Maxwell School Events Calendar

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  October 30, 2026, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• ‘Green’ Progressive Competitiveness: Promises, Contradictions and Alternatives for a Just Transition

  October 30, 2026, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Christian Pepin, a comparative political economist, will provide a discussion about the intersection of “green” policies, politics and the economy.

• Book Talk | Murat Yildiz | The Ottoman World of Sports

  November 02, 2026, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Murat Yıldız (Skidmore College) explores the creation of a shared sports culture among Turks, Armenians, Greeks and Jews at the end of empire in the political center of the Ottoman Empire.

• Maxwell School - Online Graduate Programs Virtual Information Session

  November 03, 2026, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Join us for a live/interactive virtual information session to learn more about the Maxwell School's online graduate programs.

• Voicing Aspiration: Bollywood Songs and Dreamwork in Contemporary India

  November 03, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In this talk, Anaar Desai-Stephens (CUNY Graduate Center) explores how Bollywood songs have become a powerful medium for dreaming, striving and self-making in twenty-first-century India.

• Bjarne Tellmann | Law in the Era of AI: Clients, Firms, and the Future of the Legal Industry

  November 04, 2026, 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m. EST

  Dineen Hall, 440

  AI isn't just a new legal tool—it's transforming the organizations lawyers serve. Bjarne Tellmann (CEO, FjordStream Advisors) examines how legal departments and institutions must evolve to keep pace.

• Book Talk | Steven Cook | The End of Ambition America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East

  November 04, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Did twenty years of Middle East setbacks mean America should pull back? Steven A. Cook (CFR) argues retrenchment is a mistake, highlighting the challenges that policymakers and analysts confront.

• Everything You Wanted to Know about the Grievances of the Declaration of Independence

  November 04, 2026, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  The History Department Presents the Annual Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture, with Professor Robert Parkinson (Binghamton University).

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  November 04, 2026, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Hall of Languages, 114

  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.

• Maxwell School - Graduate Programs in Geography Virtual Information Session

  November 05, 2026, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Learn more about geography graduate programs at the Maxwell School.

• Russian Culture and Conversation Table

  November 05, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• TDPE | TRADE DAY 2026

  November 06, 2026, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. UTC

  Hall of Languages, 500, The Killian Room

  Trade Day is a full-day workshop focusing on how trade policies influence global development, economic resilience and political institutions.

• From Balance Sheets to the UN Budget: A Central Asian Path Into International Public Administration

  November 06, 2026, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Nurgul Iminova from the UN Division of Administration will discuss how finance, governance, accountability and coordination underpin the work of international organizations in Central Asia.

• CMC Workshop: Interest-Based Problem Solving

  November 06, 2026, 12 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  This workshop will focus on the basic steps of interest-based problem solving and equip you with skills for identifying interests, reframing problems and generating mutually satisfying solutions.

• Investigating Inequality: A Workshop with P. Sainath

  November 09, 2026, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. EST

  Newhouse 3, Newhouse I3 Center

  Join us for a workshop led by award-winning Indian journalist P. Sainath who will discuss the challenges of successfully reporting on inequality.

• P. Sainath | The Profound Divergence Between Media and Journalism

  November 09, 2026, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Join us for a lecture by award-winning Indian journalist P. Sainath who will discuss the fraught relationship between media as an industry and journalism as a career.

• Maxwell School - Accelerated MPA and MA (IR) Overview Information Session

  November 11, 2026, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Attend this in-person information session to learn how you can gain early admission to a master’s degree in international relations or public administration.

• Cannabis Legalization and Polysubstance Use Disorders

  November 12, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Jayani Jayawardhana, associate professor at the University of Kentucky, will present as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families

  November 13, 2026, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Part of the CAPS Seminar Series. Hope Harvey, associate professor of public policy at University of Kentucky, will dicuss her book.

• *NEW* Filipino Culture and Conversation Table

  November 16, 2026, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This is a great opportunity to practice your Filipino/Tagalog conversation skills and learn more about the culture. Organized by Emille de la Cruz (Ph.D. student, geography and the environment).