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On October 16, 2025, the Andrea Mitchell Center held the event Tech and Well-Being. Featuring experts in AI, homelessness policy, and digital sociology, the conversation discussed how technology is reshaping care, community, and democracy.

On October 7, 2025, the Andrea Mitchell Center and the Penn Political Review hosted an event with Edith Chapin, Former Editor-in-Chief of NPR.

Mitchell Center Executive Committee Member and Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Sophia Rosenfeld has been long-listed for the prestigious Cundill History Prize for her book, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life.

Former AMC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2018) William Schultz's new book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of the American City has been published by UNC Press

The Mitchell Center, in collaboration with the School of Social Policy & Practice, held the inaugural event of The Politics of Well-Being, our 25-26 Faculty Workshop Series.

AMC Undergraduate Fellow Eric Ryu is uncovering Scotland’s overlooked influence on the American revolutionary era through his history honors thesis.

Associate Director Ibrahim Bakri joined the Middle East Center's Liyan Alkawafhah in a lecture for PennRSSA — an intensive, hybrid summer program focused on academic, career, and postsecondary preparation.

The Andrea Mitchell Center and the Middle East Center hosted a roundtable exploring Lebanon’s rapidly shifting political, economic, and social landscape.

The Andrea Mitchell Center and the Philomathean Society are proud to have welcomed Slavoj Žižek for the Philomathean Society's Annual Oration.