Maxwell School Events Calendar

Lectures and Seminars Events

• Arun Brahmbhatt | Publishing Hindu Devotion in the Twentieth Century

  December 02, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Explore how 20th-century Hindu groups used printed images to shape faith, tracing India’s print rise from the 16th to 19th centuries.

• CPR and ASI Data Seminar: Panel Study of Income Dynamics

  November 20, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 426

  CPR and ASI Data Seminar: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (co-sponsored with the Aging Studies Institute). Presenters include Sarah Hamersma, Elizabeth Martin and Emily E. Wiemers.

• Municipal Government Corruption and Responsiveness under Decentralization

  November 19, 2025, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Alan Zarychta (University of Chicago) and Camila Angulo (Indiana University Northwest) will present at the Latin America Policy Process Research Initiative's LAPPRI Research Seminar series.

• Michael Klein | Patents, Secrecy, and Financing Innovation

  November 17, 2025, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This presentation examines the relationship between financial development and the economic impact of patent policy.

• Unspoiled Paradise or Microcosm for the End of Times: Community Building & Conservation, Madagascar

  November 17, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Madagascar is a household name thanks to DreamWorks’ Madagascar movies and PBS’s Zoboomafoo, yet it is rarely recognized for its true significance as one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.

• From Sacred Leaf to Illicit Crop: Coca, Memory, and the Politics of Vegetal Excess in Colombia

  November 13, 2025, 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The Anthropology Department welcomes Miryam de Jesus Nacimento to discuss Colombian peasant farmers, the coca plant and their role in Colombia's changing racial politics.

• Migration, Mobility and Solidarity

  November 11, 2025, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220, Strasser Legacy Room

  This event is part of a global teach-in/teach-out at more than 26 universities worldwide, organized by the Global Migration Scholars Network.

• 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.

• The Political Causes and Policy Consequences of the One Big Beautiful Bill

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

  Virtual

  The State of Democracy Lecture Series will host a virtual panel discussion on “The Political Causes and Policy Consequences of the One Big Beautiful Bill.”

• 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.

• 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.

• 7th Annual Potash Keynote Speaker: Jim Obergefell

  October 29, 2025, 6:30 p.m.-7:59 p.m. EDT

  Newhouse 3, Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium

  Obergefell was the lead plaintiff in the historic Supreme Court case Obergefell vs. Hodges that established marriage equality in the U.S. He will reflect on the 10-year anniversary of the case.

• Governing in the Age of AI: Lessons from Recoding America

  October 29, 2025, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Jennifer Pahlka, author of Recoding America, looks at what artificial intelligence means for democracy and the future of public institutions.

• ASI Seminar: Eduardo Caldas Costa

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

  Lyman Hall, 312

  Eduardo Caldas Costa will discuss, “Movement, Function, and Intrinsic Capacity: Insights into Health Longevity from Public Primary Care in Coastal and Semi-Arid Regions of Northeast Brazil.”

• 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.

• 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.

• Sleep Duration and Aging from a Biosocial, Life Course Perspective

  October 17, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Jess M. Meyer, assistant professor of population health at the University of Kansas Medical Center, will present “Sleep Duration and Aging from a Biosocial, Life Course Perspective.”

• AI Will Change Everything Except What Matters Most

  October 16, 2025, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Dr. Hassan Tetteh will present, "AI Will Change Everything Except What Matters Most," at the 37th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy.

• Credit Access among Formerly Justice-Involved Entrepreneurs: Regression Discontinuity Evidence

  October 09, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Michael Mueller-Smith, associate professor of economics at the University of Michigan, will present as part of the CPR Seminar Series (co-sponsored by the Economics Department).

• IGRI Working Group Report: The Grammar of Rules-In-Use

  October 07, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  The IGRI Working Group “The Grammar of Rules-In-Use” will present at the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative's IGRI Research Seminar Series.