Maxwell School Events Calendar

Lectures and Seminars Events

  • After the Election: Assessing the Midterms

    Virtual

    Campbell Lecture: Join us for a moderated panel discussion of the midterm election results and their implications.

  • The archaeological record of the African diaspora in Brazil

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    Luis Symanski, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil will discuss the archaeological record of the African diaspora in Brazil: some thoughts on the materiality of the African creolization process in the Americas.

  • CAPS Seminar: Taylor Hargrove

    Virtual

    CAPS Seminar: Taylor Hargrove, Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina Title: Mental Health across the Early life Course and the Intersections of Race, Skin Tone, and School Context

  • CPR Seminar Series: Ying Shi

    Eggers Hall, 060

    Ying Shi (Syracuse University) will present “Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout in the Aftermath of Shelby County v. Holder” as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

  • Conversations in Conflict Studies: Matthew McLeskey

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    Join us for "The Epidemiological Context of the Affordable Housing Crisis" with Matthew McLeskey.

  • Misremembered Massacre: Simon Pokagon’s Indigenous Account of the Battle of Fort Dearborn

    Maxwell Hall, 204B

    The Battle of Fort Dearborn is commonly portrayed as a foundational event in the early history of Chicago. Typical historical narratives describe the battle as a massacre of innocent white settlers by blood thirsty Potawatomi warriors.

  • PAIA Departmental Seminar Series: Paul Light

    Eggers Hall, 209

    Paul Light (New York University) will present “Still Searching for Social Entrepreneurship after all these Years: Reflections on field building."

  • Hidden Gardens and Other Acts of Subtle Resistance

    Maxwell Hall, 204B

    Hidden Gardens and Other Acts of Subtle Resistance: Multispecies Politics in a Mexican Coffee Plantation

  • CAPS Annual Conference Keynote Speaker: David Cutler

    Virtual

    CAPS Annual Conference Keynote Speaker: David Cutler, Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University, presents "Is Aging a Luxury Good?"

  • A Doleful Place Indeed, for the Site of a Future City

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    Shifting power dynamics and infrastructural development within the city of Syracuse have long intertwined with geographic adjacency and the ability to control water resources. A population’s social and economic standing correlated to their proximity to areas subjected to flooding and other negative consequences of a water-rich landscape.

  • Labor's Revival: Unions and the Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice

    Dineen Hall, 020

    Hear from prominent labor leaders about the ongoing struggle for dignity and democracy at work at the 2022 Lender Center Conversation led by Lender Center co-director Gretchen Purser.

  • State of Democracy Lecture on The State of Congress: Looking Toward the Midterms

    Maxwell Hall, Auditorium

    State of Democracy Lecture with Sarah Binder, professor of political science at George Washington University and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, who specializes in Congress and legislative politics. Dr. Binder will discuss, "The State of Congress: Looking Toward the Midterms."

  • A Stamp on the Seafloor/Un Sello en el Fondo del Mar

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    In July 2017, Ruben Santana died in a spearfishing accident off the coast of Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. This short ethnographic film chronicles his life and the events of his death through the voices of his colleagues, for whom Ruben was deeply loved.

  • The Archaeology of Eighteenth Century Historic Households in Central New York

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    The Historic Households of Central New York project focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of the Indigenous and white settler colonialist populations moving into this region following the Revolutionary War through geophysical survey and small-scale excavations of homesteads identified through historic markers.

  • “ ‘If he is converted’ “: A New Spanish Feather Work Ecce Homo in Southeastern Africa

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    Both pre-invasion and viceregal New Spanish (Mexican) feather works were rapidly and globally disseminated through religious and family networks, in the early modern period. This paper explores the little-known history of a devotional feather work Ecce Homo sent from Portugal to southeastern Africa in 1569.

  • America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth: A Fireside Chat with Sam Quinones

    Eggers Hall, 220

    Sam Quinones, Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, will present at this year's Lourie Lecture.

  • Working Spaces

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    The presentation examines how the expansion of the world-economy and the botanical economy of cotton, sugar, and coffee created distinctive slave plantation landscapes in nineteenth century Mississippi, Cuba, and Brazil. Using visual sources, it discusses how the physical organization of these working spaces regulated the interaction of the environment, the material conditions of production, and slave labor.

  • Making Sewers Sacred: Pollution and Progress in Santos, Brazil

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    How do sewers become sacred? The port of Santos is famous for being the first city in Brazil with a modern sewer system. The opening of the sewer (1907) saved the city's population from horrible disease outbreaks and ended disruptions in the coffee trade caused by Yellow Fever and the plague.

  • Two Koreas and the US: Current Situation, Realistic Interests, Policy Options

    Eggers Hall, 341

    In coming years, what are the power and policy options that impact stability, security and development?

  • State of Democracy: Is Free Speech Killing Democracy?

    Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium

    "Is Free Speech Killing Democracy?" The State of Democracy Lecture Series welcomes Jacob Mchangama, a lawyer, writer and activist in Denmark. He is founder and executive director of Justitia, and host of the podcast "Clear and Present Danger: a history of free speech."

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