Maxwell School Events Calendar

  • Th Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations - 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: Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, George Mason University; Wilson Center This event is sponsored by the International Relations Program. For additional information, please email IRAdvisor@syr.edu.

  • Azmeary Ferdoush: Making Showcase Citizens on the Bangladesh-India Border

    Virtual

  • Amit Khandelwal: “Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers”

    Virtual

    A distinct feature of MNCs is a three-tier organizational structure: foreign managers (FMs) supervise domestic managers (DMs) who supervise production workers. Language barriers between FMs and DMs could impede transfers of management knowledge. The authors develop a model in which DMs learn general management by communicating with FMs, but communication effort is non-contractible. These conditions generate sub-optimal communication within the MNC. If communication is complementary with language skills, the planner could raise welfare by subsidizing foreign language acquisition. The authors experimentally assess the validity of the general skills and the complementarity assumptions in Myanmar, a setting where FMs and DMs communicate in English. The first experiment examines the general skills assumption by asking prospective employers at domestic firms to rate hypothetical job candidates. They value candidates with both higher English proficiency and MNC experience, a premium driven, in part, by frequent interactions with FMs. The second experiment examines the complementarity assumption by providing English training to a random sample of DMs working at MNCs. At endline, treated DMs have higher English proficiency, communicate more frequently with their FMs, are more involved in firm management, and perform better in simulated management tasks. Organizational barriers within MNCs can thus hinder knowledge transfers and lead to an under-investment in English relative to the social optimum.

  • Persian Culture and Conversation Table

    Virtual

  • Between Flood and Drought: Environmental Racism, The Production of Settler Waterscapes, and Indigenous Water Justice in South America’s Chaco

    Virtual

  • Syracuse Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Yusun Kim

    Virtual

    Syracuse Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design: Yusun Kim

  • Laura Marsolek: Exploring the Jeweler's Art from Italy to India

    204 Maxwell Hall

  • Composer Chen Yi and the Cultural Revolution

    Virtual

  • Becoming a Professor as an Asian-American Woman, Formerly Undocumented Immigrant, and First-Generation College Student

    220 Eggers Hall (The Strasser Legacy Room)

  • Turkish Culture and Conversation Table

    341 Eggers Hall

  • Conversations featuring Adam Segal

    Virtual event via Zoom

    Almost from its first days in office, the Biden administration has been confronted with nation states using cyber operations to pursue strategic interests. The United States has also faced a wave of disruptive ransomware attacks that have highlighted the continued shortcoming of US cyber policy. How has the cyber threat evolved, and what new directions will cyber policy take under the Biden administration? Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Sponsored by PARCC Register for this event at https://tinyurl.com/parccregister. For more information, contact Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu or at 315-443-2367.

  • Geopolitics in the Middle East - 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: Sanam Vakil, Chatham House This event is sponsored by the International Relations Program. For additional information, please email IRAdvisor@syr.edu.

  • Hebrew Culture and Conversation Table

    204 Maxwell Hall

  • Disaster Capitalism and Political Instability in Africa: The Case of the Perennial Conflict in the DRC

    Virtual

  • Asiya Zahoor: Literary Imaginaries of Kashmir

    204 Maxwell Hall

  • Amanda Clayton: Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide

    220 Eggers Hall

    Gender differences in concern about climate change are highly correlated with economic development: when countries are wealthier, a gap emerges whereby women are more likely than men to express concern about our changing climate. These differences stem from cross-national variation in men’s attitudes. Men, more than women, tend to be less concerned about climate change when countries are wealthier. We develop a new theory about the perceived costs and benefits of climate mitigation policy to explain the pattern. At the country level, the perceived benefits of mitigation tend to decrease with economic development, while the perceived costs increase. At the individual level, the perceived costs of mitigation tend to increase with economic development for men more than for women. Evidence from existing surveys in multiple world regions, an original ten-country survey in the Americas and Europe, and focus groups in Peru and the United States support our theory. Our findings bridge scholarship on gender, masculinity, and foreign economic policy preferences to uncover new correlates of public attitudes towards climate change.

  • Walter Steingress: The fiscal impact of immigration in the United States: Evidence at the local level

    341 Eggers Hall

    This paper studies the causal impact of immigration to the United States on local government finances using county-level data from 1990 to 2010. The main contribution is to show that an increase in the population share of immigrants of a U.S. county does not significantly affect, on average, local public revenues and expenditures. This finding masks important heterogeneity in terms of the impact of immigrants with different skill levels: Inflows of high-skilled immigrants improve the fiscal health of local governments -- by increasing county-level revenues and expenditures -- while the arrival of low-skilled immigrants has the opposite impact. These effects are consistent with a framework in which tax rates do not (fully) adjust to changes in the population, hence per capita tax revenues and public benefits change as a consequence of immigration. One of the main channels of impact on county-level receipts is property tax revenues, which we show to be closely associated with changes in property values in response to immigration. The authors also find that transfers to the county from the federal government (only) partially offset the local fiscal impact of immigration.

  • People Make Their Own Map: Citizenship and Belonging in South Asia

    204 Maxwell Hall

    India is a land of borders, its peripheries nestling against seven countries. Over seven years, across 9,000 miles, Suchitra Vijayan travelled these borderlands. The more she travelled, the clearer it became to her that local history and memory bear no resemblance to the political history of the nation that claims these lands and peoples. From the densely populated border that India shares with Bangladesh to the highly disputed one with Pakistan, the stories in this book engage with how people live, struggle, fight and survive. A man escapes the floodlights that invade his home by blocking out all light, children use a border pillar as a handy cricket stump, and a family live out their lives beside the men who orchestrated their son’s death. These are stories that question our ideas of what freedom means and what it means to be a citizen.

  • The DMZ’s Pasts and Futures

    Virtual

  • CANCELLED:Conversations featuring Tom Zoellner

    Virtual event via Zoom

    CANCELLED. We will try to reschedule him for another date. Sponsored by PARCC

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