Maxwell School Events Calendar

• Slow Plants on a Burning Planet

  March 04, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220, The Strasser Legacy Room

  Historian Jared Farmer will discuss ancient trees as cultural and religious symbols, their importance as data collectors, and the dire threats they face in a rapidly changing climate.

• Vanessa Alviarez: Concentration and Markups in International Trade

  March 04, 2024, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Vanessa Alviarez will discuss the relationship between industry concentration and aggregate markups in a model of firm-to-firm trade with two-sided market power.

• Campaign 2024: Super Tuesday and Beyond

  March 01, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  The State of Democracy Lecture Series will host "Campaign 2024: Super Tuesday and Beyond."

• Imperialism and the Production of Space: Dimensions and Political Implications

  March 01, 2024, 3:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series, with guest speaker Stefan Kipfer, professor, York University, Toronto.

• Global Premodern Studies Program talk featuring SU alumna, Dr. Brinda Charry (Keene State)

  March 01, 2024, 3 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Dr. Brinda Charry G'05 of Keene State College will discuss her new historical novel, "The East Indian."

• American Imperialism in Afghanistan: An Empirical Analysis

  March 01, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series, with guest speaker Jennifer Fluri, professor, University of Colorado, Boulder.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  March 01, 2024, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Program on Latin America and the Caribbean presents the Spanish Culture and Conversation Table series.

• Japanese Culture and Conversation Table

  March 01, 2024, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Hall of Languages, 102

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

• ASI Seminar: Faculty Flash Talks

  March 01, 2024, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Lyman Hall, 314

  Join us as ASI faculty affiliates discuss an array of topics.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Christopher Berry

  March 01, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Christopher Berry (University of Chicago) will present “Property Tax Assessment and Housing Market Cycles." Discussion will follow with Lei Ding (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia).

• The Rule of Law and the Modernization of Afghanistan

  March 01, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Afghanistan's century-long journey towards modernization through constitutionalism, Marxism, Islamism and liberal democracy has, unfortunately, failed to succeed despite the diversity of approaches.

• Today’s Geographies of Imperialism Symposium

  March 01, 2024, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060, the Global Collaboratory

  The symposium invites faculty, grad students, and scholar activists to refine and complicate our understanding of imperialism today in specific historical, political-economic and geographic contexts.

• Nicola Di Cosmo: Environmental Crisis and Political Economy in the Early Manchu State

  February 29, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  How a small people of shepherds and hunters managed to invade, conquer and then rule China for over two hundred and fifty years is still a mystery.

• CPR Seminar Series: 'Does Where You Live Shape How You Vote?'

  February 29, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Christopher Berry, William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor, University of Chicago, will present “Does Where You Live Shape How You Vote?” as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• Citizenship in Perspective: Gender, Geopolitics and the Legacy of U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan

  February 29, 2024, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Jennifer Fluri will discuss the impacts of U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, exploring gender, geopolitics and the aftermath from 2001 to the Taliban's takeover in 2021.

• ASPI Graduate Seminar: James Patton Rogers

  February 28, 2024, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 204B

  Join us for a discussion regarding policy impact and public dissemination of emerging technologies.

• Hans Kundnani: Whiteness and the European Project

  February 28, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In this talk, Hans Kundnani will present his new book "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project."

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  February 28, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Maxwell African Scholars Union - Challenges to Citizenship Series: Authoritarianism in Africa

  February 23, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Analyzing post-Cold War geopolitics, focusing on authoritarian strategies, security forces' rising power, and predictors of their inclination towards military governance and authoritarianism.

• French Culture and Conversation Table

  February 23, 2024, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 213A

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