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

Elite Participation in Sociopolitical Reforms

Graduate Student Workshop

PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
Hybrid: Zoom

This session examines how elites adapt to significant sociopolitical changes. The two presenters will interrogate how elites shape state-building and social reform focusing on the role of power and ideology. Lunch provided. Click here to register. Link to papers will be provided…

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

Constraints on Democratic Imaginations

Graduate Student Workshop

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

This session examines how political thought, education, and discourse shape—and often constrain—the horizons of democratic possibility. Presenters interrogate the historical and intellectual boundaries that define what counts as “democratic” imagination, tracing how systems of…

Hybrid Event
In-person: PCPSE 335 (Andrea Mitchell Center Conference Room)
Register for Zoom link

Contesting the Past

Graduate Student Workshop

Hybrid Event
In-person: PCPSE 335 (Andrea Mitchell Center Conference Room)
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How do societies remember their past, and how do those memories shape the present? This workshop brings together two graduate researchers whose work interrogates struggles over memory, media, and history in democratic and journalistic contexts. Lunch provided. Paper Descriptions…

Hybrid Event:
In-Person: PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
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Grad Workshop Institutional Choices & Societal Consequences

Lunch provided

Hybrid Event:
In-Person: PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
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This workshop brings together two emerging scholars whose work critically examines how institutions shape — and often constrain — social and political life. This will be a hybrid event. Register to receive Zoom link, or attend in-person. Julia Cope (Annenberg School of…