Maxwell School Events Calendar

Lectures and Seminars Events

• 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.

• ASI Seminar: Faculty Research

  September 19, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Lyman Hall, 314

  Faculty members Jun Li, Marc Garcia and Senem Velipasalar will present their research.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Counterconforming to Ableism: Defining and Measuring Disability

  May 09, 2025, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Book workshop featuring Scott Landes, associate professor of sociology, who will present “Counterconforming to Ableism: Defining and Measuring Disability.”

• Solo Living Across the Life Course

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

  Lyman Hall, 312

  James Raymo, professor of sociology at Princeton University, will present “Solo Living Across the Life Course.”

• 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.

• Cumulative Disadvantage and the Aging of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

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

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Fernando Riosmena will present “Cumulative Disadvantage and the Aging of Mexican Immigrants in the United States” as part of the CPR Seminar Series. Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department.

• Process of Policy Seminar: A Practitioner-Academic Conversation

  April 10, 2025, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  This virtual, quarterly seminar series examines policy deliberation, design and implementation for many pressing issues—from climate change to voting rights.

• Advice From an Ex-Editor: Some Things to Think About When You're Submitting an Article Manuscript

  April 09, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Room 114 )

  Joshua Piker, former editor of the William & Mary Quarterly, will urge authors to think about the publishing process from within the context of their own scholarship and professional trajectory.

• Environmental Repair and Reparations in San Francisco

  April 04, 2025, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  As part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series, Lindsey Dillon, associate professor of sociology at UC Santa Cruz, will present "Environmental Repair and Reparations in San Francisco."

• The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond

  April 04, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Join us for an engaging conversation with Maxwell alumna Debra Whitman, chief public policy officer for AARP and author of “The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond.”

• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

  April 03, 2025, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall

  Jennifer Eberhardt (Stanford) will present the tenth annual Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics.

• Life Together Leadership Fellows - Session 4

  April 02, 2025, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  A four-part training program on civic engagement and civil discourse offered by the Life Together initiative steering committee and PARCC.

• Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Social Science

  April 01, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Join us for a thought-provoking discussion with pioneering international scholar Miklós Sebők, who developed a no-code LLM platform for studying international politics across twenty languages.

• Decoding Deception: Advancing Critical Thinking to Strengthen Democracy

  March 26, 2025, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Grant Auditorium

  Part of the “Life Together: Seeking the Common Good in a Diverse Democracy” initiative, this event tackles the challenge of confronting mis/disinformation to restore trust and strengthen democracy.

• Bereavement Expectancies: Introduction to a New Population Health Metric

  March 25, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Ashton Verdery will present “Bereavement Expectancies: Introduction to a New Population Health Metric” as part of the CPR Seminar Series. This event is co-sponsored by the Sociology Department.

• CPR and ASI Data Seminar: The Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

  March 20, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  CPR and ASI Data Seminar: The Health and Retirement Study (HRS).