Maxwell School Events Calendar

Centennial Events

• Panel Discussion: Intersectionality in American Democracy

  November 12, 2024, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. EST

  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.

• Election 2024: Post-Election Analysis - A Centennial Election Event

  November 08, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  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.

• LOCATION CHANGE-Phanstiel Lecture: The People Who Built the Pyramids—How We Know

  November 01, 2024, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EDT

  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.

• Arthur C. Brooks: How to Get Happier in an Unhappy World

  October 30, 2024, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EDT

  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.

• Election 2024: American Democracy at the Crossroads - A Centennial Election Event

  October 25, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Election 2024: American Democracy at the Crossroads, a conversation about the campaigns and consequences of the presidential election.

• Maxwell School Centennial Celebration in Syracuse

  October 18, 2024, 4 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Goldstein Auditorium

  Join us as we commemorate 100 years of academic excellence, public service and transformative impact.

• State and Local Economic Development Panel

  October 18, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium

  Join the Palmer Career Center for a state and local economic development panel.

• Election 2024: Gerontocracy in American Politics - A Centennial Election Event

  October 11, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Election 2024: Gerontocracy in American Politics, part of the State of Democracy Lecture Series.

• Centennial Celebration (with cake!)

  October 10, 2024, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  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.

• The Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Maeve E. Kane

  October 04, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  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.

• 2020: How America's Year of Crises Has Shaped 2024

  September 11, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  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.

• Geography and the Environment- Donald Meinig Lecture

  April 25, 2024, 4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220, The Strasser Legacy Room

  Cynthia Brewer, professor of geography at Penn State University, will present "Making Beautiful Maps Using GIS Tools."

• The Right to Property and Economic Development in India

  April 17, 2024, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  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.

• Taking Tutoring to Scale in Metro Nashville Public Schools: A Multi-Year Analysis

  April 11, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Matthew Kraft, associate professor of education and economics at Brown University, presented at the 2024 Jerry Miner Lecture.

• Total Solar Eclipse Extravaganza

  April 08, 2024, 2:50 p.m.-3:50 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Lincoln Courtyard

  Watch the cosmic curtain fall as the moon steals the spotlight from the sun. Free eclipse glasses provided.

• Africa, African Diasporas and the Caribbean: Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Day 2)

  April 06, 2024, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT

  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.

• Africa, African Diasporas and the Caribbean: Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Day 1)

  April 05, 2024, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  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.

• Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Jennifer V. Evans

  March 29, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  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"

• Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics

  March 28, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall

  Sendhil Mullainathan (Chicago Booth) will present the ninth annual Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics.

• Centennial Celebration (with cake!)

  March 28, 2024, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  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.