Maxwell School Events Calendar

Talks Events

• Juan Gonzalez | The Americas at an Inflection Point: Power, Democracy, and US Strategy

  April 09, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  Juan S. Gonzalez (Georgetown Americas Institute) examines how the region is being reshaped by democratic backsliding, economic fragmentation, and geopolitical rivalry.

• Threats to Power: Methane Extraction in Rwanda

  April 09, 2026, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 500

  The Anthropology Department welcomes Kristin Doughty (University of Rochester) to discuss her upcoming book on Lake Kivu and how its methane stores transform from threat to resource.

• Ilana Shpaizman | The Dream to Have a Dream: Hope in Mass Protests Against Democratic Backsliding

  April 10, 2026, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220, The Dr. Paul and Natalie Strasser Legacy Room

  Ilana Shpaizman (Bar Ilan University) examines how hope is an indispensable emotional resource for sustaining mass protest against democratic backsliding.

• Rethinking the Expectations of Knowing in Educational Contexts: African Languages and Literacies

  April 13, 2026, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Adeola Agoke (University of Wisconsin-Madison) examines African languages' role in meaning-making and their entanglement with restrictions in knowledge production.

• TDPE Panel | Trump’s Tariffs One Year On

  April 14, 2026, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, The Dr. Paul and Natalie Strasser Legacy Room, 220

  A panel of Maxwell School experts will break down the current effects of the tariff policy, and what the future holds for the U.S. and global economy.

• Dismantling DEI and What Remains: How Diversity Ideology Affects Employees of Color

  April 14, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  Oneya Fennell Okuwobi, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, will present as part of the Sociology Department Symposium Series.

• David Robinson | Rethinking Chinese Diplomacy: A View from Northeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century

  April 17, 2026, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join David M. Robinson from Colgate University to uncover the real story of Ming diplomacy; where immigrant envoys braved danger to shape 15th-century Northeast Asia.

• Frédéric Mérand | The Struggle for European Sovereignty: A Battle of Ideas

  April 17, 2026, 3 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Frédéric Mérand from the University of Montreal Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM) will explore the ideational struggles shaping the European project from its inception to the present.

• Shoumitro Chatterjee | No Country for Dying Firms: Evidence from India

  April 20, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Shoumitro Chatterjee from Johns Hopkins University will explore and identifies how exit barriers are partially at fault for India’s underdeveloped manufacturing sector.

• Caileigh Glenn | Countermeasures: Targeted Financial Sanctions and Government Hostility

  April 24, 2026, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In this talk, Caileigh Glenn (Middlebury College) presents research from her current book project on the conditions that prompt government hostility in response to U.S. targeted financial sanctions.