Maxwell School Events Calendar

• IGRI Working Group Report: The Grammar of Rules-In-Use

  October 07, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  The IGRI Working Group “The Grammar of Rules-In-Use” will present at the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative's IGRI Research Seminar Series.

• A Forensic Analysis of US Ad-Valorem and Legislated Tariff Rates, 1916-1933

  October 06, 2025, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This paper uses Crucini’s (1994) method to decompose tariffs, revealing a tariff history unlike the common narrative.

• “one of those figures then died”: South Asian Art, c. 1993

  October 06, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen for a talk on Vivan Sundaram’s Memorial and postcolonial art after 1993.

• Persian Culture and Conversation Table

  October 03, 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.

• Authoritarian Currents in American Democracy: Historical Lessons and Present Risks

  October 03, 2025, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium

  The Tanner Lecture Series on Ethics, Citizenship & Public Responsibility will host a discussion on this important topic with Jamelle Bouie (NY Times) and Robert Mickey (U of Michigan).

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  October 03, 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!

• French Culture and Conversation Table

  October 03, 2025, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 111

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

• Pontarelli Speaker Series Featuring Pete Buttigieg

  October 03, 2025, 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m. EDT

  National Veterans Resource Center, K.G. Tan Auditorium

  The Maxwell School and the Whitman School of Management will host former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for a discussion on issues of sustainability and leadership.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  October 03, 2025, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• The New South Korean Government: Impact on the Region and on the US-Korea Alliance

  October 03, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 151

  Join us for a talk, as Stephen Costello (Univ. of Rochester) argues that the geopolitical landscape for South Korea is propitious, despite ongoing turmoil in Ukraine, the Middle East and elsewhere.

• Arabic Culture and Conversation Table

  October 02, 2025, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  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!

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  October 01, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Maxwell School – Demystifying the Graduate Admission Process (Virtual Session)

  October 01, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  This virtual information session gives an overview of the application process and the opportunity to ask questions.

• The Right to Information and Covid-19 Vaccination: Diagnosing India's Political Economy

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

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Aga argues that struggles around information must be contextualized in the historical sociology of state power and corporate capital.

• 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?