Maxwell School Events Calendar
Talks Events
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History Department Workshop-Featuring Dennis Romano
Eggers Hall, 151
Professor Emeritus Dennis Romano will give a talk on the armory in the Ducal Palace, Venice, maintained by the Council of Ten, in essence Venice's national security agency
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Forgotten Fires: Reconsidering the Fire Regimes of Upper Great Lakes Red Pine Landscapes
Eggers Hall, 018
The Geography and the Envrionment Colloquium Series. "Forgotten Fires: Reconsidering the fire regimes of Upper Great Lakes red pine landscapes." Kurt Kipfmueller, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
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Realigning Humanitarianism: Post-Socialist Pedagogy as Liberal Politics of Love
Maxwell Hall, 204
Professor Čarna Brković, University of Mainz, Germany, argues for developing nuanced analytical terms to understand the post-socialist transformation.
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‘Pushed or Pulled to Homeschool’ by Mahala Stewart
Eggers Hall, 060
"Pushed or Pulled to Homeschool: How Inequality Shapes Black and White Mothers’ Schooling Decisions" presented by Mahala Stewart, assistant professor at Hamilton College.
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Book Talk - ‘Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice’
Eggers Hall, 341
Professor Farhana Sultana will discuss how climate justice fundamentally is about paying attention to how climate change impacts people differently, unevenly and disproportionately.
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Constitutionalism v. Populism - Are Britain and Germany less vulnerable than the USA?
Eggers Hall, 060
This question frames populism as democracy’s ‘dark side,’ often countered by constitutional safeguards, yet these constraints might weaken democracy itself.
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Nicholas Mulder - Reserve Risk: The History of the Asset Freeze, 1939-2000
Eggers Hall, 341
Tracing the history of asset freezing to its origins, Mulder will present how the process influenced and helped break the Bretton Woods global financial order.
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How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy
Eggers Hall, 341
This talk will argue that great-power competition with China is misguided and vastly underestimates the costs and risks that geopolitical rivalry poses to global stability.
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The Value of Value Chains: An Experiment Linking Farmers' Co-ops with Maize Processors in Rwanda
Eggers Hall, 341
Alan Spearot will discuss his study of 180 maize cooperatives in Rwanda that found that WFP market support raised formal sales, boosting revenue by 150%-300% via expanded land use and inputs.
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LOCATION CHANGE-Phanstiel Lecture: The People Who Built the Pyramids—How We Know
Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium
Join us for a talk with Mark Lehner, director of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, which conducts annual excavations of Old Kingdom settlements near the Sphinx and Pyramids.
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Green Extractivism and Expropriation of Emission Rights amidst Mitigation Policies & the Carbon Rush
Eggers Hall, 018
The Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series. "Green Extractivism and Expropriation of Emission Rights amidst Mitigation Policies & the Carbon Rush." Natacha Bruna, Cornell University.
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Razia Iqbal: International News, What's Changed and What's Stayed the Same
Eggers Hall, 341
Drawing on over 30 years of global reporting, Iqbal will explore the evolution of international journalism, sharing her experiences from the BBC's Newshour and her work as a special correspondent.
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Arthur C. Brooks: How to Get Happier in an Unhappy World
National Veterans Resource Center, K.G. Tan Auditorium
Join us for a talk with Arthur C. Brooks, Harvard professor, New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading experts on the science of human happiness.
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No Sugar Coating: Quantifying the Welfare Losses from US-Cuba Trade Policy
Eggers Hall, 341
Using digitized historical trade data, we analyze Cuba's early 20th-century comparative advantage and explore how U.S. involvement shaped its specialization and growth.
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Africans and African Americans: Political Solidarities and the Question of Slavery
Eggers Hall, 341
Africans and African Americans: How is their relationship mediated through the lens of racism?
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For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire
Eggers Hall, 018
The Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series. "For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire." Banu Subramaniam, Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College.
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Daniel Fata: The 2024 US Election and What it Means for Global Order
Eggers Hall, 060
In this talk, Fata will explore the current state of the war in Ukraine and what it means for the future of global security.
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Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporalities in Occupied Palestine
Hall of Languages, 500
"Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporalities in Occupied Palestine." Dr. Sandy Marshall, Elon University.
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Book Talk: ‘Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation’
Eggers Hall, 341
This book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to India through a study of the decade long rule, 1953-1963, of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the 2nd prime minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Kim Ruhl: Trade War and Peace: US-China Trade and Tariff Risk from 2015–2050
Eggers Hall, 341
Ruhl analyzed U.S.-China trade war expectations, finding tariffs rose more under Biden, due to the extended trade war duration.