Maxwell School Events Calendar

• Virtual Book Talk: ‘The Second Fifty,’ With Alumna Deb Whitman

  September 29, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Join Syracuse University for an engaging conversation with Maxwell alumna Debra Whitman '96 M.A. (Econ)/'97 Ph.D. (Econ), chief public policy officer for AARP and globally recognized expert on aging.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  September 26, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Exit as Voice, for the Economically Mobile | Russian Migration Post-Invasion

  September 26, 2025, 12 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Discover how Russia’s war in Ukraine set off a migration wave to Central Asia and the Caucasus; reshaping lives, labor and legacies.

• Budgeting Mechanisms Workshop Series: Business, Labor and Local Government

  September 26, 2025, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Sarah Anzia of UC Berkely will discuss “Business, Labor and Local Government” with George Krauss of the University of Georgia.

• I Wish You Had Created Me So That I Could Die: An Archaeology of the Plastic Bag

  September 25, 2025, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The Anthropology Department welcomes Dr. Pamela L. Geller to discuss the lifecycle of the plastic bag as an artifact and plastics' paradoxes within the discipline of archaeology.

• America in Retreat?: Medium Nuclear Powers, Air Power, and Competing Hegemonies in the Middle East

  September 25, 2025, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220 - Strasser Legacy Room

  The U.S. and Russia have retreated from Mideast hegemony since 2018, as regional powers assert dominance with air, missiles and drones, risking nuclear standoff. Why?

• Russian Culture and Conversation Table

  September 25, 2025, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

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

• Post-Invasion Russian Migration: Exit as Voice in Central Asia and Caucasus for the Mobile

  September 25, 2025, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join us to explore how Russia’s 2022 invasion sparked a wave of skilled migration to Central Asia and the Caucasus, reshaping politics and mobility.

• Conversations in Conflict Studies Presents Avia Nahreen

  September 25, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 400A

  Ava Nahreen will present: “An Intersectional, Postcolonial Analysis of Peri-Urban Dhaka’s Potable Water Crisis” at our next Conversations in Conflict Studies.

• Proposal Writing: An Introductory Workshop

  September 23, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join us for a workshop introducing the key elements of proposal writing when applying for the centers’ graduate study research grants.

• Hebrew Culture and Conversation Table

  September 23, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 306B

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

• Turkish Culture and Conversation Table

  September 23, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come to the Turkish Table! All levels welcome!

• Maxwell School – MA International Relations Program Curriculum Overview (Virtual Session)

  September 22, 2025, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  An in-depth look at the M.A. in international relations curriculum, program features and outcomes.

• Daisy Rockwell | Lecture | What's Art Got to Do with It: Translation as Illustration as Translation

  September 22, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 500

  This lecture explores artist translator Daisy Rockwell's use of visualization in her translation of Hindi and Urdu texts, and translation in her art and illustration.

• Daisy Rockwell | Workshop| ‘Translation in Teaching and Researching South Asia and Beyond’

  September 22, 2025, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  What role does translation play in teaching and researching different parts of the world? Join International Booker Prize-Winner Daisy Rockwell for a hands-on workshop that explores this question.

• Persian Culture and Conversation Table

  September 19, 2025, 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EDT

  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.

• French Culture and Conversation Table

  September 19, 2025, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 340-G

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

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  September 19, 2025, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Come learn and practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• ASI Seminar: Faculty Research

  September 19, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Lyman Hall, 314

  Faculty members Jun Li, Marc Garcia and Senem Velipasalar will present their research.

• Selfies of the Crossing: Mediating Migration through the Darien Jungle

  September 19, 2025, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Following a screening of the film, a conversation with the director will serve as a point of departure to examine the production of migrant subjectivities through visual self-representation.