Past Events

Past Events

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: Michael Horowitz (Penn Political Science)

Image removed.

All attendees are encouraged to read a chapter from Prof. Noveck's book, available as a PDF on request.

Crowdsourcing Smartly: Is Democracy Prepared to Flip the Big Data Switch? (Beth Simone Noveck)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: Michael Horowitz (Penn Political Science)

Image removed.

All attendees are encouraged to read a chapter from Prof. Noveck's book, available as a PDF on request.

IMAGINE IF GOVERNMENT COULD QUICKLY GET ADVICE from infectious disease experts in the event of a pandemic, or find and reach out to cyber-security professionals following an infrastructure attack, or pose questions about our public challenges to data scientists. From combatting…

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

Image removed.

Sarah Coleman (History, Princeton)
“'To reward the wrong way is not the American way:” Welfare, Immigrants’ Rights and the Battle over Benefits 1990 -1997"

Alberto Ciancio (Economics, UPenn)
"The Economics of Local Immigration Enforcement in the United States"

Graduate Workshop - Immigration: Economics, Policy, and Politics

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

Image removed.

Sarah Coleman (History, Princeton)
“'To reward the wrong way is not the American way:” Welfare, Immigrants’ Rights and the Battle over Benefits 1990 -1997"

Alberto Ciancio (Economics, UPenn)
"The Economics of Local Immigration Enforcement in the United States"

THIS MONTH’S PAPERS EXPLORE IMMIGRATION. Bringing together the perspectives of economics and history, the papers highlight important themes for understanding and crafting immigration policy. Sarah Coleman’s paper examines the domestic political debate over welfare benefits for…

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: John MacDonald (Penn Criminology)

Image removed.

Big Data and State Transparency: What the Absence of Data on Police Killings Reveals (Kelly Gates)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: John MacDonald (Penn Criminology)

Image removed.

IN THE AFTERMATH OF A SPATE OF POLICE KILLINGS THAT BEGAN with the June 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an issue emerged as a newly apparent “matter of concern”: the alarming number of killings of unarmed people by the police, of course, but also the…

College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

Image removed.

Allison Powers Useche (History, Columbia University):
The Standard of Civilization on Trial at the US Mexico Claims Commission, 1923-1937 (PDF)
Elspeth Wilson (Political Science, UPenn):
Islands of Civic Exclusion: Puerto Rico, U.S.Global Imperialism, and the Insular Cases (PDF)

Graduate Workshop - Beyond Borders: Citizenship, National Belonging and the Law

College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

Image removed.

Allison Powers Useche (History, Columbia University):
The Standard of Civilization on Trial at the US Mexico Claims Commission, 1923-1937 (PDF)
Elspeth Wilson (Political Science, UPenn):
Islands of Civic Exclusion: Puerto Rico, U.S.Global Imperialism, and the Insular Cases (PDF)

THIS MONTH'S PAPERS EXPLORE legal contests over citizenship and rights in the context of expanding U.S. power in the early 20th century. Both show how national and international law provided opportunities to challenge U.S. sovereignty, while at other times helping solidify…

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: Marc Meredith (Upenn Political Science)

Professor Benkler will base his talk on two papers:
Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate
The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the U.S. Net Neutrality Policy Debate

Image removed.

The Networked Public Sphere: Two Case Studies, SOPA-PIPA and Net Neutrality (Yochai Benkler)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: Marc Meredith (Upenn Political Science)

Professor Benkler will base his talk on two papers:
Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate
The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the U.S. Net Neutrality Policy Debate

Image removed.

PROFESSOR BENKLER AND HIS COLLEAGUES AT HARVARD’S Berkman Center for Internet and Society have used innovative research tools – including Media Cloud – to map and analyze news stories as they evolve online. Benkler presents two case studies, one on the SOPA-PIPA debate over…