Past Events
133 S. 36th Street, Auditorium (Ground Floor, downstairs from main entrance)
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
JOIN THE ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER, Penn Government and Politics Association, Penn Political Union, UPenn College Republicans, and Penn Democrats for a non-partisan Town Hall with candidates running for Philadelphia City-Council At-Large positions. This is an unparalleled opportunity to directly engage with local candidates and decide who to vote for in the primary election on May 21st and the general election on November 5th.
Philadelphia City-Council Candidate Town Hall
133 S. 36th Street, Auditorium (Ground Floor, downstairs from main entrance)
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
JOIN THE ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER, Penn Government and Politics Association, Penn Political Union, UPenn College Republicans, and Penn Democrats for a non-partisan Town Hall with candidates running for Philadelphia City-Council At-Large positions. This is an unparalleled opportunity to directly engage with local candidates and decide who to vote for in the primary election on May 21st and the general election on November 5th.
Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Room 350
A Wharton Legal Studies and Business Ethics Speaker Series Talk
David Cole (ACLU National Legal Director)
SINCE HIS ELECTION, DONALD TRUMP HAS POSED a multifaceted threat to civil rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law. The ACLU has played a major role in fighting back in defense of liberty, telling Trump “We’ll See You in Court!” David Cole will speak about how all of us can stand up for liberty, and why our future depends on our doing so.
Co-sponsored Event - Defending Liberty in the Trump Era: Lessons from the Front (David Cole)
Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Room 350
A Wharton Legal Studies and Business Ethics Speaker Series Talk
David Cole (ACLU National Legal Director)
SINCE HIS ELECTION, DONALD TRUMP HAS POSED a multifaceted threat to civil rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law. The ACLU has played a major role in fighting back in defense of liberty, telling Trump “We’ll See You in Court!” David Cole will speak about how all of us can stand up for liberty, and why our future depends on our doing so.
John M. Huntsman Hall, Room 340 (3730 Walnut Street)
Lunch Included
PLEASE REGISTER HERE
Please join the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture for a special Philosophy of Finance lecture featuring Prof. Devin Singh, Assistant Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. The lecture will explore how understandings of debt and interest are bound up with assumptions about what counts as reproduction, and how both interest and reproduction reflect anxieties about the scarcity of life and resources. Prof. Singh's keynote will be following by responses from Prof. Andrew Lamas, Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. John Buchmann of the Collegium Institute, moderated by Dr. Isabel Perera, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
This event is co-sponsored by the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS), the department of Religious Studies, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and the Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) department and the Urban Studies Program.
Co-sponsored Event - Existential Scarcity: Debt and Ideals of "Natural" Reproduction (Devin Singh)
John M. Huntsman Hall, Room 340 (3730 Walnut Street)
Lunch Included
PLEASE REGISTER HERE
Please join the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture for a special Philosophy of Finance lecture featuring Prof. Devin Singh, Assistant Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. The lecture will explore how understandings of debt and interest are bound up with assumptions about what counts as reproduction, and how both interest and reproduction reflect anxieties about the scarcity of life and resources. Prof. Singh's keynote will be following by responses from Prof. Andrew Lamas, Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. John Buchmann of the Collegium Institute, moderated by Dr. Isabel Perera, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
This event is co-sponsored by the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS), the department of Religious Studies, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and the Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) department and the Urban Studies Program.
Join March For Our Lives at UPenn, Penn Government and Politics Association, Penn Democrats, and the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy for a conversation with recently-elected Congresswomen Madeleine Dean and Mary Gay Scanlon, who will discuss gun control legislation and the Universal Background Checks bill. FIND MORE INFORMATION HERE
Co-sponsored Event - Conversation with Congresswomen Dean and Scanlon
Join March For Our Lives at UPenn, Penn Government and Politics Association, Penn Democrats, and the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy for a conversation with recently-elected Congresswomen Madeleine Dean and Mary Gay Scanlon, who will discuss gun control legislation and the Universal Background Checks bill. FIND MORE INFORMATION HERE
Co-Sponsors: Foreign Policy Research Institute, Department of Russian and East European Studies, Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium
READ THE FULL CONFERENCE REPORT HERE
FULL VIDEO OF THE PANELS AVAILABLE AT LINKS BELOW
AMID NEW REVELATIONS OF THE EXTENT of Russian interference in American elections, how should we appraise Russia’s role in undermining democracy not just in America, but throughout the West – and are there perils in exaggerating its successes?
Panel 1: Is Russia Undermining Democracy in the West?
VIEW THE FULL VIDEO HERE
Michael Carpenter, Penn Biden Center
Samuel Charap, RAND Corporation
Nikolas Gvosdev, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Marlene LaRuelle, George Washington University
Moderator: Mitchell Orenstein, Penn Russian and East European Studies
Panel 2: Have Elections Become Cyberwars?
VIEW THE FULL VIDEO HERE
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg School for Communications
Clint Watts, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Moderator: John Haines, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Panel 3: Is Russia’s Strategy Working or Backfiring?
VIEW THE FULL VIDEO HERE
Bob Hamilton, US Army War College
Alina Polyakova, Brookings Institution
Rudra Sil, Penn Political Science
Moderator: Anna Mikulska, Penn Russian and East European Studies
Panel 4: Concluding Remarks
VIEW THE FULL VIDEO HERE
Adrian Basora, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Claire Finkelstein, Penn Law
Mitchell Orenstein, Penn Russian and East European Studies
Is Russia Undermining Democracy in the West? (One Day Conference)
Co-Sponsors: Foreign Policy Research Institute, Department of Russian and East European Studies, Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium
READ THE FULL CONFERENCE REPORT HERE
FULL VIDEO OF THE PANELS AVAILABLE AT LINKS BELOW
AMID NEW REVELATIONS OF THE EXTENT of Russian interference in American elections, how should we appraise Russia’s role in undermining democracy not just in America, but throughout the West – and are there perils in exaggerating its successes?
Panel 1: Is Russia Undermining Democracy in the West?
VIEW THE FULL VIDEO HERE
Michael Carpenter, Penn Biden Center
Samuel Charap, RAND Corporation
Nikolas Gvosdev, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Marlene LaRuelle, George Washington University
Moderator: Mitchell Orenstein, Penn Russian and East European Studies
Panel 2: Have Elections Become Cyberwars?
VIEW THE FULL VIDEO HERE
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg School for Communications
Clint Watts, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Moderator: John Haines, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Panel 3: Is Russia’s Strategy Working or Backfiring?
VIEW THE FULL VIDEO HERE
Bob Hamilton, US Army War College
Alina Polyakova, Brookings Institution
Rudra Sil, Penn Political Science
Moderator: Anna Mikulska, Penn Russian and East European Studies
Panel 4: Concluding Remarks
VIEW THE FULL VIDEO HERE
Adrian Basora, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Claire Finkelstein, Penn Law
Mitchell Orenstein, Penn Russian and East European Studies
