Maxwell School Events Calendar

Social Science and Public Policy Events

• Post-Invasion Russian Migration: Exit as Voice in Central Asia and Caucasus for the Mobile

  September 25, 2025, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join us to explore how Russia’s 2022 invasion sparked a wave of skilled migration to Central Asia and the Caucasus, reshaping politics and mobility.

• Conversations in Conflict Studies Presents Avia Nahreen

  September 25, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 400A

  Ava Nahreen will present: “An Intersectional, Postcolonial Analysis of Peri-Urban Dhaka’s Potable Water Crisis” at our next Conversations in Conflict Studies.

• Daisy Rockwell | Lecture | What's Art Got to Do with It: Translation as Illustration as Translation

  September 22, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 500

  This lecture explores artist translator Daisy Rockwell's use of visualization in her translation of Hindi and Urdu texts, and translation in her art and illustration.

• Daisy Rockwell | Workshop| ‘Translation in Teaching and Researching South Asia and Beyond’

  September 22, 2025, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  What role does translation play in teaching and researching different parts of the world? Join International Booker Prize-Winner Daisy Rockwell for a hands-on workshop that explores this question.

• Selfies of the Crossing: Mediating Migration through the Darien Jungle

  September 19, 2025, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Following a screening of the film, a conversation with the director will serve as a point of departure to examine the production of migrant subjectivities through visual self-representation.

• Reassessing Barbarian Migrations through Ancient DNA - Patrick Geary

  September 18, 2025, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Global Pre-Modern Studies presents: ”Reassessing Barbarian Migrations through Ancient DNA,” a talk by Patrick Geary (Institute for Advances Study, Princeton).

• The Effect of the Great Recession on Student Loan Borrowing and Repayment

  September 18, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Tomas Monarrez of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia will present “The Effect of the Great Recession on Student Loan Borrowing and Repayment.”

• Steal or Starve: Does Investing in Food Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from São Paulo

  September 17, 2025, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Fabiano Jorge Soares (Fundação Getulio Vargas) will present at the Latin America Policy Process Research Initiative's (LAPPRI) Research Seminar series.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Caleb Wroblewski

  September 12, 2025, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  During this webinar, Caleb Wroblewski (University of California Berkley) will present, “The Incidence and Efficiency of Land Value Taxation.”

• The Enduring Impact: Examining American Society post 9/11

  September 11, 2025, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Founders' Room

  This discussion will explore historical perspectives, policy transformations, cultural memory and ongoing implications for geopolitics, civil liberties and international relations post-9/11.

• Expanding the Comprehension of Governance in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Using Institutional Grammar

  September 02, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Carlos Alberto Prieto Valero (European University Viadrina) will present at the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative's Research Seminar Series.

• Policy Design Summer Studio

  August 23, 2025-August 24, 2025

  Virtual

  This online weekend workshop will explore how to incorporate behavioral science, artificial intelligence and collaborative practices into public policy design.

• Diving Deep Into Legal Layers: Institutional Grammar's Insight Into Iran's Groundwater Laws

  August 05, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Arezoo Mirzaei (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) will present at the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative's IGRI Research Seminar Series.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Soomi Lee

  May 02, 2025, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  During this webinar, Soomi Lee (University of La Verne) will present “Welfare Consequences of Mobility Restrictions in the Tiebout Model: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach.”

• Mobilizing for Accountability Amidst Persistent Impunity: Victims' Voices in Mexico

  April 25, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Partisan bias hinders transitional justice in Mexico, but victims' organizations help counter opposition by ensuring fair, unbiased accountability processes.

• Meinig Lecture: Global Geographies of Weather Modification in an Era of Climate Change

  April 24, 2025, 4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Emily Yeh of the University of Colorado Boulder will present this year's Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate Lecture.

• CPR Graduate Student Poster Reception

  April 24, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, Joseph A. Strasser Commons

  CPR Graduate Students will present their work as part of the CPR graduate student poster reception.

• Governing the Unforesseable

  April 24, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 500

  In this talk, David Danks, professor of data science, philosophy and policy at UC San Diego, will present two different efforts to develop appropriate governance mechanisms for AI systems.

• The Social Underpinnings of Political Discontent in Latin America

  April 24, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  How did the decline in fiscal windfalls and unmet social expectations after the commodity boom fuel political discontent and protests in Latin America?

• How To Write for a Broad Public

  April 24, 2025, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  This session will dig into the nuts and bolts of public scholarship and cover why and how to write for the public or participate in broadcast media.