Maxwell School Events Calendar

• Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Social Science

  April 01, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Join us for a thought-provoking discussion with pioneering international scholar Miklós Sebők, who developed a no-code LLM platform for studying international politics across twenty languages.

• CANCELLED | Putin’s Holy War: Sacred Memory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

  March 31, 2025, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Sean Griffin traces the career of Patriarch Kirill (Gundiaev), the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, and examines his highly controversial role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• The Babel Machine Workshop: Multilingual AI for Cross-National and Comparative Research

  March 31, 2025, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Discover how cutting-edge large language models can transform your research across language barriers.

• CANCELLED | Persian Culture and Conversation Table

  March 28, 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.

• Maxwell 2025 Awards of Excellence and D.C. Spring Alumni Reception

  March 27, 2025, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. EDT

  1333 New Hampshire Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C.

  Maxwell alumni and friends are invited to the school's spring alumni evening in Washington, D.C., featuring the 2025 Awards of Excellence followed by a reception.

• Cancelled | Ukrainian Culture and Conversation Table

  March 27, 2025, 3 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This event is hosted by Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor, with support from the SU Ukrainian Club.

• Decoding Deception: Advancing Critical Thinking to Strengthen Democracy

  March 26, 2025, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Grant Auditorium

  Part of the “Life Together: Seeking the Common Good in a Diverse Democracy” initiative, this event tackles the challenge of confronting mis/disinformation to restore trust and strengthen democracy.

• Russian Culture and Conversation Table

  March 26, 2025, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Understanding Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home

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

  Eggers Hall, 220

  This talk explores the stories collected in two books, “We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria” (2017) and “The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora” (2024).

• Bereavement Expectancies: Introduction to a New Population Health Metric

  March 25, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Ashton Verdery will present “Bereavement Expectancies: Introduction to a New Population Health Metric” as part of the CPR Seminar Series. This event is co-sponsored by the Sociology Department.

• Theory from the Trenches: Decolonization and the Storm of Subaltern Marxism

  March 25, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Shozab Raza explores a renewed vision of decolonization—one distinct from the efforts led by bureaucrats, professors or social media activists.

• Crime, Violence and Punishment Working Group Meeting

  March 25, 2025, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 426 (CPR resource room)

  This working group brings together faculty, grad students and advanced undergrad students from across the University who are researching topics related to crime, violence and punishment.

• The EU’s Role in Reforming Local Self-Government in Ukraine: From Governance to Conditionality

  March 24, 2025, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In her research, Mariana Semenyshyn explores the EU’s role in supporting LSG reform and how Ukraine and the EU could further build on this reform as part of the negotiations process.

• Arabic Culture and Conversation Table

  March 24, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come practice your Arabic language skills and enjoy company and conversation! All levels are welcome.

• Japanese Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 115

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

• French Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 009

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

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

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

• Conflict Management Center Workshop - Information Sharing and Word Smithing

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The purpose of this workshop is to provide an understanding of information sharing and wordsmithing, and to help build your skills in these areas, all while managing difference.

• Memory, Justice, and (Re)Construction of Society in Post-Colonial Africa

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  For some ordinary Africans, memory and imagination has provided them with tools to assert a view against that of a repressive regime keen on erasures of the past and censorship of the present.