Maxwell School Events Calendar

Lectures and Seminars Events

  • “ ‘If he is converted’ “: A New Spanish Feather Work Ecce Homo in Southeastern Africa

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    Both pre-invasion and viceregal New Spanish (Mexican) feather works were rapidly and globally disseminated through religious and family networks, in the early modern period. This paper explores the little-known history of a devotional feather work Ecce Homo sent from Portugal to southeastern Africa in 1569.

  • America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth: A Fireside Chat with Sam Quinones

    Eggers Hall, 220

    Sam Quinones, Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, will present at this year's Lourie Lecture.

  • Working Spaces

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    The presentation examines how the expansion of the world-economy and the botanical economy of cotton, sugar, and coffee created distinctive slave plantation landscapes in nineteenth century Mississippi, Cuba, and Brazil. Using visual sources, it discusses how the physical organization of these working spaces regulated the interaction of the environment, the material conditions of production, and slave labor.

  • Making Sewers Sacred: Pollution and Progress in Santos, Brazil

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    How do sewers become sacred? The port of Santos is famous for being the first city in Brazil with a modern sewer system. The opening of the sewer (1907) saved the city's population from horrible disease outbreaks and ended disruptions in the coffee trade caused by Yellow Fever and the plague.

  • Two Koreas and the US: Current Situation, Realistic Interests, Policy Options

    Eggers Hall, 341

    In coming years, what are the power and policy options that impact stability, security and development?

  • State of Democracy: Is Free Speech Killing Democracy?

    Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium

    "Is Free Speech Killing Democracy?" The State of Democracy Lecture Series welcomes Jacob Mchangama, a lawyer, writer and activist in Denmark. He is founder and executive director of Justitia, and host of the podcast "Clear and Present Danger: a history of free speech."

  • Refractive Governance and Regulatory Risk Shift in Online Marketplaces

    Hall of Languages, 421

    In this talk I will share new empirical findings and conceptual frameworks from an ongoing qualitative study of Amazon’s third-party marketplace.

  • "Be Not Afraid: Faith as the Cornerstone of Public Service"

    National Veterans Resource Center, Tan Auditorium 101 Waverly Ave. Syracuse, NY, USA

    The Annual Borgognoni Lecture Series welcomes Michael Steele, former Chairperson of the Republican National Committee and currently a Senior Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

  • CAPS Seminar: David Rehkopf

    Virtual

    CAPS Seminar: David Rehkopf - "Learning from the Implementation of New Deal Work Programs: Lessons for Advancing Health Equity"

  • Race by Degree

    Hall of Languages, 421

    Kevin Richardson from Duke University

  • Spotlight on Latin America and the Caribbean: Graduate Student Panel

    Virtual

    Please join Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA) for a panel presentation by PLACA-funded graduate students on their research projects.

  • ASI Seminar: Laura Baker

    Virtual

    ASI Seminar: Laura Baker, Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine Title: Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions to Prevent Cognitive Decline and Dementia

  • CAPS Seminar: Fabian Pfeffer

    Virtual

    CAPS Seminar: Fabian Pfeffer, University of Michigan "Wealth Inequality and Children"

  • The Case of High Impact Tutoring in Response to the Pandemic-Induced Learning Needs

    Virtual

    Susanna Loeb, Brown University, presented “The Case of High Impact Tutoring in Response to the Pandemic-Induced Learning Needs” at the 2022 Jerry Miner Lecture.

  • Somos Guerreras

    Virtual

    Dr. Melissa Castillo Planas will explore how, where and why poetics serve to advance a feminist expression across the Americas.

  • CAPS Seminar: Jason Fletcher

    Virtual

    CAPS Seminar: Jason Fletcher, Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: "Understanding Geographic Disparity in Mortality"

  • Curating Sovereignty in Palestine

    Virtual

    This presentation extends work on “NGO-ization” in the Middle East and Global South to examine “voluntary grassroots organizations (VGOs)”: groups that operate on a voluntary basis and position themselves outside of the formal NGO sector and foreign aid system.

  • Retrofitting Leninism: A Book Talk on China’s Control Regime

    Virtual

    Drawing inspiration from the PRC’s Leninist origins, Dimitar Gueorguiev offers a novel explanation for how China’s ruling Communist Party maintains control despite facing increasingly complex governing challenges.

  • Bangkok Utopia: A Book Talk with Lawrence Chua and Anoma Pieris

    Virtual

    Lawrence Chua’s "Bangkok Utopia" (University of Hawai’i Press, 2021) outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by scholars of both. In this book talk, Professor Chua will discuss his work and conversation with Anoma Pieris, Professor of Architecture at the University of Mebourne.

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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.

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