Maxwell School Events Calendar

Lectures and Seminars Events

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

  September 21, 2022, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  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

  September 16, 2022, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  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?

  April 29, 2022, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  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

  April 27, 2022, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  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"

  April 04, 2022, 7 p.m.-8:58 p.m. EDT

  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

  April 01, 2022, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

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

• Race by Degree

  March 30, 2022, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 421

  Kevin Richardson from Duke University

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

  March 25, 2022, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  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

  March 25, 2022, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  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

  March 04, 2022, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  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

  March 04, 2022, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  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

  February 07, 2022, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  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

  February 04, 2022, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EST

  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

  February 04, 2022, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  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

  January 28, 2022, 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. EST

  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

  January 25, 2022, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. EST

  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.