Maxwell School Events Calendar
Talks Events
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Book Talk | SAC | Mother Tongue and English: The Politics of Language in Indian Higher Education
Eggers Hall, 341
Chaise LaDousa (Hamilton College) and Christina Davis (Western Illinois Univ.) examine education policy and a campus cultural event to trace ideological constructions of mother tongue and English.
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Anka Lee | What's Next? China Competition and America's Allies and Partners after Trump
Eggers Hall, 341
Anka Lee, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia at the Pentagon, will present as part of the Moynihan Institute's Practice of Global Politics Seminar series.
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Daniel Benaim | America and the Gulf: Past, Present, and Future
Eggers Hall, 220
This event will now occur in 220 EGGERS Hall.
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Nermin Allam | The Afterlife of Women's Participation in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising
Maxwell Hall, 204
Allam (Rutgers University) will show how women’s encounters with gender-based violence in protests and exposures to new social and political networks influenced their personal and professional lives.
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Adam Spencer | Industrial Policy Wars and Inequality: Who Loses and When?
Eggers Hall, 341
How does an industrial policy war affect worker inequality? How does this effect change over time? Adam Spencer (Univ. of Bonn, Germany) will discuss their model of policy study in an open economy.
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Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa: Everyday Production of Democratic Legitimacy
Eggers Hall, 341
Nicholas N. Kerr from the University of Florida will discuss elections and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa since 1990s, focusing on Nigeria and utilizing surveys, fieldwork and cross-national data.
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Book Talk | The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Eggers Hall, 341
Drawing on an array of new documents and interviews, Joseph Torigian (American University) tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, father of China’s President Xi Jingping.
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Graduate Student Perspectives on South Asian Art
Shaffer Art Building, SU Art Museum
Syracuse University graduate students of South Asia discuss works of art from the Syracuse University Art Museum collections in relation to their own writing, research and art-making practices.
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Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century
Eggers Hall, 341
The Moynihan Institute’s Study of Global Politics series presents a book talk with author and Syracuse University professor Ryan Griffiths.
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The DMZ as Technologized Soundscape: K-Pop & Other Sonic Entanglements in the Demilitarized Zone
Maxwell Hall, 204
Joowon Park, chair and professor of anthropology at Skidmore College, will analyze the role of technology in shaping this militarized area and the human experience within and outside the DMZ.
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Among the Ruins: Archaeological Conservation & Historic Preservation at Crown Point Historic Site
Maxwell Hall, 204
Sam Huntington, historic site manager with NYS Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, will speak about the history of Crown Point State Historic Site and its archaeological conservation.
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Oxana Shevel | Russia's Invasion, Ukraine's Resistance, and Prospects for Peace
Hall of Languages, 500
Oxana Shevel (Tufts University) argues that the roots of Russia’s war on Ukraine lie not in NATO enlargement but in the growing identity and regime divergence between the two states since 1991.
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Documenting Care: Labor and the Archive at MohenjoDaro
Bird Library, 114, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
The Anthropology Department welcomes Uzma Rizvi from the Pratt Institute to discuss the documentation of archaeological labor and understanding the roles of care work.
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Governing by Dispossession: Enemy Property and the Afterlives of the 1971 War in Pakistan
Eggers Hall, 341
This talk traces how the category of enemy property migrated from a European imperial wartime technology to a postcolonial mode of governing minorities in South Asia.
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A Peace Most Fragile: A Corpus-Analysis Approach to Understanding the Anglophone Treaty.
Virtual
Tarren Andrews of Yale University will present “A Peace Most Fragile: A Corpus-Analysis Approach to Understanding the Anglophone Treaty from the 9th Century to the 19th.”
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The Pulled Punch and the Sheathed Blade: ‘Her Story’ (2024) as a Feminist Stand-Up Film
Eggers Hall, 341
This talk explores how the movie “Her Story” (Hao dongxi), borrows not only the quick, verbal wit of stand-up, but also its risky politics of “punching up” in a censored environment.
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Laura Cooper | Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Wake Up Calls and What's Next for the US and Allies
Eggers Hall, 220 | Strasser Legacy Room
Laura Cooper is the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and a career member of the Senior Executive Service.
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Meredith Weiss | Activist Adaptations: Sustaining Protest as Liberalism Wanes
Eggers Hall, 341
Weiss will examine how activists recalibrate their strategies amid mounting repression and the constant uncertainty of taking risks to pursue political opportunities.
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Qualitative Research Data Management for Public Health Researchers
Eggers Hall, 341
This 90-minute session introduces key ideas and essential practices in managing qualitative and multi-method data in alignment with the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
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Liberty Bell's Electronic Ring: The Establishment and Production of Online Hate 1983-1995
Eggers Hall, 151
Ph.D. candidate Ian Glazman-Schillinger presents “Liberty Bell's Electronic Ring: The Establishment and Production of Online Hate, 1983-1995.”