Past Events

Past Events

The ARCH, 3601 Locust Walk, Room 108
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

9th Annual DCC Undergraduate Research Conference

The ARCH, 3601 Locust Walk, Room 108
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

AS THE CULMINATION of a year of meetings to refine their research projects, the DCC undergraduate research fellows present their projects in a one-day conference, with topics that include school violence against Southeast Asians in Philadelphia, moral education in West Virginia…

College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Open to the public. Lunch Provided.

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Matthew Kavanagh (Poli Sci, UPenn): Constitutionalizing Health: Rights, Democracy & Public Policy in South Africa (PDF)
Ashley Tallevi (Poli Sci, UPenn): Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Measuring the Effects of Privatization on Medicaid Self-Reporting (PDF)

Graduate Workshop - Health Care and Civic Belonging

College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Open to the public. Lunch Provided.

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Matthew Kavanagh (Poli Sci, UPenn): Constitutionalizing Health: Rights, Democracy & Public Policy in South Africa (PDF)
Ashley Tallevi (Poli Sci, UPenn): Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Measuring the Effects of Privatization on Medicaid Self-Reporting (PDF)

THIS MONTH'S PAPERS examine health care policy. In tackling this expansive topic, the presenters look quantitatively and qualitatively at the provision of public health services, public perceptions, and the political economy of health care policy in the U.S. and in South Africa…

College Hall, Room 205
Lunch provided

Discussants: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School) and Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan)

"I Am Seeing the Power Behind Technology": New Media and Politics in Kenya's "Silicon Savannah" (Lisa Poggiali)

College Hall, Room 205
Lunch provided

Discussants: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School) and Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan)

IN THIS PRESENTATION OF A WORK IN PROGRESS, DCC Postdoctoral Fellow Lisa Poggiali explores how new media technologies – specifically digital maps – mediate the social and ethical landscape of development politics in Nairobi, Kenya. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research…

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
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Discussant: Jessa Lingel (Annenberg School for Communication)

All attendees are encouraged to read Prof. Coleman's paper, available here.

Weapons of the Geek: Hackers and Political Autonomy (Gabriella Coleman)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
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Discussant: Jessa Lingel (Annenberg School for Communication)

All attendees are encouraged to read Prof. Coleman's paper, available here.

HACKERS CAN NO LONGER BE VIEWED AS EXOTIC EXPERTS: hackers and their projects have become routine, authoritative, and public participants in our daily geopolitical goings-on. Working technologists are economically rewarded in step with doctors, lawyers, and academics—and yet…

NOTE THE LOCATION CHANGE THIS MONTH
Irvine Hall, Room G01 (Basement) (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

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Westenley Alcenat  (History, Columbia University): Between Slaves and Citizens: Free Blacks and the Transformation of Citizenship in the Age of Revolutions, 1776-1840 (PDF)
Dani Holtz (History, UPenn): “Who are the True Conservatives?”

Graduate Workshop - Ideologies of Race and Slavery

NOTE THE LOCATION CHANGE THIS MONTH
Irvine Hall, Room G01 (Basement) (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

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Westenley Alcenat  (History, Columbia University): Between Slaves and Citizens: Free Blacks and the Transformation of Citizenship in the Age of Revolutions, 1776-1840 (PDF)
Dani Holtz (History, UPenn): “Who are the True Conservatives?”

THIS MONTH'S PAPERS examine shifting ideas about politics, ideas, and "race" in the nineteenth century. Both papers explore how revolutionaries and reactionaries influenced the anti-slavery movement in the United States. Westenley’s paper sketches the trials of Black freedom in…