Maxwell School Events Calendar
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Conversations featuring Prof. Yael Zeira
Virtual event via Zoom
Prof. Zeira will discuss her project 'The Ethnicization of Civil Conflict' based on research she has conducted with Alexandra Siegel, University of Colorado-Boulder. Ethnic conflicts are often seen as especially violent and intractable. But how and why do some conflicts become ``ethnic"? While scholars of ethnic politics often point to the ``ethnicization" of conflict, systematic empirical evidence demonstrating this process of ethnicization, and explaining when and why it occurs, remains rare. This project fills this gap through a large-scale, systematic study of the sources and dynamics of ethnicization and de-ethnicization in the case of the ongoing conflict in Syria, as well as in broader comparative perspective including Yemen, Iraq, and Ukraine. Employing a new conceptual and methodological framework for studying identity change, we systematically trace the prevalence of ethnic, non-ethnic and counter-ethnic rhetoric within a given conflict over both time and space by applying machine learning methods to social media data. Because ethnic rhetoric both reflects and shapes the strength of ethnic identities, our approach also provides the first, truly dynamic, time-sensitive measure of the shifting salience of ethnic identities during conflict. Sponsored by PARCC For more information, please contact Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu or at 315-443-2367. Register at https://tinyurl.com/parccregister
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Atlantis Program Dual Degree with the Hertie School
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
Maxwell Tent (by Q1 Parking Lot)
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The Emerging of Sense in Complex Systems Development: The Case of Cognitive Computing
Virtual
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Balancing the Indo-Pacific - CFR Webinar
Virtual
The Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) Academic Webinar series, formerly the Academic Conference Call series now in Zoom webinar format, provides the opportunity for students across the country and around the world to participate in an interactive conversation with a CFR fellow, Foreign Affairs author, or other expert. Webinars take place every other week during the fall and spring semesters and are dedicated to a wide range of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy topics. Background readings are distributed prior to each call, and the video recording and transcript are posted online after the fact. To register for this event or the webinar series, please email cfracademic@cfr.org, with your name, academic institution, and title. Featuring: Dhruva Jaishankar, Observer Research Foundation America; Lowy Institute This event is sponsored by the International Relations Program. For additional information, please email IRAdvisor@syr.edu.
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Evan Laksmana: Gaining or Losing Ground? The Indonesian and Myanmar Armed Forces and Divergent Regime Trajectories
Virtual
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India’s response to COVID-19: Negotiating public health responses and social policies
204 Maxwell Hall
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Meredith Startz: Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation
341 Eggers Hall
Distribution of goods often involves chains of intermediaries engaged in sequential buying and reselling. Why do such chains arise, and how do they affect consumers and their ability to gain from trade? This paper shows that the existence of internal economies of scale in trade logistics is a sufficient mechanism to yield chains with multiple intermediaries, and that this suggests consumers in developing countries are more likely to be served via long chains. Contrary to common wisdom, cutting middlemen out can, but does not necessarily, benefit consumers. Instead, there is a fundamental tradeoff between costs and entry that means even pure reductions in trade costs can have perverse effects. The proposed mechanism is simple, but can account for empirical patterns in wholesale firm size, prices and markups that we document using original survey data on imported consumer goods in Nigeria. We estimate a structural version of the model for distribution of Chinese-made apparel in Nigeria, and describe endogenous restructuring of chains and the resulting impacts on consumer welfare in response to counterfactual changes in regulation, e-commerce technologies, and transport infrastructure.
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Persian Culture and Conversation Table
Virtual
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Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series: Saulesh Yessenova
Online
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Government, Education and Non-Profit Virtual Career Fair
Virtual
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Conversations in Conflict Studies featuring Becca Farnum and Maggie Scull
Virtual event via Zoom
Should Conflicts be our Classrooms? Ethical Field Studies in Peace and Justice Scholars of international relations, environmental justice, and ethnic studies find fieldwork in (post-)conflict contexts a productive way to build knowledge. But what are the ethical implications of this practice - especially for students seeking experiential learning opportunities? Is equitable engagement with communities living in conflict possible for short-term visitors? Is studying dark tourism in situ a valuable learning experience...or simply another form of dark tourism? During this conversation, Dr Becca Farnum and Dr Maggie Scull will reflect on their research-led teaching (and teaching-led research!) in contexts as far-ranging as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Land conflict in the Arctic, ongoing tensions in post-genocide Rwanda, and racial violence in the United States. Register at : https://tinyurl.com/parccregister Sponsored by PARCC. For more information, contact Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu or at 315-443-2367
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Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: Uses and Unintended Disparate Effects
204B Maxwell and Virtual (See details below)
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Constraining Putin's Russia - CFR Webinar
Virtual
The Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) Academic Webinar series, formerly the Academic Conference Call series now in Zoom webinar format, provides the opportunity for students across the country and around the world to participate in an interactive conversation with a CFR fellow, Foreign Affairs author, or other expert. Webinars take place every other week during the fall and spring semesters and are dedicated to a wide range of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy topics. Background readings are distributed prior to each call, and the video recording and transcript are posted online after the fact. To register for this event or the webinar series, please email cfracademic@cfr.org, with your name, academic institution, and title. Featuring: Thomas Graham, Council on Foreign Relations This event is sponsored by the International Relations Program. For additional information, please email IRAdvisor@syr.edu.
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The Future of Afghanistan
Virtual
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Joanne Waghorne: Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State
204 Maxwell Hall
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Pop-up: Preparing for the SU Virtual Career Fairs
Virtual (See event details)
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Priyaranjan Jha: Monopsonistic Labor Markets and International Trade
Virtual
This project studies the impact of trade on wage inequality and welfare when the labor market is monopsonistic. Firm heterogeneity in productivity along with workers' idiosyncratic preferences for different firms generate between-firm wage inequality for workers with identical skills. If monopsony power is high, inequality increases monotonically with trade liberalization. The model features a novel welfare channel of workers' “love of firm variety." Trade liberalization provides additional welfare gains through the firm-variety channel when monopsony power is high but detracts from welfare gains when monopsony power is low.
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Graduate and Law School Virtual Information Fair
Virtual (See event details)
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Federal Government Application Resources – Info Session
Virtual
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.