Maxwell School Events Calendar

• Persian Culture and Conversation Table

  January 30, 2026, 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 303

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Persian conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Turkish Culture and Conversation Table

  January 30, 2026, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come to the Turkish Table! All levels welcome!

• French Culture and Conversation Table

  January 30, 2026, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 111

  Do you want to learn more about French culture and language? Come to the French Table! All levels welcome.

• Meredith Weiss | Activist Adaptations: Sustaining Protest as Liberalism Wanes

  January 30, 2026, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  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.

• CAPS Seminar: Yiqing Xu

  January 30, 2026, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Yiqing Xu of Stanford University will present “Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Methods: What Lessons Have We Learned Four Decades After Lalonde?”

• Qualitative Research Data Management for Public Health Researchers

  January 29, 2026, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

  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

• Arabic Culture and Conversation Table

  January 29, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Arabic conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers!

• Atrocity Prevention in Practice in a Contested World, with Cmdr. Jeffrey Sizemore, USN Retired

  January 28, 2026, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EST

  National Veterans Resource Center, K.G. Tan Auditorium

  The conversation will cover some of the successes and challenges in implementing the prevention agenda.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  January 28, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Hindi-Urdu table of the spring semester!

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  January 27, 2026, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Lyman Hall, 115-B

  The Chinese Culture and Conversation Table is a forum where you get to meet and converse with friends old and new. All language levels are welcome.

• A Maxwell DC Conversation Series–Make America Healthy Again: Public Health in Changing Times

  January 26, 2026, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. EST

  1333 New Hampshire Ave, NW Washington, DC

  Led by Maxwell professor and health economist John Cawley, this three-part series examines what it means to be “healthy” in America today.

• USA @ 250: The Constitution

  January 26, 2026, 12:45 p.m.-2:05 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Faculty experts will delve into a variety of topics, from democracy and women’s voices to the Declaration of Independence, in a series of weekly lectures offered in the spring semester.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  January 23, 2026, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• Liberty Bell's Electronic Ring: The Establishment and Production of Online Hate 1983-1995

  January 23, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 151

  Ph.D. candidate Ian Glazman-Schillinger presents “Liberty Bell's Electronic Ring: The Establishment and Production of Online Hate, 1983-1995.”

• Zhou Dynasty Miniature Bronze Vessels

  January 23, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Sheri A. Lullo of Union College will discuss her theory that these miniature bronze vessels were crafted as adornments for the deceased as signifying markers of identity in death.

• CPR Seminar Series: Celeste Carruthers, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  January 22, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Celeste Carruthers of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville will present, “Post-COVID Labor Market Shortages and College Enrollment,” as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• Italian Culture and Conversation Table

  January 22, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come to Italian Table! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  January 21, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Tamil table of the spring semester!

• Presentation | South Asia Center Graduate Student Research Grant Awardee

  January 20, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  South Asia Center Graduate Student Research Grant awardee Vatya Raina, will present their work.

• Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentation

  January 20, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Bharati Memorial Award was established in 1992 to support graduate students at Syracuse University working on South Asia. Awardee Brooklyn Montgomery will present their work.