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MAX-Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Events

March 28, 2025

Persian Culture and Conversation Table

March 28, 2025 at 4:30pm6:30pm

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.

March 31, 2025

The Babel Machine Workshop: Multilingual AI for Cross-National and Comparative Research

March 31, 2025 at 2:00pm3:30pm

Eggers Hall, 341

Discover how cutting-edge large language models can transform your research across language barriers.

Putin’s Holy War: Sacred Memory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

March 31, 2025 at 4:00pm5:00pm

Eggers Hall, 341

Sean Griffin traces the career of Patriarch Kirill (Gundiaev), the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, and examines his highly controversial role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

April 1, 2025

Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Social Science

April 1, 2025 at 12:00pm1:30pm

Eggers Hall, 220

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion with pioneering international scholar Miklós Sebők, who developed a no-code LLM platform for studying international politics across twenty languages.

April 2, 2025

Avoiding Trivia: Reflections on U.S. National Security Strategy

April 2, 2025 at 3:30pm5:00pm

Eggers Hall, 341

The Post-Cold War era is definitively over. So now what? Matan Chorev, former principal deputy director of the secretary of state's policy planning staff, will discuss.

April 3, 2025

Book Talk | ‘Doing Research as a Native: A Guide for Fieldwork in Repressive and Illiberal States’

April 3, 2025 at 2:00pm4:15pm

Eggers Hall, 341

Presentation of “Doing Research as a Native: A Guide for Fieldwork in Illiberal and Repressive States” (Oxford University Press 2025), edited by Kira Jumet and Merouan Mekouar.

Hebrew Culture and Conversation Table

April 3, 2025 at 3:30pm4:30pm

Eggers Hall, 306B

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

What Side Are You On? A Tohono O’odham Life Across Borders

April 3, 2025 at 4:00pm5:30pm

Eggers Hall, 060

Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero explore the impact of poverty racism, and border policing on Native peoples, focusing on Wilson's activism and personal journey.

April 4, 2025

Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

April 4, 2025 at 12:00pm1:30pm

Eggers Hall, 306B

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

April 8, 2025

Book Talk | ‘Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization among New Americans’

April 8, 2025 at 12:30pm2:00pm

Eggers Hall, 341

“Claiming Citizenship” explores Indian American political activism, highlighting diverse advocacy groups, generational differences and the influence of social media.

Migratory Journeys to the United States as Seen Through Contemporary Mexican theater

April 8, 2025 at 3:30pm5:00pm

Eggers Hall, 341

The era of refugees and migrants, encompassing most of the 20th and 21st centuries is characterized by displaced and transient human masses.

April 9, 2025

Bengali Culture and Conversation Table

April 9, 2025 at 12:00pm1:30pm

Eggers Hall, 341

Come learn and practice your Bengali conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

Picturing (and Remembering) the Pandemic

April 9, 2025 at 3:00pm4:00pm

Maxwell Hall, Foyer

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University is hosting the exhibit “Picturing the…

Hebrew Culture and Conversation Table

April 9, 2025 at 3:30pm4:30pm

Eggers Hall, 341

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

April 10, 2025

Turkish Culture and Conversation Table

April 10, 2025 at 2:00pm3:30pm

Eggers Hall, 341

Come to the Turkish Table! All levels welcome!

April 11, 2025

Temporal & Spatial Ecologies of Perceptible Violence | Gina Kim’s Bloodless, Tearless & Comfortless

April 11, 2025 at 12:00pm1:30pm

Eggers Hall, 151

Jinah Kim explores Gina Kim's VR films as a critique of military violence, emphasizing sensory immersion to amplify the hidden, ongoing impacts of war.

Japanese Culture and Conversation Table

April 11, 2025 at 2:15pm3:35pm

Hall of Languages, 115

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

Persian Culture and Conversation Table

April 11, 2025 at 4:30pm6:30pm

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.

April 14, 2025

Arabic Culture and Conversation Table

April 14, 2025 at 12:00pm1:00pm

Eggers Hall, 352

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

Italian Culture and Conversation Table

April 14, 2025 at 1:00pm2:00pm

Eggers Hall, 341

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