Maxwell School Events Calendar

Social Science and Public Policy Events

• Land (Ab)use Planning: Consequences of Failed Planning Models; Food Systems in Global South Cities

  November 11, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Raja explores how acontextual planning frameworks influence urban food systems, especially in cities in contested, occupied and conflict regions.

• Judgment and Justice: The ECHR’s Ruling on Russian Human Rights Violations in Ukraine

  November 10, 2025, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. EST

  Joseph I. Lubin House 11 East 61st Street New York, NY

  This panel talk will explore the judgment’s legal significance and its implications for the ongoing war and prospects for accountability.

• Defining China: State, Nation, and Sovereignty in the Long Twentieth Century

  November 07, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Mara Du examines how China, Chinese nationalism and Sino-foreign relations have been shaped by the multifaceted concept of guo—a term that meant “dynastic state” but is now defined as “nation-state.”

• Interest-Based Problem Solving Workshop

  November 07, 2025, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The Conflict Management Center presents their Interest-Based Problem Solving Workshop featuring Dr. Averell Manes.

• Ellen Lust | Social Institutions and Women’s Land Rights

  November 07, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In this talk, Lust will present a new paper which posits that lineage and authority systems jointly shape women’s property rights, revealing layered gendered effects in Malawi.

• What Side Are You On? A Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders

  November 06, 2025, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero explore the impact of poverty, racism and border policing on Native peoples, focusing on Wilson's activism and personal journey.

• CPR Seminar Series: Justin Zimmerman, University at Albany

  November 06, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Justin Zimmerman, assistant professor of political science in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, will present as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• Conversations in Conflict Studies Presents Alexandra Scrivner

  November 06, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 400A

  Alexandra Scrivner will present “Resiliency and Regionalism with Transitional Justice Movements.”

• Norm Typology and the Study of Commons

  November 04, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Gerard Conway (Brunel University) will present at the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative's IGRI Research Seminar Series.

• The Violence of Inclusion: The Shifting Stakes of Compatriotism for Immigrants to Russia

  October 31, 2025, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Drawing on months of ethnographic fieldwork in the region, this talk examines how migrants and officials use the Resettlement of Compatriots Program to pursue diverse goals.

• Holding the River, Holding the Past: Co-Creating Knowledge in a Changing Alaskan Landscape

  October 30, 2025, 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The Anthropology Department welcomes Jonathan Lim to discuss the community-owned geospatial company Nalaquq and how it works to mitigate environmental challenges faced by Alaska Native communities.

• George Bogden | Reassessing U.S. Economic Strategy: The Trump Era and Beyond

  October 30, 2025, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This talk examines how the Trump administration’s economic policy marked a turning point in U.S. trade and industrial strategy.

• Lessons from the South: Dictatorships and Resilience in Latin America

  October 28, 2025, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220 | Strasser Legacy Room

  Join faculty experts for an engaging conversation about history, democracy and the choices that shape our political future.

• Ann Grodzins Gold | Errant Youth: Circling the Subcontinent, 1968

  October 28, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Ann Grodzins Gold, professor emerita of religion, will draw from Chapter 6 of her (unpublished) memoir "Gap Years: How Anthropology Saved My Life".

• War on Reality: How Autocrats are Silencing Truth Tellers Around the World

  October 27, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Nina Jankowicz examines global campaigns against truth tellers and explores strategies to safeguard democracy’s shared reality.

• Campaigning to a Polarized Electorate: Emotions and Information in Real Election Campaigns

  October 24, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  What forms of campaigning work for politicians; programmatic policy appeals, or the current movement of emotionally charged appeals?

• Conversations in Conflict Studies Presents Margaret Collins Engel

  October 23, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 400A

  Margaret Collins Engel will present “The 2026 International People’s Tribunal: Seeking Justice for Korean A-Bomb Victims.”

• NYS 2025 Wastewater Surveillance Summit

  October 23, 2025, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  National Veterans Resource Center, KG Tan Auditorium

  The 2025 Wastewater Surveillance Summit will focus on the evolving role of wasterwater surveillance in public health.

• German Culture and Conversation Table

  October 20, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come to the German Table! All levels welcome!

• Conflict Management Center Workshop: Design Thinking

  October 17, 2025, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  James Fathers, professor of design studies in VPA, will introduce participants to design thinking, a participatory approach to addressing complex problems.