Maxwell School Events Calendar

• CANCELLED | Persian Culture and Conversation Table

  March 28, 2025, 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 303

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Persian conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Maxwell 2025 Awards of Excellence and D.C. Spring Alumni Reception

  March 27, 2025, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. EDT

  1333 New Hampshire Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C.

  Maxwell alumni and friends are invited to the school's spring alumni evening in Washington, D.C., featuring the 2025 Awards of Excellence followed by a reception.

• Cancelled | Ukrainian Culture and Conversation Table

  March 27, 2025, 3 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This event is hosted by Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor, with support from the SU Ukrainian Club.

• Decoding Deception: Advancing Critical Thinking to Strengthen Democracy

  March 26, 2025, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Grant Auditorium

  Part of the “Life Together: Seeking the Common Good in a Diverse Democracy” initiative, this event tackles the challenge of confronting mis/disinformation to restore trust and strengthen democracy.

• Russian Culture and Conversation Table

  March 26, 2025, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Russian conversation skills!

• Understanding Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home

  March 25, 2025, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  This talk explores the stories collected in two books, “We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria” (2017) and “The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora” (2024).

• Bereavement Expectancies: Introduction to a New Population Health Metric

  March 25, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Ashton Verdery will present “Bereavement Expectancies: Introduction to a New Population Health Metric” as part of the CPR Seminar Series. This event is co-sponsored by the Sociology Department.

• Theory from the Trenches: Decolonization and the Storm of Subaltern Marxism

  March 25, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Shozab Raza explores a renewed vision of decolonization—one distinct from the efforts led by bureaucrats, professors or social media activists.

• Crime, Violence and Punishment Working Group Meeting

  March 25, 2025, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 426 (CPR resource room)

  This working group brings together faculty, grad students and advanced undergrad students from across the University who are researching topics related to crime, violence and punishment.

• The EU’s Role in Reforming Local Self-Government in Ukraine: From Governance to Conditionality

  March 24, 2025, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In her research, Mariana Semenyshyn explores the EU’s role in supporting LSG reform and how Ukraine and the EU could further build on this reform as part of the negotiations process.

• Arabic Culture and Conversation Table

  March 24, 2025, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come practice your Arabic language skills and enjoy company and conversation! All levels are welcome.

• Japanese Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 115

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Japanese conversation skills!

• French Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC), 009

  Do you want to learn more about French culture and language? Come to the French Table! All levels welcome.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Memory, Justice, and (Re)Construction of Society in Post-Colonial Africa

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  For some ordinary Africans, memory and imagination has provided them with tools to assert a view against that of a repressive regime keen on erasures of the past and censorship of the present.

• Conflict Management Center Workshop - Information Sharing and Word Smithing

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  The purpose of this workshop is to provide an understanding of information sharing and wordsmithing, and to help build your skills in these areas, all while managing difference.

• Budgeting Mechanisms Workshop Series

  March 21, 2025, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Join the first BMWS webinar! Anya Nakhmurina will present “Newspaper Notice as a Government Transparency Mechanism: Evidence from Florida,” with discussants George Krause and Kate Lang Yang.

• 16th Annual FPP Conference - Watershed Moments

  March 21, 2025

  Eggers Hall, 145

  SU's Future Professoriate Program invites scholars to explore Watershed 1877 and the end of the second Civil War. The keynote speaker is John Daly, professor of U.S. history at SUNY Brockport.

• Chinese Culture and Conversation Table

  March 20, 2025, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT

  Lyman Hall, 115B

  The Chinese Culture and Conversation Table is a forum where you get to meet and converse with friends old and new. All language levels are welcome.