Past Faculty Workshops

2012-13: CONSTITUTION MAKING

 

Opening Event: Is the World Rejecting American Constitutionalism?

Sept. 20, 2012
  Akhil Reed Amar (Law, Yale University)
  David Armitage (Harvard University)
  David Law (Law, Washington University)

Do Constitutions Matter? (PDF)

Oct. 18, 2012
  Tom Ginsburg (Law, University of Chicago) 

Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights
(Subsequently published by Princeton University Press, 2013)

Nov. 15, 2012
  Emily Zackin (Hunter College, CUNY)
  Discussant: Walter Licht (History, University of Pennsylvania) 

Condorcet and the French Constitution

Nov. 27, 2012
  Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
  Steven Lukes (New York University)
  Discussant: Kok-Chor Tan (Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania) Transnational Interactions and the Making of Constitutional Rights (PDF)
Jan. 17, 2013
  Christopher McCrudden (Queens University, Belfast)
  Discussant: William Burke-White (Law, University of Pennsylvania) The New Hungarian ConstitutionFeb. 21, 2013   Kim Lane Scheppele (Woodrow WIlson School, Princeton University) How Democratic is the Constitution? And Should We Care if the Answer is 'Not Very'?March 21, 2013  Sanford Levinson (Law, University of Texas)  Discussant: Rick Beeman (History, University of Pennsylvania) Communist FederationsApril 18, 2013  Valerie Bunce (Cornell University)  Discussant: Peter Holquist (History, University of Pennsylvania) Sixth Annual DCC Conference
May 3, 2013 2011-12: CORPORATIONS AND CITIZENSHIP "Can the For-Profit Corporation Be a Good Citizen?"Sept. 15, 2011 - OPENING EVENT  John Abele (Director Emeritus, Boston Scientific)  Gordon Bajnai (Former Prime Minister of Hungary)  Fedele Bauccio (CEO, Bon Appetit)  Bill Cobb (CEO, JM Smith)  Moderator: Nien-he Hsieh (Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania) The Rise and Embedding of the CorporationOct. 27, 2011  Walter Licht, History (University of Pennsylvania)  Discussant: Randall Collins (Sociology, University of Pennsylvania) Responsibilities, Rights, and Group AgentsNov. 10, 2011  Philip Pettit, (Politics, Princeton University))  Discussant: Eric Orts (Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania)   *Co-sponsored by the Penn Philosophy Department and the Moral and Political Philosophy    Note: There will be no new paper for this talk. For background and context, please read Prof. Pettit's previously published article, "Responsibility Incorporated" from Ethics   Vol. 117. Corporations and ChildrenDec. 8, 2011  Joel Bakan (Law, University of British Columbia)  *Co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Law School Roundtable on For-Profit Educational CorporationsJan. 19, 2012  Jonathan Harber (CEO, SchoolNet Inc.)  Michael Moe (Founder, GSV Asset Management)  Peter Smith (Senior VP, Kaplan Higher Education)   **Note: This event will be held in Jon Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut St, Amphitheater F95** Corporate Citizenship and Worker VoiceFeb. 16, 2012  Cynthia Estlund (Law, New York University)  *Co-sponsored by the Penn Law School* Ethno-Being: On the Affective Economy of BelongingMarch 29, 2012   Jean Comaroff (Anthropology, University of Chicago) Corporations in East AsiaApril 26, 2012  Hirokazu Miyazaki (Anthropology, Cornell University) Fifth Annual Penn DCC ConferenceMay 4, 2012 2010-11: RACE, ETHNICITY, NATIONAL MINORITIES AND CITIZENSHIP The Everyday Workings of EthnicitySept. 23, 2010  Rogers Brubaker (Sociology, University of California Los Angeles)  Discussant: Adolph Reed (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania) Towards a Critical Appreciation of Political Globalization: Gender in the Service of the Internationalized Security StateOct. 21, 2010  Mervat Hatem, Political Science (Howard University)  Discussant: Heather J Sharkey Quotidian Violences, Silences, and the Burden of Citizenship in Queer Lives of All ColorsNov. 18, 2010  Carlos Decena (Women's and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies,   Rutgers University)  Discussant: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (History, University of Pennsylvania) Racial Hoaxes and the Penumbra of CitizenshipDec. 