Past Events

Past Events

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

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Tali Ziv (Anthropology, UPenn):
"It be hard just existing": Affective Precarity andInstitutional Surveillance in Philadelphia's Inner-city (PDF)Alex Hazanov (History, UPenn):
Foreign Visitors in the Late Soviet Union, the KGB and the Limits of Surveillance

Graduate Workshop - States of Surveillance

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

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Tali Ziv (Anthropology, UPenn):
"It be hard just existing": Affective Precarity andInstitutional Surveillance in Philadelphia's Inner-city (PDF)Alex Hazanov (History, UPenn):
Foreign Visitors in the Late Soviet Union, the KGB and the Limits of Surveillance
THIS MONTH'S PAPERS EXAMINE how people live under different "surveillance states." From a history of the Soviet Union's secret police to an anthropologist's study of poverty and precarity in present-day Philadelphia, these two papers ask us to think about how people experience…

College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

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Graduate Workshop - Saving Democracy? Economic and Technological Answers to Political Problems

College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Lunch provided.

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Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: Michael X. Delli Carpini (Dean, Annenberg School)

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Kids These Days: Supply and Demand for Youth Online Political Engagement (Jennifer Earl)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
Discussant: Michael X. Delli Carpini (Dean, Annenberg School)

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WHAT IS THE REAL POTENTIAL FOR ONLINE YOUTH ACTIVISM in the US? Professor Earl approaches the question from two directions. How interested are youth in engaging in online political activity (what is the “demand” for this activity)? And what kinds of opportunities are youth…

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

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Robinson Woodward-Burns (Political Science, UPenn):
Experience Must Be Our Only Guide: Constitutional Decentralization and Instability at the American Founding (PDF)

Jan Smolenski (Politics, The New School):
Semi-Federalism, Multi-Stage Constituent Process, and Diffused Popular Sovereignty: The Principles and Implications of the Making of 1780 Constitution in Massachusetts (PDF)

Graduate Workshop - Constitution Making and Un-Making: Democratic Reform, Past and Present

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

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Robinson Woodward-Burns (Political Science, UPenn):
Experience Must Be Our Only Guide: Constitutional Decentralization and Instability at the American Founding (PDF)

Jan Smolenski (Politics, The New School):
Semi-Federalism, Multi-Stage Constituent Process, and Diffused Popular Sovereignty: The Principles and Implications of the Making of 1780 Constitution in Massachusetts (PDF)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility) 
Discussant: Sandra González-Bailón (Annenberg School)
This event co-sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication.

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Is the Internet of Things Your New Constitution? (Philip N. Howard)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility) 
Discussant: Sandra González-Bailón (Annenberg School)
This event co-sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication.

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THE INTERNET OF THINGS, MADE UP OF BILLIONS of devices with small sensors, will contain our political lives, communicate our political values, and constitute our political identities. It will generate perfect behavioral data without allowing citizens to opt-out of data collection…