Past Events

Past Events

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)

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Chaim Gans - A Political Theory for the Jewish People

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)

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THIS SPECIAL DCC EVENT spotlights Professor Gans' new book, A Political Theory for the Jewish People, which continues and extends the author's unique systematic philosophical analysis of the morality of the entire Zionist enterprise and its main product: the State of Israel. He…

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

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Emma Teitelman (History, UPenn):  Mining for Sovereignty in the Civil-War West (PDF)
Sid Rothstein (Political Science, UPenn): The Constitution of Employer Discretion (PDF)

Graduate Workshop - Political Economies and the State

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

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Emma Teitelman (History, UPenn):  Mining for Sovereignty in the Civil-War West (PDF)
Sid Rothstein (Political Science, UPenn): The Constitution of Employer Discretion (PDF)

THIS MONTH'S PAPERS EXPLORE contests over state authority and the effects of government policy on the private sector in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emma's paper highlights the history of western mining policy during the American Civil War, an issue that erupted in a…

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)

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From Hashtag to Movement: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice (Deen Freelon)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)

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PROFESSOR FREELON’S PAPER AND TALK WILL DOCUMENT the initial findings of a project aimed at exploring the roles of social media in the new anti-police brutality movement spearheaded by #Blacklivesmatter. He and his colleagues have brought together a large-scale computational…

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: Chloé Bakalar (Princeton)

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Must Privacy Give Way to Use Regulation? (Helen Nissenbaum)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: Chloé Bakalar (Princeton)

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AN INCREASINGLY POPULAR ARGUMENT HOLDS that the projected benefits of Big Data requires a shift away from barring the collection of personal information to regulating its use. Professor Nissenbaum is skeptical about this reasoning, not only because it plays suspiciously well with…

College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

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Negar Razavi (Anthro, UPenn):
“'Off the Record and in the Loop': An Ethnography of the Washington Foreign Policy Establishment"

Kristian Taketomo (History, UPenn):
"Urbanization as Development: Modernization and “The City” in Postwar America"

Graduate Workshop - Experts, Ideas, and Policy

College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

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Negar Razavi (Anthro, UPenn):
“'Off the Record and in the Loop': An Ethnography of the Washington Foreign Policy Establishment"

Kristian Taketomo (History, UPenn):
"Urbanization as Development: Modernization and “The City” in Postwar America"

THIS MONTH'S PAPERS examine the role of experts in shaping public policy and guiding public opinion. By shining a spotlight on policy wonks, demographers, and geographers, our presenters help us understand the cultures, ideologies, and histories of “expertise.” Negar’s paper…