Maxwell School Events Calendar
Talks Events
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Inheriting Caste: Minorities Out of Time in Muslim South Asia
Eggers Hall, 341
Ghazal Asif explores how Pakistan's 2017 census change on caste sparked debates on religious identity, minority recognition and political reimagining.
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Temporal & Spatial Ecologies of Perceptible Violence | Gina Kim’s Bloodless, Tearless & Comfortless
Eggers Hall, 341
Jinah Kim explores Gina Kim's VR films as a critique of military violence, emphasizing sensory immersion to amplify the hidden, ongoing impacts of war.
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Trump’s Tariffs: Issues and Implications
Eggers Hall, 220
Maxwell professors Margarita Estévez-Abe, Devashish Mitra, Ryan Monarch and Kristen Patel will discuss President Trump's tariffs and what the implications are for the U.S. and global economy.
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Debts of Displacement: The Paradoxes of Patronage in a Syrian Refugee Farmworker Camp
Maxwell Hall, 205A
Anthropology Department lunchtime speaker series with China Sajadian, assistant professor of anthropology at Vassar College.
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Migratory Journeys to the United States as Seen Through Contemporary Mexican Theater
Eggers Hall, 341
The era of refugees and migrants, encompassing most of the 20th and 21st centuries, is characterized by displaced and transient human masses.
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Book Talk | Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization among New Americans
Eggers Hall, 341
“Claiming Citizenship” explores Indian American political activism, highlighting diverse advocacy groups, generational differences and the influence of social media.
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Book Talk | ‘Doing Research as a Native: A Guide for Fieldwork in Repressive and Illiberal States’
Eggers Hall, 341
Presentation of “Doing Research as a Native: A Guide for Fieldwork in Illiberal and Repressive States” (Oxford University Press 2025), edited by Kira Jumet and Merouan Mekouar.
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Avoiding Trivia: Reflections on U.S. National Security Strategy
Eggers Hall, 341
The Post-Cold War era is definitively over. So now what? Matan Chorev, former principal deputy director of the secretary of state's policy planning staff, will discuss.
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CANCELLED | Putin’s Holy War: Sacred Memory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Eggers Hall, 341
Sean Griffin traces the career of Patriarch Kirill (Gundiaev), the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, and examines his highly controversial role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The Babel Machine Workshop: Multilingual AI for Cross-National and Comparative Research
Eggers Hall, 341
Discover how cutting-edge large language models can transform your research across language barriers.
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Understanding Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
Eggers Hall, 220
This talk explores the stories collected in two books, “We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria” (2017) and “The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora” (2024).
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Theory from the Trenches: Decolonization and the Storm of Subaltern Marxism
Eggers Hall, 341
Shozab Raza explores a renewed vision of decolonization—one distinct from the efforts led by bureaucrats, professors or social media activists.
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The EU’s Role in Reforming Local Self-Government in Ukraine: From Governance to Conditionality
Eggers Hall, 341
In her research, Mariana Semenyshyn explores the EU’s role in supporting LSG reform and how Ukraine and the EU could further build on this reform as part of the negotiations process.
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Elements of a Negotiated End to the Russia-Ukraine War
Eggers Hall, 341
Join Samuel Charap for an expert analysis on the elements of a negotiated end to the Russia-Ukraine war, drawing from his extensive research and experience.
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Caring Masculinities: Men's Lived Experiences in Eurasia
Maxwell Hall, 204
The Anthropology Department welcomes Elena Borisova to discuss her critical studies of men and masculinities through the anthropological approaches to care.
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Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life
Eggers Hall, 220
This talk is based on Elena Borisova's recent book researching what migration is and what it does in rural Tajikistan—one of the most remittance dependent countries in the world.
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China’s Age of Abundance: A Reflection
Eggers Hall, 060
Wang Feng argues China’s growth was fueled by industrialization, grassroots initiatives and cheap labor, but faces challenges like aging, inequality and rigidity.
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Fernando Parro: Mechanics of Spatial Growth
Eggers Hall, 341
Fernando Parro will discuss how internal migration and trade openness influence both spatial and overall economic growth, particularly through the lens of knowledge diffusion.
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After Azerbaijan: Understanding Autocratization and Climate Diplomacy at UN COP Negotiations
Eggers Hall, 341
This talk explores autocratic regimes' roles in climate diplomacy post-Paris Agreement, highlighting strategies of fossil fuel-dependent states like Azerbaijan.
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Enduring Humanitarianism in the Palestinian Territories
Eggers Hall, 220
This talk will examine the enduring nature of Western aid to Palestine and how Palestinians endure their lives as humanitarian subjects.