Maxwell School Events Calendar

• The Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture: The Jewish Culinary Identity

  February 18, 2026, 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Historian, educator and chef Hélène Jawhara Piñer will explore Jewish culinary identity in medieval Iberia, situating food at the intersection of religion, medicine, politics and cultural exchange.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  February 18, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Tamil table of the spring semester!

• Italian Culture and Conversation Table

  February 17, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come to Italian Table! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Russian Culture and Conversation Table

  February 16, 2026, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 303

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

• USA @ 250: The American Revolution and the American Way of War

  February 16, 2026, 12:45 p.m.-2:05 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  This session will be led by Alan Allport, Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History at the Maxwell School.

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  February 13, 2026, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 340-E

  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.

• Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Evelyn Smith

  February 13, 2026, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  During this webinar, Evelyn Smith (American Bar Foundation) will present, “Tradeoffs are Domain Dependent: Improving Accuracy and Fairness in Property Tax Assessments.”

• Documenting Care: Labor and the Archive at MohenjoDaro

  February 12, 2026, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Bird Library, 114, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons

  The Anthropology Department welcomes Uzma Rizvi from the Pratt Institute to discuss the documentation of archaeological labor and understanding the roles of care work.

• Film | ‘Tabom in Bahia’ | Co-Directed by Juan Diego Diaz and Nilton Pereira (2017)

  February 12, 2026, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Stolkin Auditorium, Physics Building

  “Tabom in Bahia” documents a historic three-week journey of Ghanaian master drummer Eric Odwarkei Morton to Bahia, Brazil, in 2016. There will be a post-screening discussion with Juan Diego Díaz.

• Why Is Less Education So Detrimental to Health in the United States?

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

  Eggers Hall, 426

  Iliya Gutin (Syracuse University) will present, “Why Is Less Education So Detrimental to Health in the United States?” as part of the CPR Seminar Series.

• The End of Survey Research as We Know It? Confronting the ‘Existential’ Threat of AI Agents

  February 12, 2026, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  A Campbell Research Workshop featuring Aaron Moss, senior research scientist at CloudResearch.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  February 11, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Hindi-Urdu table of the spring semester!

• Hebrew Culture and Conversation Table

  February 11, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 155

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

• Governing by Dispossession: Enemy Property and the Afterlives of the 1971 War in Pakistan

  February 10, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This talk traces how the category of enemy property migrated from a European imperial wartime technology to a postcolonial mode of governing minorities in South Asia.

• USA @ 250: Fighting Genocide-Dispossession, the Revolution, an Enduring Haudenosaunee Right to Land

  February 09, 2026, 12:45 p.m.-2:05 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  This session will be led by Michael Oberg ’94 Ph.D. (Hist), Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo.

• Russian Culture and Conversation Table

  February 06, 2026, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Maxwell Hall, 303

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

• Salmon Peoples: Cross-Cultural Connections and Community Geography in Arctic Alaska

  February 06, 2026, 3 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Presented by Chie Sakakibara and Andre Ortega, both associate professors of geography and the environment, as part of the Geography Colloquium Speakers Series.

• A Peace Most Fragile: A Corpus-Analysis Approach to Understanding the Anglophone Treaty.

  February 06, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Tarren Andrews of Yale University will present “A Peace Most Fragile: A Corpus-Analysis Approach to Understanding the Anglophone Treaty from the 9th Century to the 19th.”

• ASI Seminar: Disordered Proteins Research

  February 06, 2026, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Lyman Hall, 314

  Faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences will present on disordered proteins reseach at the ASI Seminar.

• The Pulled Punch and the Sheathed Blade: ‘Her Story’ (2024) as a Feminist Stand-Up Film

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

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This talk explores how the movie “Her Story” (Hao dongxi), borrows not only the quick, verbal wit of stand-up, but also its risky politics of “punching up” in a censored environment.