Maxwell School Events Calendar

Lectures and Seminars Events

• CPR Methods Seminar: A Simple, Statistically Robust Test of Discrimination

  November 07, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  CPR Methods Seminar: Sharad Goel, Harvard Kennedy School, will present "A Simple, Statistically Robust Test of Discrimination."

• Life Together: A Community Conversation for Election Season and Beyond

  October 22, 2024, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. EDT

  Schine Student Center, Goldstein Auditorium

  This dialogue-driven event is designed not to make participants agree, but to alter the way we disagree, so we can live better together as learners and leaders.

• Election 2024: Gerontocracy in American Politics - A Centennial Election Event

  October 11, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Election 2024: Gerontocracy in American Politics, part of the State of Democracy Lecture Series.

• Anna Calori: The Power of Alternatives

  October 09, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The Anthropology Department welcomes Anna Calori to discuss collective self-reliance, non-alignment, and the Yugoslav approach to South-South cooperation.

• Effects of Income on Infant Health: Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Stimulus Checks

  October 07, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Robert Kaestner, University of Chicago, will present "Effects of Income on Infant Health: Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Pandemic Stimulus Checks" as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• 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.

• Priority-Based Budgeting Talk with Maxwell Alumnus, Stuart Schillinger G'86

  October 04, 2024, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Maxwell alumnus Stuart Schillinger '86 M.P.A. to speak on priority-based budgeting, entrepreneurial spirit in government work and financial investments in the community.

• Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality and Healthy Aging in the US and UK

  September 27, 2024, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Jennifer Beam Dowd, professor of demography and population health at Oxford University, will present "Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality and Healthy Aging in the U.S. and U.K."

• Economics of Crime: Alternatives to Traditional Criminal Justice Policies

  September 26, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Monica Deza, associate professor of economics and CPR senior research associate, will present as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• Distinguished Speaker Burkhardt Wolf: ‘Dial A for Anxiety: Media and Affect’

  September 20, 2024, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204B

  Burkhardt Wolf is chair and professor of modern German literature at the University of Vienna, where he studies cultural history at the intersection of literary and media theory.

• The Long-run Effect of Air Pollution on Survival

  September 20, 2024, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Julian Reif, associate professor of finance and economics at the University of Illinois, will present "The Long-run Effect of Air Pollution on Survival."

• Keynote: Eurasia Unbound? Reflections on Empire, Geopolitics and Citizenship

  September 14, 2024, 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Auditorium

  The Maxwell School is hosting the 2024 CESS Fall Conference, themed "Citizenship Unbound: Central Eurasia in a Changing World" with alumna Bhavna Davé presenting the keynote lecture.

• Outreach: Afghanistan in the Classroom

  September 13, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  This virtual workshop provides approaches and tools for elementary school educators to introduce Afghanistan into their curriculum and provide a nuanced view of the people and culture.

• 2020: How America's Year of Crises Has Shaped 2024

  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.

• CPR Seminar Series: Graduate Student Presentations

  May 02, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  CPR Graduate Students will present as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• CAPS Seminar: Mateo Farina

  April 26, 2024, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Mateo Farina, assistant professor at the University of Texas Austin, will present "Early Life Origins of Cognitive and Biological Aging."

• 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.

• CMC Presents Cross-Cultural Communication

  April 12, 2024, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  This workshop will help you develop skills to foster better communication across cultural differences.

• 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.