Maxwell School Events Calendar

Centennial Events

• The Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Maeve E. Kane

  October 04, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, Eggers 220

  Drawing on oral, archival, quantitative and visual evidence, historian Maeve E. Kane discusses how Haudenosaunee women used clothing to define and protect their nations’ sovereignty.

• 36th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy

  September 11, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, will present at the 2024 Lourie Lecture.

• Geography and the Environment- Donald Meinig Lecture

  April 25, 2024, 4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220, The Strasser Legacy Room

  Cynthia Brewer, professor of geography at Penn State University, will present "Making Beautiful Maps Using GIS Tools."

• The Right to Property and Economic Development in India

  April 17, 2024, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Sawyer Law and Politics Program will host Dr. Namita Wahi, a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, and founding director of the Land Rights Initiative.

• Taking Tutoring to Scale in Metro Nashville Public Schools: A Multi-Year Analysis

  April 11, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Matthew Kraft, associate professor of education and economics at Brown University, presented at the 2024 Jerry Miner Lecture.

• Total Solar Eclipse Extravaganza

  April 08, 2024, 2:50 p.m.-3:50 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Lincoln Courtyard

  Watch the cosmic curtain fall as the moon steals the spotlight from the sun. Free eclipse glasses provided.

• Africa, African Diasporas and the Caribbean: Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Day 2)

  April 06, 2024, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 107

  The Anthropology Department will bring together students, alumni and invited speakers to recognize the contributions of Professor Emeritus Douglas V. Armstrong.

• Africa, African Diasporas and the Caribbean: Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Day 1)

  April 05, 2024, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220, The Strasser Legacy Room

  The Anthropology Department will bring together students, alumni and invited speakers to recognize the contributions of Professor Emeritus Douglas V. Armstrong.

• Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Jennifer V. Evans

  March 29, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Jennifer Evans, professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, will present "Illiberal Memory and Transatlantic Hate Networks in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries"

• Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics

  March 28, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall

  Sendhil Mullainathan (Chicago Booth) will present the ninth annual Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics.

• Centennial Celebration (with cake!)

  March 28, 2024, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, Commons

  Celebrate Maxwell's centennial with cake! Have your photo taken with Otto, check out our centennial map and tell us how you ever strive.

• Democracy, Authoritarianism and Nationalism: India in Comparative Perspective

  March 22, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium

  The State of Democracy Lecture Series welcomes Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.

• Campaign 2024: Super Tuesday and Beyond

  March 01, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  The State of Democracy Lecture Series will host "Campaign 2024: Super Tuesday and Beyond."

• Ever Strive for Diversity and Inclusion

  February 21, 2024, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Sean Drake, assistant professor of sociology, will give a presentation on the recent history of school segregation and desegregation efforts in the U.S., followed by a discussion.

• Phanstiel Lecture: Honourable Marc Garneau

  November 16, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  "A Canadian Perspective on Public Service: From Following to Leading," with the Honourable Marc Garneau, former Canadian minister of foreign affairs and member of Parliament.

• State of Democracy Lecture with Dina Nayeri

  November 10, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium

  Reconsidering Refugees and Immigration: A Conversation with Dina Nayeri.

• 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.

• Tanner Lecture: The New Jim Crow

  October 27, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium

  The Tanner Lecture Series will host Michelle Alexander, The New York Times best-selling author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

• Micron in Central New York: What’s at Stake for Property Values, Taxes and Public Finance?

  October 02, 2023, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  A multidisciplinary panel of faculty experts will discuss Micron in Central New York and what's at stake for the property values, taxes and public finance.

• Chasing the Flames: A Look Back at COVID-Era Policy Making, Economics, and Data

  September 28, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Kosali Simon, the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor at Indiana University, will present at this year's Lourie Lecture.