Past Events
The Labors of Resurrection: Necromancy and the Democratic Storytelling of W.E.B. Du Bois and Toni Morrison
PCPSE 250 (the Forum)
133 S 36th Street
Black women are 10% of the U.S. female population yet represent 59% of women murdered. More people are mobilized in response to the deaths of Black men than those of Black women. Kimberlé Crenshaw understands this asymmetry as being partially rooted in Black women’s lack of…
Practices of Belonging: Speech, Citizenship, and the Struggle for the Sovereign Self
PCPSE 335 (AMC Conference Room)
133 S 36th Street
Hybrid: Zoom
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Refusing to Listen: Receptive Audiences & the Political Authority of Speech in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill. Hank Owings (Political Science, Penn) THE POPULARITY OF THE TERM “CANCEL CULTURE” gestures toward the popularity of free speech culture in the United States. And yet, “to…
Mayor Cherelle Parker Visits Penn
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
Room 250 (the Forum)
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Political Theory Workshop: "White Public Sentiment and Black Political Agency: Wells on Knowledge and Political Action"
133 S. 36th Street
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
Blank Forum, Room 250
The University of Pennsylvania's Political Theory Workshop Presents: Jennie Ikuta, University of Missouri "White Public Sentiment and Black Political Agency: Wells on Knowledge and Political Action" Jennie Ikuta is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Truman School of…
The Politics of Self-Immolation
Virtual Event: Zoom
In many places around the world, the body is often used in an act of political violence, or an act of violent protest. Yet, self-immolators are often dismissed as struggling with a mental illness, or violent outliers even when they explicitly share their thought process with…