Past Events
133 S. 36th Street, Auditorium (Basement)
In-person event. Food provided. Please register here.
JOIN THE FIVE CAUCUSES OF THE PENN POLITICAL UNION in welcoming national political strategist BRIAN SEITCHIK for a discussion on how to win political campaigns in the upcoming election cycles. Seitchik specializes in the nitty gritty of campaign management and strategy, paid media, earned media, social media development, qualitative and quantitative research, constructing campaign teams and fundraising. He has experience managing and consulting on Presidential (Trump campaign), Gubernatorial, and Congressional races in Florida, California, Ohio, Arizona and internationally. In addition, Brian served as Chief of Staff to former California Congressman Dan Lungren. Above all, he understands that campaigns must react swiftly to evolving circumstances and be nimble in adjusting their tone and emphases, making him a great guide to the politics of the moment (whatever your political leanings).
THE PENN POLITICAL UNION (PPU) is an undergraduate organization formed in 2014 that features parliamentary-style deliberation on urgent contemporary issues. To represent a wide spectrum of political opinion, students affiliate with five member political parties: Libertarian, Conservative, Centrist, Liberal, and Progressive. The goal of PPU, in both debates and less formal discussions, is to fully represent political diversity while maintaining civility and openness to other outlooks.
PPU - A Conversation with Political Strategist Brian Seitchik
133 S. 36th Street, Auditorium (Basement)
In-person event. Food provided. Please register here.
JOIN THE FIVE CAUCUSES OF THE PENN POLITICAL UNION in welcoming national political strategist BRIAN SEITCHIK for a discussion on how to win political campaigns in the upcoming election cycles. Seitchik specializes in the nitty gritty of campaign management and strategy, paid media, earned media, social media development, qualitative and quantitative research, constructing campaign teams and fundraising. He has experience managing and consulting on Presidential (Trump campaign), Gubernatorial, and Congressional races in Florida, California, Ohio, Arizona and internationally. In addition, Brian served as Chief of Staff to former California Congressman Dan Lungren. Above all, he understands that campaigns must react swiftly to evolving circumstances and be nimble in adjusting their tone and emphases, making him a great guide to the politics of the moment (whatever your political leanings).
THE PENN POLITICAL UNION (PPU) is an undergraduate organization formed in 2014 that features parliamentary-style deliberation on urgent contemporary issues. To represent a wide spectrum of political opinion, students affiliate with five member political parties: Libertarian, Conservative, Centrist, Liberal, and Progressive. The goal of PPU, in both debates and less formal discussions, is to fully represent political diversity while maintaining civility and openness to other outlooks.
Steppe Immunity: Mongolian History and the Changing Meanings of Darkhlaa (Christian Sorace)
133 S. 36th Street, Room 250 (Forum)
In-person event.
133 South 36th Street, Auditorium (Basement)
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
In-person Event: Please register here.
Dinner provided / Free and open to the public.
POLITICS NEVER STOPS. The Mitchell Center and the Penn Government and Politics Association (GPA) host this debate among student political parties on a wide array of topics. The participating parties are the PENN DEMOCRATS, the PENN COLLEGE REPUBLICANS, the PENN JUSTICE DEMOCRATS, and PENN FOR LIBERTY. Topics include COVID and the response to it, foreign policy, and the economy.
The GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS ASSOCIATION is Penn’s largest political organization. Devoted to non-partisan and balanced dialogue, the organization does not adopt positions on political issues; we leave it to our participants to make up their own minds. The group is divided into three main branches: the Polybian Society, the Penn Political Union, and the Penn Political Review. In addition, the organization conducts events with politicians and professors of all political leanings.
GPA - Spring 2023 Multi-Party Political Debate
133 South 36th Street, Auditorium (Basement)
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
In-person Event: Please register here.
Dinner provided / Free and open to the public.
POLITICS NEVER STOPS. The Mitchell Center and the Penn Government and Politics Association (GPA) host this debate among student political parties on a wide array of topics. The participating parties are the PENN DEMOCRATS, the PENN COLLEGE REPUBLICANS, the PENN JUSTICE DEMOCRATS, and PENN FOR LIBERTY. Topics include COVID and the response to it, foreign policy, and the economy.
The GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS ASSOCIATION is Penn’s largest political organization. Devoted to non-partisan and balanced dialogue, the organization does not adopt positions on political issues; we leave it to our participants to make up their own minds. The group is divided into three main branches: the Polybian Society, the Penn Political Union, and the Penn Political Review. In addition, the organization conducts events with politicians and professors of all political leanings.
Reimagining Work and Consumption in a Connected World
Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk
Hybrid: In-person and online.
Link and paper sent to registered attendees. Please register here.
Association and the Ethical Foundations of Policing
Kierstan Kaushal-Carter (African and African American Studies, Harvard)
DESPITE WIDESPREAD, VOCAL DISSATISFACTION WITH POLICE IN THE US, no consensus has emerged to answer the question “what ought to be done about them?” Instead, the interdisciplinary debate produced at least four policy pathways ranging from budgetary infusions to legal reform to “unbundling” police services to full abolition. KIERSTAN KAUSHAL-CARTER argues that this policy confusion stems from a submerged debate about what the police should do and why. In a political environment full of commentary about the police, no explicitly normative account of what function police ought to perform exists. Kaushal-Carter offers such an account. By first describing the imperative to live together and the mechanism for nurturing peoples’ collective life, she tethers policing to the fundamental goals of just democratic orders. She then defines the police and policing in a way that (1) acknowledges the distinctiveness of the police authority to use violence without mistaking that authority as an end and (2) connects police conduct to broader goals of well-being and mutual flourishing without confusing those ends for a description of the means. Finally, she argues the police should be internal members of a political community afforded a limited right to collect information and use physical coercion against others to restore or promote conditions for mutual flourishing when an interpersonal violation of public concerns occur.
GRAD WORKSHOP - Between Control and Abuse: Questioning the Power of the State
Hybrid: In-person and online.
Link and paper sent to registered attendees. Please register here.
Association and the Ethical Foundations of Policing
Kierstan Kaushal-Carter (African and African American Studies, Harvard)
DESPITE WIDESPREAD, VOCAL DISSATISFACTION WITH POLICE IN THE US, no consensus has emerged to answer the question “what ought to be done about them?” Instead, the interdisciplinary debate produced at least four policy pathways ranging from budgetary infusions to legal reform to “unbundling” police services to full abolition. KIERSTAN KAUSHAL-CARTER argues that this policy confusion stems from a submerged debate about what the police should do and why. In a political environment full of commentary about the police, no explicitly normative account of what function police ought to perform exists. Kaushal-Carter offers such an account. By first describing the imperative to live together and the mechanism for nurturing peoples’ collective life, she tethers policing to the fundamental goals of just democratic orders. She then defines the police and policing in a way that (1) acknowledges the distinctiveness of the police authority to use violence without mistaking that authority as an end and (2) connects police conduct to broader goals of well-being and mutual flourishing without confusing those ends for a description of the means. Finally, she argues the police should be internal members of a political community afforded a limited right to collect information and use physical coercion against others to restore or promote conditions for mutual flourishing when an interpersonal violation of public concerns occur.