Maxwell School Events Calendar
Centennial Events
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Panel Discussion: Intersectionality in American Democracy
Eggers Hall, 220
Join us for a panel with Curtis Chin, author and director, discussing his memoir and childhood experiences in 1980s Detroit. Followed by a panel of Syracuse University scholars.
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Election 2024: Post-Election Analysis - A Centennial Election Event
Maxwell Hall, Auditorium
Election 2024: Post-Election Analysis - the implications of power, policy, and the American people. Part of the State of Democracy Lecture Series.
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LOCATION CHANGE-Phanstiel Lecture: The People Who Built the Pyramids—How We Know
Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium
Join us for a talk with Mark Lehner, director of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, which conducts annual excavations of Old Kingdom settlements near the Sphinx and Pyramids.
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Arthur C. Brooks: How to Get Happier in an Unhappy World
National Veterans Resource Center, K.G. Tan Auditorium
Join us for a talk with Arthur C. Brooks, Harvard professor, New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading experts on the science of human happiness.
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Election 2024: American Democracy at the Crossroads - A Centennial Election Event
Virtual
Election 2024: American Democracy at the Crossroads, a conversation about the campaigns and consequences of the presidential election.
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Maxwell School Centennial Celebration in Syracuse
Goldstein Auditorium
Join us as we commemorate 100 years of academic excellence, public service and transformative impact.
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State and Local Economic Development Panel
Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium
Join the Palmer Career Center for a state and local economic development panel.
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Election 2024: Gerontocracy in American Politics - A Centennial Election Event
Virtual
Election 2024: Gerontocracy in American Politics, part of the State of Democracy Lecture Series.
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Centennial Celebration (with cake!)
Eggers Hall, Commons
Celebrate Maxwell's centennial with cake! Have your photo taken with Otto, check out our centennial map and tell us how you ever strive.
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The Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Maeve E. Kane
Eggers Hall, Eggers 220
Drawing on oral, archival, quantitative and visual evidence, historian Maeve E. Kane discusses how Haudenosaunee women used clothing to define and protect their nations’ sovereignty.
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36th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy
Eggers Hall, 220
Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, will present at the 2024 Lourie Lecture.
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Geography and the Environment- Donald Meinig Lecture
Eggers Hall, 220, The Strasser Legacy Room
Cynthia Brewer, professor of geography at Penn State University, will present "Making Beautiful Maps Using GIS Tools."
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The Right to Property and Economic Development in India
Eggers Hall, 341
The Sawyer Law and Politics Program will host Dr. Namita Wahi, a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, and founding director of the Land Rights Initiative.
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Taking Tutoring to Scale in Metro Nashville Public Schools: A Multi-Year Analysis
Eggers Hall, 060
Matthew Kraft, associate professor of education and economics at Brown University, presented at the 2024 Jerry Miner Lecture.
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Total Solar Eclipse Extravaganza
Maxwell Hall, Lincoln Courtyard
Watch the cosmic curtain fall as the moon steals the spotlight from the sun. Free eclipse glasses provided.
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Africa, African Diasporas and the Caribbean: Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Day 2)
Hall of Languages, 107
The Anthropology Department will bring together students, alumni and invited speakers to recognize the contributions of Professor Emeritus Douglas V. Armstrong.
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Africa, African Diasporas and the Caribbean: Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Day 1)
Eggers Hall, 220, The Strasser Legacy Room
The Anthropology Department will bring together students, alumni and invited speakers to recognize the contributions of Professor Emeritus Douglas V. Armstrong.
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Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Jennifer V. Evans
Eggers Hall, 220
Jennifer Evans, professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, will present "Illiberal Memory and Transatlantic Hate Networks in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries"
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Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics
Eggers Hall, Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall
Sendhil Mullainathan (Chicago Booth) will present the ninth annual Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics.
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Centennial Celebration (with cake!)
Eggers Hall, Commons
Celebrate Maxwell's centennial with cake! Have your photo taken with Otto, check out our centennial map and tell us how you ever strive.
We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.