Maxwell School Events Calendar

  • Conversations featuring Prof. Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena

    Virtual event via Zoom

    Farmer-Herder Conflict in the Ashanti Region of Ghana: Is there an end in sight? Ecosystem degradation, competition for access to limited resources, and conflict over land and water are critical environmental challenges affecting peoples' livelihoods, communities and societies. Cases of farmer-herder conflict over land and water are widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa and there is an urgent need to find lasting solutions to these conflicts. A pilot study aims to understand land conflicts and promote collaborative problem-solving among different stakeholders, locals, NGOs and government authorities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Sponsored by PARCC. For more information, contact Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu or at 315-443-2367. Register for this Zoom event at https://tinyurl.com/parccregister

  • Market-Making Algorithms: Insights from a Multi-Year Study of Online Freelancing via Upwork.Com

    204 Maxwell and Virtual

  • Turkish Culture and Conversation Table

    341 Eggers Hall

  • Refocus: Haudenosaunee Films to Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day

    701 S. State St. Syracuse, New York 13202 (plaza outside of Everson Museum of Art)

    Forty minutes of Haudenosaunee focused films in celebration and gratitude

  • Peter Morrow: The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

    341 Eggers Hall

    This paper assesses the long-run effects of the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) on the Canadian labor market using matched longitudinal administrative data for the years 1984-2004. The authors simultaneously examine the labor market effects of increased export expansion and import competition, generally finding adverse effects of Canadian tariff cuts and favorable effects of U.S. cuts, though both effects are small. Workers initially employed in industries that experienced larger Canadian tariff concessions exhibit a heightened probability of layoffs at large firms, but little impact on long-run cumulative earnings. Lower earnings and years worked at the initial employer are offset by gains in other manufacturing industries, construction, and services. Canadian workers quickly transitioned from industries facing import competition, with the majority of industry adjustment occurring among new entrants to the labor market.

  • Erica De Bruin: How to Prevent Coups d'Etat

    204 Maxwell Hall

  • Interest-Based Problem Solving Workshop

    Virtual event via Zoom

    Interest-Based Problem Solving is an approach to addressing conflict that seeks to identify and satisfy the underlying interests of all parties. This interactive workshop focuses on the basic steps of Interest-Based Problem Solving by equipping you with the tools and skills for identifying interests, reframing problems, and generating and deciding on mutually satisfying solutions To register, visit this URL: https://tinyurl.com/IBPS2021 Sponsored by PARCC. Virtual event via Zoom. Any questions, please contact Sam Castleberry at sbcastle@syr.edu or Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu

  • Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

    341 Eggers Hall

  • Syracuse Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Troup Howard

    Virtual

    Syracuse Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Troup Howard

  • Conversations featuring Prof. Yael Zeira

    Virtual event via Zoom

    Prof. Zeira will discuss her project 'The Ethnicization of Civil Conflict' based on research she has conducted with Alexandra Siegel, University of Colorado-Boulder. Ethnic conflicts are often seen as especially violent and intractable. But how and why do some conflicts become ``ethnic"? While scholars of ethnic politics often point to the ``ethnicization" of conflict, systematic empirical evidence demonstrating this process of ethnicization, and explaining when and why it occurs, remains rare. This project fills this gap through a large-scale, systematic study of the sources and dynamics of ethnicization and de-ethnicization in the case of the ongoing conflict in Syria, as well as in broader comparative perspective including Yemen, Iraq, and Ukraine. Employing a new conceptual and methodological framework for studying identity change, we systematically trace the prevalence of ethnic, non-ethnic and counter-ethnic rhetoric within a given conflict over both time and space by applying machine learning methods to social media data. Because ethnic rhetoric both reflects and shapes the strength of ethnic identities, our approach also provides the first, truly dynamic, time-sensitive measure of the shifting salience of ethnic identities during conflict. Sponsored by PARCC For more information, please contact Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu or at 315-443-2367. Register at https://tinyurl.com/parccregister

  • Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

    Maxwell Tent (by Q1 Parking Lot)

  • The Emerging of Sense in Complex Systems Development: The Case of Cognitive Computing

    Virtual

  • Balancing the Indo-Pacific - CFR Webinar

    Virtual

    The Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) Academic Webinar series, formerly the Academic Conference Call series now in Zoom webinar format, provides the opportunity for students across the country and around the world to participate in an interactive conversation with a CFR fellow, Foreign Affairs author, or other expert. Webinars take place every other week during the fall and spring semesters and are dedicated to a wide range of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy topics. Background readings are distributed prior to each call, and the video recording and transcript are posted online after the fact. To register for this event or the webinar series, please email cfracademic@cfr.org, with your name, academic institution, and title. Featuring: Dhruva Jaishankar, Observer Research Foundation America; Lowy Institute This event is sponsored by the International Relations Program. For additional information, please email IRAdvisor@syr.edu.

  • Evan Laksmana: Gaining or Losing Ground? The Indonesian and Myanmar Armed Forces and Divergent Regime Trajectories

    Virtual

  • India’s response to COVID-19: Negotiating public health responses and social policies

    204 Maxwell Hall

  • Meredith Startz: Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation

    341 Eggers Hall

    Distribution of goods often involves chains of intermediaries engaged in sequential buying and reselling. Why do such chains arise, and how do they affect consumers and their ability to gain from trade? This paper shows that the existence of internal economies of scale in trade logistics is a sufficient mechanism to yield chains with multiple intermediaries, and that this suggests consumers in developing countries are more likely to be served via long chains. Contrary to common wisdom, cutting middlemen out can, but does not necessarily, benefit consumers. Instead, there is a fundamental tradeoff between costs and entry that means even pure reductions in trade costs can have perverse effects. The proposed mechanism is simple, but can account for empirical patterns in wholesale firm size, prices and markups that we document using original survey data on imported consumer goods in Nigeria. We estimate a structural version of the model for distribution of Chinese-made apparel in Nigeria, and describe endogenous restructuring of chains and the resulting impacts on consumer welfare in response to counterfactual changes in regulation, e-commerce technologies, and transport infrastructure.

  • Persian Culture and Conversation Table

    Virtual

  • Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series: Saulesh Yessenova

    Online

  • Government, Education and Non-Profit Virtual Career Fair

    Virtual

  • Conversations in Conflict Studies featuring Becca Farnum and Maggie Scull

    Virtual event via Zoom

    Should Conflicts be our Classrooms? Ethical Field Studies in Peace and Justice Scholars of international relations, environmental justice, and ethnic studies find fieldwork in (post-)conflict contexts a productive way to build knowledge. But what are the ethical implications of this practice - especially for students seeking experiential learning opportunities? Is equitable engagement with communities living in conflict possible for short-term visitors? Is studying dark tourism in situ a valuable learning experience...or simply another form of dark tourism? During this conversation, Dr Becca Farnum and Dr Maggie Scull will reflect on their research-led teaching (and teaching-led research!) in contexts as far-ranging as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Land conflict in the Arctic, ongoing tensions in post-genocide Rwanda, and racial violence in the United States. Register at : https://tinyurl.com/parccregister Sponsored by PARCC. For more information, contact Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu or at 315-443-2367

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