Maxwell School Events Calendar

Social Science and Public Policy Events

• Forum on Media and Suicide with Michiko Ueda-Ballmer and Margaret Talev

  November 09, 2023, 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m. EST

  Virtual

  The 3rd Canadian media forum will engage and inform media content creators and journalists on adhering to safe media reporting of suicide.

• "Listen to the Elders" Speaker Series

  November 06, 2023, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 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.

• Environmental Litigation in China, Revisited: A Study in Political Ambivalence

  November 06, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Now, ten years after publication, this talk offers an opportunity to reflect on which insights have proved enduring and what has changed under General Secretary Xi Jinping.

• A Short History of India’s Economy since 1947 and the Current Challenge

  November 06, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  This lecture will briefly go over this history and then focus on some of the big challenges faced by India today.

• Micron in Central New York: What’s at Stake for the Local Environment, Amenities and Infrastructure?

  November 06, 2023, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  A multidisciplinary panel of faculty experts will discuss Micron in Central New York and what's at stake for the environment, amenities and infrastructure.

• Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series

  November 03, 2023, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  Kafui Attoh, associate professor of urban studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, and Declan Cullen, assistant professor of geography at The George Washington University, will present "Urban Politics in the Age of Uber."

• Grey Anderson: NATO’s Hegemonic Fix

  November 02, 2023, 6:30 p.m.-7:50 p.m. EDT

  Stolkin Auditorium

  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization can claim with justification to be the most successful military alliance in history.

• History Department Workshop featuring Helmut Walser Smith

  November 02, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 151

  History Department Workshop featuring Helmut Walser Smith.

• CPR Seminar Series: Brian Jacob

  November 02, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Brian Jacob, University of Michigan, will present "Why Choose Career Technical Education? Disentangling Student Preferences from Program Availability."

• State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya

  October 30, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Egor Lazarev's (Yale) new book explores the use of state and non-state legal systems by both politicians and ordinary people in postwar Chechnya.

• Graeme Blair: Crime, insecurity, and community policing - Experiments on building trust

  October 27, 2023, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Is it possible to reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between police and citizens?

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: François Koulischer

  October 27, 2023, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  François Koulischer (University of Luxemburg) will present “Tax Subsidies and Housing Affordability.” Discussion will follow with Sebastien Bradley (Drexel University).

• CAPS Annual Conference Keynote Speaker: Hui Zheng

  October 27, 2023, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  CAPS Annual Conference featuring Hui Zheng, discussing, "Understanding American Health Trends: Deaths of Despair, Racial Disparities, and The Declining Health in Boomers to Millennials."

• Reverberations: War Memories

  October 26, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The Anthropology Department hosts Velibor Božović, Saida Hodžić, Emina Zoletić, and Rešid and Emrah Salkić to discuss the transmission of wartime memories, focusing on the Bosnian War.

• AI Policy Symposium Reception

  October 26, 2023, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  The Cornerstone 800 Maine Ave. SW Washington, D.C.

  A lunch reception will be held on Capitol Hill with members of Congress and staff, followed in the afternoon with a plenary session on AI, Elections and Information Policy.

• Early Modern Connected Histories Workshop Featuring Dr. Casey Schmitt

  October 25, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204B

  Dr. Casey Schmitt will present "'A Trail Would be Blazed:' Commercial Competition and the Intra-Caribbean Slave Tarde, 1650-1670."

• From Non-Brahmin Self-Respect to Dravidian Self-Rule

  October 24, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Matt Baxter focuses on the rising salience of the Continental Jew during the 1930s and the subsequent appropriations on the Indian Subcontinent associated with the radical social reformer EV Ramasami.

• CPR Seminar Series: Shellye Suttles

  October 19, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Shellye Suttles, assistant professor, O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, will present "Understanding Variation in State Policy and Politics of Food Environments."

• Symposium on Western Sahara

  October 17, 2023, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  Presented by PARCC and moderated by Ryan Griffiths (Political Science) along with Sidi Omar, Stephen Zunes and Adrienne Kinne on the panel.

• Sociology Department Colloquium Series: Michael Dunaway

  October 17, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Postdoctoral Research Scholar Michael Dunaway will present, "Factors for Technological Appropriateness of Renewable Energy Options on Native American Reservations," as part of the Sociology Department Colloquium Series.