregate Economic Volatility: A Quantitative Analysis

  November 13, 2023, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Regional economies link through trade, migration and finance. Shocks in one area impact others, either dampening or amplifying national effects.

• Ray Smith Symposium Panel Discussion

  November 13, 2023, 3 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Join after the lectures for a panel discussion of guest questions moderated by Neal Powless and Michelle Shenandoah.

• Ray Smith Symposium Haudenosaunee Luncheon

  November 13, 2023, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 118

  Join us for a traditional Haudenosaunee meal prepared by Onondaga Nation Seed Keeper Angela Ferguson.

• Ray Smith Symposium Lectures: Indigenous Resilience, Climate Change, & the Environmental Humanities

  November 13, 2023, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Lectures from educators and Indigenous knowledge keepers examining fire management and water rights in the American West.

• Ray Smith Symposium Student Poster Fair

  November 13, 2023, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  See the poster gallery prepared by seniors in the environment, sustainability and policy capstone class.

• Ray Smith Symposium Dinner

  November 12, 2023, 4:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. EST

  Skybarn

  Join us for a buffet dinner featuring Haudenosaunee performance art.

• Ray Smith Symposium Lectures: Indigenous Resilience, Climate Change, & the Environmental Humanities

  November 12, 2023, 1 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Symposium opening with Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address followed by lectures from Indigenous knowledge keepers and artists examining arctic climate change, conservation and biodiversity.

• Alexandra Blackman|Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records

  November 10, 2023, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Moynihan Institute and the program for the Study of Global Politics welcomes Alexandra Blackman of Cornell University.