Schedule of 2009-2010 Speakers

Annual Theme: "Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Plural Citizenship "

The 2009-2010 DCC Program Opening Event will be held in Houston Hall Class of '49 Auditorium, 3417 Spruce Street, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Subsequent workshops will be held from 4-6 pm on the Penn campus in the Silverstein Forum, 1st Floor, Stiteler Hall, 208 S. 37th St., Philadelphia.  The 2009-2010 Workshop Series:

Sept. 29: Who's Afraid of International Law?

              Sovereignty, the Constitution, and the International Order.

              Noah Feldman, Harvard University

Oct 15:    Economic Justice, Coercion, and Foreign Policy

              Michael Blake, University of Washington Jamin        

Nov. 19:  Subcontracting Sovereignties 

              Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz  

Dec. 10:   Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Transnational Activism  

             Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University          

Jan. 21:   Expectations of Order: State Failure in Historical Context  

             Arjun Chowdhury, University of Pennsylvania           

Feb. 18:   Spatial Organization and Political Occupation  

             Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths, University of London

Mar. 25:   Political Boundaries, Walls, and Sovereignty 

             Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley

Apr. 15:   Sovereignty, Colonialism, and Identity  

             Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University

Previous 2008-2009 DCC Events:

Last Season's (2008-2009) Annual Theme:

"Civic Representation, Elections, and Public Opinion "

May 1st, 2009: DCC Annual International End of Year Conference:

Location: Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania

8:30: Registration, Refreshments, and Welcome

Panel One: 9:00-10:45: “What Should Elections Do?"
Chair: Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania

Jacob Hacker, Political Science, Yale University

Ian Budge, Department of Government, Essex:

"What Should Elections Do? Nineteen Propositions, a Spatial Representation, and a Country Graph"

Discussant: Jeffrey Green, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Panel Two: 11:00-12:45: “Parties and Party Systems in Comparative Perspective”

Chair: Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania

Georgia Kernell , Penn DCC Postdoctoral Fellow and Northwestern University

"Intraparty Competition and Responsiveness"

Pradeep Chhibber, University of California, Berkeley

"A Democratic Balance: Bureaucracy, Political Parties and Political Representation"

Discussant: Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College

Lunch Break

Panel Three: 2:00-3:45: “Evaluating Electoral Systems in Comparative Contexts”

Chair: Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania

Anthony McGann, Department of Government, Essex:

"Electoral Systems in Comparative Perspective"

Andre Blais, Political Science, Universite de Montreal:

"Evaluating US Electoral Insitutions in Comparative Perspective"

Discussant: Christopher Wlezien, Temple University

Panel Four: 4:00-5:45: “The New Media and Elections"

Chair: Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Cornfield, George Washington University

"Good Question: New Media and The Reformation of Candidate Q. and A."

David Karpf, Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia:

"The MoveOn Effect: Disruptive Innovation within the Interest Group Ecology of American Politics"

Discussant: Michael Hagen, Temple University

6:00-7:00: Reception, Courtyard, Penn University Museum

2008-2009 DCC Events:

The 2009-2010 DCC Program Opening Event will be held in Houston Hall Class of '49 Auditorium, 3417 Spruce Street, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Subsequent workshops will be held from 4-6 pm on the Penn campus in the Silverstein Forum, 1st Floor, Stiteler Hall, 208 S. 37th St., Philadelphia.  The 2009-2010 Workshop Series:

Sept. 25: Are American Elections Sufficiently Democratic? A Discussion

              Pamela S. Karlan, Law, Stanford University

              Dennis F. Thompson, Government, Harvard University

              Moderator: Jack Nagel, Chair, 2008-2009 DCC Planning Committee

Oct 16:    Neither the Red States nor the Blue States but the United States :

               The National Popular Vote and American Political Democracy

              Jamin Raskin, Washington College of Law, American University, and

              Member, Maryland State Senate

              Discussant: Richard Beeman, Penn History Department

Nov. 13:  The Right to Vote Yesterday and Today

              Alex Keyssar, History, Harvard University

              Discussant: Richard Valelly, Political Science, Swarthmore College

Dec. 4:   Citizen Representatives: 

             Deliberative Democratic Decisionmaking in Citizens' Assemblies

             Mark E. Warren, Political Science, University of British Columbia

             Discussant: Carol Gould, Philosophy and Government, Temple University

Jan. 22:  The Principle of Affected Interests and Democratic Inclusion

              Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

              Discussant: Sigal Ben-Porath, Penn Graduate School of Education

Feb. 19: Competition and Truth in the Market for News

             Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

             Discussant: Rogers Smith, Penn Political Science Department

Mar. 26: The Closing of the Frontier: Political Blogs, the 2008 Election, and the Online Public Sphere

             Matthew Hindman, Political Science, Arizona State University

             Discussant: Joseph Turow, Penn Annenberg School for Communication

April 16: Unequal Democracy: Turnout, Minority Interests, and Local Government Spending

             Additional Reading (optional): Who Loses in American Democracy?

             Zoltan L.Hajnal, Political Science, University of California, San Diego

             Discussant: Adolph Reed, Penn Political Science Department