9, 2010  Katheryn Russell-Brown (Law, University of Florida)  Discussant: Michael Katz (History, University of Pennsylvania) Unsettling Indigenous CitizenshipJan. 20, 2011  Jessica Cattelino (Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles)  Discussant: Rogers M. Smith (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania) Memories of Slavery in Contemporary Law and PoliticsFeb. 17, 2011  Ariela Gross, (Law and History, University of Southern California) Race, War, and CitizenshipMarch 17, 2011  Christopher Parker (Political Science, University of Washington)  Discussant: Serena Mayeri (Law School, University of Pennsylvania) Asian Americans and the Complexities of CitizenshipApril 14, 2011  Frank Wu (Law, University of California Hastings) Fourth Annual Penn DCC ConferenceApril 29, 2011 Co-Sponsored Events: LALS Faculty/Graduate Student Seminar on Latino Communities in PhiladelphiaMarch 31, 2011 Civil Disabilities: Theory, Citizenship, and the BodyMarch 31-April 1, 2011 Comparing Elections and Electoral Systems in North America and IndiaFeb. 24-26, 2011 2009-10: SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORIALITY, AND PLURAL CITIZENSHIP Who's Afraid of International Law? Sovereignty, the Constitution, and the International OrderSept. 29, 2009  Noah Feldman (Harvard University) Economic Justice, Coercion, and Foreign PolicyOct 15, 2009  Michael Blake (University of Washington Jamin)  Subcontracting Sovereignties Nov. 19, 2009  Anna Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz) War, Territorial States and Contention: Lasswell v. Tilly Dec. 10, 2009  Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University) Sovereignty out of JointJan. 21, 2010  Arjun Chowdhury (University of Pennsylvania) Spatial Organization and Political Occupation  Feb. 9, 2010  Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London) Desiring Walls March 25, 2010  Wendy Brown (University of California, Berkeley) *CANCELLED* Sovereignty, Colonialism, and Identity   April 15, 2010  Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University) Third Annual Penn DCC ConferenceApril 30, 2010 2008-09: CIVIC REPRESENTATION, ELECTIONS, AND PUBLIC OPINION Are American Elections Sufficiently Democratic? A DiscussionSept. 25, 2008  Pamela S. Karlan (Law, Stanford University)  Dennis F. Thompson (Government, Harvard University)  Moderator: Jack Nagel (Chair, 2008-2009 DCC Planning Committee) Neither the Red States nor the Blue States but the United States: The National Popular Vote and American Political DemocracyOct 16, 2008  Jamin Raskin (Washington College of Law, American University and Member, Maryland State Senate)  Discussant: Richard Beeman (History, University of Pennsylvania) The Right to Vote Yesterday and TodayNov. 13, 2008  Alex Keyssar, History (Harvard University)  Discussant: Richard Valelly (Political Science, Swarthmore College) Citizen Representatives: Deliberative Democratic Decisionmaking in Citizens' AssembliesDec. 4, 2008  Mark E. Warren (Political Science, University of British Columbia)  Discussant: Carol Gould (Philosophy and Government, Temple University) The Principle of Affected Interests and Democratic InclusionJan. 22, 2009  Archon Fung, (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)  Discussant: Sigal Ben-Porath (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania) Competition and Truth in the Market for NewsFeb. 19, 2009  Matthew Gentzkow, (Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago)  Discussant: Rogers Smith (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania) The Closing of the Frontier: Political Blogs, the 2008 Election, and the Online Public SphereMar. 26, 2009  Matthew Hindman (Political Science, Arizona State University)  Discussant: Joseph Turow (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) Unequal Democracy: Turnout, Minority Interests, and Local Government SpendingApril 16, 2009  Zoltan L.Hajnal (Political Science, University of California, San Diego)  Discussant: Adolph Reed (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania) Second Annual Penn DCC ConferenceMay 1, 2009