Graduate Student Workshops

Graduate Student Workshops

EACH YEAR, THE GRADUATE FELLOWS OF THE ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER invite graduate students from universities throughout the region to present their work-in-progress to a critical but supportive audience. The topics are not linked to an annual theme, but each session includes two papers that are thematically linked.  Sessions in the past have been devoted to issues of democracy, constitutionalism, and citizenship, including surveillance, technocracy, migration, race, social rights, empire building, party politics, education, the carceral state, and many more. Faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and members of the public are encouraged to read the papers and attend the workshops to participate in lively academic discussions.

Archive of Past Workshops here.

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Past Events

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid: Zoom link available

Making Politics Legible

Grad Student Workshop

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid: Zoom link available

This workshop brings together two works in progress that examine how people make sense of power that does not explain itself, and what that work costs them. Across different sites, both papers treat legibility as something produced from below: assembled by those subject to…

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid Event: Zoom

The Paradox of Shared Reality

Grad Workshop

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid Event: Zoom

What happens when recognition fails to deliver the connection it promises? This workshop pairs two papers exploring how encounters with a shared reality can destabilize rather than affirm the self. Lunch provided.

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid event: Zoom link available

Democracy and Citizenship in the Context of Economic Inequality

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid event: Zoom link available

This month's graduate workshop brings together two papers examining how economic inequality reshapes democratic participation and social belonging. Lunch provided. Madeleine Galvin (University of Pennsylvania) explores a state-led participatory planning experiment in 1980s France…

PCPSE 335
Hybrid Event: Zoom
Papers & Zoom link available after registration

Justice & Autonomy Within and Between States 

Graduate Student Workshop

PCPSE 335
Hybrid Event: Zoom
Papers & Zoom link available after registration

This session of the Graduate Student Workshop explores how justice and autonomy should be structured within and across political communities. Collectively, the papers examine when political and market-based decisions enhance or undermine democratic equality, and what normative…

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid Event: Zoom link available after registration

Legal Responses to Minority Rights in Post-Conflict Societies

Graduate Student Workshop

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid Event: Zoom link available after registration

This session examines how political upheavals reshape the rights and recognition of minorities. By tracing how states, international organizations, and revolutionary leaders redefine who counts as a protected subject, the two papers show how marginalized groups invoke and contest…