Past Events
DCC Cosponsored Event: Democracy on Trial - Government Intervention vs. the Free Market II
Meyerson Hall, Room B1 (Accessibility)
YOU LISTEN. YOU DECIDE. The audience hears the case for each side and votes on a verdict via smart phone and tablet! // DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL is a next-generation debate platform that stresses enlightened ethical and rational conversations about important social issues. Its mission…
Non-State Welfare in the Middle East: The Impact on Social Rights (Melani Cammett)
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility)
All attendees are encouraged to read the full paper, available here.
Discussant: Ram Cnaan, Penn School of Social Policy and Practice
ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST, NEW RULERS in the aftermath of colonial rule undertook statist development strategies and, in some cases, adopted redistributive rhetoric and policies. As a result, governments fueled significant advances in human development in the first decades after…
DCC Cosponsored Event: Democracy on Trial - Government Intervention vs. the Free Market I
Tuttleman Learning Center, Room 103
1809 N. 13th Street (at Montgomery)
Temple University Campus
YOU LISTEN. YOU DECIDE. The audience hears the case for each side and votes on a verdict via smart phone and tablet! // DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL is a next-generation debate platform that stresses enlightened ethical and rational conversations about important social issues. Its mission…
GRADUATE WORKSHOP - Uncovering Women's Stories in Healthcare and in the Military
College Hall, Room 209 (Accessibility)
Hallowell: From Co-Payments to Rent Payments: Value and Vulnerability in the Grey Economy of U.S. Healthcare (PDF) Shibley: Black Print Media and Representations of Women in the Military, 1941-1993 (PDF)
BETH HALLOWELL (Anthropology, UPenn) examines issues surrounding medical care during pregnancy to consider how the value of human life is negotiated. She shows how pregnant women, their healthcare providers, and local advocates leverage state-defined vulnerability to gain…
Church/State Separation in the 21st Century (Barry Lynn, Jay Sekulow and Hugh Taft-Morales)
Houston Hall, Hall of Flags (Ground Floor) (Accessibility)
Co-sponsored by Delaware Valley Americans United (DVAU)
THE MEANINGS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, written at the end of the eighteenth century, remain highly contested into the twenty-first. In particular, the two clauses dealing with religion – one proscribing its establishment, one protecting its free exercise – invite interpretations…