Maxwell School Events Calendar
Lectures and Seminars Events
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Conversations in Conflict Studies - Catherine Herrold
Maxwell Hall, 204
Conversations in Conflict Studies Presents Prof. Catherine Herrold - "Mobilizing the Masses: Civil Society and Social Change in Palestine"
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Uncertainty in Motion: Rumors of a Proxy War in Late Industrial Baltimore
Maxwell Hall, 204
Chloe Ahmann, assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell, will discuss the debate over a proposed incinerator in south Baltimore.
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Congressman John Katko: Farewell Address
National Veterans Resource Center NY
Four-term elected U.S. Representative John Katko (R-NY) will join Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, for a discussion reflecting on his legislative record, the current political climate and his experience during his eight years in Congress.
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After the Election: Assessing the Midterms
Virtual
Campbell Lecture: Join us for a moderated panel discussion of the midterm election results and their implications.
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The archaeological record of the African diaspora in Brazil
Maxwell Hall, 204
Luis Symanski, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil will discuss the archaeological record of the African diaspora in Brazil: some thoughts on the materiality of the African creolization process in the Americas.
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CAPS Seminar: Taylor Hargrove
Virtual
CAPS Seminar: Taylor Hargrove, Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina Title: Mental Health across the Early life Course and the Intersections of Race, Skin Tone, and School Context
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CPR Seminar Series: Ying Shi
Eggers Hall, 060
Ying Shi (Syracuse University) will present “Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout in the Aftermath of Shelby County v. Holder” as part of the CPR Seminar Series.
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Conversations in Conflict Studies: Matthew McLeskey
Maxwell Hall, 204
Join us for "The Epidemiological Context of the Affordable Housing Crisis" with Matthew McLeskey.
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Misremembered Massacre: Simon Pokagon’s Indigenous Account of the Battle of Fort Dearborn
Maxwell Hall, 204B
The Battle of Fort Dearborn is commonly portrayed as a foundational event in the early history of Chicago. Typical historical narratives describe the battle as a massacre of innocent white settlers by blood thirsty Potawatomi warriors.
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PAIA Departmental Seminar Series: Paul Light
Eggers Hall, 209
Paul Light (New York University) will present “Still Searching for Social Entrepreneurship after all these Years: Reflections on field building."
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Hidden Gardens and Other Acts of Subtle Resistance
Maxwell Hall, 204B
Hidden Gardens and Other Acts of Subtle Resistance: Multispecies Politics in a Mexican Coffee Plantation
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CAPS Annual Conference Keynote Speaker: David Cutler
Virtual
CAPS Annual Conference Keynote Speaker: David Cutler, Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University, presents "Is Aging a Luxury Good?"
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A Doleful Place Indeed, for the Site of a Future City
Maxwell Hall, 204
Shifting power dynamics and infrastructural development within the city of Syracuse have long intertwined with geographic adjacency and the ability to control water resources. A population’s social and economic standing correlated to their proximity to areas subjected to flooding and other negative consequences of a water-rich landscape.
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Labor's Revival: Unions and the Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice
Dineen Hall, 020
Hear from prominent labor leaders about the ongoing struggle for dignity and democracy at work at the 2022 Lender Center Conversation led by Lender Center co-director Gretchen Purser.
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State of Democracy Lecture on The State of Congress: Looking Toward the Midterms
Maxwell Hall, Auditorium
State of Democracy Lecture with Sarah Binder, professor of political science at George Washington University and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, who specializes in Congress and legislative politics. Dr. Binder will discuss, "The State of Congress: Looking Toward the Midterms."
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A Stamp on the Seafloor/Un Sello en el Fondo del Mar
Maxwell Hall, 204
In July 2017, Ruben Santana died in a spearfishing accident off the coast of Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. This short ethnographic film chronicles his life and the events of his death through the voices of his colleagues, for whom Ruben was deeply loved.
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The Archaeology of Eighteenth Century Historic Households in Central New York
Maxwell Hall, 204
The Historic Households of Central New York project focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of the Indigenous and white settler colonialist populations moving into this region following the Revolutionary War through geophysical survey and small-scale excavations of homesteads identified through historic markers.
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“ ‘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.
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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.
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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.
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.